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The Pub / Re: Heating on?
« Last post by Jurek on Today at 10:02:53 am »Still in single figures °C here. So heating deffo on.
It actually made me think of one of my own favourite (much shorter) rides, which includes a short but steep hill just outside Gloucester. Heading back south, you crest the hill and get your first view of the city, which is dead flat (as well as obviously much, much smaller than London) and I'm still struck how, in 2024, the tallest building is still the cathedral.
That may be a deliberate planning thing, like in that Canterbury that they have now, where the Arch Bish has some sort of veto over large erections and anagrams of "fuck".
I think that's something of an urban myth. The Cathedral authorities will probably be statutory consultees but they won't have a veto as such. The main protection for the Cathedral and the city skyline will come from the designation of World Heritage status, underpinned by the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 and the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas Act 1979, the various Planning Acts, together with the National Planning Policy Framework and Circular 07/09 and the council's Local Plan. There will be protected views of the Cathedral which will prevent high rise buildings from being built nearby.
For the last day and a half, I've had tinnitus in my right ear that sounds like a large diseasel engine idling in the distance. Happened last week too, and I spent a fair bit of time trying to locate the source of the noise before it randomly stopped.