Sydenham Town Forum

Talk to the planning department at Bromley and ask for guidance Get you neighbours to object You could look at this article by Shelter on buying the freehold to see if you qualify, then you and the other flats would not be in this situation. The Leaseholder Advisory Service may also be able to help.

I see from English Heritage that Crystal Palace's pool is only going to be open until 2012 following approval of the Crystal Palace Masterplan when "It will then be converted to 'dry' use to complement a new sports centre nearby." Does anybody have any information on what is to be built? I...

What facilities did we lose as a result of listing Lousie House? From what I remember, we were going to get two pools, a gym, two studios, some community space and a cafe (depending on how many flats were built above), all of which are being delivered by the current design.

At least they are using the free version of proboard although I wonder if they got written permission first The Website, or any portion of the Website, may not be reproduced, duplicated, copied, modified, sold, resold, distributed, visited, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose without t...

Go along and have a fun time at an Intensive Music Event , This has been organised by somebody whose daughter was in Lewisham ICU/HDU and is raising funds for them. A great cause and some fantastic acts: South London Jazz Orchestra , Angela Blacklaw & Mojo Wellington , Monolux, Priscilla Gregg, ...

Slightly off topic, but.. The arrival of the 'Teapot' and 'From the Forest' coffee shops in Forest Hill las also brought us the welcome relief of real bread (at Royal prices) No longer are we consigned to the wasteland of Mother's Pride from Sainsbury's ;) The only other bakers I have tried locally ...

That would be The construction of five blocks ranging from 3 to 7 storeys, comprising 178 residential units (including 65 affordable housing) and 1,247sq.m of commercial floor space (use classes A1/A2/A3/B1/D1) on Land at former Bell Green Gas Works, Bell Green SE26, together with associated landsca...

There's an article on Forest Hill's website explaining the intricacies of Oytser PAYG, maximum journey times and Out of Station Interchanges (such as Waterloo East - Waterloo)

[SouthEastern said] As you know, the timetable changed on 13 December last year and the time of every train on our network changed. Such was the scale of the change that it will take time for new services to “bed in” and for our train planners to assess what the unit formation of each new service s...

Maybe they're allowing longer for the 30% increase in passengers to get on the train?

Try contacting call Nick Long, Property Initiatives Manager, at. Lewisham Council for an informal chat on 0208 314 8381 or email nick.long@lewisham.gov - I think he has responsibilty for empty properties.

Cotact EDF and tell them you are suffering 'brownouts'

Customer Relations
EDF Energy Networks
Fore Hamlet
Ipswich IP3 8AA

Telephone: 0800 028 4587
email: customer.relations@edfenergy.com

What has been listed? Is it just the red roofed building, or is it the large, single storey building to the rear in this Aerial Viewas well?

The wall concerned MAY be a party wall, in which case you each own half the brick and there's nothing you can do about it; check your deeds and lease for details. A couple of useful sites are Neighbours From Hell in GB an Lewisham Environmental As everyone else has said, try to talk to your neighbou...

I notice from the video that the gates were open during the visit to avoid the queues, so the invitees did not see the full extent of the chaos the number of gates has been based on 100% Oyster card usage. Oyster cards are processed 50% faster than paper tickets No wonder there is such chaos at Syde...

FYI - not a complaint :). I don't have the flash plugin installed for Firefox (a deliberate choice on my part), so all I get is a blank space wherever you have a movie and no warning. I also have java disabled by default... There must be some code out there which will let you detect when flash is di...

Having written to the Mayor, TfL, GLA, Southern and Boris back in March, I got a reply from TfL today, apologising for the delay due to a large volume of correspondence recently :D I'm not sure it adds anything, but here it is for your information TfL would like these stations to be gated and to ret...

Personally I don't trust an organisation that hides behind Hotmail instead of using their own mail server...

same taken from 192.com maps http://www.192.com/maps/?lev=0&px=535699&py=171437 this site keeps me going for hours ! That would be the remains of a Pelican Crossing Zig-Zag and a Hazard Warning Line as defined in rule 127 ;) 127 A broken white line. This marks the centre of the road. When t...

From this photo on Google, it looks like there is an inverted triangle painted on the road in the right filter, which means that you have to Give Way before turning - no need to wait for the lights.

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