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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.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also suspect that there is an element of > snobbery involved. How come?

I thought they were all located in the 7th circle of hell. Pretty sure you can get there via the circle line in rush hour.

...and it's really ugly when whole streets have their front walls taken down and their garden concreted over. What about visual amenity?

I don't get why they're allowed. By installing a drop kerb, which no one can then park in front of, you're basically transferring a publicly available, on-street parking space into private ownership. Why would we, as a community want to privatise the highway in that fashion? If every house did it, then what would happen to non-residents, visitors, or tradesmen wishing to park on the street?

hmmm, not hugely insipiring: http://www.gssarchitecture.com/?page_id=2549

The simplest answer is to close off a small number of back streets to bikes only, in order to create the cycle 'spine'. Of course it would take real political leadership (those on the roads effected would cry blue murder).

I hadn't given secondaries much thought (my kids still little), but now that I do, I must admit that the idea of sending my daughters to a girls only school isn't all that appealing. Wonder why they don't merge the two to make a co-ed?!

Why's this in the lounge?

I would be interested as to why (as some have suggested) local take up has been poor? Is this true? Do the kids tend to travel in to Harris from further a field?

sillywoman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's 'the grid'? Just meant the grid of narrow streets that make up a large part of East Dulwich - I was thinking the area between Lordship Lane and CPR.