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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Just sent to stakeholders:
[quote]An exhibition detailing the three development options for the Forest Hill Redevelopment will be held in Forest Hill Town Centre on Friday 18th July ( 3pm - 7pm) a... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| That last bit -
[quote]Throughout the period we will also be arranging for some focus groups with schools, businesses, local community organisations etc[/quote]
should also have been in the quo... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Michael, Nasaroc, everyone:
Any chance of focusing on next steps we can agree the Council should be doing to get some kind of pools + configuration of leisure services, rather than have a go at eac... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Roz wrote:
[quote]Oh dear. Shall we revisit the old issue of the time and cost consequences of the inappropriately procured listing of Louise House on this matter?
No doubt, Nasaroc, regardless of... |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| In case you were not there ...
[img]http://www.sydenhamsociety.com/images/stories/KSFH_1.png[/img]
It's not just Forest Hill Pools that are saved, but a Council own goal. Whatever the frustrati... |
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Tim Lund |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I'll be chairing this meeting, and it's something I have indicated to the candidates is likely to come up. If anyone who will be there wants to pm me with a well phrased question, and how I will know... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Thanks. So I'll know what this means before it disappears! |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Thanks, Robin. I'm duly embarrassed. |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| [quote]I tell you, chaps, they're taking us over. First vicars, then Morris dancers, and now they're pinching our names .... where will it end?[/quote]
This phenomenon - of names once for boys beco... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| So you weren't on the dance floor back in '76?
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0e/I_love_to_love_%28Tina_Charles%29.jpg/220px-I_love_to_love_%28Tina_Charles%29.jpg[/img]
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Robin - maybe "I love to go a wandering along the mountain track" is more your era? Much to be heard in these parts from ice-cream vans!
(How do you post Youtube videos on this Forum?) |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Office? Lucky just to have a desk these days! |
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18-10-2014, 10:03 PM |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| It irritates me at the beginning of an explanation, but I know I need to guard against becoming a linguistic fuddy-duddy. Robin, you are my exemplar:) |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: English Usage
| [quote]the closest to 'correct' has to be the local pronunciation.[/quote]
Or to be completely objective about this, the current tendency is for pronunciation of foreign names to move towards the l... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| Just wondering if the language mavens on this thread have noticed "Beltway" referring to - I assume - the M25. Here it is, with the authority of the BBC
[quote="Emily Maitlis"]The most likely vaca... |
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Thread: English Usage
Post: RE: Usage of English
| I have the feeling that using Yiddish loan words was quite fashionable in the 1970s (a measure of my aspirational youth) - I remember school friends showing off using various it for obscenities - and ... |
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Thread: Cyclists
Post: RE: Cyclists
| [url=http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=9554&p=78361#p78361]Appreciation of 'IWereAbsolutelyFuming' here[/url]. |
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Thread: Cuts to Lewisham Hospital A&E
Post: RE: Lewisham Hospital A&E to close?
| I was really disappointed by how the [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21209720]Today programme on Saturday handled [/url] this
[quote]0812 Sir Bruce Keogh, the former heart surgeon, said yesterday... |
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27-01-2013, 07:50 PM |
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Thread: General election forum
Post: RE: General election forum
| Thanks for that Michael. With due acknowledgements, I'll be putting this on the Sydenham Town Forum as well. |
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Thread: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
Post: RE: Anti-social behaviour in Trilby Road area
| There is a very modest bid to the [url=http://www.se23.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=4085]Perry Vale Ward Assembly[/url] from the SNT for a security mirror, which should help. The voting is this Thurs... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Michael
I've [url=http://sydenham.org.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=8540]just posted a response[/url] to something you wrote on another STF thread of a recent thread I started there on second homes... |
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24-10-2012, 11:20 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| We need more schools already - and they're what the CIL from new development should pay for. This issue is how we want our fellow citizens to live. |
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22-10-2012, 10:16 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Can any se23.com regulars tell me if there are ways to:
(1) edit out typos from posts which have been up more than 10 minutes? and
(2) post a youtube clip as such, rather than just a url? |
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22-10-2012, 10:42 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="Codrington Brill"]as Mr Lund is suggesting[/quote]
Thanks for the support - but it's Tim. Only "Mr" when Michael allows himself to be annoyed. |
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22-10-2012, 02:57 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="lacb"]In the same week that it is announced that home owners should no longer be able to rely on rising house prices to help finance a mortage (see New Mortgage Rules 2014), it is proposed tha... |
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08-11-2012, 07:48 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="lacb"]completely fair enough michael.[/quote]
Why? Would it also be thought "provocative" to draw Michael's attention to this piece in the latest Economist about [url=http://www.economist.... |
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13-11-2012, 11:04 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="Michael"]Does anybody else think this is a simple yes or no question?
Whether you do or not, it is not one I intend to continue debating with Tim for the reasons I have already mentioned. [/q... |
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13-11-2012, 07:56 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote]It would have to be cast iron agreements though, with no 'greyhound' type mischief. [/quote]
Indeed, but it we should be careful in using words such as 'mischief'. Earlier [url=http://www.se... |
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11-01-2013, 04:54 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Thanks for rejoining the discussion, Michael, and I'l try to avoid antagonising you [i]too [/i]much ... but I do think picking up someone writing in a popular newspaper for that sort of exaggeration i... |
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12-02-2013, 02:00 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Not quite sure what your point is, BarCar ... do you have a view on whether you want more affordable housing? |
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12-02-2013, 07:19 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| So that people - the young especially - find it easier to have a decent life, and bring up their kids?
Just so the question is properly understood, [i]affordable [/i]is not in quotes, so it shoul... |
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16-10-2012, 08:48 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="michael"]When you say you want existing residential land to be redeveloped do you mean that large amounts of existing housing across Forest Hill to be demolished and replaced with modern three... |
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22-10-2012, 10:08 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| (continued)
I suspect there is also a problem with the structure of the building industry - i.e. that there aren't any large, well run companies interested in doing such jobs in sufficient scale t... |
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22-10-2012, 10:23 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="Michael"]So according to your system rich people with lots of spare cash can choose whether or not to convert their homes into multiple occupancy[/quote]
This is a typical cheap debating tr... |
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22-10-2012, 12:57 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Michael makes several good points, and there is no challenging his command of detail on actual planning application in the area.
In particular, it is quite reasonable for him earlier on this thread... |
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22-10-2012, 05:32 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| A piece on the [url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9763000/9763396.stm]Today Programme[/url] just now
[quote]0848
The Financial Services Agency has said that It will be harder to get... |
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25-10-2012, 09:10 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="Michael"]Did anybody spot that the Talking Head reference? (Nothing but Towers)[/quote]
Not me. As is evident from my musical references, I never really got beyond the early '70s. I guess... |
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23-10-2012, 06:01 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Agreed. Questions about form of tenure are all side issues - it's more supply that is needed, whether owner occupied, private rented or social housing. The issue with local societies is whether they... |
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25-10-2012, 11:36 AM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote]What is required is for amenity societies to focus on what is best for the current and future inhabitants of an area and to treat every planning application on its own merits. Where there are o... |
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08-11-2012, 07:41 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| After this one I commented on earlier in this thread:
[quote="Michael "]So according to your system rich people with lots of spare cash can choose whether or not to convert their homes into multipl... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| And now let's look as the substance of Michael's lastest response.
Identifying these larg-ish in the area is welcome - I'd no idea about Brent Knoll School moving. But by the very fact of identifi... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="lacb"]just comes across as more obfuscation.[/quote]
Sorry. The point is that there are economic consequences of limiting how high people can build houses, and this example includes estima... |
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13-11-2012, 04:29 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote][quote]The Forest Hill Society was established in May 2006
a) to stimulate public interest and to promote civic pride in and around Forest Hill
b) to promote high standards of planning, ar... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote="lacb"][quote]I don't particularly think a local society should say where housing could go - if this is what you mean by 'direct the supply of housing', although what Michael has written on the... |
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13-11-2012, 08:18 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| From [url=http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/ian-birrell-we-must-make-it-easier-to-build-homes-in-london-8438474.html]this evening's Standard[/url]
[quote]the massed ranks of middle-class pr... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Today's Observer moves me to revisit this one
[img]http://content.screencast.com/users/TimLundSE26/folders/Jing/media/c72d8ea6-8208-47d6-8d34-e23cc10e236f/2012-12-02_1619.png[/img]
First you hav... |
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02-12-2012, 05:43 PM |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| There's an interesting paper published recently by Prof Henry Overman of the LSE, entitled "[url=http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/cp382.pdf]The UK Housing Crises[/url]". His conclusion is simplicit... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| Did anyone else pick up on the [url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20876934]news item this morning about a borough-wide scheme coming into force today in LB Newham[/url] requiring all private sector lan... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| [quote]Last year, The Daily Telegraph led a campaign called Hands Off Our Land urging the Government not to weaken protections for greenfield land amid proposals to “simplify” the planning system.[/qu... |
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Thread: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
Post: RE: Does FH Soc want more affordable houses?
| There was an interesting presentation at the FH Assembly last night from Lewisham's Head of Strategy about the Council's budget saving proposals. The question which struck me was whether proposals wh... |
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