Insuflo

No, face to face surgeries are held by the councillors in most wards, including Dulwich Wood, Dulwich Village, Peckham Rye, Rye Lane, Peckham etc: https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0

It’s a flat fee levy payable by guests staying in hotel and hostel rooms, so added to the bill. This already happens in Manchester and Liverpool ( I think in Liverpool it’s a percentage, so the more expensive rooms pay more). I read somewhere that Edinburgh is doing this next year? Charges of this kind are becoming common around the world. I think it absolutely makes sense for Southwark and other boroughs are bound to follow.

I’ve tried to find details of surgeries being held before but not found any. The section of the Southwark website that details councillors’ surgeries says that: Your locally elected Councillors will be holding a roving surgery programme in the Dulwich Hill area to enable residents to raise any local issues. Residents will be notified by letter in advance of the date, time and specific streets/roads where the surgery will take place. Surgeries are not held in August, on Bank Holidays, Easter or in Christmas Week. Dulwich Hill Ward Councillors I’ve never seen any notification of surgeries being held, including on the DH councillors’ social media accounts. I don’t know if any other residents of Dulwich Hill have? Neighbouring wards all seem to have times and places posted for surgeries.

MaryT, I’ve contacted the Dulwich Hill councillors several times in recent years, always copying them both in. I have never had an acknowledgment from Jon Hartley (not even an automated response or out-of-office) nor had any response or engagement from him regarding the issue raised. On each occasion, only Maggie Browning responded (she uses an out-of-office if she is away). The last time, I received no response from either for 3 months, until Maggie Browning emailed me to apologise for not responding and asking if the problem had been resolved.

Grow up and learn to spell.

The Caring, Sharing Co-op, as was: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/jul/12/co-op-brighton-shop-owners-fight-against-eviction#img-1 This is well off-topic I know: but it’s a story about a woman who has quite literally had her shop lifted by the Co-op.

I do not see that happening in DV, in Southwark or in London as a whole. Not remotely. If any parties capitalise on discontent with this government, it will be the Greens and the Lib Dems.

Oh now I see. It’s next year that the righteous wrath of the embattled motorist will be felt? Righto.

So, what you’re saying is that LTNs were not a significant issue in DV ward in 2022? I’m happy with that. But it utterly undermines your position that LTNs are hugely unpopular.

What a bizarre summary. It does suggest that you know what was in the hearts and minds of the 3.5k voters who supported pro-LTN candidates in DV in 2022.

Spin? I stated the actual election results. How on earth would I dig up a 2022 Southwark Labour manifesto, presuming such a thing existed? If it does, I’m certain that few voters in DV ward took the time to read it. They would, however, had read leaflets that were delivered, saw posters, talked to canvassers, read and heard local media. And irrespective of what was or wasn’t in any local Labour manifesto, the Conservatives definitely made opposing LTNs central to their campaign across the borough and London-wide. And lost badly. For clarity, I am not a member of any party. And I live in Dulwich Hill ward.

Ah. So, LTNs in Dulwich Village ward were not an issue in the local elections in Dulwich Village ward in 2022? It was all about getting the Tory government out in the General Election, which happened two years later? If LTNs were not an issue in 2022, it’s perhaps because there was no great opposition to them. Any serious discontent would surely have been reflected in votes for anti-LTN candidates. But the Conservative vote went down by 6% (over the 2018 result) and the Labour/ Greens vote rose by over 7.5%.

I am truly loath to engage with your petty line of argument. Nevertheless, in the 2022 local elections, Dulwich Village ward returned 2 Labour councillors. On a 60.6% turnout, approximately 70% of the votes were cast for pro-LTN candidates (Labour, Lib Dem & Greens). I’m presuming that the Lib Dems were pro-LTNs, I don’t recall but even if we exclude them, the majority of votes in DV ward were taken by Labour and Greens candidates combined. In a respectably high turnout for a council election. In an election that various shouty types touted as a referendum on LTNs. So, fairly bleedingly (sic) obviously, the majority of people in Dulwich Village support LTNs.

The link below has further information suggesting that the shop demolition and square redevelopment is funded separately from the station upgrades, so will go ahead: https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/peckham-rye-stations-step-free-upgrade-has-been-put-on-hold-82360/

Thank you. Exclusive to all Papers, as they say in Private Eye. The story has now been covered by the Evening Standard but they also have a story about LU offering the branding of the entire Waterloo & City Line to commercial sponsors; they are running this as “Exclusive”, despite the fact that I read it on a London blog last week. They claim it to be “the latest cash generating initiative” despite it being widely touted when I was working for LU 25 years ago. I choose not to see a hidden conspiracy in this discrepancy.