Sydenham Town Forum

spark wrote:

Lee Jasper wrote:When one has a fire, it should be no surprise that a firefighter turns up.

When one tosses a red herring into the mix, it should be no surprise that discerning gourmets toss it back.

Just because we're paranoid doesn't mean we don't have enemies.

This is purely a parking space issue. I have suggested one would be lucky to find a dozen legal parking spaces within 5 mins of the venue not being occupied at 11 pm ish. If patrons came by Night Bus or Taxi would not be a problem. Also they could have a drink. For the sake of all I hope this can b...

What is true, is Sydenham like any Town in the UK, is not immune to racism and where such odious bigotry makes itself apparent it will be vigorously challenged. And also, it seems, when it isn't apparent. Both your post hinting at a 'broader agenda' and Terence's suggesting overt racism elevated th...

@ Lee Jasper Reading your explanatory post (time-stamped 14.58 today), I read that you're now not allowed to use cones etc to denote parking restrictions, yet were (or former owners were). Could I ask the reasons given by the council for this change of heart? I can speculate in my head why they (Co...

I suggest that everyone calms down and focuses on the way forward. We understand there are neighbours with genuine concerns, we're also are aware that there are a small number of compliant's that have been exaggerated or in some cases invented. The Club is a permanent feature of the local community,...

Lee, This is not a subject which I’d normally post on. However like another poster, I also happened to be out jogging on the evening of this wake. It was chaos. There was a sense of things being out of control. If this is what the local residents have needed to endure then it is alarming. What I wi...

Lee, why you are still evading answering a very specific question? What other agenda are you ascribing to me and others who, and i repeat so as to make myself crystal clear, are and will call for the closure or suspension of the Zanzibar licence if the nuisance cannot be mitigated? If, on the other...

Lee, why you are still evading answering a very specific question? What other agenda are you ascribing to me and others who, and i repeat so as to make myself crystal clear, are and will call for the closure or suspension of the Zanzibar licence if the nuisance cannot be mitigated? If, on the other...

Lee, You have not answered the question I asked. May I it ask again? I have tried to engage with you before. May be you were too busy to respond. I'm willing to try again. But as a believer in plain speaking I would first appreciate a proper response. Stuart I apologise if I've failed to responded ...

From all at Zanzibar now Maestro's Arts and Education Centre, we would like to offer a formal and sincere apology to all local residents, who were unfortunately affected by a private event, held at the club on the 15th of January 2015. The event however has to be seen in context of what happened on ...

Calling for the club to be closed down as some have done hear hints at broader agenda than simply seeking to positively engage and resolve problems. I have called for closure if the nuisance cannot be mitigated. What agenda are you hinting I may have? Stuart In addition we would say the nuisance ha...

The new owner has owned the club for less than 6 months and on the basis of one incident, some seem very keen to shut the club down. My response is simply this, why don't you come and talk to us and see for yourself what were doing, what plans we have for the future, before simply lumping us with th...

I would also just add, that the Club is under new management (May 2014) and to simply ascribe to the club now, all of the historic problems associated with the previous owner is simply unfair. We have demonstrated a completely different approach to these matters as anyone who had taken up our invite...

From all at Zanzibar now Maestro's Arts and Education Centre, we would like to offer a formal and sincere apology to all local residents, who were unfortunately affected by a private event, held at the club on the 15th of January 2015. The event however has to be seen in context of what happened on ...

Happy New Year to All ! We are delighted to report that our New Years Event 2015, went ahead without a single complaint to the Zanzibar management team, Lewisham Council or Lewisham Police Service. This was a s a result of the exemplary efforts of the new club management in changing the customer dem...

We are delighted that we have been given an opportunity to demonstrate the changes we introduced at Club Zanzibar this New Years Eve. Just to reiterate we welcome residents calling the management team direct on New Years Eve if they have any concerns. We will be filming all throughout the night, par...

I enjoyed attending the Sydenham Assembly and found the approach to dispensing local grants novel. I wasn't clear but does the Assembly have an executive that meets more regularly to deal with progressing the work and setting the agenda? I was really impressed with the staffing and commitment of the...

Club Zanzibar Newsletter Hand Delivered to Local Neighbourhood Dear Neighbour We at Club Zanzibar wish you all a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year as we approach the festive season. And what a New Year it will be for Club Zanzibar, where we will be making many changes to Club policy that includes chang...

Club Zanzibar Community Consultation At our last community consultation forum we agreed that we would make some changes to our management policy at Zanzibar, in direct response to a number of complaints for local neighbours about late night dispersal, noise and anti social behaviour, primarily alth...

Elbow Out Ebola Conference London Friday 5th December 2014 Club Zanzibar, Kirkdale, Sydenham SE26 4QD Speakers include High Commissioners of : Sierra Leone Liberia Guinea Nigeria To be opened by the Mayor of Lewisham Sir Steve Bullock. A conference to launch a peoples campaign in support of the vic...