Sydenham Town Forum

Murdered by a 36 year old woman, allegedly. Appears in Bromley Magistrate's court today:
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/l ... 29580.html

Stuart

The links I received for dose 1 and dose 2 from Syd Green were not shareable but unique. You enter your DoB and then it tells you who you are.

Do you have source for this shareable links story? If not then is it the right thing to share it without verification?

Stuart

And another featuring Julia: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1919 ... g-inquiry/

Stuart

We too had our second dose invitations from Sydenham Green today. Click on text, complete birth date, choose slot (April 8th), click, text pings back confirmation. All done in 60 seconds. I've spent nearly that many years in IT and I have to say, I gasped. Overall great thanks to Kate Bingham for pr...

Newsshopper story: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1918 ... iry-costs/

Stuart

A very balanced answer @sydenham. Given that around half the Borough don't have cars and are the most likely to benefit from Borough spending - charging for the semi-permanent occupancy use of a public space by those able to afford cars would seem reasonable. Of course any taxation system is unfair ...

Why?

Stuart

Is this true? As an outsider you have to pay, if you have a car, in other areas. But not a permit.

Surely an incentive to desert four wheels for two - whether powered or not. Both are better for efficient road use and the environment.

Stuart

Nice touch on Sydenham Rise yesterday: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/1914 ... -replaced/

Stuart

An opposition is the only way to have proper scrutiny. An effective opposition is a group who able to take control if the elected leaders fail. But most councils are pretty much one party states. Bromley will never go Labour as Lewisham will never go Conservative for the foreseeable future. Opposit...

Good news for people who own homes here. Bad news for everybody else. Top ten spots for rises in the last 12 months. Interestingly all but two are south of the river and half are in SE London: https://i2-prod.mylondon.news/incoming/article19924227.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/1_Feb-2021-hotspots-2.jpg Repor...

They are assuming that they will win, unchallenged. May be - but no excuse. Remember the red wall? Disruptive politics will change certainties. And while you are right to point out that this is about a local microcosm - you will have noticed that it can quickly be put into the context of national a...

Sorry JGD but for all Nicola's impressive presentational skills - outclassing Boris in spades - the results, particularly Covid-19 related are alarmingly similar. And that's what counts. Except people don't. But getting back to dear old Sydders. Two candidates have a bio. Jack Lavery doesn't. Call m...

vbsydenham wrote: ↑26 Feb 2021 10:28 If you want to talk Salmond I think we'll have to retire to the pub......

I would, except I think he is a little too wide to slip through the back door.

Stuart

They are - I just looked it up; his name is Jack Lavery Nope, the role of Lord Buckethead is much disputed . I think you will find the real one is testifying today at a place you may know well :twisted: Do you know if the the SNP putting up a candidate to try and capture the JGD vote? Independence ...

And in the interests of balance: https://www.lewishamconservatives.org.uk/sites/www.lewishamconservatives.org.uk/files/styles/gallery_large/public/2020-05/Helena%20SydenhamHigh%20Street.jpg?itok=ONSXpiVk Meet Helena Croft the Conservative candidate for Sydenham ward. Helena lives in Lewisham with he...

It wasn't up this morning and when it did come up it included updates made to day. So the back-end must have been working - just not making it to the portal. Interesting to see someone has made an application for "Installation of air source heat pump in the front garden". Good that someone...

I sent them an email an hour ago - and it's back up! A coincidence?
Results here: https://sydenham.info/planning

Stuart

And i vividly recall when working under the Cameron Government (i,e one far more serious and competent than our present cluster) the civil service being explicitly forbidden from doing any planning or scoping of a "Yes" vote in the Brexit referendum. Which as someone working on EU policy ...

I think you miss my point. A contingency plan isn't what you are doing. It's what you might do if the current plan doesn't work. Aka Plan B, C & D. Agile and at Pace are today's awful buzzwords. But it what's expected the ability to change plan and do it quickly. Because a government doesn't wan...