Sydenham Town Forum

Join us for a 90 minute Discovery Walk around Upper Sydenham spotting sites for fruit and veg, foraging, wildfood recipe sharing. Start Dulwich Wood House Car park at 2.30pm pm Sunday 6th June. We're not experts but together we can learn a lot about our area. Children and slow walkers welcome. For m...

Thanks Poppy. I'll have a look.

I appreciate what you're saying Global Thinker but the school offered is over two miles from our house. We're damned by not living close enough to our top school choices (both under a mile from us) and then 'rewarded' with a place at a school over two miles away?? Four year olds can't be expected to...

Thanks for your replies. We didn't get any of our choices on the form. It paints a depressing picture of Sydenham and I'm not sure what this means for my vote in May. I don't want to be forced to move because the council can't provide a good local school place. I've lived here for almost 20 years, d...

Gasp! I've just found out this morning that my child has been "offered" a place at Haseldine school and after reading these articles, I'm horrified. We are not able to walk to it and certainly wouldn't choose Lewisham's worst school. The whole parent choice thing feels like a waste of time...

I know this isn't Sydenham but the Darmouth Arms in Forest Hill was very nice for a drink en route back from the station last Saturday evening. I haven't tried it for food but the menu looks really good and the staff were very welcoming. I can only reiterate what has been said by everyone else on pu...