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>Just heard from my friend who works for the estate agency Alan & Hansen that Poundland >have a temp permit for 2 years to run their business in Lordship lane. What kind of permit would this be? AFAICS from the booklet on planning permision for businesses, downloadable from http://www.communities.gov.uk/publications/planningandbuilding/planningpermission, the place would still be in class of use A1 (shops, etc) , and so no permission for change of use would be needed. Am I wrong, and if so, am I right in thinking that any application for change of use should appear on the register at http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/485/planning_applications/554/search_the_planning_applications_register? I can't see any any current application there. What other permissions might be needed?

I think a more complex answer [ed: to the contravening red lights/one-way signs question] would be that if you do so, you do it at your own risk. And the risk is not just of injury to yourself, but of some personal responsibility for any injury or damage caused by an accident, however unforeseen or unforeseeable, however inculpable you otherwise were, to which your unexpected presence in an area of the road turned out to have been a contributory factor.

DJKillaQueen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I didn't misread the OP but I did get mixed up with the following comments on the practise by > Royal Mail of putting collection cards through letterboxes instead of delivering parcels/ > recorded delivery items. This IS something Royal Mail does and it is unacceptable. You seem now to be trying to direct our attention to other than the point raised with you. Your post of 20/10 18:14, "Still doesn't change the fact that no attempt was made by Royal Mail to deliver the item", seemed, to at least both Sue and myself, to say that you were not accepting the truth of EDDORDC's immediately preceding post. You've so far avoided answering our inferences that in so doing you had either misread that post or had read it accurately and then accused him/her of lying. In the absence of a contrary response, I'll assume the latter.

>Wembley? Just checked some photos. It must be. Thanks, Clare.

Curmudgeon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you like the view from Overhill and live on Goodrich Road head up Donkey Alley and check out > the view from the field in front of the large block of flats (it's common land) > > Best view in London! I walked up there this afternoon, for the first time ever. It's certainly a good view. It's a lot more panoramic than what you can see from Horniman Gardens. Must take my binoculars next time. Anyone know what the metal hoop-like structure is, about 5 degrees east of, and a bit beyond, Battersea Power Station? The birds seem to like it up there too; lots of gliding going on.

James, you don't say what your current lens is (and hence what it's not). If it's choice of focal length(s) you're principally uncertain about, is there really any substitute for a hands-on trial?

Er, I think it's the sort of mistake that a pigeon doesn't make twice. A quick search on 'pelican eating pigeon' does dredge up previous, like http://www.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/6083468.stm. The names and credits there differ from the latest one. There are also videos available on the theme, of I don't know how many distinct cases. The one I looked at seemed to be a different, straight grab-and-chomp job. The pelican community is going to need a PR makeover, I think. And maybe protection from other snappers trying to tempt them into a follow-up.

Alex K Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @EDDORDC -- Please re-read my initial posting. > Note this paragraph: > > "Without a glimpse of the slip of paper, of course > I can't be sure. It might not be a notice to go > pick up a parcel on Silvester Road, or at the > Forest Hill sub-station." > > The shoe may fit, but you claim that this time you weren't wearing it. Well, it's pinched you enough to call forth a reply. > > Thank you for taking the time to present your version of events. Alex K, your initial post was exemplary in *not* jumping to conclusions. But this is dreadful. You may be upset about the reported loss of your husband's passport application, but you have no right to let that influence your reading of what EDDORC has said. Your tone is sneering and dismissive, and carries at least an implication that you don't accept the truth of what he's said. I also don't understand DJKQ's "Still doesn't change the fact that no attempt was made by Royal Mail to deliver the item", which conveys to me a probable gross misreading of EDDORC's post.

If you're a small bird, be careful out there. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320429/Pelican-swallows-pigeon-London-park.html

DJKJ:>It is a Peckham Rye CC transport sub committee meeting [on 4 Nov] Ah, thanks DJKQ. The only link to that sub-group http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/ieListDocuments.aspx?CId=324&MId=3689 seems to be the one on the global meetings Calendar page I referred to. If you look just at the Nunhead and Peckham Rye CC page http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=177 and its child pages (meetings, agendas, calendar, etc) , you get no idea of the existence of any such sub-group. (*) I'll send a link to this post in the Feedback area of that page. Or are these sub-groups transient or evanescent things that don't merit more than a per-meeting page? (*) And if you look for any mention of them in the CC minutes or 'report packs', you seem to find nothing but minutes of planning meetings. I think I'm going outside to scream. I may be some time.

>I will be attending a Transport sub committee meeting on Nov 4th. I can't see any meeting of the Environment, Transport, Communities and Citizenship Scrutiny Sub-Committee on that day. http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgCommitteeDetails.aspx?ID=304 Is it the one you mean? If so, does that mean you're a member of it - I hadn't thought committee meetings generally entertained questions from public attenders? Or was it maybe one of the Community Council meetings listed for that day? http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgCalendarMonthView.aspx?XXR=0&M=11&DD=2010&ACT=Go& [Get those links - Not just gov now, folks, it's new, improved, moderngov]

You'll probably have found out by now that it's some intrusive web page that's included some audio content. Closing down tabs one by one will usually identify the culprit. It should be possible to configure your browser to restrict the range of guff it displays automatically.

Pay attention at the back there. You've been told once. http://www.robeastaway.com/book_buses.html

1>You gotta admit though, they're funny. 2>This puts a smile one everyone's face. 3 [third strike goes here] 3>I'll leave the gurning pics up though cos they are funny >Wanna see a picture of a really ugly bird? A beguilingly personable bird; in fact, the only photo of any interest in the thread. Never mind. For light relief, Thora Hird appears, with Jack Warner and Gordon Jackson, in The Quatermass Xperiment (film, not original TV series) on BBC Four tomorrow. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049646/

>He also reckons the middle classes of ED don't have the balls to revolt. He was asked "Well, just pick up on that for the moment. Because you hinted at this in the first comments you made, about the fact that it's [the middle class] not naturally a politicised group. Do you think that's about to change?" And replied, "Um, well that's a good point. Will the middle classes take to the streets? I don't think that really the middle classes can get banners saying, you know, "We earn ?40,000 a year and we are entitled to child benefit." I mean, I just don't think they've got the balls to do that. Um, I hope they haven't. It would be a bit embarrassing for the rest of us. Um, I think there is obviously a squeeze. Everyone is going to be squeezed, in lots of different ways. Um, will they actually take to the streets? I don't know. " Which probably answered the question. But it was only You and Yours.

> Waynetta - Think you?ll find Freedom passes can be used on buses and the underground 24x7. British rail after 09-30. What's needed is tips on delaying the 09:29 train.

Fireworks and the law (as previously posted)

I used my Lidl bag in LL last week.

(6) A home-school agreement shall not be capable of creating any obligation in respect of whose breach any liability arises in contract or in tort. I posted the above, from one of Her Majesty's statutes, and the first three characters (an open bracket, a 6, a close bracket) got transformed (as they are here) into an evil smiley. Can the Hon. Admin please confirm that this is not the first stage in a cyber-terrorist attack on the forum.

>this agreement seems to be just window dressing. s.111(5) No person shall be excluded from such a school or suffer any other adverse consequences on account of any failure to comply with any invitation to sign the parental declaration. {6} A home-school agreement shall not be capable of creating any obligation in respect of whose breach any liability arises in contract or in tort. So if one felt at all anxious about the possible 'informal' consequences of an alleged failure of parent or child to keep to the agreement, one might perhaps decide it would be better simply not to sign it. s.110(5) Where the governing body consider that a registered pupil at the school has a sufficient understanding of the home-school agreement as it relates to him, they may invite the pupil to sign the parental declaration as an indication that he acknowledges and accepts the school?s expectations of its pupils. I relish the idea of 8 year old legalistic Johny saying that, after due coonsideration, he was regretfully declining to sign the agreement.

>"Participate in major research" I wouldn't call it that.

Are we allowed to eat jrussel now, or am I getting confused with another thread?

And ...?

The police figures for ED for June, July, August are 3,5,9. http://maps.met.police.uk/access.php?area=00BEGH&ct=3&sort=area&order=a That's clearly a short term trend. Whether there was a similar one last year, I've no idea. (Someone _please_ tell me the figures are easily available somewhere, as they ought to be.) Whether the figures for the current year will overall differ from the previous one, I've no idea. In fact solutions rarely come quickly, cheaply or easily. Why should they? There are a few clever and determined burglars out there, using their intelligence and skill to get the better of householders while generally evading detection. Organise a local watch group if you like. A set of us routinely patrolling the neighbourhoods 24/7 (how many metres of road each, do you think; how many person-hours a day?) should do the trick. Does anyone have knowledge or experience of any of the entities here? http://www.mpa.gov.uk/partnerships/boroughs/southwark/

Year-on-year figures going down and monthly figures going up aren't incompatible. This is a busy time of year for all sorts of things. A comparison with the same month last year would be useful. It would be good to have details of all available data sources. The one I've just looked at, which confirms a year-on-year decrease in burglary figures, is Appendix 1 to the MPA Headline Performance Report of 14/10/10. http://www.mpa.gov.uk/committees/sop/2010/101014/05/