Sydenham Town Forum

Interestingly it was a licensed premises until relatively recently. It was an off license until probably the early 2000s. The cellar door is still in the pavement.

syd wrote: Yesterday I got mail at 5pm and it was junk most of my mail is junk.

Any junk mail delivered by Royal Mail gets scrawled "no addressee: return to sender" on it and put back in the post box by me. I doubt it does any good but it's my own little protest and makes me feel better.

It was an absolute rip off. Businesses aren't a charity: if they don't offer value then people vote with their feet. If it was about £1 a pint cheaper I might have spent my money there.

It's worth reporting to the police: I know of one case some years ago that I had first hand knowledge of where the suspect was spotted on the CCTV covering the cash point. The footage clearly showed him discarding a cigarette butt nearby. The officer investigating the case returned to the scene and ...

Driving through the borough of Lewisham yesterday (including Sydenham) for the firs time in a while I must say that the signage is a disgrace. A mixture of 20/30mph signs, no signs entering roads or sections thereof and then one tiny mini-sign on a lamppost by itself. On Whitefoot lane there is an e...

mosy wrote:You're never supposed to be stationary in a yellow box

Unless you are turning right.

Interestingly (if you get interested by this sort of thing) the Police in Lewisham (and many other boroughs) lost the power to enforce this and several other offences a few years back. (2010 I think it was).

Begging is certainly illegal. Section 3 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 makes it an offence:

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo4/5/83/section/3

If it is bothering you or she is bothering/intimidating people in general report it to the Safer Neighbourhood Team at Sydenham.SNT@met.police.uk or on 101.

The @mpsinthesky account changed over to a new NPAS Twitter account when the air support unit was transferred from the Met to the National Police Air Service. It is a lot less informative and interactive than it was when it was a Met account.

I think drones are definitely going to be the future Stuart. I'm just not 100% that they can cram in as much technology into a drone yet as they do in the chopper. Some of the capabilities in the helicopter are absolutely incredible. I'm also not sure about a drone's endurance versus a helicopter. F...

Unfortunately Reg died a few years ago.

https://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=6211

I resisted getting a dishwasher for years but got one at the start of the year after working out that it was actually more economical and environmentally friendly than the washing up bowl. Ours uses a ridiculously low quantity of water. It's honestly transformed the washing up routine and made life ...

If you wanted a parking space why didn't you move to a house with a drive?

If it works out cheaper and/or more convenient for them then it is common sense rather than selfishness?


Perhaps the people who park near local shops disrupting people who are trying to get to work are selfish, to use the same logic

Mont Sorry you misunderstood. I was saying ought to be controlled parking throughout Sydenham to deter the selfish station all day parkers. Why is it selfish to park on an unrestricted public highway? The person who parks there has just as much right to park there as anyone else. If you want a guar...

Just like if people move next to a club and start complaining about the noise. That's fair isn't it? Unfortunately the law doesn't agree with you on that point, as per my earlier case law I quoted. As for your point re any nightspot getting complaints if it were to be located there: I don't think t...

While you can see the problem with this: I move to London because of buzzy nighttimes, I am rich and manage to move to the most buzzy area, I then complain about the noise. It's not nice is it? All this noise? I didn't expect this? That's detrimental to lots of organisations and institutions that p...

I must say, I've never understood why some people like to have music is loud that you cannot have a conversation. Even if you want to dance music doesn't need to be overpoweringly loud. So, why do some people insist on excess decibels?

Can anyone shed any light?

The police have no powers to deal with noise complaints. Call the council: they have the statutory responsibility to investigate. Don't hold put much hope of them actually prosecuting though: I did an FOI request a short while ago asking how many prosecutions they undertook v the number of complaint...

Originally they planned to have the power back by Thursday but its all on already, word has reached me that they have somehow hooked into the main line.. I have taken meter readings in case they have done what I hope they have not. If this does prove to be the case ... theft of electricity is not o...

It might be worth suing the shop to be honest... It sounds horrendous.