Sydenham Town Forum

Discussion of speeding, 20mph zones etc can be raised at the first meeting of the new Sydenham Assembly on Thursday March 6th (7pm at the Naborhood Centre).

Great news Mr Gerrard - I'm looking forward to seeing initial plans. IMHO the Greyhound site is the key to the regeneration of Sydenham. A restored pub together with some high quality housing will bring new life into the town centre and continue the uplift started by Blue Mountain, Sugahill, Floorzo...

There is a link here http://www.lewisham.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres ... ng2008.pdf
to the Spring update of Lewisham's adult education classes - some of which take place at Kirkdale. Some incredibly tempting courses if you've got the time!

stone-penge, are you in Bromley or Lewisham? Not being parochial here, Sydenham extends to somewhere near Penge East station... is the council talking about a controlled parking zone/residents parking?

Two Lewisham buildings have recently been awarded a Grade II listing: 233-241 Lewisham High St, "Rileys" Former Temperance Billiard Hall - the designation says "1909-10 by Norman Evans. Built as a billiard hall where alcohol was not served to combat alcoholism fuelled by the many publ...

If I'm not mistaken, two former swimming champions were born and grew up in Sydenham / Forest Hill - Linda Ludgrove and Zara Long. Linda Ludgrove's record below is taken from Wikipedia: Linda Ludgrove was an English backstroke swimmer (born September 3, 1947). Raised in Sydenham, Linda won individua...

Look west again - for the next best sunset in Sydenham!

Draughtbusters are basically a small joinery company who make wooden windows and re-furbish (and draught-proof) existing ones. They make and fit the windows and don't go in for high-pressure selling (I reaise I'm beginning to sound like their sales rep - which I'm not, honest!) When my neighbours us...

Karters windows look beautiful - but it looks as though they are based in Essex. Nearer to home is Draughtbusters in Forest Hill who are excellent -their no is 8291 2800. They've done a lot of work in the Thorpes.

The Princess Royal Hospital got some pretty poor coverage yesterday - report here:http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/ ... health.nhs

Buon giorno Linda - and greetings from Sydenham!

The address of the Catholic church on Kirkdale (near the end of Jews Walk) is:

Church Of The Resurrection R C Church
165-169 Kirkdale
London SE26 4QL
Tel: 020 8291 5766

Ciao - and I hope this helps.

I haven't heard any rumours about a paid parking scheme, but there is work going on associated with the upgrade of the station - introduction of barriers for Oyster cards etc. Since there is no paid-for parking at the moment in Sydenham, paid-for parking on Station Approach would be unusual. Only yo...

Fantastic news - can't wait to see reports from anyone who has visited.

Looks like he only went for upmarket areas - Dulwich Village was one of his targets!

At the December meeting of the Sydenham Community Regeneration Partnership, Ian Plowright, the project manager for Lewisham, explained that the scheme for Sydenham Rd needed to be looked at again by TfL (Transport for London), the body which is funding it. He hoped that he would be able to show plan...

Unicorn look great - it would be fantastic if they could be tempted out of Manchester. Just to return to the Gold Top Milk question - Somerfield have some wonderful Gold Top made from the milk of Jersey and Guernsey cows, produced by a small West Country supplier. In fact one of the positive things ...

Thanks for that Lee - very illuminating! Waitrose would of course be brilliant for the staff as it is part of John Lewis with their excellent conditions etc.

A high quality residential scheme would help to sort out the problems associated with the car park - and would probably be helpful to the neighbours at the back and opposite. The Three Tuns in Beckenham (which was a pretty dodgy pub previously) could be a model for the developer. In that scheme the ...

Interesting that in an earlier posting Lee said that the 'price point' of Somerfield is the same as Waitrose. Lee - can you explain what this means please?

Just to return to Dickp's interesting question - which sparked off this topic... now that we have heard that Somerfield is up for sale, how about lobbying M&S (or Waitrose!) re the Somerfield store - thus leaving the way open for the Greyhound to be restored to its original glory, with the possi...