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- 27 May 2024 23:19
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Constituency changes after the General Election
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1170
Re: Constituency changes after the General Election
SE26 residents in the London Borough of Bromley, such as those who live at the southern end of Lawrie Park Road past Border Road, Newlands Park, Crystal Palace Park Road and Kent House Road will be in the new Beckenham and Penge seat. Hopefully they too will get a good MP. Is there actually any dif...
- 27 May 2024 23:15
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Restored Southern Service coming ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1198
- 25 May 2024 23:15
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Thames water and the vomiting bug (cholera) in Sydenham
- Replies: 4
- Views: 944
Re: Thames water and the vomiting bug (cholera) in Sydenham
Oh dear. I had what I thought was a bit of a stomach bug last weekend, but it wasn't nearly as bad as these reports indicate. https://insidecroydon.com/2024/05/25/now-south-londons-water-supply-is-tested-for-sickness-bug/ By the way, I don't see any reference to "cholera" in the Guardian a...
- 21 May 2024 23:51
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Restored Southern Service coming ...
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1198
Re: Restored Southern Service coming ...
Whoopee. Did she attempt to persuade Southeastern to reinstate the rest of the services via Penge East, too?
- 16 May 2024 23:27
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: Venner Road
- Replies: 1
- Views: 655
Re: Venner Road
Which set of tracks are you talking about - the Sydenham-Penge West ones, or the Penge East-Sydenham Hill ones? I can't speak from personal experience of having either of them down the back of my garden, but certainly from the opposite side of the road I can't think there'd be a problem. As for hous...
- 11 Apr 2024 23:20
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Proposal to make Byne and Wiverton Roads one way
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1232
Proposal to make Byne and Wiverton Roads one way
LB Bromley, reference ADE(TP)/RP/T100/763 Seems as though it might be a good idea to me, given how often you'd see one vehicle having to reverse down the road on encountering one travelling in the opposite direction. Surprised to see that LBB thinks that both roads are in Penge, though, when Venner ...
- 6 Apr 2024 23:51
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Byne Road planning application
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1630
Byne Road planning application
To add to the collection of planning applications, spotted in the News Shopper:
Garage adjacent 4 Byne Road:
Construction of new end of terrace dwelling with basement and roof terrace to accommodate 2 No. 2 maisonettes, external cycle and bin store to front.
24/01061 (Bromley Borough)
Garage adjacent 4 Byne Road:
Construction of new end of terrace dwelling with basement and roof terrace to accommodate 2 No. 2 maisonettes, external cycle and bin store to front.
24/01061 (Bromley Borough)
- 6 Apr 2024 23:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Traffic chaos after CPPR closure
- Replies: 1
- Views: 986
Re: Traffic chaos after CPPR closure
So that's what the "Road closed" in Penge was.
Makes a change to see those buses diverted down Newlands Park, instead of having the 75 and 194 diverted down Lawrie Park.
Makes a change to see those buses diverted down Newlands Park, instead of having the 75 and 194 diverted down Lawrie Park.
- 24 Mar 2024 23:59
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4270
Re: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
It is the upward leg to London that is the pain because the Southern train pulls into Norwood Junction and you have to negociate the poor stairs to reach the Overground platform. Which means if you have lugage, push chairs, etc it is really difficult, when all that needs to happen is for TfL to ope...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:47
- Forum: Town Asylum
- Topic: Positive note about the forum!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 8746
Re: Positive note about the forum!
I monitor Twitter/X for local news stories. There used to be a dozen or so a day. Now it's more like 1 or 2. The number of active posters* has reduced to one handful. Some have stopped, others post very occasionally. The local press (Newsshopper & SLP) did the same so their expanded stories hav...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:38
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Barratt Homes / gasholders site: make your comments NOW!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 10257
Re: Barratt Homes / gasholders site: make your comments NOW!
The latest discovery is that Barratt's design showing Bell Green Works as a virtually ‘car-free’ development, with no parking on site, other than 8 blue-badge parking spaces, is wrong. In an appendix, it is revealed that TfL demands that an additional 18 blue-badge parking spaces be available on de...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:30
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4270
Re: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
But LBG isn't on the Overground! Sorry, the Windrush line. Or the ELL, as I shall go on calling it.
Glad to know there is some prospect of getting the rest of the service reinstated, although it's too late for me. I presume there's no sign of similar movement from Southeastern via Penge East.
Glad to know there is some prospect of getting the rest of the service reinstated, although it's too late for me. I presume there's no sign of similar movement from Southeastern via Penge East.
- 2 Feb 2024 11:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8056
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
Nope. It still says 18 storeys on the Bromley planning website.
I'd forgotten about this site, which has useful information:
https://stophadley.co.uk/
I'd forgotten about this site, which has useful information:
https://stophadley.co.uk/
- 2 Feb 2024 00:10
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8056
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
I don't know whether I misread the original application or whether there was an error, but I definitely read it as 18 still, until I saw the NewsShopper article saying it was 16. But that's still far too high for the area. Are you sure about that deadline? It says "within 21 days of the publica...
- 30 Jan 2024 01:14
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Boundary commission - Sydenham to combine with Dulwich
- Replies: 11
- Views: 10665
Re: Boundary commission - Sydenham to combine with Dulwich
I'd totally forgotten we'd discussed this until I did a search for "constituency" today after I received Labour's latest missive and realised that we're back to being Beckenham and Penge again after all these years (shades of the Piers Merchant years!). Never did seem to make much sense to...
- 29 Jan 2024 01:23
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 8056
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
I see from the NewsShopper that a revised application has now been put in for the Blenheim Centre, still with an 18-storey tower block. I thought it was Bromley's policy to notify people who object to an application when a revised application is made, but I'm still waiting. The application number is...
- 8 Dec 2023 01:06
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Public Transport improvements
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6847
Re: Bell Green Public Transport improvements
Where is this questionnaire, please, JRW?
- 17 Nov 2023 01:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Holy Trinity Advent Fair, Saturday 18th November, 2-5 pm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 41637
Holy Trinity Advent Fair, Saturday 18th November, 2-5 pm
Holy Trinity Lennard Road is holding its annual Advent Fair this coming Saturday, between 2 and 5 pm. Books, toys, homemade goods, gifts, raffle, cakes, refreshments etc. etc.
- 6 Sep 2023 23:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: "Morley's: The family-run chicken shop with cult status"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 3388
Re: "Morley's: The family-run chicken shop with cult status"
I knew it was a chain, on account of the others I've seen around (Clock House, anyone?), but I didn't know it was that local.
- 24 Aug 2023 00:13
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Lack of buses
- Replies: 0
- Views: 8485
Lack of buses
Just wondering how those people who need access to the Newlands Park area are managing without their bus services (75/194) for 2 months?
I was supposed to be doing something in the Sydenham area but abandoned plans when I found out there was no bus service anywhere in the immediate vicinity.
I was supposed to be doing something in the Sydenham area but abandoned plans when I found out there was no bus service anywhere in the immediate vicinity.