It's sunny out there
May. 27th, 2005 09:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
peterbirksI'm at home today, exploiting the wonders of modern technology by patching myself into the megalith that is the Informa Wide Area Network (although I guess that it is not called that any more). Out of my window I can see the sun (which I can also see from my floor-to-ceiling window at work, natch, at least for the first 90 minuts of my day) and quite a bit of greenery (which I can't see from my office at work).
How much longer I will be able to see that sun and greenery is now a matter of some uncertainty.
You see, at the back of our row of houses, and off to the side to the right, is an old education building. Because Granville Park (a road, not a park) is on a hill, my house kind of looks out and up, being at the bottom of the Granville Park hill (and at the bottom of the Lewisham Hill Hill). At the end of the garden is a tall wall, with the "ground floor" of the derelict education building at the top of this wall. Finally, Lewisham has decided to abolish the derelict old education building, and is going to build a super new three-storey adult education "learning centre".
This could lead to the farcical situation of me looking out of the first-floor (second floor, to you Americans) kitchen window to see people sitting in the "creche area" about 50 feet away, at the same level as me. Confusing, I know.
I say "might" and "could", not because I have been reading too many 750-word safe harbor statements written at length by lawyers which basically claim that "nothing you have read above is necessarily true", but because it was hard to see from the architectural plans exactly how this building is going to sit on the Granville Park hill. It's a long-building, but it isn't stepped, despite being on a hill. Does this mean they will have to build a deep trench at one end? Or will the other end be put on stilts? I just don't know.
Anyway, one by-product may be that my view of the railway line will be cut off.
Paradoxically, when the whole thing is finished, it may actually increase the salability of the house, because newly-built buildings tend to look nicer than derelict ones. And, being an "adult learning centre", this means that (a) it can't suddenly become residential and (b) it won't be full of screaming kids at playtime.
Oh, and the place will have a cafe and other social things. Plus that creche, of course. No use to me, but popular with the ladies... or so I hear.
But I will miss my view of the railway line. The double-glazing keeps out most of the noise, and I like watching trains.
How much longer I will be able to see that sun and greenery is now a matter of some uncertainty.
You see, at the back of our row of houses, and off to the side to the right, is an old education building. Because Granville Park (a road, not a park) is on a hill, my house kind of looks out and up, being at the bottom of the Granville Park hill (and at the bottom of the Lewisham Hill Hill). At the end of the garden is a tall wall, with the "ground floor" of the derelict education building at the top of this wall. Finally, Lewisham has decided to abolish the derelict old education building, and is going to build a super new three-storey adult education "learning centre".
This could lead to the farcical situation of me looking out of the first-floor (second floor, to you Americans) kitchen window to see people sitting in the "creche area" about 50 feet away, at the same level as me. Confusing, I know.
I say "might" and "could", not because I have been reading too many 750-word safe harbor statements written at length by lawyers which basically claim that "nothing you have read above is necessarily true", but because it was hard to see from the architectural plans exactly how this building is going to sit on the Granville Park hill. It's a long-building, but it isn't stepped, despite being on a hill. Does this mean they will have to build a deep trench at one end? Or will the other end be put on stilts? I just don't know.
Anyway, one by-product may be that my view of the railway line will be cut off.
Paradoxically, when the whole thing is finished, it may actually increase the salability of the house, because newly-built buildings tend to look nicer than derelict ones. And, being an "adult learning centre", this means that (a) it can't suddenly become residential and (b) it won't be full of screaming kids at playtime.
Oh, and the place will have a cafe and other social things. Plus that creche, of course. No use to me, but popular with the ladies... or so I hear.
But I will miss my view of the railway line. The double-glazing keeps out most of the noise, and I like watching trains.
