Earl Aelfheah

The cabinet were fed up with being sent out in front of the media to say stuff that later turned out to be untrue (and known to be untrue at the time they were sent out there). They'd lost all confidence in the PM and the number 10 operation. If you fundamentally doubt any reassurances you are given by your boss, then that makes your job impossible. Whether or not a lot of gullible people liked Johnson's airy, flippant, entitled manner is irrelevant. Being a 'right laugh' in the opinion of some of the electorate, doesn't mean you're capable of leading a major operation, responsible for governing the country. They did entirely the right thing getting rid of man baby Johnson, regardless of what happens at the next election. The shameful part is that it took them quite so long.

"According to those living in the area, the bollard bombardment is the result of problem parking outside the primary school. Parents were said to have been pulling onto the pavement, parking two abreast, blocking driveways and then abusing residents who challenged them. The school is said to have asked mum and dads to park carefully. But despite wardens being deployed on the area, it is only since the bollards went in that the errant parking was stopped." https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/55-bollards-been-installed-a38-25897399

It's such a great local spot. Hope it's there for a while yet.

Bora & Sons on Lordship Lane

What location is it? They also have a couple of places in Edinburgh. Wish Ole & Steen would have replaced Brickhouse instead of Gail’s arriving. Ole & Steen seem to be opening up all over London. Their coffee is a bit underwhelming in my opinion

This sounds good

Couldn't see if it's been mentioned already, but there is a lovely looking place on Melbourne Grove called Drop Dulwich https://dropwine.co.uk/drop-dulwich

Wash and dry laundrette (corner of the Lane and pellet rd

Farmers is great

Another poundland am I missing something There are two more within a mile(ish) of Lordship Lane.

Or the bikes could just be parked on the street like motorbikes. Yep, or that.

Let's hope it doesn't become another church.

Personally, I would rather this than Foxtons - but not sure we need another Poundland, or any other mini supermarkets. Will be interesting to see how it does.

For those interested, the LTN traffic monitoring dashboard has been updated (cue lot's of nonsense about how the traffic counts are faked): https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/traffic-data-analysis

Wow, crazy. Good she had a camera / there were witnesses.

There’s a Poundland on Denmark Hill and Rye Lane already. Three stores all within a mile of each other sees like overkill

Just what the Lane needs. That and a couple more pizza places ;-)

The designs look great! Would be really good to pedestrianise North Cross Road and get some good landscaping in. The more we can create spaces designed around people instead of cars, the better.

The headline of that Telegraph article, starts "War on Motorists.." Seems reliable.

Vehicle counts show that Dulwich Village has less traffic than before the measures. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/traffic-data-analysis

I am speculating, but I imagine they're allowing it to fall into such a state of disrepair that they can get permission to knock it down, get change of use and build something more profitable?

^ This

Wow, this is a bad tempered thread. Are the people of ED okay indeed?

Thanks for the warning.

It's not an issue in some parts of London (City and Camden for example), where they've marked out on street parking bays and worked with the companies to ensure that there are fines / bans for those who don't use them. The problem here is that as much as people don't like them on the pavement, many would not like them on the road either (loss of parking). Personally, I would make sure that every street had at least one space for a car club car, and one or two for hire bikes - on the road (not the pavement).