James Barber

I have to disagree with you SteveUK1978. In the planning application NetworkRail stated their design could only ever cope with 15mins train delays. WE've all experienced longer delays than 15 mins. When it happens the station will be unsafe so they will close it. they've replaced total coverage of terminating platforms with partial coverage. Windy rain the passengers get wet. This isn't the civic public building to represent a great London in the 21st century. It's mean spirited dross designed to create shopping malls rather than great public transport interchange that lifts the spirits.

What depressing news. Both council and external educational improvement managers have told me that the ideal size of a primary school is two or three forms of entry per year. On this advice expanding Ivydale to four forms of entry is at best a poor decision that will affect the live chances of 120 children in each year group. Clearly a better decision would be a new school. A new school would also have the merit of attracting 100% new capital funds to the area - so we're losing out by at least ?4.5M.

London Bridge used to have 19 platforms. They closed 3 to make room for the signalling box and staff car parking in the 1970's. They closed 3 more at the start of all these works (which also killed amongst other services the SLL). So clearly if they needed 16 platforms before and are trying to run services with 3 less platforms and at the end of all this will only have 15 platforms then they obviously create a near impossible operational conundrum. Have you noticed how British Transport Police are now hanging around to discourage passengers anger. The cattle pens. The narrow platforms. Not welcoming.

I've been supporting a leaseholder in Walworth doing this. Please email me and let me see if I can help.

Hi Sue, No problem. It was a useful reminder. I get so many emails that sometimes I read it and don't get a chance to reply if more complicated and they can get lost in the deluge. Hi Zenoria, I had an email from the developer last week telling me how misguided my objections would be to a restaurant/bar on your street. They even had the cheek to tell me the ED Warehouse failed rather than the owner made a huge rent hike!

Initial timetable for making our school happen has been agreed with our chosen school provider. They have one final internal governance hurdle to go. Steering Group has agreed its own Terms of Reference.

Hi Sue, Apologies for not responding sooner. I took some time of off work this morning to try chatching up with my councillor emails. I gt around 100 a day from my role as a councillor. I also have a regular day job, and extremely understanding family.

Hi Arthur Facksake, Yes and no. I've spoken to five cinema chains over the last 4 years. Blanked by one - Bermondsey Shortwave. Other 4 initially very keen. Picturehouse have taken it forward and come up with this site. But I've discussed several other sites.

Hi BNG, HAve asked. IT makes me think these types of works should come with a warranty period of 5 or 10years. but then some have done this effectively via PFI which I'd find hard to stomach. Either way have report it AGAIN!

As long as the front fence doesnt go above waist height you can change it as you wish.

We had expected to announce our agreed school provider by 31 March. We're all bursting to tell you. Our preferred provider has been chosen but we're awaiting final confirmation from them which is delayed until Tuesday 8 April. Unavoidable delay. Please be patient.

" Wednesday 16 April 2014 Offer letters will be posted by first class to all parents/carers who have applied on time. You will also be able to view your offer details in the evening on the eAdmissions website Wednesday 30 April 2014 Should you wish to reject the offer of a school place allocated to your child, you must complete and return the notification slip attached to your offer letter by this date. No action is required if you want to accept the school offered to your child. "

Forest hill councillors havent been told anyting yet. But they observe that Horniman is a one form entry school curreently. That its had a number of bulge classes and it may be about how hard it owuld be to digest another year of bulge clasess on such a small site with harming all the other childrens experiences.

I've pinged an email to the local councillors in case they've been told.

Hi Heart108, Please email me your specific questions and I'll get specific answers from council officials. I'm an opposition councillor so don't have all the information and don't get to make the decisions around this. OI find the policies just an infuriating but officers aren't mendacious in how they decide things.

Not submitted yet but can;t be long as they plan to open in time for Christmas.

Hi heart108, Speed bumps cost around ?1,800 each. highway maintenance can either be undertaken just before the top surface fails - its really cheap to do at this point as you skim a tiny amount from the top and relay it. OR you can wait until you have potholes and cracks and then its much more involved and significantly more expensive. Clearly it's better to renew a road at the former stage than at the latter state. Hence why people wonder what on earth is going on when what appear good roads get renewed and other that look a state don't. Once they're a state they cost loads to fix and waiting a little longer won't make much difference to the cost of renewal. BUT ideally with a 10 year ?1bn. capital plan southwark could afford to catch-up on all its highway repairs. That's what my lot would do if we take control of the council 22 May.

Hi TE44, I'm afraid I can;t get this extra data without distracting council officials who are busy helping with secondary admissions questions from pretty stressed families and workingon the primary admissions phase. Happy to do this later when things have calmed down for everyone.

Some more data. How many children didnt get one of the 6 preferences they stated on their application form. Please find bellow the required information, the leftmost set of data is for ALL allocations and the right columns are for children's which are not receiving one of their six preferences, please let me know if further action is required Regards POLITICAL_WARD TOTAL POLITICAL_WARD_1 PREF_21 Brunswick Park 118 Brunswick Park 4 Camberwell Green 181 Camberwell Green 7 Cathedrals 91 Cathedrals 3 Chaucer 103 Chaucer 2 College 107 College 11 East Dulwich 79 East Dulwich 5 East Walworth 122 East Walworth 2 Evelyn 2 Evelyn 1 Faraday 141 Faraday 8 Gipsy Hill 1 Gipsy Hill 1 Grange 117 Grange 1 Livesey 182 Livesey 10 Newington 147 Newington 8 Nunhead 129 Nunhead 5 Peckham 201 Peckham 8 Peckham Rye 108 Peckham Rye 7 Riverside 99 Riverside 1 Rotherhithe 111 Rotherhithe 5 South Bermondsey 160 South Bermondsey 1 South Camberwell 120 South Camberwell 13 Surrey Docks 63 Surrey Docks 2 The Lane 136 The Lane 10 Village 121 Village 1

hi Heart108, All the data is based on actual surveys of roads. In fact several years surveys to see the rate of highway breaking up. So partly forecasting when a road will fail - it's cheaper to resurface before structural failure. Once structural failure involved its really expensive to fix. Partly responding to structural failure. The problem isn't that resurfacing is occurring but that not enough it taking place. We still have lots and lots of crappy roads in East Dulwich and across Southwark.

This is how the very limited capital is spent of highway repairs: Schemes recommended for planned maintenance under Non Principal Road Capital Improvement programme have been selected using the Horizons software package. The software identifies and priorities highway maintenance schemes, and determines the cost implications of various treatments. Inventory data was imported into horizons to develop the capital programme. 1) SCANNER survey data for A,B, and C roads for 2010/11, and 2011/12. Giving coverage of the complete classified road network as defined for the ROAD 2000 project. 2) DVI survey of 100% of the unclassified carriageway and footway using 2012/13 and 2013/14 surveys. 3) CVI survey data of the unclassified carriageway for 2008/9,2009/10,2010/11 and 2012/13. 4) GIS model for United Kingdom Pavement Management System (UKPMS) survey network The overarching aim was to be able to allocate capital funding based on whole life costing. " The council currently and planning to spend ?4M pa on highway renewals. The backlog when I last checked was over ?18M and to stand still officers quoted ?6M pa.

Hi BellendenBear, Yes on average 3 Southwark School are applied for by each Southwark pupil. But they have 6. Clearly many will apply for other norough schools but probably not an average of 3 as well of the 6 possible preferences.

Hi First Mate, No. No street had a unanimous view for or against. But a number of streets had majorities but the overall feeling was against when people in non East Dulwich ward streets where no controlled parking was being proposed. Yes, Oxonian and Zenoria had been for controlled parking but were against it only operating for 1 hour per day as they wanted 24/7. Hi unlurked, I joined the forum after being elected as part of trying to provide a better service. I have campaigned to save both the Police statiino and in the past the hospital. Only when they were closed have we then tried to ensure future community use where a genuine need has arisen. We have fought the closure of East Dulwich Police station for 10 years when no one was even remotely suggesting we needed new primary schools. so to suggest we've spent so many hundreds of hours on sham campaigns says more about your cynaism than our hard work. If you have a genune issue you'd like help with then I'm here for you. If you want to take cheap pops at my and my colleagues hard work then please start a seperate thread for that I guess in the Lounge.

Hi mariababe, I've added some notes to the original post which hopefully makes it clearer. But for clarity. First table is applkicatns for Southwark located secondary schools by ward. Seocnd table is Southwark ocated secondary schools and how many southwark based people applied for them. What I funnd interesting is the total number of Southwark residents applying for Southwark secondary schools is a ratio of 3:1.

To the PM I received. Southwark Council designs street s to a design standard DS.007. Like all agreed Design Standards in Southwark it can be found on the Southwark Streetscape Design Manual webpages at www.southwark.gov.uk/ssdm. This bible is regualrly used to block changes residents have asked for. Better cycle parking and segregated cycel paths being the most recent in East Dulwich.