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Thread: Swifts - locally extinct?
Post: Swifts - locally extinct?
| I haven't seen any swifts locally this summer. In previous years you could always spot a fair sized group near HOP station albeit with numbers noticeably down last year.
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Thread: Ice Cream Van Chimes
Post: RE: Ice Cream Van Chimes
| Well, yes it is a bit irritating but you could say that about lots of things. In any event at least the sound is usually associated with good weather so you should be OK tomorrow. |
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13-05-2015, 08:46 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
| Lots of good points Languagelounger.
We do have a debate between competing local interests. Those in favour of giving people the option of burial and those who prefer the land to be used for ameni... |
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11-05-2015, 08:55 PM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| Isn't it strange that a parliamentary borough so ethnically diverse as ours has been electing as its MP the same white man ever since 1993?
Ditto for Lewisham as a whole and its choice of Mayor.
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08-05-2015, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: So Who To Vote For
Post: RE: So Who To Vote For
| If I was going to vote on personalities it would have to be for Alex Feakes. As far as I can tell a genuinely decent person who actually cares about local issues.
I am just a bit concerned that th... |
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06-05-2015, 08:17 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| I have been to a few of these.
Cllr Hilton, if you think it is going to make a difference why don't you give us some examples of where the Council changed its mind in relation to a public meeting o... |
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06-05-2015, 08:10 PM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| The sitting MP tucking into a curry when everyone else is standing up and being counted in front of the local electorate? Lewisham and Penge West really has become a modern rotten borough. |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
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30-04-2015, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: Graffiti Epidemic
Post: RE: Graffiti Epidemic
| Well thanks Cllr Paul.
Leaving the effects of anti-social behaviour to one side for a minute what are your views on crime and punishment and how can you help us to reduce crime in Forest Hill? |
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28-04-2015, 01:29 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| I may be barking up the wrong tree but I think local Councils have a nasty habit of taking controversial decisions in a way that impacts on the geographic margins.
The examples that come to mind ar... |
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24-04-2015, 02:01 PM |
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Thread: What our last Tory MP thought of his constituents
Post: RE: What our last Tory MP thought of his constitue...
| If you judge the future by the past then you may as well give up and just wait for the end. |
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17-04-2015, 10:18 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham Life magazine
Post: RE: Lewisham Life magazine
| Dear DerbyBill
I am happy that you enjoy Lewisham Life and as you do then I must have been wrong when I said it was utterly pointless.
In less inflammatory words my concerns with this publicatio... |
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16-04-2015, 09:38 PM |
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Thread: Council Housing & Immigration
Post: RE: Council Housing & Immigration
| I thought that exaggeration was an acceptable rhetorical technique but yes, you are correct Labour have only run Lewisham for the last 44 years.
Incidentally, the solution I had in mind for the hou... |
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16-04-2015, 09:18 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| Well spotted Michael but I am sure our ever flexible planning officers will say that this is not a significant flaw in the planning application.
You will also know how defensive John Miller's merry... |
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16-04-2015, 09:01 PM |
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Thread: Councils to start restricting sibling priority for primary school places
Post: RE: Councils to start restricting sibling priority...
| All fair comment but we have a new neighbour who is renting for a few months just to get a place for their daughter at a particular school. They will be gone when their tenancy expires. I also know a... |
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16-04-2015, 01:44 PM |
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Thread: Experience of removing pebble dash?
Post: RE: Experience of removing pebble dash?
| There is an Edwardian house having this treatment at the HOP station end of Devonshire Road. You might want to ask the builders or owners if you are in the area. |
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14-04-2015, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: Parliamentary Election Hustings
Post: RE: Parliamentary Election Hustings
| Thanks for the update.
Without wishing to be too cynical won't this be a walkover for Jim Dowd just as it has been so many time before?
I am so bored of the election already and the fact that th... |
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09-04-2015, 01:50 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
| This quote appears in the article:
For Cllr Merrill this issue is personal. When his grandma died when his father was just six years old, she was buried in Camberwell New Cemetery. “My father alway... |
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01-04-2015, 01:35 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Walk to Save Southwark Woods - 8th March
| I went on a long walk over the weekend and took in the sites of Camberwell Old Cemetery and Camberwell New Cemetery.
For those that get confused the Old Cemetery is the one bordered by Underhill Ro... |
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31-03-2015, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the worst peak services
Post: RE: London Bridge trains - here's the best and the...
| Thanks for raising the issue Jim but forgive me if I find both the question and answer formulaic. Isn't the problem largely down to sheer weigh of numbers and lack of alternative capacity?
In an i... |
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25-03-2015, 09:14 PM |
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Thread: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objection Deadline
Post: RE: New Street Name: "Moonlight Drive" - Objectio...
| I see your point but ultimately most names get chosen by developers and unless they are offensive they are going to be allowed.
It is a pity that the opportunity to name check a bit of local histor... |
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19-03-2015, 02:34 PM |
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Thread: Burglary - Wyleu Street HOP
Post: RE: Burglary - Wyleu Street HOP
| I understand that there has been a spate of breaks in recently of the opportunist smash and grab type which is a pity as I have always felt the area is generally very safe.
I am guessing (based on ... |
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17-03-2015, 02:31 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| So it all comes back to the local Councillors not representing the interests of local residents. Suggest we vote them out next time round. |
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15-03-2015, 07:21 PM |
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Thread: Council Housing & Immigration
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| I think the underlying issue is immigration. The figures this week were 600,000 net migrants under this government. There were several times that number under the previous one. You will never be ab... |
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10-03-2015, 09:11 AM |
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Thread: Council Housing & Immigration
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| You are never going to be able to build enough council houses if you can't control immigration. Don't get me wrong on this, I work with quite a few who have come to make a new life in London and they... |
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05-03-2015, 02:58 PM |
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Thread: Dog mess outside my house
Post: RE: Dog mess outside my house
| Bizarrely I have recently seen a number of used and knotted dog poo bags left on the pavement/path. What is all that about? The dog walker has cleared up but then can't be bothered to carry the bag ... |
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06-02-2015, 03:00 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| Just when I thought things couldn't get any worse I turn on the local late night news and had to listen to Lewisham's tenth term Mayor being interviewed about guess what? The homeless crisis.
So t... |
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05-02-2015, 09:21 AM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| Usual rubbish from the Council and I think our local councillors have made it abundantly clear that the Labour run administration believe that addressing the homeless problem is more important than th... |
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04-02-2015, 11:05 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
| In true doublespeak fashion Southwark use two words on the last page which are completely absent from what is actually happening - "sustainable" and "strategy".
You don't need to be an urban planne... |
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02-01-2015, 03:24 PM |
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Thread: Trees and the council
Post: RE: Trees and the council
| You might want to speak to the Council's tree officer.
I understand that there has been a few comings and goings in relation to that post over the last few years so I am not sure who is currently i... |
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18-12-2014, 10:52 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonb...
| Michael, I agree with you. Houses are an inefficient use of urban space when demand is so great. If the principle of housing on this site was agreed then it would surely end up as flats with an unde... |
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04-12-2014, 02:38 PM |
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Thread: Southern trains into London Bridge
Post: RE: Southern trains into London Bridge
| Usually cycle in but my bike had to go for repairs today and so I got the train. If you think that cycling in winter would be too much of a challenge I can assure you it is an infinitely more pleasan... |
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04-12-2014, 02:26 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Honor Oak Reservoir & 116-118 Canonbie Road
| Yes, I think TW are the long time developer owners of the old reservoir site.
I seem to remember that the site was originally given protection from development because it supported a selection of p... |
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25-11-2014, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| I have never really liked the phrase "you get the government you deserve" it sounds too much like Calvinist predestination.
Personally, I want efficient, fair and transparent government and if I do... |
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11-11-2014, 02:32 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| Anyone who thinks that either Lewisham or our local councillors are going to listen to local concerns and change their plans may be in for a nasty surprise.
The Council has already bought Hamilton ... |
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28-10-2014, 09:51 AM |
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Thread: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
Post: RE: (Supposedly) replacement bus service
| Another alternative is to hop on the bus to Ladywell and pick up a train to LB.
Unfortunately, Lewisham are currently implementing a road improvement scheme to Lewisham High Street which means that... |
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09-10-2014, 01:31 PM |
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Thread: Strategic Planning for Forest Hill Town Centre
Post: RE: Strategic Planning for Forest Hill Town Centre
| It is true to say that One Tree Hill is not perfect but it is, in its own way, a bit of local gem and I am always surprised how few people I come across when wandering around it.
For anyone who has... |
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06-10-2014, 02:24 PM |
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Thread: Bike theft at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Bike theft at Honor Oak Park station
| Michael, I take your point about self-help but I do have a day job and we all know how uppity the Police get when a member of the public has a go. They may not be doing their job but don't you dare c... |
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Thread: Bike theft at Honor Oak Park station
Post: RE: Bike theft at Honor Oak Park station
| I am afraid that this is typical of the low level crime that seems to be tolerated as a matter of course in our society.
How difficult would it be to set up a sting operation to catch those respons... |
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11-09-2014, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| BOTC
Semantics my friend.
I might agree with you if we had independents but we don't. |
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27-08-2014, 01:53 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| In terms of a democratic mandate your average local councillor only represents the 1,500 or so locals who actually voted for them.
Talk of them representing the whole community of 25,000 odd is sop... |
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26-08-2014, 01:43 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| Philip and Alex will indeed be hard acts to follow given their enthusiasm and commitment to local issues when they were in office.
I seem to remember the last Labour councillor we had wasn't quite ... |
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31-07-2014, 01:42 PM |
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Thread: Are there badgers in Forest Hill?
Post: RE: Are there badgers in Forest Hill?
| Spotted a dead one on the A21 on Bromley Common yesterday. That can only be about 6 miles away. |
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13-07-2014, 08:57 PM |
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Thread: The Capitol to close
Post: RE: Capitol to close
| Whilst I am grateful to Wetherspoons for giving the Capitol life when the alternative was demolition I have never enjoyed it as a place to meet friends and have a drink.
Some building conversions w... |
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24-06-2014, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
| Thanks for all the advice. I have applied it and will now wait and see if the iron curtain that has descended over the Borough will be lifted. |
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22-05-2014, 07:26 PM |
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Thread: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
Post: RE: Voting - Thursday 22nd May
| If I want to vote tactically at the election with the sole aim of getting rid of our existing mayor who has the best chance of defeating Sir Steve? Last time round it was the Lib Dems. Is that still... |
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21-05-2014, 01:32 PM |
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Thread: Steve Bullock's Manifesto
Post: RE: Steve Bullock's Manifesto
| Has Sir Steve shaved off his beard and hair for the election? It can make you look years younger. |
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30-04-2014, 01:46 PM |
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Thread: Steve Bullock's Manifesto
Post: RE: Steve Bullock's Manifesto
| I was depressed when I heard that Sir Steve was standing again. Looking at what else is on offer I am beginning to feel suicidal. I'd rather vote for my cat. |
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29-04-2014, 01:55 PM |
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Thread: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
| Meanwhile, a few miles away, action is being taken:
http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-the-city/what-we-do/media-centre/news-releases/2014/Pages/citys-20mph-speed-limit-passes-final-hurdle.aspx |
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Thread: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
| I am afraid this is pretty typical of Lewisham. A standard form reply holding out the promise of some action. I expect in a week or so you will get a further reply along the lines of:
"Dear Sars
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