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As one of thousands raising a family on one of the already dangerously polluted main roads in Dulwich which is now taking intolerable levels of displaced traffic from the road closures (plus further wildly excessive 5 hour a day restrictions in the Village) and deeply worried by the health impacts of the pollution from this on children, I?m not after advice from anyone. I want the council to take responsibility for the pollution the schemes are causing outside people?s homes and schools and shops and reverse the Dulwich ETOs as a matter of urgency in light of the Ella Kissi-Debrah verdict. They are causing harmful levels of displacement onto densely residential roads, including East Dulwich Grove which is covered in schools (where over 3000 kids are educated and where the main pupil entrance to Charter ED will be next year once building works are complete). Enough. Lewisham Council can now be held legally accountable for its failure to avert Ella?s death. Wake up call for Southwark. If th? 3000 locals whose epetition was ignored were to crowdfund a legal challenge to the ETOs now, the council would be in trouble .

Good question - and why are they in operation 5 hours a day instead of 30-60 mins at beginning and end of the school day, like Hillsboro Rd school street round the corner? Completely disproportionate to have Townley closed 8-10 and 3-6pm on top of multiple 24/7 closures of non school streets like Court Lane, Calton Ave, Derwent, Elsie, Melbourne South, etc.(which I believe Townley, Turney and Gallery Rd 5 hr daily restrictions from 8-10 anf 3-6 were brought in as ??mitigation?? for but they?ve only worsened the displacement and pollution on Lordship Lane, Grove Vale, East Dulwich Grove, Croxted to the west)

All the more reason to remind him I would have thought! To pollard in late spring is a practice he should be keen to stop to. Pursuing it, in the face of such public disapprobation, in a Climate Emergency and in lockdown, is a terrible look for the trees department.

I suggest writing directly by email to Southwark?s new chief arboricultural officer, Julian Fowgies [email protected] There are trees being pollarded all over south Camberwell too. This is not right, it is not acceptable and the more of us bring it to his attention, the more likely the Council is to take notice. Not only is it nesting season, pollarding will also rob us all of the canopy cover we need in early summer for cooling and to mitigate against pollution. This late spring is a terrible practice, the Council should pollard only between November and March.

Goose Green Mutual Aid will now be collecting donations for the @Pecan121a food bank at @oru_space at 22 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HN every Monday, 12:00 - 15:00. You can download the latest shopping list here: https://f96f0a63-befd-4519-bb74-a1d071b0a6f3.filesusr.com/ugd/05771b_f5c53868add24a729d97c4e3086711de.doc?dn=April%202020%20COVID-19%20Update.doc

Getting local chemists to start delivering regular/vital medication to the elderly / vulnerable / self isolating who might otherwise run out or expose themselves to the virus to collect from a pharmacy .

Getting local chemists to start delivering regular/vital medication to the elderly / vulnerable / self isolating who may otherwise run out or expose themselves to the virus to collect it from a pharmacy .

Setting up a local food delivery service for the elderly, especially important as they will soon be advised or required to spend up to four months in quarantine. Leafleting households to make them aware of the service and making it as easy to use as possible for the elderly, who do not have access to or confidence using the internet.

ALL Football League and Scottish League together with Istmian League games have been cancelled.

It is completely irresponsible of the Club to be promoting the match in the current situation. I hope fans who say they don?t care whether they infect themselves by attending will stop to consider whether they would really want to pass the virus on to others in the community who may be more vulnerable than themselves, in local shops, pubs and stations. The most community-minded thing the club could do would be to cancel the match.

Last section of article attached (South London Press, 29/3/19). Main body of article attached to my previous post. Feedback on the trial can be given via the Council?s online questionnaire: https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/champion-hill-no-entry-trial-monitoring-form/consultation/intro/

I?m afraid I couldn?t work out how to post the whole article legibly so am attaching the first column and I?ll attach the rest separately. It appeared in Friday?s edition of the South London Press (29th March).

In reality, all the Champion Hill road closure is doing is driving up air pollution on other residential roads and around our schools, stations and hospitals. The traffic hasn?t dematerialised, it has simply been displaced onto other roads, inhabited and used as a walking route by many more people than Champion Hill. Th? trial is causing tailbacks of up to 600m at morning peak times (yesterday all the way from Kings hospital to past the primary school on Dog Kennel Hill) with engines idling. Bus passengers are abandoning packed buses on Grove Lane to get to work, hospital or the station on time because their buses aren?t moving. This is completely unacceptable. I believe the scheme was first mooted in 2015 and rejected by TfL on the basis that it was likely to cause unacceptable delays to buses and cause tailbacks of up to 250m at a junction adjoining a primary school (Dog Kennel Hill School). The trial flies in the face of TfL?s modelling and of our understanding of how air pollution affects children living and going to school on busy roads.

It goes without saying that cars should not be used for short trips and when an alternative is possible. But Talfourdite makes important points about the impact of piecemeal road closures on other roads, roads which are in many cases also residential and walking/bus routes used by the whole community. Schemes like the Champion Hill closure rest on a spurious distinction between ??residential?? and ??main?? roads and on the very questionable premise that air pollution on main roads doesn?t matter. The effects of air pollution on children living on or near main roads and using them to walk to school are well understood. The main roads taking the displaced traffic from Champion Hill - Dog Kennel Hill, Grove Lane and Champion Park - together constitute a major pedestrian route to 3 local primary schools, 2 train stations, numerous bus stops, 2 major hospitals and a Foetal Medicine centre. The main Pupil entrance to Dog Kennel Hill School is on Dog Kennel Hill. Two of these roads are also densely residential. Are some residents more deserving of clean air than others? I don?t think so. Nor do I want children - mine or anyone else?s - breathing in the fumes from idling, gridlocked traffic when walking or taking the bus to school.

In hope of getting this thread back on topic, here is a letter that was published in Southwark News about the Champion Hill trial and the congestion it is causing in East Dulwich: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/comment/letters-to-the-editor-14-02-2019/