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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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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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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...
| 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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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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...
| 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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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: 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...
| 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: 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...
| 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 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: 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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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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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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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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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Thread: Manor Mount one-way system
Post: RE: Manor Mount one-way system
| I am with Devonish on this one and I don't think that the arguments against making Manor Mount two way are really that convincing.
The best argument for keeping Manor Mount one way is probably that... |
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18-01-2016, 02:36 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: 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: 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: 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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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
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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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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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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: 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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