Sydenham Town Forum

The deadline for comments on Kitewood's second proposal is tomorrow and although I'm aware of there being well over 25 objections logged already (with one neutral and one in favour), every little helps. It's very easy to give your views on these proposals through Bromley's Planning Portal which can ...

Planning permission was refused at last Thursday's Development Control Committee, where the developer attempted to obtain a deferral based upon claimed inadequacies in communication from Bromley's Tree Preservation staff. This was dismissed by the committee on the basis that there were many more rea...

An update to bump this back up to the top of the list and to advise anyone interested that this submission will be heard by Bromley's Development Control Committee at Civic Centre, Stockwell Close, Bromley at 7.30pm this Thursday, 10th April. It is understood that 67 objections were received. A numb...

Blimey, you go away for a couple of days and come back to find several responses - but I'm glad to see that my post has elicited further comment other than the Luddite one that I first got. In order then: Maria - My use of derogatory terms in relation to those anonymous officers of the council who a...

Mr/Ms/Mrs Eagle, My gender is irrelevant in relation to this issue, as is yours so let's park that and address your points. Which I'm afraid aren't particularly logical in a number of ways. Firstly, the actual speed limit there is 30 MPH but the "correct" speed, which was a point I made in...

I'd been impressed by how little disruption that the works being carried out by Riney were causing over the past few months but during the past couple of weeks, it seems to me that the latest changes being made are yet another example of how to cause maximum inconvenience to road users. Who are the ...

Parked the Jag down Tannsfeld Road the other day. An old lady came out of her house and commented what a pleasure it was to see a quality classic British motor car out of her window as opposed to the usual Teutonic tat or, even worse, a Smug Petrol Electric Hybrid! :P She went on to say how sick she...

Ah - I see you dipped in and added a couple of paragraphs at the end while I was replying. I'm perfectly rational. I think Clarkson is a tosser. And I'm not against trade or manufacturing as long as it's balanced - which if you consult the UK's trade deficit figures, it's not. Well done for messing ...

I see you've been Googling "Cost of replacement Prius Batteries" and probably consulting your warranty. Did I worry you? I found the Canadian taxi story too. The car was only a couple of years old. Lots of other horror stories to be found about batteries which fail after five or more years...

That's certainly a nice looking Jag but I won't be able to afford it until 2024 and, like I said, these hybrid cars have a nasty sting in their tail in the form of incredibly expensive (and very un-eco) batteries which last five years if you're lucky. So old ones will get scrapped even quicker and/o...

"The best option currently available IMO, is what I currently drive. It's silent much of the time below 30mph, returns 55-65 mpg, no congestion charge, £15 road tax, five seats, has automatic and cruise control, a great car either in city traffic or for doing long distances (I've just covered ...

I take it all back - for now. Unbelievably, the hole they made on Thursday got filled in on Friday (albeit badly) and the temporary lights disappeared, as did the signs on the lampposts!! Did someone actually wake up to the mayhem being caused? But I fear this is only a short term reprieve. The road...

And after one day, they've managed to break the tarmac across the Penge High Street works at the end Crampton Road by... about 18 inches. Well worth the chaos being caused. No sign of anybody working at 5pm tonight. And the sign warning of "Roadworks starting 13/10" on a lamp post in CP Pa...

Happy New Year to fellow Sydenham residents. I was invited to the official opening of the Capel Manor Farm in CP Park a couple of weeks ago, presumably because I wrote in support of their (second) attempt at a planning application in 2007. The first had encountered objection from "local residen...

I've not felt the need to contribute to this forum before. However, it seems to me that it's exactly the type of backward nimbyism promoted by people like "Grog" that have caused the top site to remain a wasteland. And most of them are members of that bunch of self appointed SuperNimbys, t...