Sydenham Town Forum

I've just done a google search on 'noise relief zones'. I seems the flight path tests were conducted for 5 months from last November.
http://airportfocusinternational.com/heathrow-to-test-noise-relief-zones

We've since reverted back to the original flight path.
This shows that during the trial in ...

It's quite obvious from that that there is a stack, the Northern most point of which is directly overhead. That would explain some of it. Whether that's new or not I don't know. Fascinating to sit and watch it though.

Acciording to this the stack(s) have been in the same places since the 60's so ...

If left long enough, purelake will claim that the building is now in such a bad state of repair that it's unsafe and will need to be pulled down for safety reasons - if this happens then they should be liable for complete rebuild of the pub! Grrrr! [rant over]

A state of repair that may also ...

http://www.flightradar24.com (or http://www.flightradar24.com/51.44,-0.07/12 to be a bit more precise!) is fun and there's no delay. What you see on the screen is what's overhead (with a few exceptions - older/smaller planes are not equipped with the right transponders). On the 'settings' option you ...

Rachael wrote:I can also hear the dropping of landing gear

If you can hear that over jet engines from 5000ft away your hearing must be bloody sensitive!!!

Just out of interest (and honestly I'm not being dismissive, I am genuinely interested) what part of Sydenham do the people who've noticed the increase live in? At the moment I'm near to Crystal Palace Park. I've always been under the flight path for aircraft turning into the southern approach. I'm ...

The 'Annual passenger numbers' section shows the number of aircraft movements and would suggest we're only just getting back to 2007 traffic levels:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Heathrow_Airport

As to whether we're getting more overhead, that's debatable. I honestly haven't noticed any ...

I agree. I haven't noticed any difference. Dunno what the fuss is about.

JulietP wrote:We appear to be on one of the principal arrivals paths.

http://www.heathrowairport.com/static/H ... 012_hq.pdf

We always have been. That's from last year!

Muesli & banana + orange juice for breakfast, ham and tomato sarnie, bag of cheese & onion + 2 black tea (no sugar) for lunch, spag bol on a plate the size of Belgium in half an hour then a pot of tea and half a hundredweight of jaffa cakes while I slob on the sofa tonight. But I've walked 6 miles ...

It's kind of diverting away from the Greyhound a bit. How about starting a new thread about 'Do we want to be another East Dulwich'?

Eagle wrote:Mr Sheen

True could be s stodgy diet but we ate loads of vegtables both in school dinners and home.

Despite our diet seem to recall we were all thin at school.

You might have eaten loads of veg, I certainly didn't! Not a lot of my mates did either.

I know it's going slightly off the 'spending more on junk' subject but what Annie just said made me think it's no different from what I used to eat as a kid 35 years ago. There was nothing that could really be described as 'healthy' either at home or in school - sausages, fish fingers, pies, mash ...

Oliver tried it before with school dinners. As Rod said, the information was out there, it was widely publicised but people chose to ignore it - parents were giving their kids chips through the school fence at lunch time. If an enthusiastic public face like that can't do it I doubt some government ...

I can't disagree with that. If there were markets on every high street as there seems to be in France and Italy then Oliver's point would be valid and we'd all be able to feed a family of four for 50p a month.

Convenience says people are going to get everything in one hit at a local supermarket rather than spend over an hour getting to and from a REAL market in Lewisham, Croydon or Brixton 2 or 3 times a week to pick up fresh cheaper food and ingredients.

Why does convenience always win out? Always ...

I can't disagree with most of what he says but this makes me laugh:

"Oliver, who has campaigned for improved diets since his Channel 4 show Jamie's School Dinners in 2005, urged people to switch from shopping at supermarkets to buying smaller quantities of groceries from their local market. He ...

Eagle wrote:Search East
Simply means demographic of people who like spending hours in warehouse stores.

Would these be the retail hangar chavs you mentioned in another thread?

JulietP wrote:Oh joy.

I don't see the problem. It's bringing employment and it's not putting any local sports shops out of business because there aren't any.

I'll probably get nowhere and end up on a harassment charge!