What do you like about your neighbourhood? And what do you hate?
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What are the most important concerns about your local neighbourhood? What do you consider IS your neighbourhood - your road, an area including your local shops and schools, your village/town - Green Street Green, Pratts Bottom, Downe, Petts Wood, Chislehurst, particular post codes, or the whole of the Orpington area? What do you like about your neighbourhood? And what do you hate? Add your comments below, or to one of the topics already running, and we can start a debate or find out how to resolve any issues.
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Isaac
22/3/2012 01:38:05 am
Been an orpington resident my entire almost 40 yrs life yet oddly enough rarely go to the high street. Anyone thats been on sevenoaks way to get get there may obviously know why that is haha.
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Orpington Community
22/3/2012 05:45:26 am
Isaac - Thank you for your contribution and please let others know about this blog facility. I am also a local resident of more than 50 years - 33 in the same house! I do occasionally go into Orpington High Street but have not been in the Priory park for a few years and am distressed by what you have indicated. I will follow it up with our local councillors and post any new information on this website.
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Orpington Community
22/3/2012 09:16:39 am
Further to an enquiry made to local ward councillors, here is the response received from Councillor Tony Owen (Petts Wood & Knoll):
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Orpington Community
23/3/2012 04:19:11 pm
Our local ward councillors have been very helpful in responding to this query. Their replies are as follows:
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Paul Martin
23/9/2014 01:29:44 pm
I was wrong about the amount of water abstracted by Coca Cola from the borehole at Coca Cola, Sidcup, Kent. They take 4,364 cubic metres of groundwater for “Non-Evaporative Cooling” purposes and 203 cubic metres for Water Bottling each day.
Orpington Community
25/3/2012 07:54:34 am
Another response from a local councillor:
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Paul Martin
22/8/2014 01:06:27 am
Did anyone ask the Environment Agency what water abstraction licences existed and the effect on the source of water? My guess is that Coca-cola's Sidcup plant takes out over 1,000 cubic metres a year.
Janette
4/4/2012 02:15:53 pm
So can anyone confirm what has happened to the wildlife?
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Orpington Community
6/4/2012 11:50:28 am
Some comments have been received on the Facebook page here:
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Orpington Community
16/6/2012 11:46:11 am
Great news! Orpington Priory Ponds are full again and ducklings have been sighted.
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Paul Martin
22/8/2014 01:03:10 am
I take it that locals know there is a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Footscray that abstracts enough water to fill "over 42 million cases per year. We fill 5,000 bottles and cans every minute."? See http://www.cokecce.co.uk/about-us/sites-and-offices/sidcup.aspx
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Margot Rohan (Orpington Community)
22/8/2014 12:52:00 pm
On their website Coca Cola highlight their commitment to sustainability and reducing their water consumption by more recycling and better efficiency in their processes. I would not have thought that a bottling company would be drawing water for drinking direct from a river, so I suspect that Coca Cola is paying Thames Water for this resource, at the appropriate business rate. Regarding the River Cray, they state the following:
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Paul Martin
23/9/2014 01:28:09 pm
I was wrong about the amount of water abstracted by Coca Cola from the borehole at Coca Cola, Sidcup, Kent. They take 4,364 cubic metres of groundwater for “Non-Evaporative Cooling” purposes and 203 cubic metres for Water Bottling each day.
Paul Martin
23/9/2014 01:28:55 pm
I was wrong about the amount of water abstracted by Coca Cola from the borehole at Coca Cola, Sidcup, Kent. They take 4,364 cubic metres of groundwater for “Non-Evaporative Cooling” purposes and 203 cubic metres for Water Bottling each day.
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