Sydenham Town Forum

Politicians are elected to "SERVE" the electorate and to ascertain the will of the majority and implement it.

Except that's explicitly not the way our government works now or has ever been. The PM has only to have the confidence of a majority of the house who are elected on FPTP. So no majority ...

The majority voted for Brexit. In a straight yes or no question, those who do not vote are voting for whatever the majority votes for.


Brexit was negotiated and signed by Boris' minority government. By your argument we should still be in the EU. Another government (Theresa's?) may have left the ...

Yes

Think this through JJ. If they don't have a mandate - who does? Do we cancel Brexit because only a minority of the electorate voted for it? Do you cancel every government we have had?

If you want something to happen - you vote for it. 40% voted Green. In total the 'left' got about 75% of the vote ...

That link ended last year. Doesn't even feature the agenda to this past meeting. Don't think we can blame the Greens for that but they do need to fix it.

Well it took the bots just 8 hours to sniff out we had disabled the Cloudflare attack mode bringing down the server again. Cloudflare and the server are both back up again now.

AI is crippling the online world destroying any open site it feeds on for 'training' (aka stealing other people's work ...

I've just removed the Cloudflare check/cache.* Does this make any difference?

* It'll come back on the moment the AI bots spot the opportunity to start training on STF again.

Plenty of room in Sydenham Road for a bus lane from Mayow Road to the Railway Bridge. There was a post at the time of the last 'improvement' showing how we could do it on the westbound uphill side and widen the pavements if you replaced the parking bays. Probably room for some disabled bays on the ...

May I reply on the Admin's behalf. My company hosts the forum and is responsible for how you get to it. But not what happens on it!

The login problem arises because the forum is under continual attack. Hence the Cloudflare verification you see before you get to the actual forum. Every few weeks I ...

And the re-instatement of the advance stop line outside Lidl to avoid being squeezed by that very dangerous concrete island on t'other side.

Painting it out is making it really dangerous. I couldn't get a sensible explanation from our previous councillor.

Stuart

Getting back on topic. The new Green Mayor will tax pedestrians, cyclists, motorists and those of us who are all three or two alike mainly through a property tax. There is no contract between the Mayor and just one section of the community on how Lewisham should spent it on roads - not forgetting ...

I have friends in a Green constituency. The party does seem rather split between the traditional Greens who were there for trying to get better environmental policies. Then we have the influx of new Greens who were looking for a party left of Labour. They are now the majority. I wonder where our ...

For those who had given up hope on Crystal Palace National Sports Centre of reversing the decline - there is hope. Fingers crossed.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/ ... -athletics

For our friends from the North who haven't noticed.:

A new community forum alongside the venerable SE23.COM launched a couple of months ago and already has over a hundred users. Many will remember SE23.life launching to great success 10 years ago but went bad leading to a scandal that led to its ...

Yes - Good Food it is. More news: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/2593 ... -sydenham/

I think Kingswood House may be struggling on according to this report: https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/dulwic ... m-closure/

But great if Leo's does come back. Any updates?

Kirkdale's Mon58 wins Lewisham Mayor's award. Appears to be a booming business according to the Metro:
https://metro.co.uk/2025/11/11/started-selling-coffee-garden-now-business-makes-500-000-a-year-24624250/

Meanwhile On the Hoof Sydenham Road closes on Sunday 14th December. Already gone is the ...

This Sunday 7th December. Lower Sydenham & New Beckenham trains will run to /from Victoria via Lewisham. Not London Bridge. Sydenham Hill & Penge East trains will be extended from Orpington to Sevenoaks. Sydenham trains should run as normal unlike last Sunday morning when an obstruction on the line ...

This weekend 22/23rd
Sydenham Hill & Penge East : no trains, bus replacement

Next week Monday to Thursday 24/27
Sydenham & Penge West: no trains after 23:30

A GoFunding page has been setup to help the Finch family here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-finc ... their-fire
Currently it is standing at £30k of £35k from 757 sponsors.

Stuart