Just wanted to point out that we're in danger of losing yet another shop to what (in my opinion) is sub-standard residential accommodation. Haircut 3000 has lodged a planning application to convert to a one-bedroom flat. This is their 2nd attempt to do so. Haircut 3000 is in a highly prominent position at the junction of Kirkdale and Dartmouth Road. The ground floor has always been a shop - in the past the shop keeper lived above the shop. At one time it was a pawnbroker's, at another an art gallery - presumably these changes of use reflected the economic climate of the time. If we lose this type of commercial premises we will never get it back and the old heart of Sydenham that is the Kirkdale/Dartmouth Road junction will never regenerate.
You can view the planning application here:
http://acolnet.lewisham.gov.uk/LEWIS-XS ... mkey=63214