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I seem to remember that the Dulwich Society was urging Southwark Council to take enforcement action to get the church to remove unauthorised alterations to this listed building and reinstate it to its previous condition. I don't know to what extent the Society was successful in this effort, if at all.

Don't worry turtle. I wasn't getting at you, though it may have read as if I was; if so, I apologise. And at least you are taking the subject seriously.

Turtle, you may be lucky enough to live in a dogpoo free street. However, people in Beauval, Woodwarde and Dovercourt Roads (to name but three roads) are less fortunate.

Why the "ooohhh", uncleglen? Is this what Kenneth Williams would have said if he was still alive to say it?

I would have thought that it was totally uncontroversial to express the view that it was thoroughly antisocial for people to allow their dogs to crap all over the pavement and then to fail to pick the faeces up. But one can never underestimate the ability of certain EDF posters to be snarky about people expressing such mainstream views while they attempt to demonstrate how clever they think they are or how toosmart they are. As I mentioned earlier in this thread, dog poo can cause blindness in children. It's not a subject for comedy.

This is a serious issue that should not be treated lightly. A friend has a son (now adult) who is blind in one eye as a result of catching toxocara canis from dog faeces when he was a child. Children stepping on dog faeces in the street are therefore at risk. I can confirm TheCat's observation that Beauval, Dovercourt and parts of Woodward road are particularly badly affected by this anti-social problem.

Another way to get to West Brompton - Overground from Denmark Hill to Clapham Junction and then another Overground to West Brompton.

Typical bloody Southwark. Gesture politics with no thought for its consequences.

I also agree with Jaywalker. As do my cats.

Agreed. Mental illness is not something to joke about or to treat lightly. If pop/fazer does this again, I shall refer his/her comments to the Administrator.

It's been scientifically proven that Elvis Presley is still alive and working for the Co-op in LL. I know it's true - I read it on the internet.

A **serious** thread? You must be joking! It's more like a satire on a typical EDF thread.

Blimey, is this thread still running? A certain poster need to go and have a little lie down.

I'm not surprised that Southwark have made such a stupid decision. My recent experience of majority group Councillors online and at meetings have left me with the impression that they just do what they want to do and anyone who doesn't like it can go forth and multiply.

It's all those people like me who have lived in ED only since 1987 who cause all this trouble. With their middle class tastes and their selfish ways. I hate people like me.

Local bread for local people - and "special" meat from the local butchers. This thread is EDF at its hilarious best - or worst?

Perhaps, edhistory, you think that it's a hoax story - a bit like "Elvis Presley seen in M&S in Lordship Lane". Or isn't it really the case that you are a WUM?

This issue has been in the news for over a year-:there has been at least one feature about it on the TV and countless newspaper articles. As a result we and numerous other cat owners have been keeping our pets in at night ever since. Is it really being suggested that this is an urban myth and that we are all deluded?

I'm very sorry to hear this, Growlybear, and hope that a certain contributor to this thread won't accuse you of "whingeing". At least in our case because of our original comments, and before the application reached the Sub Committee, we managed to get the Planning Officer to persuade the applicant to reduce their proposed rear extension on our side, so hopefully it won't be as bad as the original proposal would have been.

If other people aren't bothered to comment on my posts, then why were you bothered, malumbu? Was it to try to show how smart you think you are? The last time that I encountered snarky point scoring like yours was more than 50 years ago in the school playground. But the snarky people then had the excuse of being only 13 years old. What's your excuse?

In "The Ballad Of John And Yoko", Lennon sang: "Christ you know it ain't easy You know how hard it can be The way things are going They're going to crucify me". Well, if you publicly celebrate your honeymoon by inviting the press in to witness your "Bed-In" at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel and your demonstration of "bagism", you can't be surprised if people ridicule you. But of course Lennon equated himself with Christ, so he used the word "crucify".

Robert Elms, the journalist, once said that he hated "Imagine" more than any other song. This is because when it was first released he was a young boy from a poor family living in a Council flat in W London and it sickened him to hear one of the richest people in the UK singing about having "no possessions". The same John Lennon who had two apartments in the Dakota Building, one of the most expensive blocks in NYC, one of which was bought purely to provide a home for Yoko Ono's extensive collection of furs.

Intexas, we sent all the Councillors a lengthy objection dealing with the lack of evidence in the report to substantiate the Planning Officer's conclusions on many issues, including the 50% issue, and recommended that consideration of the report should be deferred for further information and consultation. As we had only a limited time to address the Sub Committee we invited members to ask us questions on our objections but there was a singular lack of response from Councillors who appeared to have decided what they wanted to do and who didn't therefore even go through the motions of looking interested. The calculation of the garden area comprised in the planning unit was complicated since the applicant who had a leasehold interest in the bottom flat and a shared freehold in the whole house had overstated the amount of back garden that they in fact owned or controlled - they in fact had NO interest, freehold and leasehold, in a substantial part of the back garden. As a result it was necessary for the applicant to amend the plans on at least three occasions, but even then the Planning Officer attached the wrong plan to the report! I am glad that you have made some serious points in your post rather than some irrelevant points about Russia, Syria or the like.

People who use baby like words such as "crimbo", "sarnie" and "prezzie" the whole time are usually pretty suspect and you, my friend, are no exception. I don't need to be reminded about the state of the world. I post about it regularly on Facebook and elsewhere. It's just that, as you may have noticed, Russia, Syria and Yemen are not in ED, or even Southwark, which is why I am posting in the ED Forum. Indeed, as you will also see, I originally posted this item on the ED Issues page, but for some reason it was sent to the Lounge I don't intend to apply for judicial review - there are no grounds to do so. However, if you were to read my post rather than insult me, you will have see that my complaint was about the disrespect with which the Sub Committee treated us. As you weren't there, you are in no position to tell me how they behaved. I have done something about it - I have in fact contacted a local newspaper about the seriously weird voting that took place. As for the motivation for standing as Councillor, my observation was that most of the Sub Committee members were seriously "up themselves", as indeed you are, my friend.

I remember that when the hypothetical extension of the Tube to ED was discussed some time ago on EDF, there were a few people who opposed the idea for spurious reasons. However, at the time there were no actual extension proposals. I believe that when the Clapham Junction to Surrey Quays section of the Overground was first proposed, there was a possibility that it would run at one point via Peckham Rye and ED, but this never came to fruition.