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"We expect that a separate collection for food and garden waste will be required in the next few years" Seriously? So the small (and smaller) brown bins are a complete waste of plastic for anyone who has a big brown bin and has paid for the garden waste service.

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You can't put cooked food waste in with garden > waste as it isn't compostable. Do you mean meat/fish/cheese? You can certainly compost all cooked vegetables/fruit. As for meat/fish/cheese, it takes a lot longer and not recommended in low temperature home composting because of the various nasty bacteria that aren't killed off. If you use hot composting (e.g. Hotbin) then it's fine.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Beat police spotted in dulwich village An actor employed to make the village look quaint

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's all here. You CAN burn wood, just properly > seasoned wood. The stuff from garage forecourts is > not seasoned. > > https://www.london.gov.uk/what-we-do/environment/p > ollution-and-air-quality/guidance-wood-burning-sto > ves-london I think it's worth clarifying for anyone who doesn't open that link that you can burn seasoned wood but only in a wood burner. If you have an open fireplace you can only burn smokeless fuel.

DulCool1 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hello. Maybe this question won't be connected with > Dulwich; however, I have a 'gift' problem. My > friend is interested in gardening. She has a small > greenhouse in her garden where she grows veggies > and some flowers. She has birthday in Fabruary so > I thought that a good idea will be to order some > seeds. I found one site that offers variety of > plants - > https://gardenseedsmarket.com/potted-flowers-en/ - > but I don't know what to choose. Is there anyone > who could help me? And what else, connected with > gardening, could I buy? If she has a greenhouse and is interested in gardening as you say, then I wouldn't buy any seeds; the chances are that she's already placed her seed order for 2019 - or will have done by February. It might be better to buy something where it doesn't matter if she has duplicates, e.g. wooden, or copper plant labels (nicer than plastic), a posh kneeling cushion, perhaps a terracotta pot or a glass cloche. It all depends upon your budget. Crocus.co.uk is a good site for garden stuff that's a little bit nicer than you'd buy yourself (and of course a bit more expensive).

I've just looked on Rightmove for flats in and around East Dulwich, up to the value of ?450K. There were five pages of them, and even included a few with 3 beds.

If you can get to the outside of the glass you could use greenhouse shading paint as a temporary solution. When the weather turns cooler just wipe it off

I think it looks perfectly balanced. I love small plates, it allows me to try new things without risking ordering a huge pile of something I don't like; with a friend or two I'd happily start at the top and work my way down, sharing every small plate on the menu. I hope they don't change it.

intexasatthe moment Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Will be sorry to see Chener books close .Hope a > lovely independent book shop replaces it . The woman who is currently managing it on behalf of the owner will be renting it from him when he retires (so she told me) so there are unlikely to be any significant changes.

A neighbour complained on this basis and got the offending bit of building reduced in size. You need to forget about loss of light in your garden although you might as well tack on a mention of loss of amenity (emphasise play area if you have small children). But the important bit in planning terms is the angle that sunlight will come into the windows of the relevant rooms. It is pretty simple to demonstrate. Draw a cross section of the house with the garden and new wall and calculate what the old and new angle will be. However, the dimensions you mention may not be sufficient to fall into the category where you have grounds for complaint. Look at pages 17/18 for the 25 degree rule in this document.(I'm assuming your house faces south for this to be a major issue) http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s22935/Appendix%20A%20Residential%20Design%20Standards.pdf

Angelina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why is there no coordination between parties so > the other roadworks stop and make space for the > diverted traffic? Probably because the contractor would have to be paid for his resources to be stood idle. That would be a waste of money.

If it was me, I'd simply make a claim as advised and refer to their 'negligence' in failing to return your vehicle to the safe position it was in prior to them moving it. Depending upon the events that required them to move your vehicle, they may not have broken any law by moving your vehicle - e.g. the works may have been required as an emergency, however, they must use reasonable care when doing anything that may foreseeably cause damage (a duty of care obligation), which they have clearly failed to do.

What is the nature of the damage caused to your car? Was the damage caused directly by the way they moved your car, or by a third party hitting it?

Do you know anyone with a drone you could borrow? It may be obvious from photographs what/where the problem is.

lavender27 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can someone tell me why the Polish are getting a > rollicking? Because they eat carp. There have been a spate of carp being eaten rather than put back. So I understand

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > They're ok, not great and not awful. There's > nothing stopping individual businesses going to > town or even > Teaming up with neighbouring places without > council help. > W I agree. They're not awful and flashing lights would be much naffer. It would be good if the red bits were plain white but that's just my taste.

Whatever you may think of Alice?s statement, calling her a moron probably won?t encourage anyone to return the scooter.

If the gate was fixed to your neighbours house more than 20 years ago you will have acquired a right of easement. Any less then you haven't and they can insist you remove it. But for security reasons you'd think they'd want to keep it as long as you stop the vibration problem. I'd try and do something about that first before worrying too much about the law.

It might be worth sending the details to Which magazine. This sounds like the sort of thing they would be interested in

Bulbs in parks are nice and make people happy. Banners on lamp posts just declare there's a problem that someone is throwing money at. I'd be much happier if the money was spent making the high street safe for everyone to use. So my vote ( if there was one) would be to spend the money on repairing the pavements. I don't mind if the new slabs were stamped with "ED High Street Challenge" if that makes the organisers happy.

There shouldn't be anything to 'negotiate', or are you also trying to get access to their property for the works construction? You have to pay for your neighbour's surveyor costs - that's only fair as it is you that wants the work done. There is no possible way of avoiding a party wall agreement and you would be mad to try. Even if you were able to find a way of designing a structurally independent means of support (i.e. not 'existing bricks' as that would definitely need an agreement), you will change the load pattern in the building which could impact on the party wall and, just as importantly, without a proper survey you run the risk of your neighbour blaming existing damage on your builders.

Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I got a reminder for something entirely different > and that was ?160.00 too. Maybe they use that > amount for everything. I've had the same rate for two completely different things so I think it is just an average across all appointments - which I'm happy with. I wouldn't want someone spending the time to get an exact figure just to encourage me to turn up

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The website has never worked for me at all. > http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/online-appl > ications/ won't load and just times out. Anyone > else? (The map view works better, but is very > clunky and dated) You may have blocked this page accidentally. It always works fine for me, even on my phone!

Mark - it's a long time since I looked at this but finally found it. The court of appeal was deciding a judicial review of the restrictions imposed by the Housing Minister's statement November 14. Reading's policy (the bit you quoted above was government policy, not Reading) did not comply with that so Reading was trying to get the Minister's requirements deemed unlawful. They failed. So the requirements of the November 14 statement are law and override Southwark's policy. The statement says 'the Government is making the following changes to national policy with regard to Section 106 planning obligations: ? Due to the disproportionate burden of developer contributions on small scale developers, for sites of 10-units or less, and which have a maximum combined gross floor space of 1,000 square metres, affordable housing and tariff style contributions should not be sought.'

The court of appeal wouldn't set policy, merely clarify the law as it stands. It's a while since I've read it (so please correct) but my memory is that it says 'ten or fewer are excluded'