On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:55:14 +0100
"News" wrote:
I fallow field has people on it? Boy you are slow.

If people own the land

snip total senile drivel

Read: "Oh dear, I'm going to lose the argument, best get out now and save
what face I have left".

B2003

On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 18:11:08 +0100
"News" wrote:
wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 16:42:36 +0100
Optimist wrote:
Those who think that fields can just be built on ad lib should ask
themselves where the food is to come from. We cannot

I think in the minds of these people it comes from some magic food
machine run by pixies

So senile. Sad

When you've changed the record do let me know. Or can't you afford another
one with your student loan?

B2003

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 07:43:22 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 30/08/2012 11:41, d wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 10:40:46 +0100
"News" wrote:
d wrote:

If the previous government hadn't deliberaly flung the doors open to
mass immigration we wouldn't now be having to cope with housing an
extra 2 million people. If there was any justice in the world Tony
Blair would be forced to rent out the rooms in his mansions.

Or scrap the Stalinist Town & Country Planning act. Thatcher reinforced this

Thanks, but I'd prefer to settle for not welcoming all the scum of the world
onto this island. And don't even bother pretending the majority are hard
working intellectuals keeping our economy afloat. Thats utter BS.


No, they are hard working East Europeans who are doing the jobs the
Anglo-Saxons and the descendants of earlier immigrants will no longer
do. Shame on you, sir.

Oh not this fatuous old argument again. There were plenty of british
workmen before the flood gates were opened but guess what - a lot of them
had families to pay for and didn't fancy living 6 to a flat. If you're some
20 something single male sharing rent with a lot of mates of course you
can undercut the indigenous competition.

B2003

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 08:00:03 +0100
Martin Edwards wrote:
On 30/08/2012 14:25, d wrote:
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012 14:14:06 +0100
"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote:
d wrote:

Where I lived as a small child was well outside what people generally
recognised as London. It is now well inside what people generally
recognise as London. Even the county has been absorbed into London.

Probably the most accurate definition today would be any built up area
within the M25.

Cue howls of protest from the likes of Epsom and Watford...

Tough )

Apart from about 3 fields the built up part of watford is contiguous all the
way to central london.

B2003


Crap, there is farmland on both London Road and Oxhey Lane.

There's something called google maps - try using it. If you do you'll see
that as I said , aprt from a few fields watford is contiguous with central
london by way of south oxhey , hatch end and harrow.

B2003

In message , at 09:12:12 on Fri, 31
Aug 2012, Graeme Wall remarked:

England and France also share a border.

Can't see both sides building right up to the edge of it though.

Didn't someone build a rail tunnel up to the border, from both sides?
--
Roland Perry

In message , at 10:24:16 on Fri, 31 Aug
2012, News remarked:
As I wrote, then only 2.5 % of the UK is under masonry.
So it's 2.5% under a house or concrete, and 5% in people's gardens?
Does it matter!
Yes, if you can't answer the question it looks rather like you are
making the numbers up.

See the link on my other post.

That would be a more practical suggestion if you didn't post quite so
many messages
--
Roland Perry

On 31/08/2012 11:06, Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:12:12 on Fri, 31
Aug 2012, Graeme Wall remarked:

England and France also share a border.

Can't see both sides building right up to the edge of it though.

Didn't someone build a rail tunnel up to the border, from both sides?

Not many people live in it though.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

"Tim Roll-Pickering" wrote in
:

d wrote:

Where I lived as a small child was well outside what people generally
recognised as London. It is now well inside what people generally
recognise as London. Even the county has been absorbed into London.

Probably the most accurate definition today would be any built up area
within the M25.

Cue howls of protest from the likes of Epsom and Watford...

Maybe. There is a campaign in Epsom to get Epsom Station included in Zone
6 - as Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner already are - and amongst the older
generation there is a certain envy of the benefits of Freedom Passes. If
inclusion in London were the solution, I think there would be significant
support.

It would of course increase the Con/Lab ratio in London, which might
displease those of the Boris-free party.

Is the Borough of Epsom and Ewell the only non-London council area wholly
within the M25? Hard to find a map that would show that.

Peter

--
|| Peter CS ~ Epsom ~ UK | pjcs02 [at] gmail.com |

On 31/08/2012 11:34, Peter Campbell Smith wrote:
"Tim wrote in
:

d wrote:

Where I lived as a small child was well outside what people generally
recognised as London. It is now well inside what people generally
recognise as London. Even the county has been absorbed into London.

Probably the most accurate definition today would be any built up area
within the M25.

Cue howls of protest from the likes of Epsom and Watford...

Maybe. There is a campaign in Epsom to get Epsom Station included in Zone
6 - as Epsom Downs and Tattenham Corner already are - and amongst the older
generation there is a certain envy of the benefits of Freedom Passes. If
inclusion in London were the solution, I think there would be significant
support.

It would of course increase the Con/Lab ratio in London, which might
displease those of the Boris-free party.

Is the Borough of Epsom and Ewell the only non-London council area wholly
within the M25? Hard to find a map that would show that.

Peter


Exploring http://www.itoworld.com/map/2 might come up with the answer.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail

On 31/08/2012 12:16, Graeme Wall wrote:
Is the Borough of Epsom and Ewell the only non-London council area wholly
within the M25? Hard to find a map that would show that.

Peter



Ashford (no, the other one) looks like a contender.

--
Graeme Wall
This account not read, substitute trains for rail.
Railway Miscellany at http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail