James Barber

They do mention "affordable housing". But this is usually far from affordable. They plan to place a block of "affordable housing" at the very end of the site in the SW corner.

EDITED 2/12 exhibition gave more details - proposed car free, 376 student rooms, 52 affordable home (shared ownership, housing association rent), 700m2 light industrial. Stated Melbourne Grove 50% vacant units - my count is 2-4 out of 19 unused. OIRIGNAL POST There is a propose redevelopment of the Jewson's Builders Yard, Railway Rise - behind Grove Vale Library and East Dulwich Station. Looks like hundred of new homes, student accommodation. Unclear if car free or not. Two access - one Melbourne Grove (north end), and Railway Rise. Buildings look to be 5 - 7 stories high. Scheme will likely overlook The Charter School East dulwich, residents on Abbotswood and Featherstone Mews. Increased footfall and vehicles especially on Melbourne Grove (north). Development website here - https://thesidings.whatyouthink.co.uk - very skimpy on details. Public exhibitions - Thursday 4-7pm 30 November and Saturday 11am to 2pm 2 December United Reformed Church (corner of East Dulwich Grove and Melbourne Grove. Do go along, take a look, and give your views.

Southwark Council no longer remove graffiti from private properties. Street cleaning is less thorough and frequent. All factors that are known to increase anti social behaviour which usually leads to more crime. If you can keep your street cleaner and if you suffer graffiti please do remove it. Also worth trying to report issues via FixMyStreet to Southwark Council which recently the council linked into. If you find issues don't get resolved complain via https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/complaints-comments-and-compliments/making-a-complaint

I wonder what mitigations are planned for alternative routes such as Gowlett and Amott Roads - full sinusoidal speed cushions, etc?

I think it telling TfL was consulting on reducing n.12 bus route service. After a short period this was turned into closing no.12 bus route. Extending no.148 along the no.12 bus route to Dulwich Library but at the reduced timetable originally proposed. Having such long route from Dulwich Library to Shepherd's Bush rarely goes well - they then cut the route up to make it more reliable. Eitherway, if you've red this thread or posted ot it please please please respond to the public consultation to actually have your voice heard - https://haveyoursay.tfl.gov.uk/busreview

London Mayor Khan is now consulting on scrapping the no. 12 and fifteen other London bus routes - 4, 11, 14, 16, 24, 31, 45, 72, 74, 78, 242, 349, 521, C3 and D7 https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/london-bus-routes-axed-tfl-cuts/ London Mayor Khan stood on a platform in 2016 of freezing TfL fares for four years knowing the government planned to with draw much of its TfL subsidy. He then screwed up Crossrail which even now ?4bn over budget and 4 years late is only opening in parts and not all connected - that's another year away. Having destroyed his budget COVID happened. COVID could have been ridden budget wise but not after the fares freeze and Crossrail financial disaster.

Hi P68, Many presidents are good and some bad. But you can vote them in and vote them out. Royals we get no choice. 2022 the queen receives ?86m from the state. All her formal expenses are paid on top. All the security is paid on top. But I genuinely hope lots of streets take advantage of the four day weekend to hold street parties. Regards James.

if you ever have a missed rubbish, recycling, or brown bin/food waste then spot 6pm report it here -https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/general-household-waste/report-a-missed-collection

If you ever have a missed collection - after 6pm report it via - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/general-household-waste/report-a-missed-collection

Hope lots of street parties to celebrate a four day weekend 2-5 June take place. They're easy to organise and Southwark make the legal requirements clear here - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/events-culture-and-heritage/events/planning-an-event/street-parties but you have to have applied 6 weeks before hand so on or before 21 April. So do get cracking. I've just finished "...And What Do You Do ? - wWhat the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know" by Norman Baker. Every royal is tax avoiding, dodgy expense claiming in ways that you or I would at best be sacked for gross misconduct but more likely charged for criminal offences. Hard to celebrate such scrounging from ALL the royals. But celebrating a long weekend with neighbours and friends I do get.

Can someone please place a copy here so we can all see? I'd hope that anything purporting to suggest a direction voters should vote has an imprint of who the body suggesting this is, their address and who printed the leaflet. If it doesn't and it's delivered within 6 weeks of the election, after 25 March then I believe it breaks election law. If Labour were to lose they could go to the courts and demand a re run due to this. For transparency I wont be running in this election.

We've installed a Catalytic Convertor Property Marking Kit - https://www.selectadna.co.uk/products/selectamark-cat-marking-kit As a former Councillor, this is the sort of thing we used to bulk buy with public money to give residents for free use to reduce crime. Incredibly effective at reducing crime.

So people with access to this app get an acceptable/better GP service. Patients without such access get a rubbish service - likely older sicker people, poorer residents. I don't think Tessa Jowell would be proud. How sad to commenorate someone with a GP practice that gives a poorer service to those more often in greater need.

Great to see these proposed change. It has been a very long time coming. 2008 Southwark Council then Lib Dem led proposed significant Peckham Rye station improvements -http://www.peckhamvision.org/blog/?p=237 I hope these plan complete before 2028 !

TfL have today stated...The Northern line (Bank branch) will be closed between Kennington and Moorgate from 15 January to mid-May 2022. If you travel in via East Dulwich or Peckham Rye stations to London Bridge you will not have a working Northern Line service from Saturday 15 January until "Mid May". This enables Bank station upgrade. During the closure: There will be no Northern line at Bank, London Bridge, Borough and Elephant & Castle There will be more Northern line trains on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line There will be fewer Northern line trains between Camden Town and Moorgate Many lines and stations across central London will be busier, especially around the City of London To get to destinations in the City (including London Bridge, Bank and Moorgate): Use the District or Circle line from Victoria instead of Embankment Use Southeastern services from Waterloo East to London Bridge, instead of the Jubilee or Waterloo & City lines from Waterloo To get to Canary Wharf: Use the DLR from Bank Use London Overground from Clapham High Street or Clapham Junction Buses Consider taking a bus for all or part of your journey There is a new temporary bus route running Monday to Friday from Oval to the City (Finsbury Square) - route 733. This will stop at Oval, Kennington, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Bank and Moorgate Walking and cycling There are a number of Cycleways that can get you to the City, including C6 to Blackfriars and C3 to London Bridge Use Santander Cycles within inner London Consider walking part of your journey

I, along with my then East Dulwich ward Councillors, approved ?18,656 of devolved ward funding to help support Goose Green Primary School install such air filters installed pre COVID in January 2018. The Friends of GG also helped fund these. This funding route could be used across the area and Southwark. Even without COVID they made lots of sense in reduction in common cold, flu circulating around classes and causes pupil absences. It seems unlikely the government will change classroom requirements and fund the circa ?2bn needed. Quite possibly the HEPA industry wont have the number of units required etc except over multi years. Leaving this to local schools likely means those schools whose parents have deeper pockets getting them. In some areass such as Sotuhwark we have other routes to funding e.g. Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding stream (introduced by Lib Dems running the council in 2002). Petitions to government, however worthy, wont fix this problem for our local children any time soon. If your child is in a cschool without such air filteration why not ask your local Councillors if they will allocated some of their devolved CSG funding to hel pthe school - checking the school would be willing to have them? If anyone needs help making this happen - get in touc

IF you have compaints about your GP practices please complain here - https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us/how-complain/complain-about-gp-dentist-or-eye-care Please, do not suffer in silence. Many do which is why things so often stay rubbish.

The average home pays Band D Council tax to Southwark Council of ?1,034.11 this council tax year April 2021 to March 2022 - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-tax/bands-and-charges The council cash spend pa has remained stable partly due to new homes - every new home the government pays councils ?9,000 for the first 7 years. Hence all those studio, 1 bed and 2 bed flats across Southwark. I can't think of any organisation I pay over a ?1,000 every year and am unable to phone someone when I have issues.

I had this a couple of years ago where Virgin Media contractors turned out at 8pm on a Friday evening to dig the road up outside my home. I asked them what they were doing and for the permit reference number. They waffled. I checked this website -http://public.londonworks.gov.uk/roadworks/home;jsessionid=hQnthghJ5JfQpT2Lpn8DTLQQs0lpFtP0WmMzwsbQwQ5wgyXppTYV!987534351 - and no permit to work had been given. They were still place bollards. I took photos. I told them they did not have a permit and should leave. They waffled some more. I started placing their bollards in the back of their lorry and told them to leave. After a little heated but temperate words they closed their site and left. I emailed the Virgin Media CEO with photos and made a complaint. Contractors hate such complaints - i used to managed such contractors we would be incandescent if a contractors was acting rogue in this way. I also referenced the local highways in Southwark. Do not suffer in silence with such nonsense.

Hi KH, What rotten bad luck. I presume you're asking if ay of the businesses around that section of Lordship Lane have CCTV cameras - I think you'd need to visit the businesses and ask them. KH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?ve just watched a car scrape the back of my van > as I was parked in a bay on lordship Lane opposite > Chener Books/TruePenny's estate agents. > I was in such shock I was too slow to note down > the license plate, and a van then pulled up after > it, blocking my view. > > Does anyone know if there is CCTV that might > capture that stretch of the road/the parking bays? > > > Thank you.

A number of years ago as a local Councillor we did exactly this via the CGS funding stream. From memory local schools were offered them for free. Don't recall whether any local businesses took up the offer. The council official would have ben Andrea Allen.

Hi h3+, Plants and artwork led by The Camberwell Society - http://www.camberwellsociety.org.uk

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do TFL own the station? I didn?t realise they were > holding up the improvements No, the station is managed by Thameslink. But it has TfL Overground services. Hope this answers your Q.

The system is in crisis. I know a number of GP's. They all work for their own practices and not GP companies with multiple practices. They work their socks off. One goes to work 5am every Saturday to work on the huge volume of paperwork each practice has these days before seeing patients. Two are retiring early 50's due to the pressure. The system GP's work within is broken. Some making fortune by not focusing on patients and creating GP groups of practices the DMC"s of this world. The ones worried about serving patients well are being flattened and squished. Some are then giving up and selling out to those mega GP groups which increasingly are US owned. Many find it hard now to enjoy work feeling constantly they're not being allowed to do the best for their patients. Fortunately they still get some satisfaction from making enough people better to stick at it. I read that GP's now have 20% more patients on their lists. And this is from more UK people and fewer doctors wanting to be GP's. Most GP's don't want so many patients or admin.

After many years of campaigning by the Camberwell Society, GLA Assembly Members Caroline Pidgeon and Florence Eshalomi. The Dept of Transport, Network Rail, Thameslink, TfL earlier this month opened a second station entrance on Windsor Walk. How are people finding the new entrance? Do you think it has relieved the Champion Park entrance people congestion?