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CRAY WANDERS PLANNING APPLICATION
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Popped along to watch Cray lose 0 - 4 to Sheffield FC this afternoon.
Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
Well done for them getting their own ground again.
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Never been the same since they truncated the boot sale0
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I think the original plan was to demolish the old club house. Assume that's not the case (at least for now?)0
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A shame they still call it Flamingo Park. The National Dock Labour Board Stadium has a much better ring to it.8
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Don't know, just went along to see the ground and a game.SporadicAddick said:I think the original plan was to demolish the old club house. Assume that's not the case (at least f
or now?)
The club house did look a bit shabby so maybe they don't want to spend a lot on doing up a facility they plan to demolish.
Millwall, Palace and Spurs XIs all playing there, shame no Charlton but we did help them to calculate their safe capacity (about 2400)0 -
Not sure when it changed name but I remember it as The dock labour board ground in the early 80s when I used to watch a Sunday side (Eltham Hill) play away there against a team called 279.SporadicAddick said:A shame they still call it Flamingo Park. The National Dock Labour Board Stadium has a much better ring to it.0 -
How strange. My son was watching YouTube earlier (something about SE Dons) and they were playing a pre season at Cray. I was just saying to him how much I loved the idea of the pub tables behind the goal lol and here they are popping up on Charltonlife 😀 I've never been to the ground or seen it online beforeHenry Irving said:Popped along to watch Cray lose 0 - 4 to Sheffield FC this afternoon.
Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
Well done for them getting their own ground again.8 -
If only you knew someone who lives a 10 minute walk away! ;-)YTS1978 said:
How strange. My son was watching YouTube earlier (something about SE Dons) and they were playing a pre season at Cray. I was just saying to him how much I loved the idea of the pub tables behind the goal lol and here they are popping up on Charltonlife 😀 I've never been to the ground or seen it online beforeHenry Irving said:Popped along to watch Cray lose 0 - 4 to Sheffield FC this afternoon.
Nice pitch and surronding area. Still a lot of work to do tidying up the old pavilion but a good facility. Only £5 a pint!
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Got a leaflet through the door Doing a free ST offer for local residents so expect to wander over a few times this season.4
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Cray CEO is a mate of mine and a big CAFC fan, done superbly well with that ground - looks cracking8
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Wander? As the crow flies it's no distance, but walking it would take about 40 mins I reckon. Maybe an hour with your little legs.AFKABartram said:Got a leaflet through the door Doing a free ST offer for local residents so expect to wander over a few times this season.3 -
Could we beat them if they come out of the hat in the FA Cup?0
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KingKinsella said:Could we beat them if they come out of the hat in the FA Cup?
I can barely make the end of bed these days but maybe if we all club together and tally up our distances we might.1 -
Back in the mists of time I used to stroll down the lane with schoolfriends to watch the Wands when they played at Grassmeade. It's taken them so many years to achieve the dream of getting their own ground again; can only wish them all the best.2
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I need to look through some old boxes, I may still have some old Cray Wanderers trophies etc, my Grandad gave me.
Apparently my Great Uncle owned the club in the 50’s/60’s, although I’m also told he had links to the Richardson’s 😳2 -
The Charlton liberal Sunday team played a friendly there early 2000’s against a dartford pub team0
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Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.4
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Did you book?AFKABartram said:Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.7 -
Sadly no, due to the lack of vegan meal optionsSporadicAddick said:
Did you book?AFKABartram said:Looked at Flamingo Park as a wedding venue in the late 90s on a Saturday morning. They’d had a rave the night before that I suspect only finished a couple hours earlier. The windows were all blacked out, there was netting and black sheeting across all the walls, it stunk and it was an absolute bomb site.15 -
At least it’s an option for your next one6
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Visiting my mum up north next month, she may have some items. My Great Uncle was Mick Slater? Something to do with the club, although apparently I met him a few times times before he passed away, I was only a baby.
I’m going to take my Son along to a Cray’s match when I’m next in that area, as we owned it once 😂1 -
I didn't get a leaflet and live within spitting distance!AFKABartram said:Got a leaflet through the door Doing a free ST offer for local residents so expect to wander over a few times this season.0 -
Affordable.
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They all say it anyway, but such a term is never defined, it just sounds good.0 -
It means different things in different contexts and I agree it is often used inaccurately, but it’s not true to say it is never defined.seth plum said:Affordable.
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They all say it anyway, but such a term is never defined, it just sounds good.1 -
I asked a developer for Leegate what was affordable, and related it to a graduate staff nurse pay at Lewisham Hospital, who had been spending all their income on rent (therefore virtually no deposit) how affordable their properties would be in relation to mortgage rates currently, and the monthly wage of said nurse.
The developer said they would get back to me with an answer.2 -
- Types of Affordable Housing:
- Social Rent: Rents are significantly lower than market rates, often around 50% of local market rents.
- Affordable Rent: Rents are higher than social rent but still below market rates, typically up to 80% of market rents.
- Intermediate Housing: Rents are between social and market rents.
- Shared Ownership: A scheme where individuals buy a share of a property and pay rent on the remaining portion, helping them access homeownership.
- London Living Rent: Homes are set at one-third of local average incomes.
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Agree that it's very rarely "affordable" in the true sense of the word.
Got a few mates with kids in early 20s, born and bred in Lewisham. No affordable option to rent or buy in the area without significant help from bank of mum and dad.1 -
Registered providers of affordable housing now have very little money to buy these properties, and the way that many affordable providers have merged into big organisations mean that they are not interested in owning/managing small developments. MrLargo's definitions are correct, they are nouns, not to be confused with the adjective affordable which could be applied in 1995 to the little house I am happily sitting in now.1
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House builders always promise affordable housing then cut the percentage of the so called affordable homes.
There are plans to develope the north end of Rye Lane were I am and the developer has neigh on cut it by half.
Also money for community projects or assets goes by the board as well.1
