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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| I support Jacksprat re: demolition of the old building. I admit it is a generalisation, the 'keep it because it is old' mentality is one of the reasons London has third world infrastructure - because ... |
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20-07-2008, 08:01 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Steve - the 'keep it because it is old' was a mischievous quote, really, but my point is that the existing building doesn't warrant compromising the new one, and English Heritage agrees.
I agree wi... |
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21-07-2008, 06:10 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| To paraphrase the English Heritage report based on an inspection of the building in April 2005 "their architectural interest is limited in comparison to contemporary listed baths... ...it is not of su... |
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22-07-2008, 11:29 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pool (continued)
| Betrel - I agree with you that the Peckham pool is excellent, and well thought out to get a range of people using the facility. I would like to see a climbing wall for one - that would make a landmark... |
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23-07-2008, 03:49 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| Dare I say, I use the combined Memorial Library and Swimming Pool at Biggin Hill. It's good if you are headed to Kent at the weekend anyway, and is very new and clean. The kids love it. |
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20-11-2011, 03:34 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| I agree with a lot of the comments above. With the recent wet weather, on my last trip I appeared from getting changed to find a large group of kids and adults wandering about from the poolside toilet... |
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05-02-2014, 08:51 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Pools
Post: RE: Forest Hill Pools
| That's because we go in the pool! :-O |
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Thread: Trains to/from Forest Hill and Honor Oak Park
Post: RE: Overcrowding on Trains to London Bridge
| Hilltop - to be fair to Southern there are major improvements in the pipeline (although these have been promised for years I agree).
Both the Shard development and Thameslink 2000 (!) projects hav... |
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29-06-2008, 09:25 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Strange Smell at Forest Hill Station
| I believe it's because Southern is using urea (which smells of ammonia/wee) on contact with moisture.
One reason it is used is because most platforms, bridges, etc are either steel or reinforced c... |
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15-12-2007, 03:29 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Strange Smell at Forest Hill Station
| [quote=Piers_Gibbon]
thanks for the reply...it's good to have the mystery cleared up
maybe urea is corrosion friendly..is it environmentally friendly - anyone know?
but anyway it's pretty unple... |
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16-12-2007, 12:26 AM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: timetable at Forest Hill station
| Have to agree with you here - it is ridiculous that there are no posted timetables in the station.
If you are into conspiracies, I would say its an attempt to kill off the London Bridge to Victoria... |
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03-01-2008, 03:07 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Access to Forest Hill station
| I think I read in the Network Rail route strategy that Forest Hill is the 17th busiest on the London rail network, and yet Southern persists with providing substandard facilities. Lack of shelter, a s... |
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07-05-2008, 03:46 PM |
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Thread: Forest Hill Rail Station
Post: RE: Forest Hill Rail Station
| Duncan,
It's a very positive move seeing your presence on this forum, as I'm sure that you can see that your passengers joining from Forest Hill are a far from satisfied lot.
Taking your 'think ... |
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20-02-2009, 02:25 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Liphook Crescent planning application
| Can I add my support - I live on Westwood Park and take my daughter to a nursery in East Dulwich because of the lack of provision and the waiting lists in Forest Hill.
I think Liphook Crescent is ... |
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30-03-2010, 05:09 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I am a member of the TLERA, and would like to attend such a meeting. As I mentioned above, I applaud much of the work of the association, but I think this narrow-minded action is misguided and I suspe... |
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25-01-2012, 06:30 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| If the essence of the case is an objection to the noise nuisance associated with the nursery, and the nursery is operating, can't the case be settled simply by carrying out a noise survey at the neigh... |
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31-01-2012, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I applaud a lot of the work of the TLRA, but if the details on this forum can be trusted, they are very wide of the mark here, if indeed the action is sanctioned by the whole group rather than a few i... |
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24-01-2012, 04:57 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| The obvious weakness in your justification for supporting the objectors to the nursery, is that the TLERA should represent the interests of all members, not necessarily the minority that chooses to ob... |
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26-01-2012, 04:44 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| There is a fundamental question here about the role of the TLERA: is it to constrain the estate to being a unwelcoming, dull and silent museum, where children and their activities are frowned upon, or... |
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30-01-2012, 07:45 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| The 200+ signatures on the Piplings petition indicate the scale of support for the nursery. My wife has sent a request for an extraordinary meeting to the TLERA chair. I hope the meeting will promptly... |
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02-02-2012, 04:36 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Orange - How have you decided that the property is inappropriate? Have you read the OFSTED report? It's one of the best I've seen. Hence the reaction of the parents being forced to seek other arrangem... |
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02-02-2012, 06:57 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Just to emphasise - I have no interest in the nursery, other than being a resident on the same estate - but the OFSTED report speaks for itself and illustrates why such a facility should be welcomed. ... |
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02-02-2012, 07:37 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Much is made of the number of objectors to the nursery's planning application - the suggestion being that these were individuals. In fact the objections were encouraged by a door to door campaign by t... |
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06-02-2012, 05:21 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| My view is the meeting should be used to poll opinion in the membership, based on balanced representations from both the nursery and its objectors. The Association should then base its plan of action ... |
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07-02-2012, 11:25 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I think it's in everyone's interests to get the meeting arranged as soon as possible to enable the committee to explain it's actions, and the members to air their views for and against, and hopefully ... |
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12-02-2012, 09:42 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Roz, absolutely with you on this.
It seems to me that the committee is pursuing a minority interest in the name of the Association when many members are opposed to the action.
I am very concern... |
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23-02-2012, 11:09 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Saddened - my basic problem with the action of the association is that it should take into account the interests of all members - not just the few objectors to the proposal. The estate is family frien... |
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04-02-2012, 12:03 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I think the balance of support and objectors to the nursery in the estate can only be ascertained by a meeting. So the sooner the better. The delay I refer to is the insistence on a signed letter with... |
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04-02-2012, 01:54 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I'm in a similar place to Jason - I've lived in the estate for 8 years and been a member of TLERA for that time. Generally found it to be a force for the good, particularly when it is creating a real ... |
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07-02-2012, 09:52 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Saddened - from a planning point of view, as far as I know, Piplings have done nothing wrong. They applied for permission when required, and it was duly granted. When the nursery was smaller, there wa... |
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08-02-2012, 01:27 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| DaveL,
Really disappointed with the delays in arranging an SGM, given the need has been obvious through the content of this forum since January at least.
To hide behind the bureaucracy, 'a valid... |
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23-02-2012, 03:23 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Roz,
Loved your link. The blog claims:
[color=#0000FF]"We are differing voices who come together under one banner – that of liberty.
We are political and apolitical – some belong to parties, ... |
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24-02-2012, 11:41 AM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| It's a constitutional power of the TLERA committee "to promote civic pride in the area of benefit".
The manner in which this case has been pursued has been counter-productive: aspects of their beh... |
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05-03-2012, 06:31 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| To avoid any confusion, as part of the planning application review, the local authority sent officers to the address to check the objectors claims of noise and traffic nuisance, and found both to be n... |
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06-03-2012, 02:55 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| I don't understand why the committee has adopted such a confrontational stance. The SGM is great opportunity for the executive to understand the consensus view from the membership (people surely?) and... |
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02-03-2012, 11:32 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Ummango - I agree it is tempting, looking at these posts, to conclude that the Tewkesbury Lodge estate is full of unpleasant individuals.
It is inescapable that the committee (or certain individual... |
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07-03-2012, 06:21 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| Orange - I don't think there is any question of the councillors having made a mistake in granting planning permission - if that is your assertion. They simply took a balance of view of the benefits of... |
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08-03-2012, 04:48 PM |
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Thread: Planning: Nursery at Liphook Crescent
Post: RE: Planning Application: Nursery at Liphook Cresc...
| My reflections on the meeting are:
- It was a good day for democracy in the sense of there being a good turn out. There is nothing worse than apathy. I agree with an earlier poster that the time of... |
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09-03-2012, 02:49 PM |
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Thread: Horniman Museum and Gardens
Post: RE: Horniman animal enclosure to get walk-through
| Looks like a really nice development - hope the animals approve too. |
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16-12-2007, 12:33 AM |
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Thread: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
Post: RE: Serial attacker lives in HOP or FH?
| Potentially very good news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8361587.stm |
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15-11-2009, 07:59 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: Children in Pubs
| [i][Split from 'Best Sunday Roast' -admin][/i]
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[Quote=davidl]
Been to The Dolphin a few times - food's great, and the beer's not bad (was Timothy Taylor the last time I was there IIRC an... |
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03-12-2007, 07:57 PM |
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Thread: Children in Pubs
Post: RE: Best Sunday roast?
| I hold my hand up to kicking this one off. I have a young daughter, but have been driven out of the Herne Tavern because it is sometimes/often a nightmare on Sundays with hoards of kids ransacking the... |
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04-12-2007, 07:41 PM |
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Thread: Jim Dowd MP
Post: RE: Jim Dowd MP
| Interesting thread this one.
I read Jim Dowd election leaflet, in the honest quest for evidence to re-elect him, but found little or none. The theme appeared to be that Jim has served his constitue... |
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16-04-2010, 12:43 PM |
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Thread: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
Post: RE: New Lamp Posts/Street Lights
| The installation around the Tewkesbury Lodge estate seems to be going well - much better lighting. This might be a function of there being fewer big trees than other roads, and the old lights were poo... |
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12-10-2012, 05:05 PM |
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Thread: The Hob Closed
Post: RE: The Hob
| I went in on Thursday night and had an excellent pint of Brixton Effra and liked the atmos a lot. I'll be going back. Good luck to the team. |
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Thread: Horniman Licence Application
Post: RE: Horniman Licence Application
| The Jerk Cook-Out was a bit of red herring (does that metaphor work?) in that the event was unticketed and had more reach and was more popular than expected or planned.
The vast majority of visitor... |
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23-03-2012, 12:54 PM |
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Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23
| I think the principal concern is that the enhanced 'PRNAV' navigation system will focus aircraft effectively over Forest Hill, rather than the current vectored widespread.
I put in my postcode in W... |
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21-02-2008, 07:33 PM |
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Thread: Flight Paths over SE23
Post: RE: Proposed City Airport Flight Paths over SE23
| [quote=Londondrz]
All take off and landing zones have to be fairly wide for the planes to avoid wake turbulence i.e. the disturbed air that comes off a plane as it passes through the air. Follow clos... |
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22-02-2008, 09:13 PM |
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Thread: Incident in Stanstead Road 19-02-2012
Post: RE: Police in Stanstead Road
| Like everyone else, I don't have the full facts - but nothing has come to light so far that suggests this is anything other than a justified use of force by the police.
We recently had a aggravate... |
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25-02-2012, 09:48 PM |
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Thread: The Blitz
Post: RE: The Blitz
| This website is well researched for V1 and V2 strikes, but SE23 info is limited.
http://www.flyingbombsandrockets.com/V1_summary.html |
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