Sydenham Town Forum

UPDATE: 8 November 2010 Our engineering work was completed on Friday, 29 October and we have since reinstated an excavation at the junction with Bell Green. This morning we began reinstating at the junction with Berrymans Lane, in the footway. This will take two days, so by Wednesday, 10 November ...

UPDATE: 22 October 2010 The connections at Sydenham Road's junctions with Kent House Road and Mayow Road have now been completed and we are currently in the process of reinstating these areas. We expect to be in a position to remove the temporary lights at both locations by Wednesday (27 October ...

UPDATE: 30 September We have now decommissioned all the cast iron mains between Sydenham Road's junctions with Kent House Road and Bell Green. This was done ahead of schedule due to the need to repair a leaking main at the junction with Elderton Road. We have decommissioned the main between Kent ...

UPDATE: 29 July We are currently in the process of decommissioning the iron main between the junctions with Fairlawn Park and Kent House Road, ready for insertion. Once the new main has been commissioned, we can connect it to the existing mains in Kent House Road and Addington Grove. The plan is to ...

Today we are commissioning the section of new pipe from Larkbere to outside the primary school. We then have to reconnect the side turnings in that section and reinstate the road. The next section will be from outside the primary school to the junction with Kent House Road. We will install temporary ...

Update: 2 June We are now in the process of inserting the new pipe from the junction with Bell Green to the junction with Larkbere Road. Upon completion, we will repeat the process up to Sunnydene Street, then up to Kent House Road and finally up to Mayow Road. As yet we do not know how many ...

Update: 12 May We have now successfully abandoned the old cast iron main on the south side of Sydenham Road between the junctions with Watlington Grove and Bell Green, and have completed our work in all the side turnings, Porthcawe Road, Fairlawn Park and Watlington Grove. The services to the ...

The West Lewisham Town Centre Manager has confirmed that the Chairs Traders Association meeting will be on Tuesday 3 November at 1pm. The venue will be Kente, 16 Sydenham Road, SE26.

Contrary to what was previously stated, the meeting on 3 November is a Sydenham Traders Association meeting. This error has been rectified on our website.

Nick Hemsley

The following is an update on our Sydenham Road project, as requested by Mr Lund: This essential work involves replacing around four kilometres of ageing metal mains and sevices in Sydenham Road with new plastic pipe, which has a minimum lifespan of 80 years. The mains are being replaced by method ...