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Hi. The last two/ three weeks we have been woken several times a night by a random burglar alarm going off. It's somewhere at the Goose Green end of Lordship Lane, which makes me think it's one of the businesses, although I guess it could be a residential address. I haven't yet managed to drag myself out of bed and onto the street at 3am (or 1am or 4am or 6am - it's usually several times a night) to check it out, but does anybody else have any idea where the noise emanates from? Yours gratefully!

I'll bear the peeing suggestion in mind. However, the foxes are out on the street, and I'm not sure what fellow ED residents would make of us relieving ourselves on the public thoroughfare! Tarot - does the cubs' playfulness last long? When will they go away and get down to the serious business of eating pet rabbits etc?

Is anybody else who lives in the Archdale/ North Cross/ Nuffield/ Crathew/ Frogley Road area getting fed up with foxes making a racket at night? Before the animal rights brigade get on my case, you should try being woken up by them almost every night for a month. I've peered bleary eyed out of my window on numerous occasions - there's three of them and they're playing/fighting rather than shagging (so at least we're spared the murdered baby noise). A friend suggested a pack of hounds (it was a joke, Disney lovers!!) but can anybody suggest a more humane way of getting them to shut up/ go away? Please don't say just put up with it...

those of you who have been affected by loud night noise/ anti-social behaviour on Lordship Lane might be interested in this thread on licensing hours on Lordship Lane - http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,505123,page=1. You think Fri/Sat nights are a pain, just wait till you get it on Thursday and Sunday nights too...

If anybody is thinking of writing to the council (you can email them too at [email protected]) this might be useful. I think the reasons for objecting on prevention of nuisance grounds are quite clear. However, you could also object on prevention of crime and disorder grounds. According to Metropolitan Police figures, reported crime in the two sub-wards at the north end of Lordship Lane, where the Adventure bar is situated, is dramatically higher than in any of the neighbouring sub-wards - as much as five times as high in some cases - and they are the only sub-wards where crime is on the rise. In sub-ward E01003953 the Metropolitan Police cited 19 notifiable incidents in May 2010, going up to 26 notifiable incidents in June 2010 the latest month for which figures are currently available. In sub-ward E01003952 there were 22 notifiable incidents in May, up to 23 in June. These figures are available on the Met Police's website - have a look on http://maps.met.police.uk/. Compare the two sub-wards with all the neighbouring ones and you'll see that there is a significant problem. Presumably extending the licensing hours of the Adventure bar - and encouraging the Boho bar to follow suit - would only make this worse.

Of course people enjoy going out on a Friday or Saturday night - I do too when I can get a babysitter! - but like Madger am extremely anxious about the late hours being extended to a Thursday/Sunday. PK - Adventure Bar are applying until 0230 on those nights, not 1230. There's a sign saying as much in their window. I don't want to appear like an old fuddy duddy, but the noise at closing time is unecessary - and keeps the whole family awake - so I'm going to write to the council. Anybody that doesn't believe it's that bad should come to my house at 2.30am at weekends and see/hear for themselves!

I'm with Madger on this one. I understand the benefits of not having to travel too far for a drink - the "normal" pubs (as opposed to the new bars) are one of the joys of East Dulwich - but the effects of the excess drinking on the rest of us really are unbearable. I'm sure you don't stand screaming in the middle of the road, smash a bottle over your mate's head and then vomiting your chips up all over the pavement when you go out for a drink Georgia! Sorry if I'm a little cranky - must be the sleep deprivation... Thanks for your suggestion Edanna - I will do. Definitely going to write to the council too though. Sorry Georgia!

Oh what a nightmare. I'll definitely write to the council. We live on one of the streets just off Lordship Lane and I just dread Friday/Sat nights at the moment. I'm not exactly past it myself, and not averse to people enjoying themselves at the weekend, but every weekend we get people pouring out of those two bars at closing time - fighting, shouting/screaming, smashing bottles etc. It usually goes on for about an hour (until 3am), before they finally get on a bus/ get moved on by police/ pass out in the gutter (!). The thought of Thursday and Sunday nights going the same way is terrifying. We have children and busy jobs and it would be so awful to have that sort of disruption on a work night. This is a residential area with lots of working people and families - councillors please take note! We all love the villagey/community feel of East Dulwich and Adventure Bar and Boho bar are spoiling it. Help!!

Hi. We've just moved to the area and need to register with a local GP - we live off Lordship Lane at the Goose Green end. Our last doctor (in Lambeth) had the most amazing midwives attached to the surgery. When I went into labour one of them came round to the house to check me out, stayed with me until I was ready to go into hospital, then would have come with me and delivered my baby except by that point we'd decided just to stay at home, so he called a colleague and looked after us until our baby arrived. Brilliant - the best experience ever. Do any of the East Dulwich surgeries have the same??? Thanks.