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- 23 Oct 2020 08:18
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
- Replies: 196
- Views: 203041
Re: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
Two parents, one also a governor, imply objections are based in anti-catholic feelings. This is I’m sure inaccurate, unfair and a misunderstanding. But it is why the campaigners’ decision to send tweets to the Pope about the school “ignoring temporal authority” and failing “church ethics” were a ba...
- 4 Oct 2020 11:24
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: 254 new homes for Lower Sydenham decision no 6
- Replies: 6
- Views: 3918
Re: 254 new homes for Lower Sydenham decision no 6
Follow up by the Newshopper. You may find one of the reader's comments interesting: https://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/18761919.footzie-social-club-row-bromley-council-take-property-tycoon/ Stuart Ridiculous populist coverage. Is it a surprise that a builder with the capacity to develop a large plo...
- 15 Sep 2020 08:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
- Replies: 196
- Views: 203041
- 14 Sep 2020 18:39
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
- Replies: 196
- Views: 203041
Re: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
The campaign against this development has claimed that there were improperly managed risks from World War 2 bombs, asbestos and ground contamination, which were putting children at risk, which later shown to be untrue. There has been a poster campaign around the school vicinity using lurid language ...
- 14 Sep 2020 14:55
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
- Replies: 196
- Views: 203041
Re: St Philip Neri school: Archdiocese appeals planning enforcement order
I do hope this latest appeal manages to set aside the divisive language and baseless claims which have been a part of this campaign.
- 28 Aug 2020 11:40
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New homes for Sydenham Hill Estate?
- Replies: 9
- Views: 10580
Re: New homes for Sydenham Hill Estate?
Local campaigners always say they want genuinely affordable, car-free, low-emissions social rented housing for local families. Rather than spending millions of taxpayers money with private landlords for poor quality temporary accommodation. Yet when the option presents itself, time and again, reason...
- 6 Jun 2020 07:59
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Redevelopment of Mais House, Sydenham Hill
- Replies: 13
- Views: 15867
Re: Redevelopment of Mais House, Sydenham Hill
Really disappointed at the hostile and unbalanced stance taken in the Sydenham Society news letter. (Page 4, top link: https://sydenhamsociety.com/documents/print-newsletter-archives/) Why does it fail to mention that this is 100% social housing? Or the housing crisis? The language - “devastate the ...
- 6 Mar 2020 12:36
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: PlanningWatch [w/b 23/09/2019] * 154-158 SYDENHAM ROAD
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7588
Re: PlanningWatch [w/b 23/09/2019] * 154-158 SYDENHAM ROAD
But that is just one point of view. Individuals are perfectly entitled to hold it but yet again Syd Soc are not taking a balanced approach to questions where the community hold a wide range of different views.
- 20 Feb 2020 19:48
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Bell Green development - change in public leadership?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 5179
Re: Bell Green development - change in public leadership?
A cynic would suggest it may be about proposing hypothetical housing (at the bottom of the hill, in 20 years time, if a load of businesses and landowners agree to it) while objecting to viable new housing at the top of the hill and anywhere else today.
- 19 Feb 2020 15:00
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: PlanningWatch [w/b 23/09/2019] * 154-158 SYDENHAM ROAD
- Replies: 6
- Views: 7588
Re: PlanningWatch [w/b 23/09/2019] * 154-158 SYDENHAM ROAD
I am disappointed by the negative and unbalanced tone of the Sydenham Society email bulletin today re the proposed new council homes at Mais House. "Visible from miles away"; "change the character of Sydenham Hill forever"; "immense pressure on local infrastructure"; &q...
- 7 Nov 2019 13:00
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New houses
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19599
Re: New houses
Yes a different site - the warehouse rather than the school - but good news nonetheless. Also: a planning application has been submitted to convert the Regency snooker club and office complex on Spring Hill/Cobbs Corner into a housing. looks very smart. The photos on the application really bring out...
- 12 Sep 2019 19:00
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New houses
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19599
Re: New houses
Given the air quality and climate crisis, building dense car free sites close to good transport links is exactly the way forward. Planning neighbourhoods around where people can store their automobiles - a minority pursuit - is very much 1960s thinking and it’s good it’s on the way out
- 22 Aug 2019 20:23
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: New houses
- Replies: 15
- Views: 19599
New houses
Sounds good to me. I'll be writing to the council to support these. The council really do pay attention to letters of support, if you've ever considered it.
http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/2019/08/ ... ayow-road/
http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/2019/08/ ... ayow-road/
- 15 Aug 2019 13:39
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Petition. Lewisham isn't working: end the directly-elected mayoral system now
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19282
Re: Petition. Lewisham isn't working: end the directly-elected mayoral system now
The creator now has an online vendetta against a councillor over the fact the toilets in Home Park haven't been converted into a restaurant (?).
- 13 Aug 2019 14:54
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: Petition. Lewisham isn't working: end the directly-elected mayoral system now
- Replies: 17
- Views: 19282
Re: Petition. Lewisham isn't working: end the directly-elected mayoral system now
From the people who brought you the asbestos rumour mill.
Re: OLSPN
Happy for the whole thing to be posted.
Makes no difference. No matter how upside down or inside out the aesthetic rules ended up being followed, nothing justifies false claims about children and asbestos.
Makes no difference. No matter how upside down or inside out the aesthetic rules ended up being followed, nothing justifies false claims about children and asbestos.
Re: OLSPN
Despite having been repeatedly and publicly corrected, the false rumours about asbestos were fanned again at council question time on July 24. Question Why did Lewisham allow our Lady & St Philip Neri School to move children into a half-finished, unapproved building, lacking proper documentation...
- 25 Jul 2019 16:23
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN Redevelopment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12703
Re: Tomorrow's OLSPN planning meeting URGENT
The campaign claimed children were at risk of asbestos. It appears this was on the basis of wild guess-work and/or a misreading of the paperwork. The council have said this just wasn't true. It's amazing anyone thinks this is a good strategy or a decent way to behave towards their neighbours.
- 25 Jul 2019 08:57
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN Redevelopment
- Replies: 12
- Views: 12703
Re: Tomorrow's OLSPN planning meeting URGENT
Thanks for posting this JRW. It’s a clear demolition of the campaign against this school. Campaigners said that health and safety processes and sign-offs hadn’t been done properly. They had. Campaigners said children were at risk of asbestos and contamination. They weren’t. Campaigners said the park...
- 19 Jun 2019 20:20
- Forum: Town Hall
- Topic: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
- Replies: 19
- Views: 19079
Re: OLSPN: Urgent deadline for comments on St Philip Neri school redevelopment
There was a sydenham society news letter about this. Red fonts and exclamation marks. "Shocked and dismayed". Starting to feel like a vendetta, and not terribly neighbourly.