Where does it all end!!!

[Flashheart]

With all that is floating around here and in the media (pardon the pun). Just where does it all end? Ok selling Lock Keepers cottages will raise funds as you say to help with other river projects. But the money raised only goes so far!!
How many more assets do you plan on selling when the pot is empty? How much more as river users will we end up paying for a reduction in service?

The National Trust buy up stately homes and land with it. Most of the year these houses are empty till the tourists arrive in the better months.

You may class them as assets but to us on here and i'm sure most people would agree. This is our Heritage! So why not place them in the hands of the National trust with live in Lock keepers to maintain them?

The Thames is the most well known river in England. It is a Royal river! I for one do not want to see Mr and Mrs Chav from Chavsville living in our heritage with little interest in the locks these houses serve.

As a working river we have seen a pride in the job at the locks. Well tended gardens, friendly lock keepers. It all adds to the image the Thames has given us for years and slowly, very slowly, this is being removed and most if not all of us on here are witnessing the change.

 

[oldgit]

"Mr and Mrs Chav from Chavsville"

Suspect that the very location of these cottages will ensure that only a very select few will have the wherewithall to buy such prime properties.
So no need to worry that ordinary working class types will move in and throw stones as you pass through the lock. /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[halcyon]

But how long before they moan about you moving through the lock. We already have some around our way moving in by the village church, then complaining about the bells on a Sunday morning, wanted them stopped.

Brian

 

[byron]

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We already have some around our way moving in by the village church, then complaining about the bells on a Sunday morning, wanted them stopped.

Brian

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Yup! same in our village too. Never mind something like 800 years of tradition. The people involved haven't exactly endeared themselves to villagers /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[oldgit]

"But how long before they moan about you moving through the lock."

Except the 3 dwellings at Allington lock,all Medway lock cottages were sold into private ownership during the 1970s.
To date have not heard stories of any complaints coming from the new owners.

 

[TrueBlue]

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We already have some around our way moving in by the village church, then complaining about the bells on a Sunday morning, wanted them stopped.

Brian

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Yup! same in our village too. Never mind something like 800 years of tradition. The people involved haven't exactly endeared themselves to villagers /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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A couple bought an ex-farmhouse up our short lane (there are four properties with Farm in the title out of eight properties.

One day the lady of the house rang me up and said "there's a tractor driving past - what's it doing here..."

Thankfully both of them have moved on /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

People want to have a place in the country, but can't cope with the agricultural smells, mud or birds shouting. I have four Nightingales calling all night at the moment. (Lovely - until the twitchers come).

There's nowt so queer as folk.

 

[photodog]

Darlington Cattle Market, which has been trading since the mid 1800's, had a noise abatment order served on it by the council after locals complained of the noise from the cows at 4.30am......... Saw a piece on the Beeb with some woman wingeing outside her terrace......
Anyways, went to court, and it was thrown out, apparently for technical reasons, (The council visited ONCE, and stood outside the complainants property, apparently they are supposed to visit three times and measure the sound from inside the property..) but it seems that commons sense prevailed.

 

[chuckaduck]

the lock keepers earn approx only 16k Pa part of the reason for this is the fact that they live there so if the houses are sold then salaries must increase which is in the long run going to cost more

Maybe there is a hidden agenda ie to do away with lock keepers completly ?

Comments please

 

[dombuckley]

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But how long before they moan about you moving through the lock. We already have some around our way moving in by the village church, then complaining about the bells on a Sunday morning, wanted them stopped.

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Where I used to live (Carshalton, Greater London - not the quietest of places) my church was ordered that it couldn't ring the bells for more than a total of 5 minutes on a Sunday morning: about 1 min 40 sec prior to each service. No such order was made against the railway station 100 yards away, which continues to make similarly long audio announcements twice every 15 minutes.

And don't get me started on what happened to Coombes boatyard in Bosham....

 

[baggypipes]

oh go on what happend at coombes boatyard please tell /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[Andrew_Fanner]

I assume that, should the sales go ahead, it would not be beyond human wit to include a covenant whereby the owner/occupant accepted that they were situated next to an active river navigation and accepted any activity as being part of the environment thay they had purchased. In essence "I bought a lock house and won't whinge that the lock gets used"