Katy Tonbridge

Here's a thread from ten years ago suggesting a shuttle bus to Denmark Hill. Plus ca change!!

http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,6561,6561#msg-6561

If it's true that they've decided to go ahead with all the yellow lines then this is a very disappointing decision. One of my concerns is that clearing lots of junctions might actually have the opposite effect from the one intended - i.e. it will be easier for cars to go fast around corners. Keep fighting it, James!

I filled this in and the party I scored highest with (by a small margin) was.....UKIP. What the???? I would never dream of voting UKIP, and I told the survey I was against Brexit, which is surely the whole point of UKIP. Methinks one can take these results with a pinch of salt.

Dear Admin - has it been established that Le Chardon is NOT being sold? If so, this thread is spreading a misleading rumour which is unfair to the restaurant and should be deleted.

I'm 100% in favour of children of teachers having a priority. If we want our local schools to have good teachers we need to give them every possible incentive to keep teaching in SE22 once they have a family (when, chances are, they have to live somewhere quite a distance away that is more affordable).

Does anyone have any news on progress with building the new school? There seem to have been diggers clearing the old hospital site in the last fortnight. There's no update yet on the ED Charter website, I'm hoping that will be updated soon.

When we visited Charter ED before Christmas, I think we were told intake would be 120 for the coming year 2017/18, and will expand to 180 in 2018/19 if building etc is on target. Their website is due to be updated in the next month or so, I believe.

Thanks for this welcome note! - I have sent you a PM

Loz Wrote:

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> The landlord is testing the market to see if it

> will take the necessary rise to make BTL still

> work. If not, they will sell the property.

...they will sell the property...which means that somebody down the chain who would otherwise rent will now buy. So the rental population reduces. So why should this force rents up?!

To hear landlords bleating that the removal of this tax break means they have to increase rents sticks in my craw.

It's a matter of supply and demand. The number of people needing somewhere to live in London is X. The supply of housing is Y, either rented or owned. The supply and demand haven't changed, so all the tax should do is move the demand from renting to ownership. It won't happen instantly - landlords may try to increase rent - but in the end, if the market can't afford rent landlords won't receive it, will have to sell - and property prices might even fall a little, as supply of houses for sales increases.

And by the way, I'm a landlord (lady?) who thinks many renters get a shocking deal and that the buy to let changes have been broadly a good thing. (Though I'd be more in favour of adding an extra couple of council tax bands at the top end).

I noticed this wall was bulging and cracked in September. It's astonishing that Building Control or somebody hadn't picked this up on a routine inspection. Maybe it's a case of everyone (including me) assuming "This must be safe or somebody would have done something about it". Well done Awkward Knee for doing it.

I'm against destroying the integrity of a Victorian terrace, but take a look at 30-40 Hindmans Rd on street view. It's hardly a preserved Victorian strip - look at the haphazardly bricked up shops and modern windows. I think in this case the new development would if anything improve that section of the road, and since No.30 is a peculiar detached house with a different roof pitch from the other houses I can't believe that replacing it would set a precedent for spoiling the Victorian character of this or any other road in East Dulwich.

For balance, I was in Co-op at lunchtime and there was a queue for the manned till and all the self-checkouts were busy. bit quieter than last time I was there, but certainly not quite the picture of a ghost town that people are painting.

I don't like the result any more than you do, but imagine if Remain had won 52/48 and Farage had demanded another referendum 'because 8 million didn't vote'. He'd have been laughed out of town. (And by the way, do we know that all 3 million who have signed up were eligible to vote in the referendum? I'm sure lots of 15 year olds are signing the petition, along with Canadians, Americans, Dutch....)

I was expecting the police station demolition to have been well under way by now. Has it been delayed?

FFS

Oh for heaven's sake, SEND THIS THREAD TO THE BUSINESS SECTION where all the other PictureHouse threads are.

I'm starting a new thread that allows people to comment generally about the Picture House. I'm fed up of having the word "Elitest" rammed down our throats just because one person regarded the place as such.

Went to see 'Inside Out' yesterday, about ?22 for four of us. Full house. Film was great. And NOT elitist.

Am I the only person who finds the title of this thread annoying. One person's opinion that the PictureHouse is "Elitist" is being perpetuated as if this is a widely shared view, which it clearly isn't. This is unfair on the venue.

I seem to be in a minority of one in that I actually quite like the Co-op, both the ambience of the shop and the fact it has a decent range of the essentials on those days when I don't want to do battle in Sainsbury's.

The computer specialist shop on Pellatt Road usually seems happy to take old laptops to recycle (he extracts useful components as far as I know).

Indeed, what a waste of prime land. I'm sure Charter could make good use of it, but life's never that simple (q.v. Dulwich Hospital site).

I know it's 100 yards outside SE22, but does anyone know what the story is with the detached house in front of the second Charter School entrance (next to St Faiths), that's been boarded up for years? I'm just wondering if Charter has its eye on that plot of land for future expansion.

Thanks all, son is relieved it's only compulsory for three years, he was assuring me he'd be having to do it until Year 11.