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sophiesofa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They'll just have to park on the roads, which is far from > ideal. But not any different to the other primary schools in the area.

How did you get your bike to the park?

So it doesn't matter what a building looks like. We should allow anything to be built as long as it's safe and functional? What a depressing world you'd have us all live in.

Of course you care more for you child than the colour of render. That doesn't mean that we should not be concerned for the quality of design of a prominent new building. Personally I don't think there is any excuse for such poor and careless design. You can still work to a tight budget, yet be thoughtful about aesthetics.

A big box development is possible (though unlikely I'd have thought). Wouldn't call that 'a shopping centre' though. I would hope the good peeps of ED would fight such a thing were it proposed. The 'industrial estate' / warehouse model of shopping has got to be one of the most depressing things ever to have happened to retail.

grabot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maybe it is missing its spiritual home on a Medway retail park. This is a good analogy. Really do dislike the coloured render.

That's going to be a big Evans in a pretty out the way location. I can't imagine it being all that viable.

I'm surprised to hear that there is stigma around Harris - I thought it was generally well regarded. Personally, I don't think the ethnic make up of a school is relevant, but I would prefer to send my daughters to a co-ed. Shame they don't merge the two.

It's a really basic form - block work boxes, rendered to hide their cheap construction. The coloured render (the only thing close to any adornment) actually makes the thing more ugly. Would be mildly better kept white.

Don't like the way they're building right up to the boundary on Whateley Road. The current building is set back a little.

Here are the plans: http://upload.reactcdn.co.uk/harris_primary_eastdulwich/uploads/document/33621_LSH_HARRIS_DULWICH_BOARDS.PDF Pretty uninspiring building.

Is Harris perceived by some as more 'down market' than other secondarys in the area then?

There is nothing wrong with sporting a beard.

Another analysis of contemporary youth culture: http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2014/mar/20/youth-subcultures-where-have-they-gone

"People don't seem to want to express themselves with their clothes any more,"... Really? Sounds to me like the author is just harking after 'the good old days', much as his old man did before him.

Totally agree with edwasj

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Tattoos on people in 'exotic' foreign/historic > scripts. > > "Ooh, this one right down my back reads Peace And > Love Forever, in Sanskrit". > No mate, it reads Stupid Twat, and it's in Urdu. The ubiquity of tats generally.

It's all the same fizzy pish

Blackcurrant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ?1million+ houses in London now down in value by > 20% according to the Telegraph: > > www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/construct > ionandproperty/11177312/High-end-London-house-pric > es-being-slashed.html sounds about right to me. most of the houses which were getting (at least close to) 1 million in the spring are now selling for 800 ish, maybe 850.

Ron70 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Won't let you in with trainers on (as > I found out the first time I tried to go) That's me out then.

... and Mustard is right - they won't even move the carpets.

I know I'm on my own here, but I think that all house surveys are a complete waste of time. Anything they tell you is usually based solely on a 'visual inspection' - which basically means that unless there is something obvious (which you would normally pick up on your own anyway), they add nothing. They'll say things like "there should be a steel here, it's not possible to say if there is or not without disturbing the fabric, but we suggest you get it checked". Yeah, thanks.

The trains were pretty decent before the London Bridge work, but are now ridiculously unreliable. I have given up using them and swapped to a bike.

Michael Faraday on Portland Street (se17), the Walworth Academy and Evelyn Grace all great, imaginative buildings. Would hope we could get something as interesting on Lordship Lane.