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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I really can't understand why it is in the Councils interests to be so blatantly one sided when it is going to end up potentially calling the accuracy and honesty of the whole thing into question? Wel... |
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27-04-2009, 11:23 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Interestingly a flyer being handed out at the station tonight said that the Mayor would also be at the Station tomorrow evening (between 5.30 and 6.00pm) with train company representatives to talk abo... |
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17-07-2008, 11:11 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Forresters
As with all planning matters there is a degree of interpretation.
It is 'technically' correct that housing is not possible on the Willow Way site (i.e. contrary to planning policy), bu... |
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02-07-2009, 06:46 PM |
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Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: "The People's Post Office" - FH - really?!
| I've found the staff helpful and quite efficent when I have got up there a number of times recently.
The problem is getting up there when the lift is frequently out of order with small children an... |
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19-08-2008, 07:11 PM |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House - to list or not to list?
| The listing process may not be democratic but it is undertaken by experts in their field following specialist research.
Just because a building is listed it doesn't mean it can't ever be demolished... |
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30-08-2008, 12:57 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
| Jane
I thought that it had closed down too but was delighted to see that The Fitting Studio has now reopened on the other side of Dartmouth Road, opposite boots.
http://www.thefittingstudio.co.uk/... |
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03-12-2008, 07:55 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| Anyone know what this went for?
I heard the auction was the 1st December?? |
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03-12-2008, 08:08 PM |
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Thread: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
Post: RE: Perry Vale old fire station to be redeveloped
| I was wrong its the 10th according to the website. |
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03-12-2008, 08:10 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Related to the Mayors recent decision being more political than based on fact and consideration I don't think the Mayor is worried whether the pools site is sold and what for at the moment. He only h... |
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05-03-2009, 02:28 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Max
It may be blindingly obvious to you but can you explain what you mean about cross subsidising as I don't understand?
The Council say they only have Willow Way to offer at the moment? Who kno... |
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08-02-2009, 11:22 PM |
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Thread: Eliot Bank School
Post: RE: Eliot Bank School
| Growlybear, how long ago was this? My son started at Horniman in September and it all seems very good to me. I have heard stories about problems a few years back but have to say it is not my experienc... |
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09-02-2009, 02:52 PM |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House - to list or not to list?
| You would be better off considering a 'certificate immunity from listing' for the Pools Building of you want to see most of what is on site at the moment demolished. Although it may only be the build... |
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31-08-2008, 09:45 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Quote: "Yes I went for Option 1 as only realistic option. Let us face up to it 2 is a pipedream"
Brian
Option 1 is a pipe dream as it requires a developer to build it who is willing to build a poo... |
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08-02-2009, 11:04 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park
| Good news about the swings!
My partner emailed Lewisham about the proposals and particularly about the loss of the swings. The new sand area looks great but swings are important too!
They said:
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21-01-2009, 11:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Lets just be realistic about this, all the options have some aspect of undeliverability about them, none of them are clear cut.
Option 1 can't be delivered until the market/economy completely chang... |
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08-02-2009, 11:19 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Max, I see what you mean. I think they have not assumed they need Willow Way to cross subsidise Option 1 because in theory it may not need it financially (if there were developers to do it, at least) ... |
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09-02-2009, 12:02 AM |
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Thread: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
Post: RE: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
| SHZL400
That is possible with any of these options..... |
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09-02-2009, 04:07 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I understand that there are groups out there who want to lose the pool frontage and other groups who want to keep it. Both vociferous in their opinions and ready to fight for what they believe.
Ho... |
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13-02-2009, 03:45 PM |
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Thread: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
Post: RE: Big Issue seller outside Sainsbury's
| Nothing at all will happen unless this is reported to the Big Issue and/or police. I don't think we can rely on them reading the forum!
Do you know if anyone has reported this and the concerns gen... |
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03-03-2009, 02:16 PM |
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Thread: Empty printer cartridges
Post: RE: Empty printer cartridges
| I know its not in Forest Hill but the TATE collects printer cartridges and mobile phones for recycling as a way of supporting its work in the arts[/align].
You can get freepost recycling envelopes ... |
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25-04-2009, 11:28 PM |
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Thread: Water Supply Problems
Post: RE: White Tap Water
| Sue
I think the water being turned off overnight is connected to the burst water mains as there has nearly always been a leak on London Road in the day or so before it is off. I think they plan the r... |
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25-03-2009, 12:58 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Eddy, Option 3 has around 60 flats and that is around the number that it would appear is needed to cross subsidise the funding gap in the pools (any option).
The park next door is already included... |
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09-02-2009, 12:09 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I don't think that we as residents can resolve the delivery of option 2, mostly because we don't have all the information and also because we don't know what other issues are influencing it.
Howeve... |
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11-02-2009, 06:09 PM |
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Thread: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
Post: RE: Pool Poll: Which pool option do you prefer?
| From my recollection, and before Louise House was listed, the Council were prepared to use the 300 or so (?) responses to the July 2008 consultation as a reason for making a decision on the previous s... |
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13-02-2009, 03:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| In response to Roz's comment about The Bridge:
[i]"Pools can work well in 'side streets and light industrial locations, ie The Bridge. They may not be pretty but they do the job."[/i]
I wouldn't... |
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25-03-2009, 12:54 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| They didn't ever tell us if the architects were told of the budget or asked to work to one. But I suspect not.
The issue of affordability was given by the Mayor as one of the key reasons for the po... |
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05-03-2009, 02:48 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park
| Well all credit to Lewisham and the Parks Department (I assume it is they) but my two sons declared the new sandpit digger area a complete success.
Today it was very well used, very busy and provi... |
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04-04-2009, 09:27 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I may have been a bit previous. I think everyone in the 3 wards should have had a questionnaire by the end of today? Apparently it will also be online (from tomorrow?) and as soon as I find out about ... |
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26-04-2009, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Changes to Waldenshaw Rd / Taymount Rise Junction
Post: RE: Accident at London Road Bus Stop
| I generally agree that some right turn lanes are needed, however as I often turn right out of Taymount Rise I wonder how possible this will be under this new arrangement? I am worried that people cros... |
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28-06-2009, 09:29 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| To the various people who seem to think that a pool on Willow Way is easy to deliver.
The relocation of the pools site to Willow Way would be contrary to the Local Plan and Government Planning guid... |
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16-03-2009, 12:02 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Reply to Robin Orton
I realise your question was probably rhetorical but I will have a go anyway!
I think the answer is because if you can't change the use (as the Council assumed) then for the pu... |
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18-03-2009, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Gaz, great questions (yes, changing the pool site to housing will require a change of use and this is by no means a given, yes as far as I understand it Willow Way is not a defined Town Centre site, y... |
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18-03-2009, 11:56 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I fully realise that the Mayor actually has to make that decision but in the meantime and just because it is even an option in the report
HOOORRRAAAYYYYYY! :thumbsup: |
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08-07-2009, 04:13 PM |
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Thread: Electricity Supply Problems
Post: RE: Power Cuts
| Our power must have gone off too (around Taymount Rise) as the alarm was flashing, 4.40 something. |
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15-07-2009, 04:38 PM |
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Thread: Conservation Area
Post: RE: Conservation Area
| Well that will depend on whether the proposals "preserve and enhance the character and appearance" of the Conservation Area in question?
In reality in this case I think it won't make much differenc... |
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17-08-2009, 11:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As far as I am aware Michael is right and the Council are currently working on the appointment of Architects to take the project forward to planning.
The next meeting of the stakeholder group has ... |
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14-09-2009, 07:05 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As everyone in the Forest Hill, Perry Vale and Sydenham Wards should now have received a copy of the Council's consultation questionnaire on the pools I think it is worth noting the concerns I have ab... |
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25-04-2009, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| In response to Roz's comments:
[i]"We need to see what precisely is being proposed for Willow Way before dismissing it out of hand. [u]The question to be asked is which site can provide the better fa... |
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02-04-2009, 12:28 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Baboonery
Sorry, but I have been trying to just let this one pass but it is really bugging me.
When did the public reject Dartmouth Road as the site for the pools last year? I went to the consultati... |
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04-04-2009, 09:21 PM |
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Thread: 197 bus.
Post: RE: 197 bus.
| All bus stops have a phone number on them that will tell you what the situation is and when the next bus is due. They will also register a complaint.
You did ought to complain to TFL or they will... |
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17-10-2009, 10:48 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Rosemary
Noone is saying that a pool on Willow Way cannot be achieved. Simply that it is not as in their control as they imply. I see no point in their getting people to support an option for a new ... |
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27-04-2009, 10:39 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| From the results I have seen the outcome is not that clear cut.
Some groups (telephone, online, postal, focus groups) preferred one to the other. E.g. telephone voters slight preference for option ... |
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22-06-2009, 09:11 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| The SLP article just isn't really clear what it is saying.
As far as I understand it Option 3 is the same as option 1 but sooner i.e. modern newbuild pool facilitites but the retention of the fron... |
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14-07-2009, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Steve B
When the summary consultation results were presented it was made clear that because a teaching pool was in the lowest band it did not mean that it was least wanted.
They attribute this to... |
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25-06-2009, 06:54 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Sydenhamcentral
None of us know exactly what it will be like but the closest we have is the Allies and Morrison proposals undertaken earlier in the year. This is what the option 1 and option 3 sche... |
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17-07-2009, 12:24 PM |
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Thread: Tell Me About SE23 Please
Post: RE: Tell Me About SE23 Please
| Its good that it picks up on the good things about the area but I got the impression that whoever wrote it had maybe looked at Google Earth for a second and no more.
Doesn't quite describe the plac... |
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03-10-2009, 09:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Anyone have any idea when the replacement footbridge is due to go in? |
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03-10-2009, 10:00 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| I asked at the station this evening how long it would take for the new footbridge/lifts to be completed.
At least two months was the not very joyous answer!
So don't hold your breath... |
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06-10-2009, 10:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| We do need lifts.
I have spent a lot of time using the lifts at various underground stations, mostly on the Jubilee line and they are very rarely not working and excellent if you have a buggy etc. ... |
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12-10-2009, 11:13 PM |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Train Service to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oa...
| I understand the concern about trains being slashed and about the cuts from Charring Cross (which is a pain for the half dozen times a year I use it) but what I want to know is overall (including the ... |
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