Sydenham Town Forum

After all the delays let's not anyone get it wrong again. More haste, less speed. What's another few weeks for Lewisham to ensure no further breaches of the 2010 planning permission is adhered to?

A brief update.

There was a site meeting between the owners and Lewisham Building Control last Wednesday. We understand that
Purelake has been asked to make some changes to some of the detailing. They are in the process of doing this and this will be forwarded to Lewisham shortly.

http://www.sydenhamnews.co.uk Follow the above Link to the video showing the official lighting of the Christmas Tree in Sydenham Road last Saturday. Also on the same link is the lighting of the Lower Sydenham Christmas Tree the previous Saturday, which followed the official opening of the Literary P...

During the week there are plenty of school swimming lessons going on at Forest Hill Pools, Eagle, and you should see the number of young people who use the Pools after school every day. With the Christmas holidays looming, the Pools will be very busy. Things haven't changed much - my children and th...

And I have an email from the planning consultants saying that the arrival of scaffolding is imminent....

A reminder, flagged up by Admin in his first posting, about the poorly advertised Consultations. There are two opportunities to meet and ask questions of representatives of the GLA in the National Sports Centre: on Thursday,16 October from 5pm - 9 pm and on Saturday 18 October from 9.30 am - 5 pm Th...

Press and TV done this morning

And a great Sunday lunch today.

Bump!

Open House Weekend - this weekend....

Open House Weekend - Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st September 2014 To complement the opening of the Subway under Crystal Palace Parade, whether you were successful in the ballot to get a chance to visit the stunning Victorian vaulted walkway, or not CRYSTAL PALACE SUBWAY EXHIBITION In the Crystal P...

A tree was always planned for this site but before the BT Telephone box was moved it was not possible. The telephone box has now been moved and the plot has been prepared for an autumn planting.

Recommendation! My 4 year-old laptop (Windows 7) died very suddenly on me on Wednesday morning and over the past couple of days I have had to rely my recently purchased tablet (Windows 8.1), a pretty sharp learning curve! I took the laptop into Tech-House, 96 Sydenham Rd (after a recommendation from...

Totally agree, Lee. I've put a donation in the SAF pot - hope others follow suit.

As Lee says "Come on Sydenham - get behind this......."

Whilst reading about Childhood Heroes in Town Café, an advert lurking at the bottom of the page sprang to life referring to constipation and "it feeling like carrying around a bag of poo" - advertising senna pods as a method of solving the problem....

The purpose of the petition is to ensure correct process and proper community engagement. Arup have now announced a open meeting on 1 February at Anerley Town Hall from 11 am till 5 pm with presentations and Qs and As at 11.30, 1.30 and 3.30. This programme is a great improvement on the previous com...

You are quite right Sydenham. The purpose of the petition is to ensure correct process and proper community engagement. If the community engagement is carried out properly then the results of this will be fed into the planning process and show that local residents around the park have had an opportu...

As a signatory to the letter to local MPs expressing concerns about the process and abysmal lack of community engagement since the proposals were announced on 3 October last year, I invite others concerned to sign the petition with the link below http://www.change.org/petitions/members-of-parliament...

Christmas is coming and we all have a bit of time on our hands so - just looking back over the last few posts.... Time for Christmas Party Games? Top of the (my) Board of recent STF Posters over the past few months???? Eagle - 5264 - who started posting in October 2004 Tim - 3586 - March 2005 Admin ...

For information from the developers: The pile driving that was being carried out a few days ago was purely exploratory ground works. The piling proper should now be starting in mid Jan, everything just takes so much longer than one hopes! The developers state that they underestimated the implication...

Support here, too, Mary. I think Tim needs to spend more time on his allotment...

Happy Christmas, everyone!