Sydenham Town Forum

... financial interest in the site that a "number of pub operators are keen on taking on the business". The core group from the Rebuild the Greyhound Campaign have spread the word and have organised a number of meetings with prospective owners (we held a two-hour meeting with Late Knights ...

... high standard and to the existing 2010 planning consent. We are creeping steadily to the point where developers will soon get back on site at the Greyhound (and the developer has fixed scaffolding in place as a notice of "good intent"). But I think that it's correct that the planners ...

I too was surprised that the Mayor - or even the planning department themselves - didn't impose time limits for the drawing up a timetable to build by Purelake. After all, the issues which Purelake refer to in their letter (that the 2010 plan doesn't allow for a basement and a conservatory) can be s...

Admin's recording of last night's Mayor and Cabinet meeting on the Greyhound is well worth a few minutes viewing. http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=12036 Is this the breakthrough we've been waiting for? Chris Best's declaration in the meeting ...

The officers' report on the Greyhound for the all-important Mayor and Cabinet meeting to be held on 22 October is now online.

http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/ ... 9&MId=3425

... square/park all without any financial compensation, the police (or maybe even an ambulance) would be summoned. So why is it any different with the Greyhound site? Just like Venner Road, the pub and the commercial space to the rear and side are privately owned (by separate entities) and both spaces ...

... It's the first item on the agenda (item 3) in which there will be a report to Mayor and Cabinet about the Greyhound. We'd fully expect the meeting to agree a clear strategy to deal with this issue which may include legal action. We agreed at our Wednesday ...

I can assure you that the residents of the flats to the rear and side of the pub are furious about the fact that the pub has not been rebuilt and that new businesses have not been installed around the pub. They have complained loudly and clearly to their landlord (Hexagon) and a number of them have ...

Some great ideas here.

Admin - you mention the meeting "this evening."

It's actually tomorrow night - 8pm Wednesday September 24 in the back room of the Golden Lion.

Essential that we get a good turn out if we are going to put some of these ideas into action!


Barry Milton

... Lewisham " from the Purelake website and threaten not to work with Purelake in future unless they start to do the right thing and rebuild the Greyhound? The Lewisham Council logo is after all being used as a "seal of approval" here. This approval should be removed immediately. Housing ...

... that it happens. 2. If you keep your eyes on the LBL planning website, I wouldn't be surprised if a new revised application for development of the Greyhound site appears very shortly. I remain confident that work on a new exciting development will begin before much of 2010 has elapsed. 3. The question ...

... situation in which vital elements of the scheme can be removed without the proposal as a whole becoming untenable. The current plan envisages the Greyhound as a pub downstairs and a restaurant upstairs. There is every reason to believe that it could be developed to be similar to one of the local ...

... five fold. Maybe this is a touch on the high side but even if passengers numbers double, it means greatly enlarged potential trade. Shops on the Greyhound site will be in an ideal situation to take advantage of all the extra passengers entering and leaving the station. And also to enjoy the effect ...

... seldom been busier. Somerfield is visibly trading more strongly since its makeover. And the fact that we have a major planning application on the Greyhound site and another pending halfway down the street is an indication of the strength of local trading. We have a £2m road improvement scheme ...

... main building and accommodate large numbers of parking spaces on site without losing one or more of the major components of the plan such as the Greyhound, the public square or the commercial space? Just believing that this can be done with a different "more imaginative" plan is disingenuous ...

... it would cut out all morning sunlight to the rear of PHG. Simon - both you and Gilly were outspoken and trenchant supporters of demolition of The Greyhound when this was mooted by the previous developer. Your petition and long statement above call not for minor tampering with this scheme but its ...

... scheme off the ground. This included (as a possible suggestion only) a plan to close off Spring Hill and improve the end of this road next to The Greyhound with a "pocket park". Of course, this would have meant that Spring Hill/PHG residents would have had to enter and leave their homes ...

... a move, it is simply going to sit there and rot. A number of alternative potential developers/businesses have offered to buy the site/develop the Greyhound but have been met with blank silence by the existing owners. The ball is entirely in the developer's court. Fantasising about what may or ...

... the final submission. Let us hope that this plan is passed swiftly and that building can commence ASAP. With the cooperation of the owners of the Greyhound site, the area between the railway bridge and the roundabout could soon become a blueprint for the regeneration of the rest of Sydenham Road.

I've been e-mailed and asked to amend the last posting slightly.

Apparently the potential "restaurant" for the Greyhound is a local business who want to run the pub and combine it with a "buffet-style restaurant.