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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I think the idea is that it might be difficult to put housing on Willow Way because it is supposed to be earmarked for employment, [i]but[/i]:
Wouldn't a development including live/work units (such... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Lewisham Council obviously want to build Option 3.
This can be seen from the disgusting degree of spin on the feasibility of each of the 3 options, which, just like the previous 'consultation' amo... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Absolutely Satchers!
I don't actually give a toss whether the frontage stays where it is or not, [b]so long as the pools do[/b], but am realistic enough to realise that the only way to avoid anothe... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As was I, although unsurprised.
About a month ago, the same point was made to me by a friend who used to live in the area, and actually was at Sydenham School, so knew exactly where WW is - althou... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| RobWinton said:
"[i]could we not force Lewisham's hand by applying for change of use (or putting forward specific plans that do not require change of use) for Willow Way and test whether it would ... |
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02-03-2009, 04:55 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| ForestGump says: "If the council only have ?9.5m, why not Option 2 with just that amount?"
Very. Good. Question.
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I've probably just forgotten which page on which document it is on,... |
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04-03-2009, 09:44 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Baboonery:
Re: 6-of-1, 1/2-a-dozen-of-the-other... :thumbsup: and :rofl: |
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05-03-2009, 03:56 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Roz:
As a member of simultaneously at least 3 minority ethnic groups, I would like to thank you for showing concern that I may not be being represented properly in this debate - however, while I ha... |
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15-03-2009, 05:20 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Baboonery:
I don't see how what I said about local civics has any application to SFFH.
I regard SFFH as a [i]single-issue campaign group[/i], not a civic association.
The remit of a civic asso... |
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16-03-2009, 07:02 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Gaz said:
"It looks like all these extra walkers will have to go through Forest Hill town centre and past the shops in Dartmouth Rd. Sounds like a brilliant business opportunity there for the shops t... |
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08-04-2009, 06:08 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Brian:
I've read enough of your posts to know that talking about monitoring the representativeness of consultation responses (if only to give proof against the kind of accusations Roz was making p... |
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27-04-2009, 11:42 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| No, I'm sorry... I have tried to avoid Party politics on this one, as I dislike the Party system, and I don't regard it as a Party political issue, but some of this really can't stand...
In my own ... |
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08-07-2009, 06:05 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Roz said: "....so thats an awful lot of people to be thanked".
Well, yes. That's because there [i]are[/i].
But whatever is said in whoever's leaflets, I'm sure we are all smart enough to credit... |
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20-07-2009, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Davehel52:
Disagreement is, as you say, your right. That's fine. Slander is not.
No more of this "cloak-and-dagger" insinuation. If you have [i][b]evidence[/b][/i] of corruption, then let's have... |
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17-07-2009, 10:28 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| davhel52:
Why would those in the non-partisan (yes, that's right - [b]non-partisan[/b]) sections of the community who have been working to get [i]our[/i] pools in the right place in a reasonable ti... |
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16-07-2009, 01:03 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Oh completely - To clarify: I only meant (what with all the recent talk of Machiavelli & dark, shadowy skullduggery...:laugh:), that [i]if[/i] the Tories (or anyone else for that matter) [i]were[/i] o... |
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16-07-2009, 02:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| As I remember, the money the Council "found down the back of the sofa" for the pools was put there by Central Government...
Does anyone know whether this money is [i]guaranteed[/i] to be in Lewish... |
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21-04-2010, 01:41 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Full sympathies. Too many mums forget their "buggy manners". BUT:
It would be easier to achieve if their "buggy park" had some sort of security locking system (like the one at Horniman museum: Fus... |
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19-10-2012, 11:16 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Here, Here!
The place is clean. Let's keep it that way. It's only a matter of some plastic over your shoes as a courtesy to other users - what's the big problem? :) |
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25-10-2012, 04:36 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...
| Forest Gump posts:
"Councillor Alan Hall, Chair of Lewisham Labour Group.... 'What will not tolerate is Lib Dems' painting of good news as bad.'"
Dear God in Heaven - can the man not quit the t... |
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23-09-2009, 12:36 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Liphook Crescent planning application
| Thank you, Roz, for making those points - and far more politely than I would have done! :blush:
I will put away my list of links to various child development and family economics articles... but, g... |
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15-03-2010, 10:40 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Liphook Crescent planning application
| Would the "quiet residential" nature of this area be an argument for closing Horniman Primary school, then, due to the school run? :confused:
There's a baby boom on. Not everyone is a yummy mummy w... |
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15-03-2010, 03:02 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| "In my opinion this legal action is not just about the covenant,. Something more serious has happened between the parties in litigation. There is more than what we know."
Why speculate about that k... |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| When I picked up my daughter (on foot, in drizzle), she spotted me at the door, through the window - and I quite clearly saw her mouth making "it's my [i]mummy[/i]!" shapes. Two other kids did the sam... |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| "So I suppose it's not at all [u]selfish to have children, go to work and not look after them yourself[/u], then also expect nursery facilities within walking distance of home in a quiet part of Fores... |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Gingernuts: You may well be right, and that would be great. It was only that I seem to remember a rather large discrepancy between what was originally considered "reasonable" by each side at it's curr... |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I second that!
I also hope that, at some point in the future, once the current settlement has bedded in to their satisfaction and the nursery proved (again) not to be the disaster they have made it... |
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21-09-2012, 11:15 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| My understanding from Pipling's earlier posts is that
a) they [i]are[/i] residents of the property in question
b) their time is currently split between Liphook Crescent (their home), and the living... |
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04-02-2012, 01:00 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?25,294976,295210#msg-295210
On a line from central London to 'burbs, Sydenham is on the same side of the hill as us, isn't it? And since the hill is... |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| ... sorry, that should have been 'anything south of us [i]as far westwards[/i] as Crystal Palace. |
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07-08-2009, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| One more thing on traffic cones:
In the areas around football grounds on matchdays, and sometimes for other large events, the local police put up rows of cones along the road to prevent parking in... |
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09-08-2009, 12:38 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Londondrz:
I repeat: "I am not in any way suggesting that the issues are not real ones..." |
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11-08-2009, 04:00 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| "Maybe that's why it's called the Jerk Festival"
"....Jerk-off Day"
:rofl:
Would [i]love[/i] to see the wit and humour displayed in reaction to parking problems at any "Gourmets and Foodies ... |
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07-08-2009, 12:45 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Some suggestions, in the hope that someone from the Horniman, the Jerk Cookout itself, the Council, the local police or whoever else might be relevant, might see them:
[b]Encouraging Public Transpo... |
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10-08-2009, 11:38 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Michael: There are specific historic reasons why Notting Hill Carnival stays (and [i]should[/i] stay) where it is - around the Carnival as a positive response to, and commemoration of, the Notting Hil... |
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10-08-2009, 06:26 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Suggestion:
That Michael ask the Horniman whether there is an "official capacity" for events in Horniman Gardens. And if not, why not, and will they please look at figuring one out?
Then at leas... |
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19-08-2009, 06:24 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Yes, it was crowded, but I don't think this necessarily think this means it's too big for Horniman Gardens, as the event itself was pretty good natured. For instance, last year, I went to this:
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Well, good for you, Roz! Nice to see someone prepared to do their bit :)
Although, in truth, I am slightly surprised to see your call for "[b]community[/b] responsibility" translated into such a li... |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Roz said:
"This might be another way in which to register protest ie by objecting to a reissue of the licence assuming that there are indeed grounds within the licencing act to do so."
Shall we ... |
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13-08-2009, 10:06 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Roz: Okay, fine. But this is hardly the first time you have seen a potentially salvageable situation only as utterly hopeless, is it? Last time, it turned out that where there was a will, there [i]was... |
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14-08-2009, 09:10 AM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman Museum and Gardens
| Red67 mentions the "Royal Parks requirement for organisers to have: event production manager, stewarding and security firms, health and safety consultant, site manager and event suppliers .....
Som... |
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19-09-2009, 04:30 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Triangle Play Park
Post: RE: Horniman Triangle Play Park
| What's to 'assess' ???? They're needed - END OF!
If the council simply don't have the money, maybe they could just admit that instead of spouting bureaucraspeak. Then the community can stop wastin... |
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12-05-2009, 11:10 PM |
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Thread: WH Smith & Post Office, Forest Hill
Post: RE: Forest Hill Post Office
| Very right (in both senses), Brian!
I am sure that if the likes of Jonathan Aitken, Neil Hamilton, Jeffrey Archer or Conrad Black wanted to rob our Post Office, they would instigate a whole new int... |
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14-02-2009, 07:31 PM |
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Thread: Planning: 2-4 London Road FH (Launderette)
Post: RE: Launderette closing
| Nooooooooo!
I do most of my washing at home, like most people - but have discovered that this place is [i]essential[/i] for washing heavy duvets, large cotton rugs, pillows - any other item which w... |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House
| I'd like to see you tell it to the lady concerned.
I also overheard her comments, which were made to the councillors she mistakenly thought had approved the listing, at the public meeting last yea... |
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11-03-2009, 07:49 PM |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House
| Steve Grindlay said:
[/quote]As for evidence, much of the above is from the Annual Report of the Boys & Girls' Industrial Homes, 1911 and Minutes of the General Committee Meetings, 1911 as they ar... |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House
| Perryman:
Tim Walder said (last month!): "Possible plans have included .... a library extension.....If any wishes to contact me about any aspect of Louise House, please email me at friendsoflouiseh... |
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09-11-2009, 05:14 PM |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House
| To Whom It May Concern:
We've not heard anything about it for a while.... is there news? Of any kind?
Or are we to assume that Friends of Louise House have given up on hopes for a community use... |
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12-10-2009, 05:39 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: The Horniman and the 14,999
| The return of the Jerk Chicken Cookout? :rofl:
(I bet that the fees for licenses for various numbers of people are banded, and the next band up starts at 15,000...) |
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Thread: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
Post: RE: Forest Hill 20 MPH Zone
| Roz said: "....interesting that these people of course know what's been going on much better than those who have lived here for well over a decade. But then some people constantly like to tell others ... |
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