AGM Tuesday 16th June evening.

In the Dutch barn at the Horniman gardens

Summer Picnic revised dates

There is another date change.  The summer picnic, planned for Sunday, 12th July, will now be held on the following Sunday, 19th July.  This is to co-incide with a nationwide event called The Big Lunch which aims to bring neighbours together to - well, have lunch, something that we have been doing for years!

Yellow Book Open Garden dates correction

The open garden weekend remains Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th May. (Bank Holiday Monday will be closed)
 

Tewkesbury Avenue Planning news

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Forest Hill pools news

A campaign group has been set up to try to persuade the Mayor to retain swimming on the existing Pools site – rebuilding the Pools in the near future, rather than pursuing the Council’s preferred option which is to build a new leisure centre in Willow Way, Sydenham. The Willow Way proposal would ultimately result in housing o nthe existing site and the probable decay of Loise House and the Pools frontage building whilst awaiting an upturn in the housing market.  A major effort will be being made to get people to sign a paper petition – with a campaign launch in the centre of Forest Hill at 11am this Saturday.  You can read more about the proposals and the campaign and can sign an electronic petition at http://keepswimming.notlong.com .  We will debate whether and how the Association will support the campaign at our committee meeting on 18 March.  In the meantime, if you consider it appropriate, please sign the online petition and encourage your friends to do the same.

The wait for a solution continues…

Since Louise House was listed by English Heritage in August last year, scuppering the Council’s plans for a new leisure centre on the site, the Council has been working on new options for Forest Hill Pools.  These were finally presented to the Stakeholder Group, on which the Association is represented, on 5th February.  Out of the blue, a new dimension was added to the options available – a redundant Council site in Willow Way between Sydenham Police Station and Kirkdale.

Three options were presented to the stakeholders:

• Option 1.  Demolish the old Pools frontage and build a new two pool leisure centre on the site.  Finance it in part with housing on top of, and behind the leisure centre.
• Option 2.  Retain the old Pools frontage and build a new leisure centre behind it.  Finance it in part with housing on the Willow Way site.
• Option 3.  Retain the old Pools frontage and convert it to housing.  Build high density housing on the remainder of the Pools site and use the revenue to part finance a new two pool leisure centre on the Willow Way site.

More on our Pools page