Sydenham Town Forum

Another suggestion though it is a little way away - have you been to Christmas Tree Farm in Downe, just outside of orpington? about 20 mins in the car and it is a great petting farm. no cost of entry and a bucket of feed is around £2. If you fancy a good child friendly pub lunch there is the toby ca...

I agree, I think Sydenham will stay at the market average or outperform. It is one of the only places in london where you can still get decent property for a relatively cheap price, and that is what we are talking about, relative price. Compared to East Dulwich and even parts of Crystal palace, the ...

In answer to the title of this post, NO! Mrs Don and I had our flat valued this week - we bought in 2004 for £190,000, and just had it valued for £285,000 - clearly you dont always get the asking price, but shows that the area really is becoming more desirable - this cant all be down to the dolphin,...

Sound advice from Kster I would say. We also bought a three bed conversion flat a couple of years back and went for a homebuyers report. We were stupid and didnt check the lease agreement (we actually own everything above the ground floor including the roof and loft) - our chimney is crocked and now...

does someone want to get the mud in? This is more entertaining than ultimate fighting

I agree Although I see where you are coming from leaf, I dont understand your point. So you want Sydenham to stay in a time warp, with lots of pound shops, questionable greasy spoons and a Boots that looks like it straight out of Life on Mars? How do you think the area could be improved (barring shi...

What great news if this is true... There is nothing wrong with a bit of diversity, having a pub like this can only be good news, surely! I disagree Leaf, i think this type of establishment would work very well in Sydenham, not only for residents, but for those in the surrounding areas too. People ac...

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Try Chi in Crystal Palace - relatively new and really really good

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Hi there, Just to let you know that the new nursery manager has left after 2 weeks! I have subsequently gone onto ofsteds website to have a look at the latest report, and I have to say that it is horrific! I would advise that you have a look at the ofsted reports as a matter of course when looking i...

Hi there, I know that the ofsted report mentioned planning as an area for improvement - this is something that we were told the new manager is good at and she is very experienced by all accounts. We are 'waiting and seeing' how the next couple of months pan out. I will keep you uptodate on how we ar...

I also have my daughter in at little stars - they do have the kids best interests at heart and it is good value, however, staff turnover has been high recently (the manager ,who we loved, recently left). However there is a new manager in there who seems good on first impressions. Good luck in your s...

Hello, I got in last night from work to a note through my door from lewisham council, saying sorry for the short notice, but the council would be digging up the pavement on both sides of Newlands park (from sydenham road to tretown road) for the next three months from this coming Monday! 5 days noti...

Right, A real bug bear of mine I just have to find out how to resolve this. Every morning (about 7.45-8.10am) the lights at Newlands Park and Sydenhm Road seem to freeze - they get stuck on red for literally minutes and the queues go back hundreds of metres on NP. People end up jumping the red light...

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My wife to be is desperately searching round for a top notch dry cleaners in sydenham area that can accomodate for a wedding dress, quickly! - we get married on the 10th September. Does anyone know of a reliable dry cleaners?

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A agree re. Newlands park - the peace and quiet is amazing, great not to be watching a film on TV with the buses creating 'rumble vision' to enhance the effects. Pedestrianise NP! saying that we were rudely awakened at 4.30am sunday morning by 4 chavs playing techno outside full blast from their car...

Hi All, On Saturday night / sunday morning at about 1.30 am there was (what looked to be) a serious accident on Newlands Park involving a pedestrian and a bus. Does anyone know any more about this? I hope the person who got hit was OK. This was unfortunately an accident quite literally waiting to ha...

I had a roofer round today re. some damp coming through at the top of one of my rooms - turns out that it's the Chimney stack - will need either to be re-built or have some serious work done to it. Can anyone recommend a good roofer / chimney specialist?

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i agree GT, the general scum and rubbish needs to be sorted out - I used to live in Holloway, Junction Road, and I thought that was bad, but Sydenham road is just the same. I was walking to the station just near the ladbrookes / Newlands park junction a few weeks back, to be confronted with a huge d...