Sydenham Town Forum

London Road in Forest Hill is closed for a couple of weeks for emergency sewer works, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10979932. This will result in additional traffic on Dartmouth Road and Sydenham Hill and these roads are probably worth avoiding if you can. But the good news is that...

I'm glad to know that the consultation document is worded better than the press release which refers to 'any alcohol within the boundaries of Lewisham borough'.

The Designated Public Order will give police a discretionary the powers to stop people and confiscate, demand and dispose of any alcohol within the boundaries of Lewisham borough. No mention of 'in public places'. This means that the police will have the powers to confiscate alcohol from my fridge ...

This was all answered by Location, Location, Location. When a couple were looking for a nice flat in East Dulwich they ended up in Forest Hill, proving either that the title of the programme is completely wrong or that Forest Hill and Sydenham are just as good Locations as East Dulwich. The Forest H...

The idea of splitting out postings on a new topic that emerges tangentially (that spelling shouldn't be right) from another thread is perfectly reasonable and practiced on a lot of forums. It helps to keep both topics flowing better and leads to better dicussion of both areas of interest. I do find ...

Livesnearby, You make a fair point but I as I remember it this was going to be the minimum specification for the pool planned on the double site, and the council was consulting about additional facilities that could be included. What we might have got can only be speculated about now. We came very c...

There were many people who felt that Louise House was not worthy of listing, although others felt differently. At the end of the day listing is purely a decision for English Heritage and there is little that can be done to delist a building. Sometimes listing is a 'good thing' but in some cases it w...

Here it is:
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For some reason my posting to the regurgitated fish n' chips has been removed from SE23.com, I wonder why?

I have requested that the bike thread is also regurgitated.

A new blog has been created:
http://se23regurgitated.blogspot.com/

I wish 'bigbadwolf' wouldn't use expressions like 'Jesus ... wept' in his posts. That sort of language is offensive and bullying. If this is 'offensive and bullying' then perhaps you might understand how non-Christians feel when they turn up to civic events such as hustings only to find that they a...

Interestingly the report also says that 'Service co-location, community management and asset transfer are all being considered as part of these proposals.' So if people in Sydenham want to continue having a library in Home Park it is possible that they could run it themselves (without all these new ...

Tim, I wasn't planning to write an objection as it does not affect me. But I hope that people who use Sydenham Town Centre do object to this application as you have suggested. I wanted to make it clear that there are good grounds for the council refusing this application and that you do not have to ...

This is contrary to council policy STC4: STC 4 Major and District Centres - Core Shopping Areas Within the Core Shopping Areas, as defined on the Proposals Map and listed in Table STC 1 below, the Council will strongly resist any change of use involving the loss at ground floor level of Class A1 sho...

Thank you for providing a good forum for discussion of local politics, and to all the candidates who engaged with the local community through the forum during the election. ...close Town Hustings until spring 2015 or thereabouts There should still be local elections in 2014 and GLA elections before ...

I suspect that, in talking to Labour, the LibDems are just shopping the deal. It was noticable that within a couple of hours of Brown announcing formal talks between Labour and the Lib Dems, that Hague suddenly announced that AV was on the table, presumably it wasn't until Lib Dems showed that the ...

The UK Polling Report used the 2005 votes in each Ward and using the methodogly shown recalculared what the voting would have been. I would be interested to know why you feel that the Press Association is more accurate since I do not know what method they used. electoralcalculus shows a proper brea...

I believe that the Press Association / BBC estimates are generally considered more accurate. [quote=Press Association]Election experts Professors Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher have conducted a survey for the Press Association, BBC, ITN and Sky News showing how the changed constituencies might ...

Peter, Thanks for your response. It is good to know that you are very uncomfortable with your party's plan for 50% nuclear power. As you point out their are better methods of energy production. Denmark is already up to 20% wind power, whilst we are only at 5%. Hydro-electric is ideal, not only for p...

Hi Peter, Many thanks for providing links to the UKIP website and policies. I have a few questions: Why do you think that nuclear power is a better energy source than wind, and why do you wish to oppose all wind farms? How many Nuclear reactors will be required for 50% of our energy and can we expec...