Sydenham Town Forum

If you want to help keep traffic flowing in Sydenham, please take a mo to complete this public consultation! We need the scheme extended, and lobby Lewisham to get the main roads sensitive to congestion included into the extended scheme.

https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/lane-rental ...

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Southwark Council have started a public consultation on the twin roundabouts on Crystal Palace Parade.

The deadline for feedback is Monday 5 January 2015.

http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200308/current/3661/crystal_palace_parade_junction_improvement_scheme

Southwark comment:
The junctions ...

Just been posted: insidecroydon http://insidecroydon.com/2014/11/05/bromley-leader-carr-attacks-boriss-palace-consultation/

Stephen Carr, the leader of Tory-run Bromley Council, has condemned London Mayor Boris Johnson’s on-going consultation over the future of Crystal Palace National Sports ...

Good to hear of progress. For others not familiar with how Thames works, then Thames Water have this guide "Understanding who is responsible", they note:

The diagram below shows how a typical property is connected to our water mains. We are responsible for the communication pipe and our customers ...

Hi, general comments. Keep up the good work on complaining to Thames Water. I’ve had good success working with CCWater and local Ward Cllrs. Thames repeatedly were saying an underground leak was stemming from private properties (next to the leak), and this was strongly disputed by the respective ...

For those of you that were unable to get to the drop-in sessions on Saturday, you can watch the presentation and listen to the Q & A' s kindly recorded by Sue and Jules of the Subway team by following the link below:

http://www.inspiredbythesubway.org.uk/01-03-14.html

Development community ...

As pointed out by Arup, Bromley Council's Local Plan Draft Policies and Designations documents are published for open public consultation to 24 March 2014 CLOSING DATE .

These Policy changes were noted as “ not a light change ” but “ substantial ”. It includes comments for various aspects of ...

Mary has a good point when assessing options:

As we can't vote for "none of the above", I tried voting without ticking any of the boxes. But that didn't appear to register. Could we maybe have another separate poll please Admin for a "none of the above"? Thanks.

And such an option is valid and ...

Interesting points from Lois. “… it does seem that public consultation is taking place this time ”. The question is, to what degree? So far, the process of disposal of public parkland and its consultation has raised many concerns for its appropriateness (over 1,700 signed this petition in less than ...

Always interesting to hear people say: ”hoping the palace is rebuilt ” to understand what they mean, when what the building could be is still so unclear, except for its proposed size which is being “ tested to maximum scale ”. Nick Boles in Parliament has made the best description I have read, where ...

When the Minister replied this week “ it would be rather marvellous if this city had such a thing again ”, just what “thing” was he referring to?

With help from the Mayor chairing the Crystal Palace Advisory Board, we will find out, as this quango is tasked “to help develop the future mix of uses ...

Summary post from GipsyHill on VN:

What has not been clearly demonstrated is the “need” for the scale of this size commercial development.

Very useful comparison has been made to Battersea Park in the MasterPlan. it shows a success story in rejuvenating park visitor numbers and an inner London ...

Just to add, if you believe the BBC news story (that starts this thread) that " Plans to build a replica of the Crystal Palace " is misleading, then please contact the BBC news team. I have.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-24375547

I cannot see evidence in the Arup detailed brochure ...

Good discussion on the detail of the development brochure, so I have researched this some more. It seems to me that some people are being unwittingly misled by poor press statements. Statements in the news headlines like “ Plans to build a replica of the Crystal Palace ” are simply wrong, based on ...