Sydenham Town Forum

Just to come back on these last few posts. Yes local residents were consulted as part of the Sydenham Assembly process and for people who can't make the meetings the notes are posted up on the Sydenham Assembly web site. Young people and residents wanted to replace the existing youth centre that has...

Yes please see the link for the Mayor and Cabinet report on the 16 September - http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/C3A7E63B-CACE-4CC5-BC19-15C9CFCD8D69/0/61e083781aaf4a6ba7d3122ab796b39dItem7MyPLACE16September2009.PDF . The capital project will be to deliver a bold and robust contemporary buildi...

Just an update on this whilst catching up. Lewisham Council has received £52,000 from Central Government to tackle the effect of the recession in our town centres. This is not a signigicant amount for our town centres so the Council is looking to augment this with additional funds from the Mayor's R...

Just a reminder that you can recycle your Christmas trees in Sydenham at Sydenham Wells Park (Wells Park Road entrance) and Mayow Park (Mayow Road entrance). Last year the Council collected, mulched and composted over 10,000 trees - the collection points will be operating until the last week of Janu...

I am delighted to share the news that Lewisham has been successful in the £3.5 million bid to redevelop Sydenham Wells Park Hall into a fabulous new youth centre. Youth facilities including a new Youth Centre was voted the top priority for Sydenham at the first Sydenham Assembly in March 2008 and we...

To answer the point that no the survey doesn't cost anything - there is a paper survey in the library and an online survey here http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=0k1wxeczzXQqZFkv5C9DjA_3d_3d . Valerie will be facilitiating a round table discussion at the Asembly on Thursday regarding the mosaic ...

I am expecting a report on the high street to be presented to Mayor and Cabinet very soon stating the positive feedback from the exhibition and then confirm the funding to Transport for London. Officers will submit the bid to TfL early in the new year and as soon as we receive the funding from TfL w...

Everyone living in Sydenham ward should have receiving a letter (mine arrived on Monday) inviting them to the next Assembly meeting on Thursday 3 December- starting at 7pm at Our Lady & St. Philip Neri Church Hall, 208 Sydenham Road next to the library. If you haven't received a letter by Friday...

I have asked the Town Centre Manager to come along to our next Sydenham Assembly meeting on Thursday 3 December and join in the round table discussion on trading in Sydenham. For a general update on Sydenham issues please see my Autumn Newsletter here . I will put up a thread on the Sydenham Assembl...

There are several threads on the Naborhood Centre and we will be taking a vote at the next Sydenham Assembly meeting on Thursday 3 December on a change of name. I am currently asking the users of the building their views and welcome your thoughts. The building was named Naborhood to retain part of t...

The Sydenham Town Centre Steering Group have been discussing this for some time and both Julie Sutch, the Town Centre Manager and myself as the Chair and local councillor, have visited the estate agents in the high street (particularly Property World) to ask them to remove their advertising boards. ...

I would like to reassure everyone that there have been a number of meetings and a significant amount of correspondence about the peak period services on this line over the past few years, including local Councillors, Lewisham’s Deputy Mayor, GLA Member and local MPs. We are taking up the lack of con...

Everyone living in Sydenham ward should be receiving a letter very soon (mine arrived today) inviting them to the next Assembly meeting on Thursday 3 September - starting at 7pm at Sydenham High School, 19 Westwood Hill. If you haven't received a letter by Monday please let me know and I will chase ...

I made the point last night that the Council is responsible for over 100 public buildings. We have a programme of capital works as well ongoing repairs and maintenance of a range buildings including schools, libraries, leisure centres as well as this day centre for people with learning disabilities....

I spoke to the librarian on Saturday and works are in hand to replaster the ceiling cracks and take down the boards covering two windows now that grills have been fixed to the outside. Whilst the re-plastering takes place the IT team are working on extending the cables so that more computers are ava...

The roundabout will be green - and the Council is going to hold an exhibition is the high street very soon so ideas for the greenery will be most welcome. I will let you know when as officers are still working with the commercial agents on a suitable shop front - and at the right price for a very sh...

Just to let everyone know that there are some gas mains under the roundabout that prevent the Council from planting trees. The good news is that the roundabout will be "green" when the transport scheme starts - hopefully at the start of 2010. I am sure everyone is aware of the work being c...

Everyone living in Sydenham ward should have received a letter inviting them to the next Assembly meeting this Thursday 11 June - starting at 7pm at Sydenham High School, 19 Westwood Hill. If you haven't please let me know. The meeting will start with five presentations on the remaining £17,000 of t...

The decision taken by Sir Steve Bullock are that a public consultation should be conducted on two options emerging and that the report and results should return to a future meeting of the Mayor and Cabinet for a final decision in the summer of 2009. The two options to be consulted on are: To postpon...

Hopefully everyone living in the Sydenham ward has received a hand delivered letter through though their letter box inviting them to the fifth Sydenham Assembly. At this meeting we will be voting on five projects to receive financial support from the Mayor's Fund. There will be five presentations of...