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I think the problem is you posted an internal link on this forum and not to the image. This is trying to force a reply - hence logging in. That screwed up my browser too - this is coming from a different one.

Could you edit your post to remove the reply link and instead point to the image? Right ...

Most of the reasoning could be applied to Bell Green Retail Park . Indeed rather more when it comes to encouraging car use to the detriment of congestion in Sydenham Road.

Doesn't Lewisham administer it?

I think we would have heard. I presume it is a revenue issue and Lewisham has run out of sofas.

Here's SydSoc's response: https://sydenhamsociety.com/2025/03/local-high-streets-in-danger/

Also without consultation. The nonsense that off street parking in Girton Road was chargeable but the high street was not is at least ended. Makes more sense to have had it the other way round.

If they don ...

But not the Pawlene Arms or the Penge bungalow murders?

Yes. The drama for us ended Thursday night. Others may be less fortunate. Thameswater formally removed the crisis from their incident register today.

Thameswater has run out of bottled water! Awaiting replenishment at Bell Green.

A bottled water station is now open at Sainsbury’s Southend Lane, SE26 4PU

Here's Thameswater's map of affected areas. The area to th the left has been restored but the rest looks like a long haul as they are setting up bottle stations.

No water this morning? Thameswater have a major problem affecting: SE19 SE20, SE23, SE26, SE27 & SW16

Details: https://www.thameswater.co.uk/network-l ... 00225-sw16

Major plans for Crystal Palace Park. But what are they?

You may have seen this article in Newsshopper: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/24913498.bromley-council-plans-build-housing-crystal-palace-park/

The proposals for the redevelopment of Rockhill come as no surprise but finding out what they ...

Dear Chris,

My apologies for tomorrow's Assembly.

Can I bring to your attention the junction of Mayow & Sydenham Road. The junction was re-surfaced and re-painted. The advance cycle stop lines were re-instated on Mayow Road and going down to Lower Sydenham. The remaining one (up from Lidl's ...

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No longer ...

'Murder Mile' from the Daily Fail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... gangs.html

tulse hill terry wrote: 13 Nov 2024 17:10

Welcome back THT. We missed you.

A “very busy” flat party carried on until the morning of a shooting that left one man dead and two others injured in south-east London, local residents have said.

From: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/ ... 44966.html

According to ITV London News it was Dallas Road which runs off Wells Park Road. I recall Dallas Road was home to a heavy duty criminal some years ago.

Is the problem of moving Lower Sydenham station more to do with the outrage from those who have invested in the new housing on the Worsley Bridge side adjacent to the current location?

Bound to sound louder than those who would potentially benefit from relocation. Logically more sensible to ...

A refurbishment planning application which seems to suggest it's going to become more of a drive-thru. Already a hazard and encouraging an even worse environmental & health culture.

"Refurbishment of the restaurant with alterations to the drive thru lane, to include additional land for the ...

An explanation?

"A council has been left with little other choice than to approve hundreds of controversial homes on a former gasworks site after it failed to meet its housing targets.

Councillors sitting on Lewisham’s planning committee received legal advice that they would have ‘zero per cent ...