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gm99 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello All, > > I would be interested to hear any first hand views > of The Villa nursery, particularly since the > expansion. I was chatting to a parent whose kids > have been there relatively recently and got some > slightly negative views citing turnover of heads > and rather lacklustre staffing. > > Many thanks, > > gm What a funny way to request people's opinions. Surely it would be better to simply ask for people to give you their thoughts - without referring to one person's hearsay - or are you out to deliberately solicit a negative response? Choosing a nursery is very much based on personal preference, choice and suitability to a child. I would suggest it's better to actually go in and visit the nursery in question - see it working, watch the staff, see the children in action, and then make up your own mind. As a Villa parent I would recommend it wholeheartedly. And in my opinion it is a fabulous stepping stone before school. If you go and visit I think you'll be hard pushed to describe the staff as 'lack lustre', and I'm very confident you'd want to get your child a place there.

Southwark Council did not consult with any of the neighbouring roads before the Lucas Gardens CPZ was introduced (and objections that were forwarded to the council were rejected). Hence why we are hacked off with the impact that it has had on our day-to-day lives. To be honest - yes - I have no problem paying for a visitor, tradesperson to park. And anyway - it is being proposed that the CPZ parking zone will be for a two hour slot (e.g. 12-2pm). Basically the roads on the Lucas Gardens CPZ border are affected by commuters going to work at Kings College Hospital, Camberwell Arts College, Sunshine House, and the new employment agency on Peckham Road. The objectors appear to be coming from the other end of the proposed zone. They honestly have NO IDEA what it is like for us.

zelda100 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > Most people I've spoken to around here are against > it - mainly because say there isn't a problem and > if there is, it's at night, which the restrictions > wouldn't help with. I'd really like to know which road you live on?! We're on the borders with the current Lucas Gardens CPZ (Gairloch / Linnell / Shenley) and our lives have been made hell by this Lucas Gardens CPZ. There IS a problem here - hence why residents have lobbied the council for a consultation (this isn't some council initiative - but one driven by residents). I'm at home with a small child and there is no way I can use my car during the day, unless I want to park way down Lyndhurst Grove / Talfourd / Bushey (which is where I'm guessing you live). And visitors, tradesmen etc? Forget it - they can't get anywhere near us. Try feeling as trapped as I do at the moment. I suggest you walk around our streets during the hours of 9.30am - 5.30pm - and you will see cars parked bumper to bumper, including dangerously at junctions. And I also suggest you take a look at the windscreens of these vehicles - as a LOT of them display resident parking permits for zones far out - suggesting (as the Council's own research has shown) that a HUGE percentage of the cars are coming from out of the area. So we are ALL FOR a CPZ - and I think you will find a lot of other residents are too. Beggars belief that you can think there isn't a problem.

Looking forward to hearing what you get up to on your Summer hols. Please keep us posted!

Is that FunPod for real? And at ?130?! Sorry - but I have to say it really reminds me of one of those bedside cabinets on the post natal ward at Kings.

Mmmm... creatively written while looking through rose tinted glasses. Behind every great property page there is a great estate agent. Of course it's the sort of thing the gullible lap up. The thoughts of women cycling up and down in all their flowery organic loveliness, and rosy cheeked children playing in all the open spaces is a great way to 'talk-up' buying a poky, over priced semi on a crowded Victorian street in a minor South East London suburb, with dodgy transport links. The journalistic equivalent to Harry & Paul's "I Saw You Coming".