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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| A little unfair stefan - the rest of us were just lurking waiting for someone to jump into the trap :sneaky:.
Let's face it - of course the work is welcome - it is long overdue - but done safely a... |
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07-11-2012, 04:52 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| Snazy - your narrative says that the contractors are using pressure washers - and your picture shows no evidence of screens or any form of containment.
I have visited the site and there is evidence... |
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jgdoherty |
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06-11-2012, 09:00 PM |
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Thread: Tax Avoidance
Post: RE: Tax Avoidance
| It is not only our foreign multi-nationals who avoid paying tax in the UK.
My home town formerly was the home of Johnnie Walker whisky - it was a business created and founded in the town in the 19t... |
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06-11-2012, 12:33 PM |
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Thread: Tax Avoidance
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| Another newsworthy item, it is timely as it was reported only today and perhaps really deserves a separate thread.
It seems Apple paid less than 2% tax on all of its huge profits outside the US. It... |
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jgdoherty |
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04-11-2012, 11:51 PM |
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Thread: Tax Avoidance
Post: Tax Avoidance
| [i][Moved from [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=6324]Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for 120 Stanstead Road[/url] -admin][/i]
Of course you are right about the purpose of... |
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jgdoherty |
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03-11-2012, 02:22 PM |
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Thread: Jogging/running routes in and around SE23
Post: RE: Jogging/running routes in and around SE23
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03-11-2012, 01:10 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 120 Stanstead Road
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| As has been said on other threads, it now may be viewed that what is happening here is that "brand rejection" forms the real basis for many of the objections.
Had it been the case that say Pizza E... |
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jgdoherty |
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03-11-2012, 12:41 PM |
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Thread: Jogging/running routes in and around SE23
Post: RE: Jogging/running routes in and around SE23
| Welcome to the area.
One picturesque and interesting little area would be the Linear Park along the river that runs from Southend Lane (the Savacentre) down to Catford.
Far from being a "whole r... |
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jgdoherty |
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03-11-2012, 12:15 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 120 Stanstead Road
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| A very good first step in getting the organisation to acknowledge that there is a need to adopt the proposal that zero emission vehicles be deployed here.
Furthermore it must be hoped that they wi... |
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jgdoherty |
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02-11-2012, 12:01 AM |
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Thread: Broadband service / speeds
Post: RE: Broadband service / speeds
| I have had limited experience with Sky Broadband but where problems have arisen they have been resilient in resolving the issue - although sometimes they have to be pressed.
I do not know if or whe... |
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jgdoherty |
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31-10-2012, 01:52 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| Very informative - and thank you michael.
Good news on the minimum impact - even if a contingency has to be added at least we are counting in days and thereby not weeks or months.
Have I missed ... |
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jgdoherty |
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30-10-2012, 08:36 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| These are not the only options – I have seen many buggy users helped on many occasions by others to get up and down stairs at both ends.
Furthermore, for those people forced to make their perambula... |
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jgdoherty |
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29-10-2012, 06:59 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| Thank you for at least trying michael.
If my recollection is not faulty, we have been previously advised that Conway's have been appointed to do the work and LB Lewisham had spent time renegotiating ... |
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jgdoherty |
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29-10-2012, 01:22 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| An official (looking) LB Lewisham Planning Notice for the works at the subway has appeared outside the station although there is no corresponding Application that can be found on Alcolnet.
The Noti... |
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jgdoherty |
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27-10-2012, 01:36 PM |
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Thread: The Choir - Lewisham NH Trust
Post: The Choir - Lewisham NH Trust
| Just watched Lewisham National Health Trust Choir perform on BBC2 with Gareth Malone.
They were finalists in the National Eisteddfod competition and performed wonderfully and lost to another excellen... |
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jgdoherty |
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25-10-2012, 10:07 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| All good points.
And without any particular councillor or party in mind, if councillors believe that they hold such powers as you describe to themselves, it is disappointing to observe that the pow... |
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jgdoherty |
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25-10-2012, 07:53 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| I am sure that it is not michael's intention to propose a single option study and it is far from certain that building in real brown field sites is the best or only way way to significantly increase h... |
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jgdoherty |
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23-10-2012, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: Devonshire Road Nature Reserve
Post: RE: Devonshire Road Nature Reserve
| Culinary integrity and Forest Hill - in the same sentence ?
That is a challenge - especially in the context of compromise.
How is culinary integrity for an area defined?
By its overall qualit... |
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23-10-2012, 12:18 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| I have commented in earlier posts that reports of numbers of vacant homes in England and Wales vary between 390,000 and 580,000, dependant on how those numbers are reported by individual local authori... |
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jgdoherty |
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22-10-2012, 09:51 PM |
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Thread: Get Griffin Off Twitter
Post: RE: Get Griffin Off Twitter
| I agree with what rshdunlop says.
To reveal the private address was a calculated reaction by a bigot who wickedly intended to inflict fear on the people concerned. |
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jgdoherty |
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20-10-2012, 02:29 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 120 Stanstead Road
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| Agreed.
If planning consent were to be granted perhaps the requirement should be written into the consent as a planning condition.
This could always be subject to an appeal.
Domino's may or m... |
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jgdoherty |
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17-10-2012, 11:27 AM |
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Thread: Phone Hacking Scandal Reaches FH
Post: RE: Phone Hacking Scandal Reaches FH
| I think this may be a first for SE23.com - a link to the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/world/europe/11-million-severance-reported-for-murdoch-aide-rebekah-brooks.html?ref=world
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jgdoherty |
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17-10-2012, 11:18 AM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 120 Stanstead Road
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| Hold that thought, michael.
But in the face of the views of 177 objectors it may not prove to be enough. |
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jgdoherty |
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17-10-2012, 08:53 AM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Further examples from the BBC on Britishisms in the US and Canada.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19929249
Rather interestingly it includes the word "numpty" (I am uncertain of a correct spellin... |
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jgdoherty |
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17-10-2012, 08:15 AM |
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Thread: The Blight of Allotments
Post: RE: The Blight of Allotments
| The potato growing and marketing industry is huge in the UK.
It is so large that in earlier this year a Sainsburys manager in their HQ was convicted of receiving bribes from growers in the order of... |
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jgdoherty |
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17-10-2012, 08:00 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Station Subway
Post: RE: Forest Hill Station Subway
| If a revised programme of works has been negotiated and an October 2012 to December 2012 delivery period for the works has been forecast, has LB Lewisham ensured that an appropriate Minor Closure Noti... |
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jgdoherty |
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07-10-2012, 04:43 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Yup - corrected to its proper title "Bits and Pieces", YouTube has the 1964 ToTP appearance here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoRLIJJSG4o
Seems so similar to "Glad All over" - but then this i... |
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jgdoherty |
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29-09-2012, 09:32 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Sorry - cannot resist this:
Wasn't Bits n Pieces a Dave Clarke Five hit in the sixties ? |
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jgdoherty |
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29-09-2012, 09:02 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| An interesting BBC piece on British English use creeping into the US language:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19670686
and to save time a link from that piece to this blog:
http://britishisms.w... |
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jgdoherty |
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27-09-2012, 11:08 AM |
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Thread: Phone Hacking Scandal Reaches FH
Post: RE: Phone Hacking Scandal Reaches FH
| The ex-News International gang were back in court today.
Andy Coulson and Rebekah Brooks, two other editors and three more journalists plus PI Glenn Mulcaire have been scheduled for trial to commence... |
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jgdoherty |
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26-09-2012, 01:20 PM |
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Thread: Landlords on the High Street
Post: RE: Landlords on the High Street
| Very informative and the vacancy rate stated here (12.77%) is marginally higher than the one SEE3 publishes.
Not sure I see what inaccuracies are being corrected though.
However you are right - ... |
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jgdoherty |
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24-09-2012, 01:58 PM |
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Thread: Landlords on the High Street
Post: RE: Landlords on the High Street
| Many valid points there michael.
I am sure you know I was not presenting conversions to offices as a wholesale panacea for all circumstances.
Two sets of circumstances would normally apply a dow... |
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jgdoherty |
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20-09-2012, 03:03 PM |
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Thread: Landlords on the High Street
Post: RE: Landlords on the High Street
| The acceleration of change in perception and realities of planning categories is probably fairly accurate and it is worth remembering that the review and update of policy and local plans by LB Lewisha... |
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jgdoherty |
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20-09-2012, 10:52 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Another check for availability made on Friday still shows no significant roll-out in FH for Business Infinity.
Does anyone else know a way to unlock this in FH ?
Interestingly I have had confirm... |
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jgdoherty |
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16-09-2012, 06:22 PM |
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Thread: Landlords on the High Street
Post: RE: Landlords on the High Street
| SEN has focused on a very important issue here.
This unquestioning implementation of planning policy has created voluminous over-supply of new retail units in new developments in upper Sydenham, Be... |
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jgdoherty |
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16-09-2012, 05:18 PM |
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Thread: TalkTalk on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: TalkTalk on Devonshire Road
| Theft - activity conducted by the less than honest who live amongst us.
Numbers of incidences of copper cable theft have increased as the price of scrap copper has risen. Large diameter copper cabl... |
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jgdoherty |
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21-08-2012, 02:09 PM |
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Thread: TalkTalk on Devonshire Road
Post: RE: TalkTalk on Devonshire Road
| TalkTalk have had a series of major outages on many exchanges near or around Forest Hill in the last week or so. They are reporting cable theft on a frequent scale.
For example the Catford exchang... |
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jgdoherty |
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20-08-2012, 07:26 PM |
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Thread: Parking Policy Review
Post: RE: Parking Policy Review
| I seem to recall being invited to engage in a similar consultation a few years ago and the papers were hand delivered to the properties around us - all five days after the closure date for submissions... |
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jgdoherty |
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13-08-2012, 01:25 PM |
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Thread: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
Post: RE: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
| Hmmm - agreed - the link is not working.
I only copied it from the earlier post - and it still works.
Must have corrupted as I copied it.
http://www.lovelewisham.org/Reports/Report/9c0940cc-5... |
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jgdoherty |
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09-08-2012, 11:06 AM |
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Thread: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
Post: RE: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
| Snazy - to which report do you refer ?
The Love Lewisham site says the report has been approved and passed to Lewisham Waste - but the completion status is still set to "No".
http://www.lovelewi... |
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jgdoherty |
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08-08-2012, 09:15 PM |
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Thread: What's happening at Waldram Crescent??
Post: RE: What's happening at Waldram Crescent??
| I think rshdunlop's point about the bus (356) turning left from PV is valid - the problem it and the Clarke's coaches face do need some attention.
TfL's point on, "This would be the last opportuni... |
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jgdoherty |
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01-08-2012, 06:41 PM |
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Thread: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
Post: RE: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
| I cannot claim the fame - 'twas not me wot dunnit.
The reporter's name is on the link.
But thank you for the warm thought. |
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01-08-2012, 05:45 PM |
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Thread: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
Post: RE: Old estate agents, Sunderland/Waldram Pk Rd
| Now been reported on Love Lewisham web-site.
http://www.lovelewisham.org/Reports/Report/9c0940cc-59ab-4366-a8df-173e3b85c477
A well tried and tested route for clearing up problems. |
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01-08-2012, 12:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| Following closer scrutiny it looks like my fox in terms of worries about the diversion of s106 monies from the bridge works has been well and truly shot.
I followed FHSoc’s link to the Strategic Pl... |
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jgdoherty |
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29-07-2012, 01:21 PM |
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Thread: Lock up your wi-fi's - Google's back in town
Post: Lock up your wi-fi's - Google's back in town
| Have spotted the Google car around Lewisham several times in last few days.
On its last visit not only did it take all the pretty pictures but also logged onto every wi-fi router where the security w... |
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jgdoherty |
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27-07-2012, 09:12 AM |
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Thread: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
Post: RE: BT Broadband - Forest Hill Exchange Upgrade
| Congratulations on achieving that BarCar.
I know other businesses who are waiting.
May your happiness be Infinity.
Other numbers are not yet offering Infinity - what is your location in FH (approx)... |
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26-07-2012, 02:04 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| Fairly well observed rshdunlop.
The impact on those of us who live within the impact zone of the traffic problem, it is noticeably different now compared with the time before Savacentre opened.
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jgdoherty |
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26-07-2012, 11:16 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
Post: RE: Forest Hill and Sydenham Portas Bid
| Congratulations to FHSoc on this significant success and particularly those who put such hard work into the submission.
Whilst I did not see the contents of the submission it clearly has merit and ... |
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jgdoherty |
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26-07-2012, 10:03 AM |
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Thread: High Street Revival Money for Forest Hill
Post: RE: High Street Revival Money for Forest Hill
| Yup - michael beat me to the punch - and by several hours too. |
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jgdoherty |
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25-07-2012, 12:23 PM |
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Thread: Planning Application: 120 Stanstead Road
Post: RE: Domino's Pizza - New Planning Application for ...
| A belated thought.......
It would be entirely regrettable if unconditional Planning Consent were granted by LB Lewisham because steps had not been taken to secure advance agreement with Domino's Pi... |
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jgdoherty |
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25-07-2012, 12:06 PM |
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