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Thread: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
Post: RE: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
| I may get around to covering Forest Hill.
The fire station was sold at auction recently for over £1 million.
It would make a great car or restaurant. I hope someone of vision has bought it. |
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Thread: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
Post: RE: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
| The reason for this is either:
A. I added Boris to the poster on April Fools Day...but I didn't include him on the final poster. Hopefully Boris wouldn't mind as he seems to have a sense of humour.
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Thread: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
Post: What if the Crystal Palace Cinema...
| We've been busy doing lots of visual makeovers in Sydenham and were approached by the people behind the Crystal Palace Cinema campaign to do a 'what if' for the cinema.
I thought I'd share it with ... |
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Thread: Insulation in 30's houses!
Post: RE: Insulation in 30's houses!
| We looked into this with our place (A victorian terrace).
There are 4 things you can do.
1. EXTERNAL INSULATION.
The external insulation as shown above. Only problem with this is that it sticks... |
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Thread: Removal of Roadside Railings/Barriers
Post: RE: Removal of Roadside Railings/Barriers
| We went to central london yesterday and Oxford circus has had all the railings removed. It's much easier to use and feels bigger and less congested.
As for blind people, there are still the dimpled... |
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12-12-2009, 04:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Ohh, they are good.
I remember the plans for the Kentish Town baths, what they have on the website looks great. Good choice Lewisham, good choice! |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| That looks brilliant Forest. Hither green have got their act together.
Hopefully Crystal Palace will get it's way and we all have a choice of 2 cinemas rather than a choice of dozens of churches. |
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22-10-2009, 06:55 PM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| Well, my 'local' Cinema is in Beckenham! I'd love to have a choice and have one in Crystal Palace which isn't far from where I live. I'm working with others to help improve home park which strangely i... |
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25-09-2009, 07:17 AM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| So basically Roz, anything is fine as long as you have enough money and can bid higher than anyone else.
Isn't capitalism great. :-) |
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24-09-2009, 05:54 PM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| Eh? When someone buys somewhere they aren't going to suddenly sell it to for the same price to the person they outbid. The Church wants it.
They may well sell it if they don't get permission for ch... |
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22-09-2009, 09:47 AM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| The objection to the Cinema in CP was to build on the crystal Palace site with a horrible multiplex which was inappropriate (and ugly apparently). I don't find it odd to want to make a former cinema ... |
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20-09-2009, 07:24 AM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: RE: Church submits planning application for CP cin...
| Just out of interest Roz, if it was Tesco buying the site and wanting to change the usage to a Tesco Metro would you feel the same, or is it just because it is a church?
I think this campaign is ex... |
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17-09-2009, 08:21 PM |
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Thread: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
Post: Church submits planning application for CP cinema
| http://www.campaign.picture-palace.org/?p=699#more-699
If you object, now is the time to do it or we could lose the possibility of having a cinema in Crystal Palace forever.
Please read more. |
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14-09-2009, 10:47 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Thanks Satchers.
Shame about the procurement. Procurement is great for buying paperclips but not for engaging the services of a creative agency whether it be design, architecture or whatever. Why c... |
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17-07-2009, 04:37 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Brilliant news. Congratulations to all involved. I think it sounds like agreat solution to all involved.
One thing though, just what is the building behind the facade going to look like? I haven't ... |
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17-07-2009, 10:27 AM |
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Thread: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
Post: RE: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
| Roz, please have a look at the website for the campaign to open it as a cinema.
Originally it was the Rialto Cinema, then the Granada cinema. It was a rather grand cinema in its day.
It then reo... |
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15-07-2009, 03:54 PM |
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Thread: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
Post: RE: A Cinema for Crystal Palace?
| Yep, a cinema there would be fantastic. I don't have a problem with the parking. There are lots of other successful cinemas in the same situation.
Certainly it would be better than a happy clappy c... |
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12-07-2009, 03:26 PM |
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Thread: Death Penalty
Post: RE: Death Penalty
| Because someone kills another human being doesn't mean that gives the state the right to kill them.
But they do have the right to take away their freedom for life.
The death penalty doesn't lea... |
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02-07-2009, 05:55 PM |
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Thread: Corbett Houses in Forest Hill
Post: RE: Corbett Houses in Forest Hill
| All I know is that he was Scottish MP who built houses (lots around Catford which are Victorian) and died in around 1933.
No relation to Ronnie. |
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01-07-2009, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Does Kirkdale Need a New Shop?
Post: RE: Does Kirkdale Need a New Shop?
| Yes, it does.
there are lots of empty shops in Kirkdale as opposed to Sydenham Road.
I would avoid anything there is already lots of and go for something that is wanted and missing.
So no fri... |
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25-06-2009, 06:38 PM |
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Thread: 15 Minutes of Fame
Post: RE: 15 Minutes of Fame
| Oooh! I have a stalker!
:-) |
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17-06-2009, 05:49 PM |
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Thread: 15 Minutes of Fame
Post: RE: 15 Minutes of Fame
| I was on the reality TV program 'breaking into Tesco' giving advice to the contestants (which was edited to totally change the meaning of what was said).
I was a 'model*' on posters hanging in Natw... |
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17-06-2009, 02:14 PM |
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Thread: Banksy in SE23
Post: RE: Banksy in SE23
| Nope, Banksy never made it down here, although there is a famous grafitti artist who has worked with banksy who lives nearby. |
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15-06-2009, 04:09 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I think Tim deserves an award for his hard work in saving what will be a great local asset.
If anyone thinks that the pool would have been built lby now if the current buildings had been saved, the... |
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04-02-2009, 01:37 PM |
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Thread: The Dolphin, Sydenham
Post: RE: The Dolphin, Sydenham
| It's a great place, always busy and they have events there which are generally always popular and well done. A fantastic local asset, it looks great and it has a nice atmosphere.
The woodsman at th... |
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04-02-2009, 01:15 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill's Xmas Tree
Post: RE: Forest Hill's xmas tree
| Yep, the tree in Sydenham is a joke too. |
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16-12-2008, 02:08 PM |
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Thread: Greyhound Pub Fire
Post: RE: Greyhound Pub Fire
| With the correct detailing I think the surrounding buildings will look great. I'm glad they have kept the pub. The contrast between old and new really works and the pub is a needed and ads a historica... |
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05-12-2008, 03:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: FH Town Centre Management
| There isn't a town centre policy.
There is a document called a town centre policy but it says stuff like this:
"Footfall in the Town Centre is an important factor in determining its vitality. Th... |
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09-11-2008, 01:42 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close
| 1. Regarding the pools, even if they had been bulldosed already, they still wouldn't have opened before 2010 AND If the council had properly maintained the building it WOULD STILL BE OPEN.
2. Regra... |
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06-11-2008, 02:38 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Town Centre Management
Post: RE: Provender To Close
| I'm sorry to see them close.
Unfortunately they weren't in the right place, the pools shutting hurt them and with the other shops being fairly nondescript, they were one of the only reason to visit... |
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31-10-2008, 02:27 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I totally agree with you Nasaroc.
It should have been done in the first place, although for some reason the council said it 'wasn't a big enough project'. This has been proved to be wrong.
Conta... |
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30-09-2008, 02:32 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I hope the 7.5 million is spent on the pools in Forest Hill. I hope Michaels comment above isn't interpreted that anyone from any area, Sydenham included, would try to stop development in Forest Hill ... |
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17-09-2008, 01:51 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| It is my understanding that design competitions are free. I'm not sure why Lewisham Council think they are too expensive.
Surely getting innovative, costed design by pitching one firm against ano... |
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11-09-2008, 11:13 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Just out of interest, is the max that calls Louise house and the pools "unremarkable" and wants them pulled down/delisted the same Max that said on video that to demolish the pools is "a crime agains... |
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10-09-2008, 10:48 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
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| Regarding design competitions, I remember the guy from the council saying that no-one would be interested in such a small fee for the pools for a design competition.
However, this is clearly not th... |
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10-09-2008, 10:41 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Why didn't the council give an open brief to architectural firms in the first place like Southwark have with Camberwell pools so we either get a refurbishment option, exciting architectural replacemen... |
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10-09-2008, 10:08 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| This is how Southwark council dealt with their victorian pools in Camberwell:
Camberwell Baths development makes a splash
Published on: 20/6/2008
Ref: 5757
Southwark today announced that it ha... |
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Thread: Louise House
Post: RE: Louise House - to list or not to list?
| Just an observation. How did Sir Steve not know about English heritage. Surely they must have spoken to someone at the council. Who let them into the building otherwise, clearly they had seen inside. ... |
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10-09-2008, 11:33 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Sounds like a reasonable, commons sense solution to me.
Lets get on with it. Everyone wins. |
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08-09-2008, 12:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I wrote to EH asking them to consider listing the pools or louise house. I presume many others did too, as is their free will to do so. English Heritage choose to list once something has been brought ... |
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07-09-2008, 01:40 AM |
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Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: Tewkesbury Avenue Development
| So this isn't no11 (which is a side extension only)?
Which house number is it? Anyone got the link to the planning application on the website?
Apparently it wont be on grand designs. It was reje... |
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05-09-2008, 10:11 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| MAX WROTE: "Because the petition wants to retain only the frontage and demolish the pools anyway and as this is a departure from the Council's plan it means delays in reproviding a working pool and as... |
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04-09-2008, 11:19 PM |
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Thread: 11 Tewkesbury Avenue Development
Post: RE: Tewkesbury Avenue Development
| If it's no11, the plans on the Lewisham website which have been approved as of 2008 are for a side extension to the exisiting house, not to demolish it. The extension looks, in the plans at least, qui... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Not sure how you managed to almost click on that Roz, the movies on the first page via the link...but anyway.
The council did screw up the consultation about the pools options.
English Heritage... |
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30-08-2008, 01:33 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Central
Post: RE: Forest Hill Central
| I asked various local estate agents what people wanted.
They all said the same thing:
2 bed, outside space if possible, below the 250,000 stamp duty threshold and that 1 bed flats are not sellin... |
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24-08-2008, 12:22 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| St Pancreas was a 'clapped out old building' given a new lease of life. Lots of old buildings have including the Kentish Town Pools in North London. The Horniman has a modern extension which contrasts... |
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20-08-2008, 11:58 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Period property is worth more than new builds and has risen by 60% since 2002. Victorian flats and houses are the most popular type of housing in the UK. The facades of these buildings would make wond... |
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23-07-2008, 07:12 PM |
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Thread: Bowie/Horniman
Post: RE: Bowie/Horniman
| My Ex boss worked with him when they were in the same advertising agency. He said he was a really nice guy. |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| RE: keeping buildings because they are old.
I don't think anyone wants to keep it because it's old. They want to keep it because it's interesting and helps define the area.
Euston Station was po... |
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21-07-2008, 02:33 PM |
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Thread: Anyone for football
Post: RE: 5-a-side football
| Out of interest, has anyone ever played football in Home Park in Sydenham (near Bell Green).
They used to have posts in there but they have been taken away and the council say that it will cost too... |
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