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    Environment Bill

    in Speakers' Corner:

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, Cheesey69 said:

    You can lead a horse to water...

    A lot of brownfield sites are in places people don’t want to pay big money for and the construction companies know that. 
    The government has to start building maybe use a no deposit mortgage scheme. 
    But remember, more houses means the house is worth less and a lot of people base their wealth on how much their house is worth. 

    Why should they have the option ?  Can't they see that they are helping to destroy that which they are trying to acheive ?

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    Environment Bill

    in Speakers' Corner:

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    16 minutes ago, JennyMorgan said:

    I wholeheartedly agree but many people clamour to escape the cities, understandable, and want to live in Norfolk or Suffolk, equally understandable. Our villages have become dormitories, no longer the communities of old. If I take Beccles as an example I'm as likely to hear an Essex whine as I am a sing-song Suffolk mumble. What is the answer, apart from elocution lessons and mass sterilization? Personally I rather like the reality that Norfolk and Suffolk generally makes immigrants welcome. I agree that there is a cost to that welcome but more than that I would hate to see the barriers go up. 

    They are indeed welcome provided that they are prepared to move to existing properties - or if they must have 'new' as appears to be the trend currently they must be on 'brownfield' land . There are almost 1000 acres of such land with space for more than 12500 homes .

    Every borough and district authority is now required to keep a brownfield register .

    Environment Bill

    in Speakers' Corner:

    Posted

    1 hour ago, ChrisB said:

    And swallow the bitter pill and de-contaminate the brown ex industrial sites to provide homes.

    A very large site in the centre of  Norwich is an example of precisely that . Where there's a will....

    "

    PICTURE the scene. It’s 1997 and a young reporter for Anglia TV is covering plans to revive a rundown part of Norwich with new flats, pubs and a cinema. The land is so contaminated that the media have to wear steel toe-capped boots, voluminous yellow overalls and safety glasses. It’s this particular reporter’s debut “piece to camera” and he looks suitably awkward, not to say ridiculous, as a result.

    The soil on the site ran thick with the waste of several decades of heavy industrial use, some of it from the railway, much more from a famous Norwich name – the manufacturers Boulton & Paul. Thousands worked here over the decades. The contaminated land would become the Riverside development (pictured above)"

    http://riversidenorwich.blogspot.com/2013/05/wanted-memories-of-boulton-paul.html

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    New Size Calor Bottles

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    It may be 'panic over' folks.  It appears that the larger 4.5kg bottle is the Irish specification from Calor's sister company.

    Perhaps someone got creative and imported some due to the lack of availability of the normal ones.   Sorry for any alarm my OP may have caused.

    Bahrain F1 Gp

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    27 minutes ago, floydraser said:

    As MM has demonstrated (I seem to be agreeing with him a lot all of a sudden??) it's a good idea to stop and think before hitting post/send/reply. In this case I think it's quite clear and should have been common knowledge that this kind of thread is going to spoil someone's day, even though in only a relatively small way.

    I don't think the arguments of hot news/freedom of speech etc over ride the simple matter of respect for others; helping them to have a decent day without let downs. It isn't difficult.

    I hope they've watched it by now, since it's all over the media this morning - even Radio Norfolk - as it was yesterday evening.   Anyone calling for the BBC to 'stop and think' ? :default_biggrin:

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    New Size Calor Bottles

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    13 minutes ago, Smoggy said:

    Probably going to have to, I can never remember which is the better option and what is involved, I assume regulator and jets.

    Just a regulator. 30mb is te new 'standard for both butane and propane I believe, Remember that the treads are different.

    New Size Calor Bottles

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    Calor have replaced the existing 4.5 kilo bottle with a taller one with a wider base.

    Dimensions are ....................................................Height with handle folded..........."base ring" diam

    old cylinder................................................................................350mm .................................195mm

    new cylinder................................................................................381mm ................................220mm

    These changes in size may well effect storage in boats  Clearly the main market for these bottles is other than marine, and Calor haven't thought it through.

    They have indicated that they are open to feedback on this especially to learn the scale of the problem in boats.

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    Lewis Hamilton 7 Times World Champion

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    23 minutes ago, HemsbyPie said:

    Yes but why let facts get in the way of good old passive racism? :default_gbxhmm:
     

    the fact people need to quote 7 year old articles about tax avoidance says more to me about them than it does about LH.

    Any company avoids taxes & claims back VAT where possible, it’s good business sense. And the thought of LH sitting there filling out his own import deceleration is laughable - he probably didn’t even know about the avoidance until it hit the papers...

    Are you suggesting that my views on LH are motivated by racism ? If so, I suggest you withdraw immediately !

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    My Day

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    12 hours ago, JennyMorgan said:

    As the saying goes, you never see a plumber on a bike, indeed one who lives near to me drives around in a gutsy Porsche Boxer! 

    Nothing says 'I couldn't afford a Porsche' more than a Boxer :default_biggrin:

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    Lewis Hamilton 7 Times World Champion

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, psychicsurveyor said:

    Lewis Hamilton pays his taxes in the UK, he happens to live in central europe, along with most F1 drivers.

    The 800 odd support team also pay taxes in the UK.

     

    Every penny that he should ?



    "The criticism intensified with the publication of the so-called Paradise Papers, leaked documents from an offshore law firm suggesting that Hamilton had avoided tax on his £16.5m Bombardier Challenger 605 aeroplane. According to The Guardian and BBC, which analysed the confidential files, the documents revealed a £3.3m VAT refund after the luxury jet was imported into the Isle of Man in 2013."

    More here https://www.ft.com/content/8a3ebde2-c64b-11e7-b30e-a7c1c7c13aab

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    Lewis Hamilton 7 Times World Champion

    in The Broadscot Lounge

    Posted

    18 minutes ago, gancanny said:

      i think maybe thats the way a lot of people think,  did he win the race or was it the car,  could another driver have won if he had been driving,  similar to frankie dettori winning a big race,  did he win the race or was it the horse

    Fiteams all use telemetry now. Not only are various performance factors captured and transmitted live to the team, but there are a bunch of engineers backhere in the UK who can make adjustments as they go.

    Bottas has had significantly  more DNFs than Hamilton, and he has often complained of unexplainable power loss when doing very well.  

     

    I wonder just how different things could be if there was no telemetry .

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