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Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I also suspect that there is an element of > snobbery involved. How come?

I thought they were all located in the 7th circle of hell. Pretty sure you can get there via the circle line in rush hour.

...and it's really ugly when whole streets have their front walls taken down and their garden concreted over. What about visual amenity?

I don't get why they're allowed. By installing a drop kerb, which no one can then park in front of, you're basically transferring a publicly available, on-street parking space into private ownership. Why would we, as a community want to privatise the highway in that fashion? If every house did it, then what would happen to non-residents, visitors, or tradesmen wishing to park on the street?

hmmm, not hugely insipiring: http://www.gssarchitecture.com/?page_id=2549

The simplest answer is to close off a small number of back streets to bikes only, in order to create the cycle 'spine'. Of course it would take real political leadership (those on the roads effected would cry blue murder).

I hadn't given secondaries much thought (my kids still little), but now that I do, I must admit that the idea of sending my daughters to a girls only school isn't all that appealing. Wonder why they don't merge the two to make a co-ed?!

Why's this in the lounge?

I would be interested as to why (as some have suggested) local take up has been poor? Is this true? Do the kids tend to travel in to Harris from further a field?

sillywoman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What's 'the grid'? Just meant the grid of narrow streets that make up a large part of East Dulwich - I was thinking the area between Lordship Lane and CPR.

Around the spring, when the market was soaring, a small number of properties in Ed started selling for over a million. I think this encouraged quite a few would be sellers into the market, shocked at the how much their houses may now be worth. Supply is up as a result and the frenzied panic of the spring (when there were lots of buyers competing for few properties) has dropped back (along with prices). A number of 4 bedders have now come on the market at around 800k. Still a high price but at least a couple of hundred thousand less then even a month ago. I suspect things will level off now, for a while, (with maybe a brief pick up in the spring again, next year). Fundamentally, there is a huge issue in terms of affordability and no longer such an issue with supply.

I started as an interloper (and a lurker).. Gawd that sounds horrible.. From t'other side of hill (SE5). Now a genuine ED resident however.

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The average price of a terraced property in London > is of ?569,906 > http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices-in-my-area > /marketTrendsTotalPropertiesSoldAndAveragePrice.ht > ml?searchLocation=SE22 > > The average price of a terraced property in SE22 > is 757,600 > > http://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices-in-my-area > /marketTrendsTotalPropertiesSoldAndAveragePrice.ht > ml?searchLocation=SE22 > > I can't find the original map but to me, that > suggest a significant difference between average > and SE22. However, I am happy to agree to > disagree. I suspect that if you looked at the average price in zones 1-2 though, ED would come out towards the cheaper end.

I wonder whether we ought to have some "Cyclists. Ride central on narrow roads." signs up on 'the grid'.

I saw an unpleasant confrontation this morning on Heber Road. A 4X4 was driving very close to a cyclist whilst the driver sounded their horn and shouted at them to 'get over to the left'. The Cyclist was shouting back 'are you trying to run me over?' which upset my children (who I was walking to nursery) - as they took this literally to mean that the lady was trying to kill the cyclist. The point is, that I see this a lot. I cycle myself (as well as drive) and the 'grid' of East Dulwich has some very narrow streets. I know how often cars pass very close to cyclists and in turn, force them to pass too close to parked vehicles. What made this whole incident even more ridiculous, was that there was a van about 200 metres up the road blocking it (and clearly visible had the driver been looking ahead). So once the car had zoomed past the cyclist, it had to stop again almost immediately. I hope this made the driver reflect on how pointless their aggressive behaviour was. What struck me, is the complete look of shock on the woman?s face at the fact that the cyclist had shouted back at her, or that they may have felt she was trying to hurt them. She didn't seem to recognise how aggressive and intimidating it is to have a 4X4 tailgate you whilst hooting it's horn, when you're on a bike. I see this all the time around here. It happens a lot on Crystal Palace Road, where vehicle pass very fast and very close, only to cut in front of you and slam on their breaks (either because of a speed bump or an oncoming vehicle). This shows a complete lack of general awareness of anything other what is immediately in front of you. I make the following plea to the drivers of ED: 1. If you aren?t actually going faster, on average, than the bike in front of you, just stay behind them, rather than overtaking, dropping back, overtaking, dropping back etc. Each time you unnecessarily pass a bike, when there isn?t really the time or space to do so purposefully, you?re increasing the likelihood of an accident. 2. Accept that it is often quite proper for a bike to ?take the lane?, especially where there are parked cars, or lots of children who could run out (as in the example this morning), or it?s just a very narrow street (as is the case on many of the streets in ?the grid?. Here?s some explanation of why it?s not always smart for bikes to drive very close to the left. http://www.motoring.co.uk/car-news/cyclists-why-do-they-ride-in-the-middle-of-the-road-_62617 3. Generally be a little patient and think about how intimidating your behaviour may seem to someone who is in a more vulnerable position than you.

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST TELL US!!!

du rhone?

Mac?

Barbour?

Southwark council sold the Heygate Estate for ?55m to private developer Lend lease. The cost of evicting tenants from the Heygate is set to be in the region of ?65m - meaning the sale (on our behalf) of a 22 acre site, has actually led to around a ?10m loss. Lend Lease meanwhile, are expected to make around ?194m profit from the deal. A number of former council officers involved in the negotiations with developer Lend Lease and are now full-time employees of Lend Lease. Please join (and share) the campaign for an investigation into allegations of governance failure, poor financial management and potential fraud at the London Borough of Southwark: http://www.change.org/p/heygate-estate-scandal-demand-an-investigation

WHAT IS IT????!?!?!?!??? Can't believe it no one knows

@Mike Dodd - can you elaborate?

I would go through the bags, painstakingly matching each of the related strands, taping the sheets back together as you go. Then place them in the recycling. Sorted

4 bin bags? What were you shredding... a tree?

You're sacked.