PeckhamRose

I have just returned from a trip down Rye Lane shopping and opticians and stuff. Whilst there I saw two Community Wardens (to give them their correct titles) and approached them about the subject de jour. They said - if you pay within ten days it's ?50. They are not stupid. They told me they do not carry money around and so the fine was issued in the form of a ticket (like parking ticket) and if the person gives a false name or address they follow it up and obviously they are good at recognising faces. They approach people who are not looking like they will attempt to kill them. If there is trouble they will call the police. If the police don't come because it's not a priority there's nothing they can do. If you are asked for your name and address by someone in authority EVEN a community warden it is an offence to lie. Clearly you did not and you were fined. For the information on Police Ward Panels of which I am a member and anyone can be in their locale if they can be arsed, you should come along and state your case. Phone the safer neighbourhood team numbers given above and ask them for details of the one in your area. Admin: I started a topic a while ago which I hoped would be a useful topic listing all the important such phone numbers of safer neighbourhood teams, police support community officers, ward panels and community councils and so on and hoped everyone would add to it and put relevant numbers in their phones. Could that topic be "stuck" to the top of the forum please? It just might be useful, that's all. Good luck in your appeal, seanmlow.

Don't be naive. They do. I've witnessed it happening too. *Bob* Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know if they're sending teams of > RedJackets into Peckham and Camberwell to clamp > down on littering?

If that is the case then the answer to your original question is: No. ?75 was not fair. And thus I stand corrected.

No idea. Just saying I was at a council meeting where the environmental team discussed their work. And that I hate litter. Don't you? Clearly you thought it acceptable or you would not have done it. No idea about how much to charge. I am not a councillor or council officer having to make that tough decision. I am the crazy sort of person who will go up to kids I see on the street dropping stuff and literally, politely, whilst smiling and relating to them, ask them to pick it up. Sometimes they do and tell me they realise they were wrong. If they're in a group I chat with them. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. You can't tell the longer effect on discussing it. And sometimes they tell me to fcuk off and so that day I lost. So what. But in your case a ?75 fine worked, didn't it. I hope! I doubt anyone reading this will drop their cancerstickbutts or anything on the pavement, and we'll tell others in turn. The word will spread. seanmlow Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Pechkam Rose - you think ?75 is what the fine > should be for dropping a cigar then? > > How do you justify this amount?

Nero, "They" do do other stuff as well all the time. I remember attending a council meeting about this ages ago - and the environmental team were discussing how they go out and, in their shifts, get the registration numbers of cars where they witness people inside throw their rubbish out the window, amongst other things. And I can't blame them for going out in twos! One reason is for evidence, and the other is for support if someone gets physical. I HATE litter crime, and yes, they DO report all the other things you mention. Nero Wrote: "They ought to be doing other stuff, like reporting grafitti, getting overgrown trees and shrubs cut down, reporting dog dirt etc. There are other thigns they can do."

Working. One day, one day ...

I suppose this is an advert as I had a small part to play, but I profit not from telling you about it, and it is "a good thing". Tonight at Clapham Cinema TAKING LIBERTIES (12A) Followed by a Q&A session with director CHRIS ATKINS Tuesday 26 February, 6.30 This is a film that purports to show the shocking truth about the erosion of our fundamental civil liberties by Tony Blair's government. It argues that the five pillars of liberty - the right to liberty, to privacy, to a fair trial and to free speech, plus the prohibition of torture - have been systematically destroyed by New Labour in a climate of fear generated by the government and the media. Tickets ?8.50 / ?6.50 Members http://cityscreen.newman.artsalliancemedia.com/static/newsletter/latest/cph.html

Why should I? You have their email address above. YOU do it. Dodo1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes quite agree with advice from Val Shawcross. my > neighbours and I were a pain in the a**e to our > cllrs until they dealt with a similar issue. > Whilst you're at it can you get them to deal with > the junction of Court Lane & Lordship Lane!

If you change your mind about going elsewhere, take the time to enjoy London. It's massive and so fabulous. Indulge yourself!

Well at LEAST get a free dinner. Check out what the extras seem to be dressed like and if you can get to look like them then turn up at the catering van. Film crews dinners is always fab!

Hi - just spent time looking for this old topic because I raised it with Valerie Shawcross / Fiona Colley and got a reply. Below is my question and her reply. "Dear Ms Shawcross With all the dangerous junctions and unnecessary traffic lights, what can you do to make junctions safer for road users (pedestrians included). When turning right at traffic lights it can be very dangerous exercise forcing/encouraging more and more road users to feel they have to turn right on a red light or they don't get to their destination at all! We have worked so hard to try and get TfL and Southwark to do something about one such junction of East Dulwich Road and both sides of Peckham Rye, SE22 and SE15 side, by installing a roundabout and zebra crossings instead but they have simply ignored us. Streetmap link below http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=534478&y=175535&z=1&sv=534478,175535&st=4&ar=Y&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf Reply from Ms Shawcross: "I know this location and will again raise the issue with the Council - the local Labour Councillors have previously tried to get this issue resolved... It is something the Council can apply to TfL for funding to implement, but it is up to the Council to make the decision to apply for support to do it. We will let you know the Council's response. Valerie." Maybe people could email her regularly to check progress? It's all very well moaning about things in here where very few people who could do something actually read it, everyone who cares should bombard their councillors with emails and letters and so on. They may still ignored us but at least we know we tried. I'll get me coat....

Good luck, writing is great, rewriting is where the real work lies, and selling it is hell and a-whole-nother business indeed. Writer friends and I regularly have to wait upwards of 2 months for responses from literary agents or anyone we've sent our scripts to, yet when I had my play produced last year I sent it Monday and he called me Wednesday. Unheard of! "Yeah your right Steve!" Don't give them any excuse to get irritated by sloppy spelling though! Also, may literary agents or literary managers send their scripts out to professional readers to read for them. These people are usually straight out of uni with a lit degree with little experience of real life yet, so beware! But best of luck and I hope it goes fabulously!! Let us know!

To all the Nunhead folk in here: I received a reply to some email I sent Valerie Shawcross and asked her what she was doing for Nunhead. She replied: "Is this a question to me ( Fiona works for me) or is it a question to Fiona in her position as a Nunhead Councillor.....? Is there something that you would like me to attend to over and above the pedestrian crossing issue..?" SO write to her with your issues. I have suggested Nunhead needs some of the shopfronts sorted out and of course a secured motorcycle parking bay, as well as they need to stop forcing all the traffic on to that one road by allowing the traffic to go up other roads to get to its destinations. For example that ridiculous one way system outside the Pyrotechnists. Here are their email addresses. Don't whinge in here, whinge to them below! [email protected] [email protected]

Just as an idle matter of interest and curiosity, having done a First Aid for Workplace type course, Sainsburys would or should have entered the Incident in their Accident Book. Are they saying it did not happen? And yes, you lot are mean, but funny. Very funny.

CHERRY ORCHARD part of Chekov season at Lion & Unicorn 42 Gaisford Street London NW5 2ED http://www.streetmap.co.uk/newmap.srf?x=529083&y=184885&z=0&sv=NW5+2ED&st=2&pc=NW5+2ED&mapp=newmap.srf&searchp=newsearch.srf MadWorld74 Wrote: > I still haven't recovered from playing Mme > Ranyevskia when I trained at drama school. I auditioned but failed to get that very role. But I still recommend it. I'm not bitter, me. I'm definitely going. Scroll down to the bottom of the theatre company's website to see the details. http://www.actprovocateur.net/home.html

I'm with Sean but also my attitude is that it's not a congestion charge anymore anyway, it's a dirty-fuel-BIG-car-charge. If all the cars became hybrids (and even hybrids use the petrol bit when in the CC area) then the congestion charge area would be ... congested!

If Val Shawcross is upset about it, then we can all breathe a sigh of relief. http://www.valshawcross.com/index.php?id=331 No, wait, that's rubbish, little will change. Done deal etc.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can't park without a ?400 permit That'll be cars, then. Motorcycles park for free. East Dulwich is crap because it's basically one road with lots of small shops. And that's all.

East Dulwich Near Dulwich Nunhead Peckham Rye and Brixton Innit though! (Bugger, should have put it in East Dulwich not Lounge. Oh well... maybe you could Haiku different areas!)

It's south east London for cryin'ahtlahd.

Got up late, as usual. Checked and dealt with emails. Rode motorcycle to Barnes to see some lying client. Rode back via Sainsbury's shopping and visit to Post office, both in Clapham because motorcycle park round the corner made it convenient to do so there. Thought, "All that money doing out the post office in Clapham and the queue's still out the door." Rode home, did heaps of paperwork while half watching Gosford Park and dealing with post. Thought, "God it's great being self-employed." Thought. Thinking. Pressing "Post Message".

Doodles Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Blimmey. Went away for a couple of days (it was a > big bun) and missed all the excitement. Were any > of those blank messages worth reading? > Ditto! All that fun missed! All I can comment on is the "It's not the size it's what you do with it" post. Which of course is rubbish. Ahhahahaahahaha Off to cook a big fatty fried breakfast. Sad to read someone posted a nasty private message to someone though. So is Nuala really slim and fit then? If you're really fat you have more space to put lots of patches on I suppose. Breakfast frying nicely....

No-one Realises When Its Practically Perfect

The Post office is a service. Thus it should not be a limited company. As someone said earlier, even the Americans have saved their postal service.

The Post office is a treasure and the Post office Manager is the chair of the local Ward Police Panel of which I am a member and also the woman from the DIY shop on the corner. But there are nearly always queues when I go in the PO and since the PO at Cheltenham Road closed it got worse, and now that the Melbourne Grove one, and possibly the Nunhead one is closing.... Love Beauty Plus too tho I only go in there for manicures for posh occasions. Co-Op (to return to thread) is great and friendly. Since most food is in packaging the occasional grubby floor is acceptable. They earn rubbish money and are competing with the Tescos down the road.