Sydenham Town Forum

Everybody living in Sydenham Ward should have received the A4 folded info sheet through their door inviting you to attend the next Sydenham Assembly on Saturday 11 September – starting at 11am at the Grove Centre in Jews Walk. We will start with the ratification of the top five priorities and the Pr...

Can I say that Sergeant Amanda Ritchie 72PL from Sydenham Safer Neighbourhood Team is appealing for witnesses into the stabbing of the 15 year old youth which occurred in Fairlawn Park at approx 2330 hrs on 27th July 2010. Two black males got out of a red coloured car approached the victim, an alter...

Please see Lewisham's plans for regenerating Sydenham Road http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Environment/ ... /Sydenham/ including Cobb's Corner. We will have an update on the tender for the works at the next Sydenham Assembly meeting on Saturday 11 September starting at 11am in the Grove Centre.

Just to say that at the Mayor and Cabinet meeting the Mayor approved plans to trial a borough-wide Drinking Control Zone (DCZ). Before the pilot can be put in place, Lewisham Council must conduct a public consultation so that people have an opportunity to express their views. The DCZ is not a ban on...

There are previous links to the various reports to Mayor and Cabinet setting out the reasons for the reduction from Government to local council funding. We are working on saving £60 million from our budget over the next three years. Our Lewisham, Our Say is the Council’s open dialogue with the commu...

We had a written update at the last Sydenham Assembly on Saturday 12 June. Funding has now been received from TfL for the Phase Two (detailed design and tender) stage of the project. Commissioning of the required specialist consultants for Phase Two has now been completed and these resources are now...

I want to ensure that Lewisham residents have the opportunity to attend adult education classes in the future so I think it would be helpful to give a little background to the consultation on closing the crèche facilities. In January of 2010 Community Education Lewisham (CEL) carried out a review of...

Some years ago Lewisham Council attracted funds from the Crystal Palace Single Regeneration Budget to provide shop front grants in Sydenham Road. We were hoping to use the planning gain funds from the Bell Green development but the developer is no longer in business. We will continue to look for pla...

The space is called Earlsthorpe Mews and a Capital Standards clean up is taking place this Friday between 10am and 2pm. I recently had a meeting with local residents and traders to discuss this private space and what improvements could be made. Several years ago we were awarded a grant for some gate...

This Saturday sees the 10th meeting of the Sydenham Assembly and we will be a little more informal as we will be asking everyone to confirm the top five priorities for Sydenham – previously agreed by the Assembly as: * More activities for children and young people including the new youth centre * Im...

Having spent a long night at the count for the Mayor and Councillors (Marion and I left at 5am when Grove Park had a second recount and is now going to be recounted on Monday) I wanted to thank you for your support and to say that I am here to represent all of Sydenham. The result is very positive f...

Yes we are going to plant trees in the high street and you can see from the consultation map http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/Environment/Regeneration/SydenhamHighStreet/MapSydenhamHighStreet.htm where the trees are planned and the artists impression of how the high street will look from Cobbs Corner to M...

On the high street we intend to plant up Cobbs Corner, around the pocket parks and put in suitable trees at points shown on the consultation map. In terms of Lewisham's trees we are using Envirowork to plant all our new trees and carry out the maintenance and watering. Over 430 new trees have been p...

Hello Poppy Yes I did talk officers and we now have a short video clip https://www.youtube.com/user/LewishamCouncil#p/u/2885022DC1AC2337/6/BOR7XMLYtDo stating that we will be planting a number of trees and greening the high street. Through the Sydenham Assembly we have provided funds so that Envirow...

Sydenham faces a significant challenge in reducing the anti-social behaviour associated with street drinking. I support a Drinking Control Zone (DCZ) for Sydenham Road and the side roads as well as Sydenham Wells, Mayow and Home Parks. We have set up a Problem Orientated Partnership (POP) for Sydenh...

Many thanks admin - and as can be seen on other threads I am looking forward to talking on Sydenham Radio this evening (between 7 and 8pm) and at the hustings at Thursday 22 April at Sydenham High School. I have a web site - http://www.chrisbest.org - setting out what I have been doing for Sydenham ...

Following last year’s successful trial, Lewisham Council is once again offering residents a more convenient - and free - way of disposing of garden waste at the weekend. Starting from today, Saturday 20 March, until 28 November 2010 Girton Road car park will have the refuse truck and staff available...

Just to say that the full planning report is on Lewisham's web site http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/CED59183-CF69-4DE2-A6F7-D6683E406BCC/0/0e905cda6509497bbc334c9ac53ef70bGreyhoundPH315Kirkdale18March2010.PDF . The number of residential units is 40 – of these, 26 will be private and 14 will ...

If we are unable to persuade the neighbour to keep the noise down, we can serve a notice on requiring them to stop making the noise nuisance. It is a criminal offence to breach this notice and the Council is permitted to: seize amplification systems and other noisy equipment ask a court to fine peo...

Please come along if you have an interest in Sydenham - we do not turn people away! The Sydenham Assembly Newsletter should have reached everyone living in Sydenham Ward - and is now up on Lewisham's web site - http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/66517FC1-E673-467C-B444-B27BA2187924/0/SydenhamAs...