Old garden centre demolition

[LondonMix]

Another thumps up for Alleyns Park Garden Centre-- which is one of the best garden centre's in all of London. They do local deliveries as well and are very friendly.

http://www.alleynpark.co.uk/

[ed_pete]

Anna27 Wrote:

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> Shannons is best i reckon

Another thumbs up for Shannons. (It's in Forest Hill, near Maplin)

[85volga]

Yes much prefer a run down boarded up shop/building .......not!! , actually liked the Art gallery whilst it lasted :) , don't be afraid of change

[Dun]

Shannons in Forest Hill is great. A family run business with huge stock. It is bigger then the ED one used to be and bigger then CP or WD. Def recommend it! Easy to get to (7 mins) and you can park if you want to buy loads or hop on the 185 if getting something small/having delivered.

[vixstar87]

I like the one next to North Dulwich station! It's one stop away from East Dulwich and has lots of nice things!!

http://www.dulwichpots.co.uk/dulwichpots/dulwich-garden-centre/

[NewWave]

I rate Shannons, Allyn park is TINY as is Alexander Nurseries, which is nice none the less for a coffee and cake.

[Bovine Juice]

Newboy Wrote:

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> There's a great family run independent garden

> centre called Alexander Nurseries in Sydenham.

> Great plants and you can have a coffee too! Close

> to Penge East station

It's great but definitely in Penge, though on the borders with Sydenham. #PostcodeWars ;)

[MissKing]

What is the old garden centre being redeveloped into? Anyone know? I agree its a shame we have no garden centre... Someone should open a new one!

[Louisa]

Morrisons, library, and housing.

Louisa.

[MissKing]

Interesting - so take it the library over the road is moving there? We don't really need another supermarket... But it will be a handy spot for anyone getting of the train.

[Roye]

I agree, the one on Croxted road is packed full of plants, mostly external but good quality.

[first mate]

So we'll have a very large Sainsbury's with a Morrisons close by, a Tescos just past Goose Green a Co-op and Iceland/M&S further along and then another Sainsbury's up the hill. I too wish we'd had another garden centre. Yet another example of a mixture of branded supermarkets presenting the illusion of choice.

[Mustard]

Too bad M&S can't take the space instead of Morrisons and then Iceland could stay.

[ruffers]

If there's no demand then I'm sure the supermarkets will disappear.

[eastdulwichhenry]

Never mind the Garden Centre, which frankly wasn't great to start with, it's the demolishing of part of our station building that's disturbing me! It's part of the area's heritage and should have had protected status, with Waitrose forced to make do with it as is if they want to open a store there.

[Penguin68]

When the Garden Centre site was sold (which, no doubt, was a good deal for the site owner) the plans for the use of the site (library, shop, apartments) would not have left sufficient space for a full garden centre - needing both indoor and outdoor space - at best it would have left sufficient space for a large flower shop which also sold tools, pots & chemicals (i.e. the former 'shop' bit of the Garden Centre.) So Morrison's use of the space wouldn't have been 'instead of' a full garden centre.

Having M&S, Sainbury's, Morrisons and Tesco trading 'against' each other should be to the benefit of ED customers - competition generally does benefit customers.

Sadly, around ED the relatively small size (and relatively high value) of commercial sites means that a 'good' garden centre footprint will be hard to find/ cost justify any longer. For those who can, travelling slightly further to get to better/ bigger centres will prove OK - but of course, those without transport or ready access to transport will suffer.

For bulky items (gravel, compost etc.) some firms will deliver, thus to some extent offsetting this problem.

[joom]

I love the North Dulwich one, Phoebes in Catfird and Alleyn one 🌸🌷🌻🌵