Sydenham Town Forum

Nicknack I stand corrected. There is - and has been for some considerable time - some seven lanes of dual carriageway (is that a record locally ?) from the junction of Stanton Way to the division at Bell Green. It is certainly short but no less significant for that. But it does not reach the gas hol...

JRW - I would not dispute SGN's ownership - particularly if you have visibility of the Land Registry documents. You may have further insight as to who or what has the tenancy and has the necessary licence from the local authority. But on a week-on-week basis there is significant volume of business b...

Michael You must either have an inside line or possess more diligence than me in searching the planning portal for the lodging of an appeal. I genuinely did not spot it. If it were to succeed the original plans had the surroundings alter to one low rise retail warehouse, one block of offices and two...

........ and dual carriageways. Have not seen any dual carriageways - existing or proposed. And as I have said before the visual amenity debate can go on unresolved interminably. It's my view - and I respect yours too - is that the Livesey Hall , its perimeter wall and War Memorial present themselv...

Dear Confused of Turnbridge Wells. Perhaps I can help. The current plans also involve developing on most of the land belonging to the Livesey Hall, making its future as any kind of community asset very uncertain. SGN needs to clarify its intentions regarding the Hall, given that they own it outright...

A man who got onto the track in the early hours of 8 July and made contact with the third rail is said to have life-changing injuries but they are considered not to be life-threatening. http://www.newsshopper.co.uk/news/16340896.man-suffers-serious-burns-after-sydenham-station-incident/?ref=mr&l...

In planning decision terms, it surely can't be possible to give a conditional demolition permit (aside from "cleaning" any toxins), e.g. "but only if you replace it with something good as yet unspecified". Or am I not keeping up at the back? I think the people at the back are ke...

SydSOC's call for an Article 4 direction is significantly misplaced and is mis-directed. These are extracts from Historic England's Advice Paper. The Italics are my responses. Article 4 directions are used to control works that could threaten the character of an area of acknowledged importance, such...

A new ruling from the Court of Appeal on "pernicious" Japanese Knotweed. If the plant Japanese knotweed has encroached on a property and it can be successfully proved that knotweed that grows into a home or garden originated on an adjoining property, that owner of this adjoining property c...

The same company, Scottish Power Networks, is also currently trying to demolish the iconic gasholder near the Millennium Dome. .........gasholders are being removed, and the argument that 'there are loads of them about' will be hard to sustain. ...The Victorian Society are tweeting their disappoint...

Spotted a tv in the garden of the PoW on Perry Rise on Sunday..

Meanwhile, Lewisham Council has ignored a proposal to develop their land in Willow Way, and other available land at Bell Green. If you are concerned about the environment, please sign this petition. In principle it is right that LA planners give petitions of this type in planning matters no weight....

mosy not asking for hand holding at all. Just consistency in approach. In any case where one applicant is granted approval with conditions such as requiring that a Traffic Statement or a Sound Statement be supplied at a later date, it would be reasonable to apply that same principle to another appli...

Several groups have been congregating from time to time at that location and in the car parks at the retail park over the past couple of years. On one occasion last year there were approx 120 bikes and quads cruising on Perry Hill on both lanes taking up the full width of the road heading toward Cat...

The council could have dealt with this in a very different fashion. As LB Lewisham had done with other retail applications in Sydenham, they could have granted the approval with conditions that required the submission of satisfactory Sounds and Traffic statements for subsequent approval by the plann...

A renewed Prior Notification of the demolition of the two existing gasholders and ancillary buildings at Bell Green has been submitted to LB Lewisham Planning Reference DC/18/107607 dated 13 June 2018. This can be seen at https://planning.lewisham.gov.uk/online-applications/ The submitted documentat...

Nicely and succinctly done sparticus.

Looks very different when you put it that way.

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Is that galaxy far, far away ?