Sydenham Town Forum

Agree with dickp. Problem is finding legal planning arguments against in-centre proposals for retail units. Applications for planning permission are submitted after discussion with local planning officers as one would expect agents for Tesco to have done. I cant, personally, think of a plannng reaso...

Anerley? Anally? Freudian slip, perhaps?

Thanks for special invite AliB - but apologies for absence for first half of October. However an early date for a pre-Xmas pub crawl will be put in my diary when known

At the last count Admin in the Lawrie Park area was saying he hadn't received a leaflet, - Julwz, too, who doesn't live in the Lawrie Park area, had not been consulted about the proposals on offer. The current consultation is very flawed as was the one in 2005 when the questions were slewed towards ...

Well done, Sean, and thanks for letting us see the railway officials do some squirming for a change. Would that common sense had ruled the day, from day one - so much time and trouble would have been saved achieving the moral high ground that we knew from the start was ours! The community, its elect...

Dear Gaz I am pleased you have at last managed to find the link first flagged up by Annabel McLaren on this thread on 14 July. "If you follow this link: http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/HavingYourSay/RedevelopmentOfForestHillPools/ you will be able to see the 3 options which have ...

And you are, how old - 21, Bensonby?. You must have been very,very young when the gas works ceased

Surely one question is will this ever be built? Is there a developer standing in the wings ready to buy into this scheme? Yet more flats in Forest Hill? Have to say on first sight this scheme looks like a mighty bulky building. If the architecture is wrong it will be a dominant monster on Dartmouth ...

It is NOT my imagination. There ARE more Southern staff about on Sydenham Station over the past week. WHY? To open the gate on Platform 1? NO, although to be fair, there are staff walking around in two's (off peak - the only time I travel) who are clearing the litter, and hooray for that! Are the ex...

Am I reading this report correctly? The council is planning to demolish the buildings/ flatten the site in August but does not expect to get planning permission before September/October? As a pretty boring planning anorak, I would have thought that outline plans for this site should already be being...

Sorry, Poppy. dont understand the reason for your posting.

A "partly broken, shabby and very dirty" toilet. Why email and post on this Forum? A complaint should be made at the time of visiting, with a request to see the manager and your grievance made known there and then.

I must put in my two pennyworth, here. In 2005 the Sydenham Society put ideas into the council about how the pedestrian environment in Sydenham Road could be improved between Cobbs Corner and Sydenham station. They called it the proposals for Sydenham Gateway (check out the web-site at www.sydenhams...

Use it ..or lose it.... has been the expression for some time. Maybe, looking at the queues, Forest Hill residents are appreciating the benefit of a local dedicated Post Office and have migrated to Sydenham for the personal service we all think should be available but as we well are aware our local ...

No. When did the work in your neck of the woods begin?? Those begun in Jews Walk in early March are still not complete. Residents in Beaulieu Ave have similar tales to tell about weeks of unfinished water mains. Only another (at the last calculation) 10 months to go - according to original public in...

Ah, c'mon gillyjp Not only are we having to put up with the digging up of the road for the upgrading of the water mains it is worse than Sydenham HIgh Street with all the vehicles going up and down constantly Everyone in Sydenham is currently subject to this inconvenience - dont queer your pitch. Yo...

And we all cheered the news about the East London Line coming to Sydenham in June 2010. Then there was a battle when we realised that to fit in 8 tube trains per hour to Canary Wharf and beyond we were likely to suffer a major reduction of trains on the London Bridge line. Thanks to Nasaroc's early ...

Dickp, luv, I can assure you that I am extremely interested in the future of Crystal Palace Park having been one of the campaigners against the Multiplex proposals. I also walk the park several times a week. My posting on 5 February said: "The whole Park is designated Metropolitan Open Land, co...

Thanks for the feedback, Drama Queen. Glad to learn you agree with us that the BMC is not only busy but it does great cakes which are worth the trek from Forest Hill. Spread the news, I say! Living in Sydenham I do not know of any "rumours" and, anyway, rumour-mongering is something which,...

Every time I go in it's busy. Coffee is good, cakes are yummy, soup and lunches are very tasty. It has been said that it is more expensive than Sugahill but Sugahill seems to be busy, too. I am happy to use both cafes and think they are a very welcome addition to Sydenham. I am also known to have ha...

Well. come on, bring it on, Ray Hall - let's stop all this campaigning locally for and against - put your scheme to Bromley, as the Local Planning Authority, now. Let's see how it stacks up against planning policies. Proof of the pudding. etc, etc... And, tell us your timescale...........? This is t...