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Hi, I have PM'd you. Thanks

How much are the classes please?

Hi, I have sent you a PM on this.

I think Sadiq is incredibly weak. I saw him being interviewed at his office over housing, where he distanced himself from his campaign websites pledges with laughable indifference. He?s spent most of his time approving a blimp, policing online hate crime and censoring London Underground ?beach fit images? rather than running the city. Totally unqualified to run a business, let alone a city like London.

Thanks James. I?m on the list and nothing seems to be happening with this at all. On the CPZ issue, this is an ongoing issue where we live, and all other CPZ zones which don?t have building exemptions.

Jamesmcash, I?ve been enormously impressed in how you?ve engaged with real problems for local residents and topics. I really would love you to push the electric charging in the area,it is so poor and air quality is such a huge issue in and around the city and south circular in particular. There is almost no charging and with terraced housing no easy way to embrace this technology. I would also ask if you could please revise the CPZ rules to exempt building trades, as the changes implemented add thousands to home improvements by forcing residents to block bays for tradespeople and skips for days at a time. This is so regressive and really damages the chances of improving and enlarging the housing stock and supporting local tradespeople.

Dun, with the increasing awareness of pollution I would be very surprised to see anyone taking a car to the local shops for a very short journey, so I don?t think the minimal impact on your very local car use would be a big consideration in warranting this scheme, versus the big impact from cars that to draw big detours around this closed link. Don?t get me wrong, I can completely see how it would be very nice to be in an almost car free area, yet still owning a car so you can drive when you want, but I really don?t think doing this everywhere is a scalesble solution for the realistic traffic needs of London. It is so frustrating that electric car charging and free parking are not being advertised and scaled up as I feel this is just a much better longer term solution for the pollution problems. The council still seem to favour traffic calming (Speed bumps etc) which slow cars down to a low gear and massively increase emissions.

Couldn?t see it in the last one. Looks totally nuts to me

Can highly recommend CRANK which is over in Copeland Park in Peckham. You can pay as you go and the classes are epic. Go give it try.

Interesting to see a new Gypsy policy!

Isn?t this just confirming that the local residents do well, whilst Adys road for example gets a considerable increase in traffic volumes? I also wonder, from your perspective how much the additional journey time to not be able to do a short connection adds to your journey, and the resultant emissions on an annual basis. I just can?t see how the ?main? roads can cope with all the volume of traffic if all these roads shut. We know emissions are at their worst when cars move slowly.

I really wish we had a serious reformer intersted in taking over the council. I don?t think I even know who our councillors are or how Southwark is even run. Does anyone know the local council election turnout rates in Southwark? It would have made a much bigger difference to our immediate lives to have got into this debate long before we thought about the merits and representation Within the European institutions.

that's really interesting and the first time I have ever heard anyone talk about cost. Although I find it very hard to believe that the crew (Around 10) and equipment could be mobilised to our 200m street for 4 days for GBP 17,000 4x50m costs of GBP 1,800 plus GBP 10,000). How old (ish) are these numbers?

Southwark introduced a CPZ in our area, based on a very low turn out rate for example. these are very localised zones, with no exemptions. so simple things like doing a refurbishment have now become impossibly expensive as you have to block bays for skips and trades making this unbelievably and prohibitively expensive. None of this has been thought through by the council and can only be damaging for the future of the neighbourhoods which can now only be improved by the very wealthy. also, this discourages trades from being in the area, driving up costs and reducing employment opportunities. this situation is already a nationwide problem.

I think the council does a very poor job of publishing its plans so that we can have any idea what they are spending and what their plans are. The should spend a lot more time investing in transparency and have a 5 year plan to do this. instead I feel that is all very ad-hoc and arbitrary.

hi Dogfennelhill, love the name! I'm just not sure that public roads being treated as private roads is a very good policy to start with. I would also like to see the costs of these initiatives. I suspect that there is in fact a huge expense in installing road bumps and these types of 'trials', when viewed in the eyes of an average Southwark resident. I really don't think the scheme has been anywhere good enough at demonstrating that it is a quantifiable experiment or what the considered implications were, let alone what would constitute a successful trial. I think it would be a very good idea to agree standards of these schemes and run them in association with a university, or other independent agency and made available to all residents. That would allow us to learn what makes good trials and look at constants in terms of cost and impact. I also wholeheartedly think that spending resources doing spot checking on emissions (just look at some of the tailpipes of cars driving around), advertising pollution problems, installing displays on emissions and putting in A LOT MORE charging stations would be infinitely better in their environmental returns to Southwark residents. I also think these charging stations would be lucrative for a cash strapped council. Possible we they could be powered, at least in part, but solar panels funded via the council. Now that would be progressive and inspirational.

I'm just not sure that public roads being treated as private roads is a very good policy to start with. I would also like to see the costs of these initiatives. I suspect that there is in fact a huge expense in installing road bumps and these types of 'trials', when viewed in the eyes of an average Southwark resident. I really don't think the scheme has been anywhere good enough at demonstrating that it is a quantifiable experiment or what the considered implications were, let alone what would constitute a successful trial. I think it would be a very good idea to agree standards of these schemes and run them in association with a university, or other independent agency and made available to all residents. That would allow us to learn what makes good trials and look at constants in terms of cost and impact. I also wholeheartedly think that spending resources doing spot checking on emissions (just look at some of the tailpipes of cars driving around), advertising pollution problems, installing displays on emissions and putting in A LOT MORE charging stations would be infinitely better in their environmental returns to Southwark residents. I also think these charging stations would be lucrative for a cash strapped council. Possible we they could be powered, at least in part, but solar panels funded via the council. Now that would be progressive and inspirational.

I generally try and avoid social media, as my experience is that it seems much less reasonable, more combatative and generally more argumentative than we are in our dealings with others in the real world, where I really do think people try not to offend other strangers, are generally interested in their opinions / perspectives and would very rarely say barbed or snide comments to people they know nothing about. In this case, I thought I would make an exception as I feel this topic is worth highlight and EDF would be a good place to raise this (local road closure), as the consequences, to my mind, were far reaching and disproportionally impacted the streets in question. Whilst I think it is a terrible idea, I have tried to be polite and impersonal (although I did lose my cool at the end) - I certainly can't change the council's mind - and I presume most people know the streets and will understand the impact involved, but might not actually know about the recent changes made upstream of them, and therefore about the knock on impact towards them. I brought this topic up towards these affected streets to highlight the opportunity for them to make their feelings on the matter clear on a Southwark provided website. I have tried to be balanced in my points of view in this debate. Choices are always complicated and I can't pass judgement on others, who's shoes I do not fill. I have re-iterated time and again that I try and be mindful and responsible in our choices of driving. I have an electric car, cycle, try and use public transport as much as possible and even gave up our newish diesel long before the debate started raging about particulates / No2 as I felt owning this car was unjustifiable once I understood the science. Notwithstanding all of this, because of our circumstance we have to do this drive regularly and now that that it is now longer and slower it appears overwhelmingly more negative in the whole. I do not believe cars are going to disappear, just look at the conditions people are already prepared to endure driving, and therefore I believe there is a better case to be made for supporting cycling / electric cars, removing polluting cars etc. rather than shutting roads and exacerbating the problem. Particularly when the losers are already suffering what I believe to be already high volumes of traffic. In initiating / participating in this debate, I really did not want it to be personal and have provided almost no facts around our circumstances. Yet I feel that I have been under sustained attack by RH from the outset, prying, passing judgement and generally being quite unpleasant towards my posts. It has actually convinced me once more, that I would rather not participate in these debates and I will be coming off EDF as a result. I guess you can read the threads, and see if I am being over-sensitive or not. However, these quotes, I think do show your generally hostile attitude to others. "It's so good of you to be so unselfishly concerned about others and not about your own ability to send nanny on the ratrun. Does you credit." "Indeed, life is all about choices. And when people make choices about their lifestyles - where they want to live, work, send their kids to school etc - that necessitate polluting and congesting other people's neighbourhoods, they shouldn't be surprised if other people exercise their right to make choices in terms of asking them not to and asking for environmental protections. " "Talfourdite - if as your name implies you live on Talfourd Road, how did you previously access Denmark Hill without driving through other people's neighborhoods, viz Lyndhurst Grove, Macneill Road, Camberwell Grove, Grove Hill Road and Champion Hill? As for having "no choice" but to drive through other people's neighbourhoods, you could easily drive via Peckham Road and Denmark Hill. As a point of interest, that route is almost exactly the same distance (1.36 miles) as your previous route (1.3 miles). I get that people are annoyed that their convenient ratrun has been sealed off, but trying to scare everyone into objecting with claims that there are no alternatives to driving through their neighbourhood isn't on."' "And your point, if any, is...?" No, I didn't edit it as I thought it was rude (unless I remember incorrectly, the bit I deleted was commenting on the fact that the OP employs a nanny to drive her children to private school, wasn't it?) but because I knew on reflection it was offering the OP and others the opportunity to accuse me of being off-topic, personal etc to distract attention from from the hypocrisy and weakness of their position. Which they have now successfully accomplished."

So, for all other people who think there is a need to have some roads in London that can accept traffic, and wish to live in the real world, particularly those disproportionately suffering as a result of this closure, please do fill out the Southwark consultation. Over and out.

I think you?re such a genius you should probably advertise this great idea all the time.

No, I take it back. You?re right. Let?s all stop driving through your road and all the others and it?ll all be wonderful. Have a nice life.

everything in life is a trade off. I?m not sure where you passing absolute judgments from afar on other people?s lives without understanding their circumstances seems ok. I presume you have been in a car, used a bus, have central heating? All the choices we make have environmental consequences.

Every trip and situation has its own context and demands, from the age and number of of the kids and schools in question, the amount of things they are taking to school, family support network, distance, public transport options, weather to name a few. Every parent has to struggle with their own schedule and resources. All parents i am sure try to do their best, it?s often hard and sub-ideal, but that?s life. We do have a pollution problem and talking about that is to help build that into transport choices is vital, but assuming many of the trips in question aren?t done out of laziness and will carry on, via slower elongated routes, leads me to the conclusion this scheme is nett worse and makes the situational generally worse in every way for the entirety of local residents. I find the idea that parents shouldn?t be able to exercise their judgement on their children?s lives pretty bizarre. Rendel, I definitely don?t want to make this personal (as you seem to keep doing with your little barbed comments) but you seem very judgemental on every one else?s life and what they should/shouldn?t be able to do with no real knowledge about their circumstances. I personally find it quite rude, ill informed and offensive.

I have been recently with our children. Very professional, polite and pro active resceptionist and so far I am very impressed with them.