Sydenham Town Forum

It's a conspiracy, I tell you. You buy all these things to be able to receive the new transmissions, and then someone goes and moves the goalposts so you have to buy yet more. I only bought my Freeview DVDR/VCR at the beginning of this year anyway because I was afraid the things were going to be di...

The main Crystal Palace transmitter @ Sydenham Hill will/is the main digital TV transmitter for London & the Home Counties. There is considerable work taking place in preparation for the 2012 upgrade. This includes a massive new set of cables going from earth to the transmitters. The old ITV tra...

If we are, as you seem to suggest, simply to ignore such tables, then why would the government go the the trouble of compiling and publishing these figures? No, that is why I quoted from them. If we have a school with the lowest final achievement but not the lowest added value what is the implied c...

50% of schools are below average. That's no better then when this government came into power ... shock horror!

Rather more important than position is achievement (value added). Haseltine is not bottom there. So why are you selecting this one statistic to try and dish them and Blair?

Stuart

Given that you now have another witness you might wish to suggest that as they will not tell you if they are going to take any action then you will make it a police matter. That they might not desire ... BTW was this the bus company? You might want to also take it to TfL as this is an unsatisfactory...

I agree with AliB. It isn't what he has done but what he might do or have done to him if he meets someone who reacts badly that we should worry about. I would report. I doubt the police would pursue it as a crime unless there is strong independent evidence. They may be more willing to "have a w...

Nor here I'm afraid. Lewisham stuff rarely makes it to this bit of LPG.

Stuart

In summary (in my view) PW and Anereley will move in May, from a dire rail service to a pretty good one. Currently only about 300,000 people combined use the two stations each year. Passenger numbers should quickly double at least after May. Really good news - if local residents know about it. Cllr...

Do you mean Southern Rail or Southwark Council are not providing Disabled Parking? Have you approached them on this as it would be a more satisfactory solution than have you compete with the lazy able?

Stuart

I should add as an addendum that the pavement along that road is notoriously narrow. Meeting somebody coming the other way with a pram can mean stepping into the street. The idea of 600 entering or exiting in a period of say 10 minutes may cause severe pedestrian congestion. With that and crossing t...

Motivation for objections should be irrelevant. It is the quality and relevance of the objection that should count. The key one IMHO is the parking/traffic issue. It is one where the KICC position is weakest and indicates to me that KICC has, and is, seeking to seriously mislead the council and the ...

If you only live in CPPR why not cycle. Just buy cheap second hand bikes..when they get nicked it's no big deal. Is even that a bit over the top? (pun intended!). Shackleton walked everyday from the end of Lawrie Park Avenue to Dulwich College. And even if you are not planning an Antarctic adventur...

It looks like hardware but it is worthwhile making sure your video drivers are not involved. On boot select BIOS (usually <F2> <F10> or whatever flashes up on screen before windows starts (are you running Windows?). This will use the screen without the OS video drivers. Now does the fault persist as...

I was reading into your post that some shops are set up to maximise the money that can be made from grants, loans and other stuff rather than to serving customers. Some may close with some of this still in the hands of the entrepreneur (or thief). This does happen and eyebrows have been raised over ...

The franchisee would make a loss yes. But not half the loss the bank would make. Who pays for that? Wishing failure on somebody creating what may be a useful service to some and no harm to others would seem perverse. Not to mention unsubstantiated innuendo. As you know them, or at least their sex, t...

From the Subway franchise page: http://www.subway.co.uk/business/franchise/financial_information.aspx "In fact, in some cases, traditional SUBWAY® outlets can be opened for as little as c. £100,000." That's an awful lot of sandwiches. Someone must have tremendous confidence in Sydenham. A ...

I have sent you a PM.

Stuart

Time to give my regular plug for: http://www.crystalpalacefunrunners.co.uk Starts at the Paxton Statue in the middle of the park 7.30pm Mondays & Wednesdays (anyone is welcome to join me at 7.20pm to run from LPG). Caters for ALL abilities - well from trotters to 7 minute milers as we group by (...

Be careful we think too much of our rights and not of others. It is not unreasonable to want to park as near your destination as possible. If that is not in front of your home then a neighbours' is surely OK. But you are in turn inconvenience them a little because they can't park there or have to ca...

Express Dairies deliver to us in LPG. Superb service for over 25 years. Surely better to have milk delivered by electric cart then tootling down to Savacentre by car? Recycling bottles without smashing and using lots of energy to re-blow them is a good idea? http://www.milkandmore.co.uk/OA_HTML/ibeC...