Sydenham Town Forum

What is this? Any details? Where is it planned and when?

The changes to Bishopsthorpe and Silverdale were envisaged and initial consultations made a long time before Covid. They were always going to be introduced this year for a trial period; plans had been made - seems that Covid has given a general umbrella coverage and additional rationale for these sc...

The Faqs here suggest these are emergency temporary measures: https://lewishamcovidresidentialstreets.commonplace.is/about An excerpt: Will the Council consider making these measures permanent? It is recognised that there may be an appetite amongst communities for some of the measures that are being...

Please remember that you can make any comments about this scheme here: https://lewishamcovidresidentialstreets.commonplace.is/schemes/proposals/silverdale-and-bishopsthorpe-road/details Not everyone who is involved in the scheme reads this forum so they might not be aware that there ae some who do n...

@APCB welcome to the forum today and your first posts. Looking forward to hearing from you on other Sydenham matters as well.

Also other proposals out there affecting Sydenham: https://lewishamcovidshopsandstreets.commonplace.is/overview inc. Wells Park Road and Dartmouth Road (ok that's Forest Hill) inc. wider Lewisham: https://lewishamcovidresidentialstreets.commonplace.is/overview It's not just all about the Thorpes ......

I've always wondered about where one "moves people on to" if they don't have a permanent base or aren't part of a travelling community. In the past it might not have mattered that much (out of site out of mind) but these days that is not in style. I'm thinking about how these days society demands th...

Here is a list of local suppliers who are offering a delivery services - I'm sure it will change regularly and there will always be firms not on it who are offering deliveries.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V8A ... p=drivesdk

Good to hear that's up and running

Also power off for a short while in Upper Sydenham (Wells Park area)

It might be this - police appealing for information about an incident on 14th February on Lawrie Park Gardens https://nextdoor.co.uk/news_feed/?post=17592193285864 If you can't access the NextDoor post text is as follows: " On 14th February at approximately 06:20am a knife-point robbery occurred on ...

They offer a great service - I know I could get cheaper at other places but not the service and pleasure from being served by interested knowledgeable staff. I am more comfortable not treating my vision as a commodity - I prefer a relationship with opticians. It's not about the individual transactio...

I have no idea what is planned for this site.

Howevee I know that some Sydenham residents sometimes find themselves homeless and some bailed.

Better that there are local places for them to live in and so avoid displacement from their (our) local community.

Happy Christmas to all.

I know Amazon are getting into fresh food deliveries and own Whole Foods - but can you now actually get deliveries from PFC using Amazon Prime? I didn't know they had a web presence. If they do that would be amazing. I suppose it would be something similar to how Uber Eats or Deliveroo pick up from ...

Great 'clickbait' title - I thought this would be something from the 1960s rather than the 1660s. A good informative read nevertheless. Thanks.

A valuable reminder that the "ends do not justify the means". Honestly believing in someone's guilt (even if true) doesn't justify the fabrication of evidence.

Beckenham Place Park temporarily closed:

https://lewisham.gov.uk/inmyarea/opensp ... place-park

Taylored Lofts have done similar work work for us recently. They are local, a family firm, and specialise in lofts (as the name suggests) but are also general builders (extensions, new builds etc.). They have good links with planning experts to help that part of the journey. They've been doing lofts...

Not sure whether I'll actually use this but I live between Sydenham and Sydenham Hill stations and often decide on the fly which one to use - this seems a quick way of assessing what's actually going on at the time. And then making a decision as to travel routes.

Works well - clean and tidy - URL saved to my phone home page