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flooding is not the only "excluded peril" identified by insurers ....
Wait till we get fracking maps and land areas above laterals
cant see those getting published to the general public ....might be a bit awkward ....
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Well the national park moratorium lasted all of 3 weeks
Fracking will be allowed to take place beneath national parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty, ministers have announced, despite committing to a ban in such areas less than three weeks ago.Energy companies will not be allowed to base their fracking operations on the ground within the protected zones but instead will be able to station their drilling rigs just outside and then drill horizontally underneath them.Preventing fracking beneath such areas would not be "practical" and would "unduly constrain" fracking firms, Amber Rudd, the energy minister said.
And in a real FU to the Welsh senydd over the 32 votes to 16 welsh fracking moratorium
The UK Government currently has control over shale gas licensing but the Welsh Government has responsibility, in theory, for any related planning applications. But any appeals against refusals are judged by the London-based Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales.And as IGas helpfully points out, these devolved planning powers render the Welsh Government helpless in protecting Welsh communities against any unwanted developments.
IGas: 'we're going ahead anyway'
The original IGas application to carry out test drilling at a site in Borras, near Wrexham was rejected by the democratically elected councillors on the local authority. The company then appealed against the decision, which went to the Westminster-controlled Planning Inspectorate, which overturned the earlier refusal.
An IGas spokesman told the Daily Post: "Nothing has changed in our plans to test drill for underground gas in Wrexham, which we will be continuing with.
"And if we were to put in a planning application in the future, which is rejected by Wrexham council, the appeal would go to the Welsh Secretary, which comes under Westminster, not the Welsh Government.
"The decision by the Welsh Government was not a moratorium. They can refuse applications on planning grounds, but they have no power to stop fracking."
As Sion Chavez, editor of Daily Wales, points out, "It's a situation which highlights the absurd consequences of having one country administered by a neighbouring country."
"Scotland and Northern Ireland each have their own completely separate Planning Inspectorates which allow their own governments to oversee any appeals. But in the case of Wales, it's the Planning Inspectorate for England and Wales."know your place plebs
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Whining thread about whining boomers..... Heh
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Well ...it appears that the Scottish , and after last nights vote ,and the Welsh assemblies are going to have a moratorium on Fracking for tight gas......its now going to be an English experiment...
Best of luck
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Yes ..for the 1% ....tough shit for the locals
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Not really surprised about Caerphilly or Wrexham. I live down the road from the one town and I've actually lived in the other. In neither place does the majority of the population have the money to shop at Tesco.
Aldi, on the other hand, says its store in Wrexham is trading at full capacity and it's intending to open another.
Morrison's and its free car park killed the Caerphilly metro
Lidls car park is continuously rammed since its bakery refit .. And now Aldi are coming back to Caerphilly after leaving it 4 years ago
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Why is the cut of under 30 ? .....
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I lived on them in the 90s. You can't be a nice bit of a hot puff.
I had an FB steak and kidney tinned pie the other week and that all it was ...puff , gravy and possibly some kidney bits , I wasn't too sure .......bugger all steak ...ligaments perhaps .....tasted the same as before though ..
Tin of mushy , a Bentos pie , and if I was really pushing the boat out .......a tin of new potatoes ......a student Sunday lunch of my 80's ...a 3 tin meal .....'kin lush that was
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Yeah .......politics are going the way of TV channels
"57 channels and nothing on !"
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Is it the tesco "extra's" (extra profit) causing some damage to tescos perceived reputation ?....they should have a flat price range across all their stores .
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I think the saying goes, good enough for a renter but I wouldn't live in it.
Windows in and weathertight at £200 k...... a four bedroomed detached house in the space of next doors driveway.....damn ...!
Bet the seller is quite fiendishly good at Tetris ,
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I couldn't understand why they just didn't run a dredger over there ...and cut a dock ...build the " house " in a boatyard , and tow it into position ?
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Eagles face ...50 shades of red ....
Edit ...
Here
QT: Lord Freud's £2/hr pay disabled comment (16Oc:
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Large section of the government report was redacted particularly of the section dealing with local house prices ....small wonder why
70% hpc ...daily fail .....sorry
Fracking threat wiped £535,000 off my home's value http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2733336/Fracking-threat-wiped-535-000-home-s-value-Five-bedroom-home-valued-190-000-drilling-site-proposed-nearby.html @MailOnline
EU risk assessment on fracking
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This sort of blatant rigging really isn't going to do them any favours. Do the political class not realise why they are loathed? There was a blog article in the Spectator that had a few paragraphs that elucidated my views well. I doubt I’m alone among English readers of this magazine in having felt uncomfortable with our last issue. ‘Please stay with us’ was a plea I found faintly offensive to us English. Not only did it have a plaintive ring, but there seemed to be something grovelling, almost self-abasing, in the pitch. Why beg? A great many Scots have wanted to leave the Union; and by arranging a referendum Westminster has asked Scotland to make up her mind. Let her, then. When did England become a petitioner in this affair?‘Please stay’ implied that the Scots were minded to go and we were pleading with them to relent of their intention. Yet I haven’t thought of this referendum as a bid to change Scotland’s mind, but as an exercise to discover a nation’s wishes. Any moment now, we shall know what these were. Clearly, the rulers do not think that's what this referendum is at all. Though I suppose that includes Salmond.
I asked on that thread "why wasn't the speccie sitting on the fence ?" ...my post got deleted ....a first for me in the coffee house
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Outside zone 3
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Not just London
US police are buying Apache gunships ....?
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epic
student loan debt collectors
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No ...2007 felt more certain ....don't feel we are there yet .
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Never noticed them before , probably driven past thinking it a single 3 bedroom
Stairwells 25% of the space ....
Why not have 2 flats per floor and an external combined staircase ?
Might be able to make it a two bed luxury cluster.
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Think I've seen it all ....a cluster house..... one seemingly 3 bed av sized house quartered into 4 seperate residences on a plot barely bigger than the foundation footprint.
Gets rid of that challenging back door and garden design issue.
http://www.allenandharris.co.uk/buy/property-details?r=BRY103526
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Offhand from yesterdays shop at lidl
£2 for 2ltr 5.3% dry cider that's quite quaffable ....same for pear cider
400g peanuts £1.19
10 necterines 89p
480g pork loin bonelesschops £2.29
Green pesto 190g 99p same for the red pepper pesto too
15 medium eggs £1.29
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A Lidl I frequent (caerphilly) is having an extension added on within their own car park , considering this was a custom build lidl from scratch and fairly recent too , turnover must be good !
Oh Ffs - Brown Wants 'public-Private' Oil Fields
in House prices and the economy
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But this is the Tory business model for fracking
And its foreign private ....by the way
So what happened to the great N sea oil income funding the utopia of the socialist republic of Scotland under President Salmond the first ...?