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Thread: Roadworks on Dartmouth Road - will they ever finish?
Post: RE: Roadworks on Dartmouth Road - will they ever f...
| Total incompetence from Lewisham and the party that had run Lewisham for the last 40 years.
Quite why this work was commissioned in the first place given the state of the roads in Lewisham is quite... |
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24-04-2018, 11:20 PM |
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Thread: Sydenham & Forest Hill CND Annual Spring Plant Fair
Post: RE: Sydenham & Forest Hill CND Annual Spring Plant...
| It's like living in Russia or North Korea - we know who is going to win the election before it even takes place. |
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18-04-2018, 06:36 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury start next month
| Isn't there some suggestion that Crystal Palace might be moving back to the Park? If so that would make it a very short trip from FH on the Overground and perhaps the town centre might get a bit of e... |
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21-01-2011, 09:44 AM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
| I caught the 10.05pm train back from H&I to HOP last night and can thoroughly recommend the service. Journey time was just 32 minutes and avoided the tedious and time consuming changes at Kings Cross... |
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03-03-2011, 10:28 PM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Save HOP Recreation Ground!
| If I get really angry I generally find that a bit of exercise helps to calm the soul. So why not try a walk round the Honor Oak Rec? If you want to be public spirited you could also take a bag with ... |
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07-03-2011, 05:59 PM |
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Thread: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
Post: RE: Direct ELL trains to Highbury & Islington
| Absolutely. There is a lift just behind the stairs up from Platform 1 (I don't know about Platform 2). Get on the back of the train at HOP for the closest set of doors. |
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08-03-2011, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Next to Baxter's Field
Post: RE: Planning Application - Next to Baxter's Field
| Another grim garden grabbing attack on Forest Hill's green and pleasant land. The proposed development looks cramped, uninspired and without merit. On that basis Lewisham's planners are bound to rec... |
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08-03-2011, 02:59 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| I have been trying to think of something positive to say about the design but my initial impression is of a stack of giant toolboxes. |
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09-03-2011, 06:04 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| Revisiting the plans and the comments made in the other posts I agree that the design is interesting.
The contrast between the modern tower and the two storey frontage on Hindley's Place, which loo... |
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15-03-2011, 10:29 PM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road - residents parking
Post: RE: Devonshire Road - residents parking
| I think that the main advantage of the 11 to 12 restriction is that it specifically targets non-resident drivers who park all day.
Other casual visitors to friends and shops would be largely unaffe... |
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28-04-2011, 08:50 AM |
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Thread: Time for a fox cull?
Post: Time for a fox cull?
| I know that the fox is the darling of the urban conservationists but we seem to be overrun by them in Forest Hill. Despite their cuddly image they rip open bins, are a menace to unattended toddlers a... |
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28-06-2011, 08:28 AM |
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Thread: HOP Recreation Ground to Become a Cemetery?
Post: RE: Honor Oak Recreation Grounds
| Lewisham is just as bad.
They consult through gritted teeth. One of their standard tactics when drafting consultation documents is to give additional prominence to the options they favour and to i... |
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16-09-2011, 02:03 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
| It would be a mistake to expect any sympathy from Lewisham's planning department. They are a bunch of weary hacks who have probably already agreed the outline of this development in a behind the scen... |
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10-10-2011, 09:03 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
Post: RE: Planning application: 51-53 Canonbie Road
| In the 3D renditions the facades of the adjoining buildings are deliberately left blank. The reason being that if you showed the architectural detailing on the existing properties the new build would... |
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13-10-2011, 10:05 PM |
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Thread: Time for a fox cull?
Post: RE: Time for a fox cull?
| The site of countless rat poison bait boxes prompted this thought:
What is the difference between a rat and a fox?
Both brown furry, four legged mammals with tails. Long term immigration status... |
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22-11-2011, 03:05 PM |
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Thread: Time for a fox cull?
Post: RE: Time for a fox cull?
| If poisoning rats is allowed presumably the same must go for foxes. Indeed, as far as I am aware killing foxes is not a problem provided you do it in a humane manner. You can't shoot foxes in urban ... |
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23-11-2011, 09:29 AM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| I can recommend bike insurance - my girlfriend was knocked off a few years ago and her insurance allowed her to sue the driver and get compensation.
The cost is about £30 to £40 for a family member... |
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27-11-2011, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Jeremy Clarkson
Post: RE: Jeremy Clarkson
| Isn't this whole pension issue about change?
Large institutions (businesses and unions included) don't like change and don't deal with it very well.
A good example was the recent tube union indu... |
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05-12-2011, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: Lewisham Life - Soviet era propaganda or just and egregious waste of money?
Post: Lewisham Life - Soviet era propaganda or just and ...
| The latest issue of Comrades Bullock and Dowd's manifesto landed on the door mat not so long ago and by the time I got to the end I half expected the Council to have announced the grain harvest had ex... |
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14-12-2011, 11:15 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Am I the only person to think that some of the posts on this thread have been somewhat hysterical and even vindictive?
If you buy a property that is subject to a restrictive covenant and you chose ... |
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24-01-2012, 10:31 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I am not a great fan of P J O'Rourke but he once wrote:
"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virt... |
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25-01-2012, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Well yes times change and the business of a nursery isn't that very different from that of a Doctor or Dentist.
However, if you buy a house which clearly states you can't do certain things why on e... |
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26-01-2012, 02:56 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I think that the battle lines have become somewhat entrenched but at least some facts are beginning to emerge.
To summarise on one side we have the owners of the business, the parents using the nur... |
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27-01-2012, 03:19 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Sherwood said
[Personally, I do not agree with other posters that the covenant is definitely still enforceable. There is a process for overturning old and obsolete restrictive covenants.]
You ar... |
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27-01-2012, 09:59 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I read the TLERA news sheet and it seemed pretty reasonable to me.
It also said that the nursery was opened before planning permission was granted.
Opened without planning permission and in brea... |
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29-01-2012, 10:44 PM |
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Thread: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Planning Application: IndoBangla / Honor Oak T...
| The HOP parade has been treading water for the last 15 years and for most of that time it was as attractive as the poor old goldfish in the dental appliances shop window.
In any case, whatever your... |
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30-01-2012, 02:53 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Delivery Office
Post: RE: Forest Hill Delivery Office
| I got a couple of cards through the door a few weeks ago and went down to collect the items a couple of days later. Despite looking for 15 minutes they couldn't find one of them. At this point the i... |
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03-02-2012, 09:43 AM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Excellent post Cellar Door.
Urban cycling should be everything that travelling by bus, car or taxi is not. I love the fact that when I pass someone I know I can just stop to chat or wave as the dr... |
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21-02-2012, 09:57 AM |
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Thread: Urban foxes?
Post: RE: Urban foxes?
| At the risk of offending some can I suggest that it might be more original to have a film about urban foxes that doesn't follow the cliched route of "ah aren't they sweet".
Personally, I struggle t... |
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21-02-2012, 11:16 PM |
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Thread: Urban foxes?
Post: RE: Urban foxes?
| [imagine how many rats there would be without foxes?]
Well, good question. But, have you ever seen a fox eating a rat? Have you ever seen a fox chasing a rat? Have you ever found the remains of ... |
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22-02-2012, 02:41 PM |
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Thread: Urban foxes?
Post: RE: Urban foxes?
| Sorry Lacb, yes I did look at the linked site and it was interesting.
However, I wasn't too convinced by the pie charts. The study found that in Bristol scavenged food made up 64% of the diet and ... |
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22-02-2012, 06:45 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| Ditto. Hope you didn't lose any teeth or have a deep cut.
I agree with the earlier comment that a sizeable minority of every type of road user is irresponsible.
With motorcyclists I have notice... |
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29-02-2012, 02:51 PM |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| I generally favour the idea of less government rather than more but I wonder if the time hasn't come for a compulsory bicycle competency test?
That wouldn't be great for children so I suppose child... |
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02-03-2012, 03:01 PM |
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Thread: New Sainsburys, 55-59 Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Planning Application: IndoBangla / Honor Oak T...
| Thanks for the report Calm1.
I agree with your comment that the Council wouldn't usually hold a public meeting unless they had already decided to approve the application.
It is the kind of token... |
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20-04-2012, 01:34 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application
| The last paragraph of the news article reads:
They added: "When we arrange large scale events the Horniman Museum always directs visitors towards using public transport, while pointing out that the... |
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24-04-2012, 01:33 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Gardens works
Post: RE: Horniman Gardens works
| Quite agree. Walked through on Saturday and was impressed by the changes and the quality of the design that has gone into the project.
Sadly, the musical garden was still roped off so I couldn't t... |
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28-05-2012, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Parking Policy Review
Post: RE: Parking Policy Review
| I think we all know the arguments for and against CPZ and in an ideal world a reasonable approach that reflects the views of the majority will prevail.
In the meantime spare a thought for the resid... |
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13-08-2012, 01:50 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and Westbourne Drive
Post: RE: Planning Application - Hindsley Place and West...
| Looking at the proposed street elevations for Hindsleys place it is quite striking to see that the (Berkeley homes?) development not so far away next to the station was allowed to dwarf its neighbours... |
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01-10-2012, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodla...
| "kept for the purpose intended"
Not the most convincing of arguments. Life moves on, the needs of communities change.
If we took your approach we would still be driving peasants from the Royal ... |
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15-03-2017, 11:14 PM |
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Thread: Change Flow of Traffic On Devonshire Road
Post: RE: Change Flow of Traffic On Devonshire Road
| I am not too happy about the idea of a CPZ but I am resigned to the view that it is the only way to kill the commuter parking. Make the whole area between Honor Oak, the railway line, HOP and London ... |
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06-02-2013, 02:45 PM |
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Thread: Speed of cars from Honor Oak Park/Forest Hill road - does it bother anyone?
Post: RE: Speed of cars from Honor Oak Park/Forest Hill ...
| I can only agree. I cycle up and down FH Road every weekday and regularly witness dangerous driving/inconsiderate road use.
It starts at the bottom outside the Harris Academy with parents dropping... |
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21-02-2013, 06:51 PM |
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Thread: Manor Mount one-way system
Post: RE: Manor Mount one-way system
| If it was compulsory to have a tracking device in every vehicle a number of solutions become possible. You would automatically fine vehicle owners for infringing the following rules.
Two way but o... |
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30-11-2016, 05:58 PM |
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Thread: Parking controls in HOP
Post: RE: Parking controls in HOP
| Unfortunately, the debate on this issue is often driven by self-interest. Many of the anti lobby seem to think they have a right to park wherever and whenever they want. Comments like "should of bou... |
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18-01-2014, 07:31 PM |
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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Nursing H...
| The sales particulars say that the facade will have to be retained in any redevelopment. Presumably someone has spoken to the clowns in Laurence House about redevelopment and that is the party line f... |
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12-02-2014, 02:52 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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16-04-2014, 04:04 PM |
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Thread: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Speeding - Honor Oak Park
| Can I suggest that writing to our current mayor is a complete waste of time?
Steve Bullock seems to have been our mayor since time immemorial and despite him being a local resident I can't think of... |
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14-04-2014, 09:11 PM |
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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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16-04-2014, 01:53 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: 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: 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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