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- 20 Dec 2020 18:54
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New homes for Sydenham Hill Estate?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10749
Re: New homes for Sydenham Hill Estate?
The objectors can spend their own money on this if they like. But it's a bit rich that the rest of us will be left paying the bill for the council's legal fees racked up by this claim.
- 25 Oct 2019 18:49
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: What’s going on at x?
- Replies: 23
- Views: 32248
Re: What’s going on at x?
I love this idea that's cropped up that the gasholders were about to become some underground heat green energy site, until the head of SGN, who is now cast as the villain of the piece, nixed it. Or something... https://twitter.com/SydenhamSociety/sta ... 18272?s=20
- 22 Sep 2019 17:12
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Proposals
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13578
Re: Bell Green Proposals
I support turning these big box sites and car parking into homes. However, we can't allow this to become a displacement activity that allows viable plans for homes elsewhere in Sydenham to be refused now, on the pretext that they could be situation in Bell Green at some other point in the distant fu...
- 24 Aug 2019 08:25
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New houses
- Replies: 15
- Views: 21278
Re: New houses
Great news. I've just sent in my message of support - took less than a minute.
Re: OLSPN
A pattern of behaviour: claiming to speak on behalf of all the community, without basis; sowing wild rumours; hyperbolic language; aggressive campaigning and lobbying - often to get their way on quite minor questions of planning or aesthetics that boil down to little more than personal preferences. ...
- 14 Jul 2019 17:49
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sticky: NEW! Events calendar
- Replies: 14
- Views: 59318
Re: Sticky: NEW! Events calendar
Not surprising. A very hostile and unwelcome atmosphere being created by this campaign.
- 9 Jul 2019 20:19
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN Redevelopment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 13128
Re: Tomorrow's OLSPN planning meeting URGENT
Were the world war two bombs we were warned about raised at the meeting?
- 25 Jun 2019 17:05
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20568
Re: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
While one can argue over the merits of this campaign, it's VERY welcome that the Sydenham Society have chosen to publish their full submission online. It would be welcome if this continues for other developments.
http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/2019/06/ ... plication/
http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/2019/06/ ... plication/
- 22 Jun 2019 19:02
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning Watch [w/b 17/06/2019] & BT Payphone replacement
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4413
Re: Planning Watch [w/b 17/06/2019] & BT Payphone replacement
Fascinating how fast planning news posted on here appears on another local website...
- 20 Jun 2019 06:51
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20568
Re: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
Complaining about the building to the Pope was a particular low-point.
- 19 Jun 2019 10:57
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 20568
Re: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
Wartime bombs!
Whatever will this saga unleash next? A plague of locusts?
Whatever will this saga unleash next? A plague of locusts?
- 14 Mar 2019 11:25
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 291/307 Kirkdale Planning Consultation 14 March
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7242
Re: 291/307 Kirkdale Planning Consultation 14 March
Someone who knows planning law better would be able to clarify, but I'm not sure it's required, given it's adjacent to the station and bus stops.
Also, given the air quality crisis, isn't encouraging car-free living on high streets a good thing?
Also, given the air quality crisis, isn't encouraging car-free living on high streets a good thing?
- 14 Mar 2019 11:21
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Masterplan Presentation at Bellingham Assembly
- Replies: 13
- Views: 12692
Re: Bell Green Masterplan Presentation at Bellingham Assembly
So what you're saying is that, even at this incredibly early stage in thinking, a future of Bell Green without the gasholders is non-negotiable? The other question I have is how the masterplan relates to the fact that this is private land, and what discussions are taking place with the sites' owners.
- 11 Mar 2019 17:39
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 291/307 Kirkdale Planning Consultation 14 March
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7242
Re: 291/307 Kirkdale Planning Consultation 14 March
Designs look rather good, I think. And an infinite improvement on it sitting empty, or a nightclub.
- 3 Mar 2019 20:53
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New building on Kirkdale
- Replies: 2
- Views: 4632
New building on Kirkdale
Permission has been granted by council for the shops at 109-111 Kirkdale to be redeveloped, with new shops below and flats below. Street view pic here: https://goo.gl/maps/bYgdAr1aTi92 You can read the officers' report here. http://councilmeetings.lewisham.gov.uk/documents/s62945/109-111%20Kirkdale%...
- 28 Feb 2019 09:44
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Urban Renewal Plan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14600
Re: Bell Green Urban Renewal Plan
I agree - some of the major supermarkets are rebuilding stores along this model. A much better use of space and adds the benefit of an area being “lived in” rather than just warehousing. While it would be nice to see housing at Bell Green, it does strike me this may be a long-term aspiration with so...
- 27 Feb 2019 09:13
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Urban Renewal Plan
- Replies: 12
- Views: 14600
Re: Bell Green Urban Renewal Plan
I’m very enthused by the idea of turning car parks into housing. Replacing big box retail with housing is what cities should be doing and what’s happening on Old Kent Road. However I’m keen to understand, how does this masterplan get reconciled with the fact this is private land? Have we seen much t...
- 31 Jan 2019 08:28
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green - A New Plan, January 2019
- Replies: 32
- Views: 25442
Re: Bell Green - A New Plan, January 2019
I see on twitter some people are now demanding Mayor Egan is forced to resign because they disagree with his application of national planning law relating to the gas holders.
Is this how adults behave when they don’t get their own way?
Is this how adults behave when they don’t get their own way?
- 21 Jan 2019 13:56
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Current state of the property market in Sydenham
- Replies: 58
- Views: 68908
Re: Current state of the property market in Sydenham
Unless the correction is driven by higher interest rates, suppressed wages and tougher borrowing conditions. And if builders respond, predictably, by building less, when the only real way to address the housing crisis faced by young Londoners is a sustained increase in supply.
- 17 Jan 2019 09:09
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Gas Holders - Proposal to Demolish in April 2018.
- Replies: 212
- Views: 248558
Re: Bell Green Gas Holders - Proposal to Demolish in April 2018.
We’ve heard it before from the same councillor repeatedly. Comparison seems pretty clear ““The Bell Green gas holders have survived bombing raids in the Second World War but will they survive Lewisham Council’s planning committee next Thursday?” https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/15674938.Towering_S...