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I think the whole area is child friendly and as others have said, they just have different vibes which you need to assess for yourself, and based on what you like. I don’t know how much of a concern this is for now but it’s amazing how quickly you need to start thinking about secondary school and I think the options start to get less straightforward than at primary school age. The charter schools in east and north Dulwich are popular but have tight catchments. I don’t know much about other schools. If you want to get your kids settled into a primary and keep them there, it’s just worth thinking about. Good luck.

In my experience it depends on the nature of the request. If you’re asking them to remove a flytip it works, if you’re asking for a permanent increase in resources (which more bins is), they fob you off and you need councillor support. When you flag a bin that is routinely overflowing, the standard response is that they can’t empty more frequently it because they don’t have the resources to do so.

I’d go straight to the councillors; the people who work in the environmental team tend to fob you off on things like this. They also removed the bin outside coop and the coop have put a bucket outside to compensate but it’s permanently overflowing. And I don’t think any of these changes are temp, as someone else said, they’ve cut right back on resources and probably don’t want to have to empty so many bins as overflowing bins prompt complaints which show up on their stats. People are probably less likely to complain about dispersed litter on the ground than overflowing bins.

Southwark has definitely deprioritised this agenda and whilst a lot of people will cite ?funding cuts?, from what I can see, they don?t compare well to comparable boroughs, so there is an element of choice here. When you have the basics not being covered off, like bins overflowing in the same spot every week, this tells me that they?ve accepted this situation and have very little appetite to do anything- I?m fairly sure no one ever gets fined for littering in Southwark.

Waseley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is this any different to people dropping their > McDs carton in the street? A shame that we all > don't take more personal responsibility but hardly > isolated to the Gala. I'd love McDs to be > responsible to ensure that punters dispose of > their waste, and Walkers for their crisp packets > etc etc.... I think the authorities would love to be able to pass the costs of litter onto the source businesses but this is obviously a lot more complex to do in most cases- whereas it?s pretty straightforward to ask that a contained, green site is restored to its original state after a single event. The Welsh government is in fact looking to pass costs on more widely: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-politics-60968570 Just because it?s harder to do this for the likes of McDonalds, should we level down our expectations on events like Gala? Litter costs tax payers and the environment hugely- why should all these costs be met by the public purse and volunteers who give up their time to clean up after other people who can?t be bothered to clean up after themselves?

Dogkennelhillbilly Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's a horrendous amount of rubbish. > > The cigarette butts aren't biodegradable (it's not > all paper) let alone the ring pulls and cable > ties. So many smokers don?t seem to register their butts as being litter. We need this to be a national campaign, not just Bristol:

Great, just what the world needs! Another Lordship Lane Estate Agent and all their cars taking up parking spaces on the surrounding roads. teddyboy23 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Lila's is closing a estate agent will be taking > the unit .

There are a lot but no more than pre-pandemic as far as I can tell. This happened to me a few years ago, I noticed then couldn?t stop noticing it. And now I?ve got used to it again.

It?s a good point you raise Spartacus, personally I am happy to see the high street thrive. On Megan?s specifically, I think not getting feedback or the chance to respond to it is a risk to their business and as I would like them to succeed, I?ve left specific feedback on Trip Advisor. I also have a concern about how many businesses are pushing out so much single use packaging so I think it?s good for them to feel pressure to keep working on the sustainability of the model.

Not for the planet! I dread to think how many single use cups ED generates each week, we seem to have totally forgotten about reusable cups since COVID! P.s. I realise this isn?t what you meant by sustainable 😀

I agree that more bins are needed but I also think the council needs to be braver about asking people to do their bit i.e. don't bring tonnes of stuff into the park for picnics etc and expect that you can always have a bin available for the waste it produces. And even if is a bit annoying that the bin is full, that's not an excuse to dump bags of rubbish next to the bins/ram stuff in so stuff falls over the floor (especially if there is an empty bin nearby you could use, which there often is). When the default is 'I will dispose of rubbish properly, as long as there are plentiful, empty bins available, at the exact point I want to need them' we will always have problems in the parks as they can never seem to do enough to stay on top of demand at very busy times. But the council won't say this because they are too scared of being criticised for not emptying the bins enough. So I think they also need to hear the message that people want other people to take some responsibility and it's ok to ask them to do so.

Agree, my experience of the food in DV was underwhelming, and I?ve never been back. Hopefully they will up their game.

Food bags- Co-op definitely take them, I take all my soft plastic there now, it?s really handy

St John?s hospice shop on Lordship Lane take them, I usually just drop them off and let them no it?s recycling so they don?t waste time going through the bag to check. It?s really easy if you live nearby and no risk that you turn up and it?s full (which can be a problem with the bins).

Weird, hope you get a helpful response!