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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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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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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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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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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...
| 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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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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Thread: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home)
Post: RE: 36 Honor Oak Road (ex Hamilton Lodge Care Home...
| If you submit an FOI request to Lewisham you need to be persistent.
They may try and use the statutory exemptions to block your application without being too scrupulous about whether they actually ... |
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03-06-2015, 10:23 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...
| 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
| In the interests of balance let's not forget the way in which some on the left use the word "Tory" in an aggressively pejorative manner.
Also criticising people for being called Tarquin or whatever... |
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18-09-2015, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO
Post: RE: Anti Social Behaviour in FH & HO Question
| It is a pretty good area. Most residents are the decent and friendly type.
There are a few issues but if you trawl this forum you will see most of them discussed. |
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15-09-2015, 01:21 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: Demolition of Bell Green Gas Holders
Post: RE: Bell Green Gasometers
| Why the obsession with preserving ugly redundant structures? Tear them down and let's have some useful in their place. |
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28-06-2018, 01:03 AM |
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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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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: Bird identification
Post: RE: Bird identification
| Looks like a House Sparrow and most likely if is nesting in the eaves. The other local bird with a reddish top to the head is a female Blackcap but I think the recent hard winters have reduced their ... |
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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: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
| I am not sure I agree with you Samuelsen
The Labour councillors who run Southwark are pushing through this plan for their own narrow political interests and the fact that the site is on the edge of... |
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11-02-2016, 10:42 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
| Southwark is run by Labour.
The burial policy is a local Labour policy.
The reason why is it is Labour policy is because 1) they consider poorer members of the community would be particularly di... |
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12-02-2016, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
| Dear Roz
You are welcome to your views and it has already been mentioned that 22% are in favour of burial. One in five is a reasonable enough number of supporters, you only need to ask Steve Bullo... |
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16-02-2016, 09:53 PM |
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Thread: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
Post: RE: Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
| Err, I may have lost my mind but in the survey document prioduced by Southwark's surveyor the key to the plan splits the site into three categories:
1) established woodland;
2) dense scrub/immatur... |
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19-02-2016, 06:11 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: Chandos Pub
Post: RE: Chandos Pub
| I love pubs even the ones where all the locals give you the eye the first time you walk in with that "you're not from around here" look.
However, I am going to nail my colours to the mast here and ... |
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06-07-2016, 01:14 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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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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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: Council's Plans for Camberwell Cemetery Woodland
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21-06-2017, 08:45 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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Thread: Crystal Palace videos from the Londonist
Post: RE: Crystal Palace videos from the Londonist
| Thanks, I have often craned my neck over the parapet hoping for a good view but I didn't realise quite what I was missing. I suppose if Boris's Chinese friends ever get to build their plastic palace ... |
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Thread: Cycle Hub for Forest Hill, Kirkdale and Sydenham
Post: RE: Cycle Hub for Forest Hill, Kirkdale and Sydenh...
| We live close to a massively over-subscribed local primary where the catchment area is down to a couple of hundred metres or so.
It is therefore just a little surprising to see just how many childr... |
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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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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: 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: Democracy review
Post: RE: Democracy review
| If this consultation is like every other Lewisham consultation the questions will be skewed to give the answer that the Council want.
You don't need a survey to work out that one party has run the ... |
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30-01-2019, 10:55 PM |
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Thread: Demolition of Bell Green Gas Holders
Post: RE: Demolition of Bell Green Gas Holders
| I have always felt that the Livesey building is a rare architectural joy of FH sadly blighted by the GHs behind. A sensitive redevelopment could bring the Livesey out of the shadows and enhance the e... |
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29-06-2018, 09:14 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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Thread: Devonshire Road / S. Circular works
Post: RE: Devonshire Road / S. Circular works
| A masterpiece of bureaucratic goobledygook.
What exactly does paragraph 3(a) mean?
Perhaps they should just have posted a plan. |
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Thread: Devonshire Road / S. Circular works
Post: RE: Devonshire Road / S. Circular works
| Thanks for bringing some clarity to the issue. |
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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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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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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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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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