Jules-and-Boo

London's going high rise anyway - a number of super tall buildings approved. If we need homes, it's preferable to build them on sites already developed rather than on green land. We need homes - yet there is resistance when it's on your doorstep. Where would be good as an alternative?

ULEZ is successful. My money is not on Susan Hall. She doesn’t have much apart from picking things she thinks are unpopular

It's also a factor of parenting and how children are brought up.

there are cellos for rent online if that would help?

We need a reduction in cars. For that, we need better alternative options and ( not or) the public to grasp the problems that driving causes. LTN May move traffic, but couple with lower cars this would work. ULEZ is a different approach, and works. There is a real issue with people who think that driving everywhere is fine and is a right. Some people need to drive. Not everyone. The Mayoral Strategy in place has achieved London being the city with the lowest carbon emissions. That’s a fantastic achievement. There is more to do and we are all responsible for doing our part.

You could look at it differently and say the number of cars is the problem and people driving when there are other means of travel. I welcome fewer cars and less pollution and carbon impact.

With the Mayoral election coming up, I've yet to see anything specific from Susan Hall - other than she will look for more money and make savings. Where do you think the money she has pledged for the £200m injection into the police will come from? thin air? removal of fares freeze? council tax increases? While ULEZ is unpopular, the aim is to reduce air pollution and the current Mayor is making very good ground in getting London to be Carbon Neutral by 2030. Do we really want a tory government AND a tory mayor? that's rhetorical.

Hence “quotes”

Funding has been cut, that’s not disputed. Councils should have balanced budgets, and they should prioritise what they spend money on. The £11.5m “waste of money” is unfortunate but let’s not forget it happens on a wider and larger scale… Boris spent £50m on consultants to design the Garden Bridge, and the government have handed out huge contracts to private companies. There is clearly a bigger problem than Southwark asking for crowdfunding.

Southwark? Or the Government?

Thanks Archie,

Probably not, Alice. Never mind

It is beautiful but it’s only how it’s been done. It’s not structurally amazing and the garden is basic. There are some fab interior designers in Dulwich, you can make your own home look like a show home thing is, it’s foreign investors that are also in the market, or did you think that all rented properties are owned by locals?