Sydenham Town Forum

Pat - have you visited http://www.castlemore.co.uk/?

A very extensive description of their major developments as they featured in their presentation last night. But no mention of Bell Green at application or approved.

Curious...

I have put a short report of the lively meeting at:
http://www.sydenham.org.uk/bell_green_planning.html

I'm sure others present will want to say a word....

Just a warning to people planning to travel through Sydenham tomorrow. The Lawrie Park Road closure was, this afternoon and without notice, extended into Westwood Hill. Traffic lights/one way working on Westwood Hill operate from Cobbs Corner wobbly roundabout to St Bart's Church. This 'locks' the i...

I've been working from home recently and noticed the calm of LPR just minutes after they closed the road. Yep - it is quiet - because nothing is happening! Walked down to Kirkdale at 4pm. Not a worker to be seen. Just signs saying its going to last 4 weeks - and no wonder! The cutting of a major Lo...

Lawrie Park Road is closed. Buses are supposed to go up Westwood Hill & down Crystal Palace Park Road. But tonight I saw two 176s ignoring the diversion signs and cutting through using Lawrie Park Avenue. The road collapsed last time they did this. Arriva know this - yet they still literally cut...

Spotted today on the 176 bus stop: "Lawrie Park Road will be closed on 8th June 2005 for upto 4 weeks..."

It would have been nice for Transco/LBL to have informed the residents. Or don't we count?

When walking past Twilights this weekend I noticed an application for re-licensing the premises as a private club. Applicants were two ladies from Croydon and the application was suposed to have been heard last month.

Anybody know anything?

Muddy Waters wrote:Pity the disused orange telephone box outside Woodfalls the Optician in Sydenham Road didn't take a hard knock when the Adshell outside Lloyds Bank was destroyed by a car recently!

Good news it has gone. Bad news - we have got another one. Story here:
http://www.sydenham.org.uk/news_phone_box.html

You can see it here: http://images.thesun.co.uk/picture/0,,2005210865,00.jpg Actually it is a No 75 stuck under the Southend Lane railway bridge (by SavaCentre) last Friday morning. The Sun got the story completely wrong (surprise, surprise) and wanted to charge us over £100 to put that picture on t...

Alex,

Received lots of stuff from Labour, plus one each from Conservative & UKIP. No Green or LibDem. I'm in Lawrie Park.

Please vote the same way that you filled in Lewisham's CPZ Questionnaire. If you don't have a questionnaire please don't vote. If you live in SE26 but do not yet have a form please call: Daniel Cairncross on 020 8314 2582 or Eva Ashley on 020 8314 2080 You need to be registered and logged in to vote...

Mine arrived by post this morning. Was feeling forgotten!
BTW some roads in SE26 are in Bromley or Southwark. Is this a joint exercise?

Stuart (just off Lawrie Park Road).

The works are underway between Colvin Close & Border Road. You know the bit that has just been resurfaced. Talked to an Arriva guy trying to arrange for some abandoned cars on the opposite side to be removed. He said that for most of the work they should be able to maintain the bus route with tr...

Lewisham are proposing a public consultation on the replacement or refurbishment of Forest Hill Pools. There is a useful thread in our neighbouring Forum here: http://se23.com/forum/messages/9/507.html?1113214113 As Forest Hill Pool in Dartmouth Road probably serves as much of Sydenham as Forest Hil...

Re venue. The obvious place is the Greyhound Car Park. However the attempts at a French Market were not very successful and the boot sale last week was not well attended either. We used to sell Traidcraft stuff (as did White's Pet Shop) and Somerfield's have made a good stab at providing organic stu...

Somebody forgot to post a reminder about Tueday's AGM here so I missed it <slap>. Pat - any change of a quick review of the highlights here or on your website?

A story that will not die. Or perhaps we may very soon if we don't watch out:
http://tinyurl.com/6lfs9

There is a rumour that Tesco Express is coming to Kirkdale (the whiteboarded area under the new flats). Anybody know more?

You may have some good national policies but you simply can't just parachute yourself into a community because there's an election on having sat on your backside for five years. On a point of fact - how do you parachute into a constituency you already live in? (Catford is his address according to h...

Pity the disused orange telephone box outside Woodfalls the Optician in Sydenham Road didn't take a hard knock when the Adshell outside Lloyds Bank was destroyed by a car recently! This weekend someone appears to have demolished the reinforced concrete sign at the Golden Lion. Must have caused cons...