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  Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Liphook Crescent planning application

Nurseries do not necessarily keep school hours and, like schools, they generate unwanted traffic. Moreover the noise nuisance, especially in summer when the children are outdoors, is often the conti...
sniffer SE23 Topics 666 538,103 15-03-2010, 03:41 PM
  Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?

Michael and Londronz It was reasonable for the police "to target" local black men for their DNA, since the DNA evidence obtained from the crime scenes had pointed to the attacker being of West Indi...
sniffer Wider Topics 144 118,053 17-11-2009, 06:07 PM
  Thread: Bogus Window Cleaner
Post: RE: Bogus Window Cleaner

In reply to Mac 09, K Bowden of Chatham told me in early August that he would return to clean my windows on 28 August. He and his mate duly turned up on that date and did their stuff but without firs...
sniffer SE23 Topics 42 50,922 14-09-2009, 05:52 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

So no posters with any ideas on how to develop Louise House as a community facility???? Come on, come on. Input is needed. I look forward to hearing from you all.
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 19-08-2009, 05:54 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Roz Do you see a point and then totally disregard it? Or do you fail to see a point? Either way your reply is nonsense.
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 17-07-2009, 07:24 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Not forgetting that for months the Council's planning department knew about the application to English Heritage for the listing of Louise House yet this made no impression on the Council officers who ...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 17-07-2009, 05:04 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

It would none the less be churlish of the Mayor and councillors were they to refrain from taking part in finding a suitable community use for Louise House. They need to move on from their disappoint...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 16-07-2009, 02:43 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Now, now Roz. You too could take part in the community. How would you like Louise House to be developed? And can you suggest sources of funding? All - polite - suggestions are welcome.
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 16-07-2009, 02:21 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Last night at Lewisham's Mayor and Cabinet meeting, Councillor Chris Best made it clear that it was up to "the community" to come up with a use and funding for Louise House and, by implication, not th...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 16-07-2009, 01:56 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

In reply to Robin Orton: the Council's decision needs to be based on fact and not on a suspicion of the kind you outline. One such fact is the planning policy both of central government and of Lewis...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 25-06-2009, 02:54 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

This is a question that could and should be answered by councillors. Perhaps one of them could post it here????
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 26-05-2009, 07:26 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Babs, Roz and Aswas One woman causes you all offence. Lighten up. Why not put your energies instead into a campaign to re-vitalise Forest Hill? I promise to sign your petition.
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 29-04-2009, 08:13 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Max, I think Babs is your man for a cat-fight in the underpass. He knows how to bear a grudge against a woman and bitch about it for eternity as his way of backing the lunatic Willow Way proposal.
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 29-04-2009, 03:07 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Babs, your force of will must be phenomenal if you managed to resist a female SFFH volunteer. Do you still get changed in a phone booth?
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 08-04-2009, 10:21 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

I share Perryman' s pessimism about Lewisham Council. The Council, correctly, regards the Dartmouth Road site as a valuable and saleable asset and Willow Way as worthless by comparision. Consequentl...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 08-04-2009, 02:54 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Brian, re-spell your name. Good on you.
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 07-04-2009, 06:56 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Roz, do you take pride in the Council's proposal to turn the FH Pools site into a private housing estate, leaving it derelict meanwhile until the market picks up? Do you think people deserve nothing ...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 02-04-2009, 04:26 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

The Dartmouth Road site is a much more valuable one than the Willow Way site in real estate terms. This fact is, almost certainly, driving the Council's preference for WW to the point where it is dis...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 02-04-2009, 09:39 AM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Extravagant and unsubstantiated claims you're making there Bab about supporters for Forest Hill Pools. And Ginge, there is no evidence of corruption - Labour Party councillors and members are ho...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 01-04-2009, 06:30 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Roz refers to dogma in her advocacy of Willow Way. The only dogmatists are those who support the narrow reductive mindset of the Labour mayor and councillors. These myopic people cannot see further ...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 01-04-2009, 04:21 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

There are significant problems with Willow Way, the principal one being that it will do nothing for Forest Hill as a shopping centre. By contrast, pools on the existing site at Dartmouth Road will he...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 15-03-2009, 11:02 AM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Michael, you do not sound priggish or sanctimonious in this instance. And I agree that the practices of officials at Louise House should be viewed in their appropriate social and historical context.
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 13-03-2009, 08:34 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Brian, you too are being a touch over-dramatic. We have not lost our pool, as you say, at least not yet though I admit this chav council and its chav mayor do not fill one with confidence that a dece...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 13-03-2009, 02:37 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

David Whiting is being so melodramatic. There are pools already on the site and it is feasible and economic to replace them with a modern version, if the Council had the will to do so. To claim ...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 13-03-2009, 01:07 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Stevegrindlay again highlights the evidence that Louise House was an example of enlightened and progressive social attitudes towards girls who, to paraphrase Dave Whiting, faced special difficulties i...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 13-03-2009, 10:00 AM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Or by the retention of Louise House lest we forget . . .
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 12-03-2009, 05:57 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

So how could the history of the people for whom Louise House was built be honoured?
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 12-03-2009, 11:26 AM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House

Steve Grindlay is arguing rationally on the basis of written evidence. If only the arguments of Roz and Michael were as well founded. Michael's statement: "We should accept that history can be rema...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 11-03-2009, 06:20 PM
  Thread: Louise House
Post: []

Louise House was built for the training of orphaned and impoverished girls to improve their chances of earning a respectable living as independent individuals. It is an historic example of political...
sniffer SE23 Topics 130 154,524 09-03-2009, 05:12 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

The Mayor could talk to local people instead of hiding behind his officials, as happened last August, and behind Council procedures, as he did last week. His failure to talk face to face is yet f...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 28-02-2009, 05:17 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Council officers aim to please the Mayor and councillors, who continue to believe that, as members of the Labour Party, they not only represent the will of the people, but also the will of the silent ...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 19-02-2009, 01:08 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

Sir Steve Bullock and swimming pools. Is he a closet vandal with a vendetta against deep water? First, in the late 1990s and asleader of the Council, Sir Steve attempts to demolish Forest hill P...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 10-02-2009, 06:46 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

And . . . of course Option 3 presumably allows for the Forest Hill Pools site, which is designated employment/leisure use, to have its planning use changed by the Council to housing. Looks like Optio...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 08-02-2009, 04:53 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

In reply to Contrary Mary: the Council can give permission for change of use from employment to housing as it has already done for the developers on part of the Bell Green site. However, in the case...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 08-02-2009, 12:33 PM
  Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)

At no time did Sir Steve Bullock or councillors indicate that new swimming pools were to be built anywhere other than on the existing Forest Hill Pools site. It is unreasonable and misleading of them...
sniffer SE23 Topics 2,074 2,044,075 07-02-2009, 01:26 PM
  Thread: Save Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Save Forest Hill Pools

In his postings of 5 March Michael (Chair of the Forest Hill Society) makes clear his view that the old Pools building should go, in its entirety, and that it should be replaced with a new, high quali...
sniffer SE23 Topics 62 67,570 16-03-2008, 02:13 PM