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- 24 Mar 2024 23:59
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1235
Re: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
It is the upward leg to London that is the pain because the Southern train pulls into Norwood Junction and you have to negociate the poor stairs to reach the Overground platform. Which means if you have lugage, push chairs, etc it is really difficult, when all that needs to happen is for TfL to ope...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:47
- Forum: Town Asylum
- Topic: Positive note about the forum!
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2017
Re: Positive note about the forum!
I monitor Twitter/X for local news stories. There used to be a dozen or so a day. Now it's more like 1 or 2. The number of active posters* has reduced to one handful. Some have stopped, others post very occasionally. The local press (Newsshopper & SLP) did the same so their expanded stories hav...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:38
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Barratt Homes / gasholders site: make your comments NOW!
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6079
Re: Barratt Homes / gasholders site: make your comments NOW!
The latest discovery is that Barratt's design showing Bell Green Works as a virtually ‘car-free’ development, with no parking on site, other than 8 blue-badge parking spaces, is wrong. In an appendix, it is revealed that TfL demands that an additional 18 blue-badge parking spaces be available on de...
- 16 Mar 2024 01:30
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1235
Re: TfL rules out regular London Overground trains to London Bridge
But LBG isn't on the Overground! Sorry, the Windrush line. Or the ELL, as I shall go on calling it.
Glad to know there is some prospect of getting the rest of the service reinstated, although it's too late for me. I presume there's no sign of similar movement from Southeastern via Penge East.
Glad to know there is some prospect of getting the rest of the service reinstated, although it's too late for me. I presume there's no sign of similar movement from Southeastern via Penge East.
- 2 Feb 2024 11:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5810
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
Nope. It still says 18 storeys on the Bromley planning website.
I'd forgotten about this site, which has useful information:
https://stophadley.co.uk/
I'd forgotten about this site, which has useful information:
https://stophadley.co.uk/
- 2 Feb 2024 00:10
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5810
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
I don't know whether I misread the original application or whether there was an error, but I definitely read it as 18 still, until I saw the NewsShopper article saying it was 16. But that's still far too high for the area. Are you sure about that deadline? It says "within 21 days of the publica...
- 30 Jan 2024 01:14
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Boundary commission - Sydenham to combine with Dulwich
- Replies: 11
- Views: 7608
Re: Boundary commission - Sydenham to combine with Dulwich
I'd totally forgotten we'd discussed this until I did a search for "constituency" today after I received Labour's latest missive and realised that we're back to being Beckenham and Penge again after all these years (shades of the Piers Merchant years!). Never did seem to make much sense to...
- 29 Jan 2024 01:23
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
- Replies: 8
- Views: 5810
Re: Planning application for 18-storey tower block (and more) in central Penge
I see from the NewsShopper that a revised application has now been put in for the Blenheim Centre, still with an 18-storey tower block. I thought it was Bromley's policy to notify people who object to an application when a revised application is made, but I'm still waiting. The application number is...
- 8 Dec 2023 01:06
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green Public Transport improvements
- Replies: 3
- Views: 5165
Re: Bell Green Public Transport improvements
Where is this questionnaire, please, JRW?
- 17 Nov 2023 01:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Holy Trinity Advent Fair, Saturday 18th November, 2-5 pm
- Replies: 0
- Views: 28524
Holy Trinity Advent Fair, Saturday 18th November, 2-5 pm
Holy Trinity Lennard Road is holding its annual Advent Fair this coming Saturday, between 2 and 5 pm. Books, toys, homemade goods, gifts, raffle, cakes, refreshments etc. etc.
- 6 Sep 2023 23:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: "Morley's: The family-run chicken shop with cult status"
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2609
Re: "Morley's: The family-run chicken shop with cult status"
I knew it was a chain, on account of the others I've seen around (Clock House, anyone?), but I didn't know it was that local.
- 24 Aug 2023 00:13
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Lack of buses
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6909
Lack of buses
Just wondering how those people who need access to the Newlands Park area are managing without their bus services (75/194) for 2 months? ![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
I was supposed to be doing something in the Sydenham area but abandoned plans when I found out there was no bus service anywhere in the immediate vicinity.
![Sad :(](./images/smilies/icon_sad.gif)
I was supposed to be doing something in the Sydenham area but abandoned plans when I found out there was no bus service anywhere in the immediate vicinity.
- 16 Aug 2023 00:18
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Open-air film screenings in Crystal Palace and Mayow Parks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 2822
Open-air film screenings in Crystal Palace and Mayow Parks
I'd had no idea these were on:
https://www.popupscreens.co.uk/
https://www.popupscreens.co.uk/
- 15 Aug 2023 00:12
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham's "burgeoning" high street?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6338
- 6 Aug 2023 22:49
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham's "burgeoning" high street?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6338
Sydenham's "burgeoning" high street?
I don't get into Sydenham much these days, but I was interested to find a reference to it having a "burgeoning" high street here: https://www.standard.co.uk/homesandproperty/buying-mortgages/new-homes-awards-2023-family-home-investing-property-schools-b1097606.html *Is* it actually burgeon...
- 20 May 2023 23:44
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Livesey Hall and boxing club burglary - alert
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3729
Livesey Hall and boxing club burglary - alert
Re-posting this from Nextdoor as requested (dated 3 days ago): "Hi all. Can you keep your eyes and ears open. The livesey hall and the adjoining boxing club near sava center in Sydenham were vandalized and burgled in the early hours of this morning. The boxing club is a charity based club and A...
- 16 May 2023 00:01
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Water Pressure - Lawrie Park Road
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2813
Re: Water Pressure - Lawrie Park Road
It seems that Thames Water have been rezoning their supply system to try and reduce the leakage. It used to be 4bar and now it has been reduced to 1.8bar, which is still more than the minumum that OFWAT stipulate of 1bar to the property. Really? I don't suppose you think they would have done the re...
- 15 May 2023 23:59
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Daniel Morgan Murder
- Replies: 80
- Views: 132312
Re: Daniel Morgan Murder
Totally unbelievable, isn't it.
- 2 Apr 2023 23:01
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Disposal of Crystal Palace Park - comments by 6th April
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4682
Disposal of Crystal Palace Park - comments by 6th April
See the official notice at: https://crystalpalaceparkregenerationplan.com/section-123-2a-of-the-local-government-act-1972-disposal-of-land-comprising-open-space/ This relates to LB Bromley's transfer of the management and maintenance of the Park to the Crystal Palace Park Trust for 125 years(!) I ha...
- 25 Mar 2023 00:47
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Sydenham men aiding murderers and drug tafficers to escape convicted
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4913
Re: Sydenham men aiding murderers and drug tafficers to escape convicted
Probably privacy laws or something? But occasionally in the News Shopper you still get "so-and-so, of Such-and-Such Road ..."