Sydenham Town Forum

We live between Sydenham and Penge East and the roads here very quiet after dark. Lots of good houses, Venner Rd etc, and I'm sure totally safe, but you might not enjoy the walk home at night if you are of a nervous disposition.

Caught the end of the market, and thought it was good, and a definite improvement on the last few I visited.

It would be good to see a greater variety of cold food/produce stalls, rather than just baked goods.
The craft stalls were a good variety of well presented, well made and unusual things. My ...

We had Roman blinds made by Designer Drapes, they did a good job. I did ask House of Carpets on the High St, but they said they couldn't do it - that was a couple of years ago, so don't know whether they now could.

We used Mike in Catford who is Steady Flow, very nice man, you will find plenty of good reviews for him.

We used this company www.sollex.co.uk for timber doors and windows and they were excellent and very good value, still working perfectly 3 years on. Only issue was neither the sales guy nor the fitters were 1st language English, so communication could have been better.

Sorry, I meant Brockwell Park!

I visited briefly, but didn't see any drumming unfortunately. The stalls were quite good, I bought food from the excellent Mishmash(?!) who have had a stall before so great to see them back again. The stalls again were corralled around the carbuncle bench, turning their back to the street which ...

My partner will laugh at me for pretending to be an authority on playgrounds, but here goes! Playground quality across the different boroughs does seem patchy. Crystal Palace is dire, but there are plenty good playgrounds in Bromley - Alexander Rec, Kelsey etc. Mayow is good, and that's Lewisham ...

Scorpions Gym, Thai Boxing in Beckenham, very good.

I understood the planning app had been refused - has another been submitted?

Open (not serving) for the arts festival, it looks very nice indeed. Exciting!

SSM - Save Sydenham Market!

That's fantastic news. Any more detail?

Banners and bunting - yes!
Weekly market - yes!
Focused on food for the shopping basket, generally that is not already available on the High St - yes!
Augmented by take away food, craft stalls, children's entertainment etc - yes!

Small to begin with and in one location, with a core of carefully ...

Good idea Lee about advertising banners, if anybody reading this has the power to do so, please make it happen! There is a banner in Herne Hill station advertising the HH market, it gets my attention and am sure lots of others who pass through.

I enjoyed the market yesterday, particularly the food ...

Does anybody know who organises the market? I might send them a note with my thoughts. Thanks!

I turned up late, spent little time looking and bought nothing so apologies if my observations don't reflect how things actually went on the day!

- the market needs to offer what the High Street lacks, and the thing that most often comes up on this forum is a delicatessen, so a stall selling cheese ...

Eagle, the application states that the accomodation is targeted at professionals on short stay, business conferences etc. Apparently the location near Penge East station makes it ideal, and the developer specialies in this kind of accomodation.

Alywin, i don't think there is any parking associated ...

If the delveloper is genuine and honourable (oxymoron I know), then I think this has the potential to be positive - bringing life back to an old building that would otherwise deteriorate..

My concern is the size of the proposed pub. Currently it is 120m2 at ground floor (including function room ...

How about a regular market, you know like an London Albert Square type market, on alternate weeks to a farmers and craft type market perhaps. It might not be posh in the way most of us on the forum would like, but it would be colourful and lively, and probably popular.