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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.

The list of projects on the Railway Gazette link talks about “Peckham Rye congestion relief “ being delayed; is this the same as the redevelopment of the square in front? Or is it internal changes to the station? Is there separate funding for the two or is it all one project?

But you haven’t given any coherent reasons for questioning the research. Your obsession with the “Exclusive” tag on the Guardian article is just baffling. Take it up with the journalist or his subeditor. I came to the Guardian article via someone I follow on Bluesky (Christian Wolmar) posting a link. Despite being a Guardian reader every day for decades, I would never have come across the article otherwise. It never, as far as I can see, appeared on the Guardian home page or was run with any kind of prominence. So, the Graun is hardly trumpeting their exclusive. As the metrics show, it was available to other news outlets if they wished to pick it up.

In layman’s terms, I’d say: the war’s over, you lost. LTN’s result in cleaner air and safer streets; they are here to stay. Also, the BMJ Injury Prevention site also gives metrics for where the release of this research has been picked up and discussed: so far, 5 news outlets, 80 Bluesky threads and 22 X (Twitter) threads, both supportive and critical. All very transparent: https://bmj.altmetric.com/details/179050444

You certainly are. They’re not raisins, please don’t eat them.

Is it dark in that rabbit hole?

This is an interesting read: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/londons-low-traffic-zones-cut-deaths-and-injuries-by-more-than-a-third?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

The White Horse on Peckham Rye does various deals on evenings during the week: https://www.whitehorsepeckham.co.uk/drinks/

Don’t know about cafes but the Victoria and Montpelier pubs always have always encouraged people working during the day.

My spidey senses tell me sarcasm is dead.

“A bombshell…thrown into disarray…will send shockwaves through” Blimey. Where did the SN journo do her apprenticeship? The Daily Sketch? I thought writing like that went out with the Winter of Discontent. I believe nothing until I read it in the South London Press.

They posted on Twitter (@lb_southwark) yesterday morning to say that they were closed because they had no water. Thames Water has got the road up right opposite. I can’t find any updates, sorry.

Looks like there’s going to be a park lake bridge going spare soon. Dulwich should get first dibs on it; it’s what she would’ve wanted. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy8g98zxgg6o