James Barber

Hi Zenoria, The last I've seen on this was a direct email to local ward councillors about a month- 6 weeks ago. I've not seen any planning application and have just checked. If you spot any notices on lampposts please prod me!

Hi Chocky, What a useful campaign by the National Union of Teachers. I wonder why the NUT don't sponsor some free schools. They clearly have lots of expertise. Councils can open new schools. But the process is painful, not as painful as it was but still painful, and they have to do it almost as a last resort. So making it easier would be good but only for those councils proven to provide great schools. Blanket change allowing hopeless councils to do it wouldn't be good for local children. If the petition had some caveat along those lines I'd sign and be promoting it.

Inspirational. I wonder how many women in our area could use such pricing. With foodbanks we must have many who find sanitary pads an equally tough household budget choice.

Hi ITATM, That was why I linked to a critical Guardian article. The contractors brought in were Atkins who don't just do building and then Cambridge Associates. Harris must be doing something right to be heavully over subscribed and have nearly all outstanding schools. Hi redjam, Ditto about pragmatism. The assumption all local authorities are great educational providers is at best na?ve, and at worst political dogma, and annoyred me. Apologies for reacting with our own example. I've recently wondered about the US approahc to get people voting about education of educational boards. And yes we either have new free school academies or no new schools. Been this way since 2006.

Hi Vanessa3, I wouldnt expect Southwark to change this crossing as one reported crash involving slight injury over the last 8 years have been recorded at this site. Lots of other East Dulwiuch locations with more danger and crashes I'm afraid which should be dealt with first. Hi fl0wer, What a tricky problem. Can you please email me direct when you (or anyone else) spots such an example. Southwark Council would then have a chance to enforce laws and regs about waste transfer, fly tipping etc.

Hi Coach Beth, Yes and no. Lots of councils are not good educational providers. Should they be allowed to establish poor schools giving children poor education? I would suggest not until they reach an agreed standard with the schools they run. Tony Blair's Labour government was so exasperated with how badly Labour Southwark Council ran our schools that they stripped Education away in 2000 http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2003/nov/22/schools.schoolprivatisation It was several years later under a very different political leadership that it was returned and has since flourished under Lib Dems and more recently Labour administration. Equally some authorities are good and should be treated more maturely and allowed to open new schools. Sadly the bad councils and history means central governments haven't and don't trust councils.

Hi wavy line girl, I agree. I would counsel joining the Heathrow Action Campaign Agains Noise HACAN. The more members they have the stronger their voice on our behalf and the more resources they'll have to fight for better conditions keeping excessive noise at bay. Airport noise is a regional issues outside of normal councillors spheres of influences BUT we have in the past used a small amount of Southwark council money with others to fight a court case about a previous government not listening to residents views. I hope the council will do the same again.

Hi TE44, I think we've gone through these questions before. The free school process means any group can make an application to open a new school. The Dept for Education to grant an application would want to see sufficient demand for places, confidence that the applicant has thought it through and has the ability to make a successful school happen. It's a big undertaking creating a new school. We've recently seen more evidence of just how challenging this can be with a northern chain getting into difficulties with a few of its schools. We also regularly see Ofsted discover long standing schools not working well and going into special measures. We've had this happen a number of times locally over the years. Fortunately this is beaching rarer and rarer. This particular campaign isn't proposing to make the whole thing happen ourselves. We're looking to obtain enough support. We've just reached an important landmark of support to make any application possible. But instead we're looking to hand over this project to the school provider we feel best suits parental needs and community needs. So the steering group will decide the provider they wish to see provide a school locally. At the launch of this campaign I made it clear I was only working for a co ed non faith school and the steering group have reconfirmed that. I hope this answers your questions TE44.

Hi TE44, We're very close to our target now, apart from the odd bit of news it will be some months before a public consultation. We now have a twitter feed and Facebook page. Also it also helps to move the campaign beyond being seen as run solely by Lib Dems. Hopefully other partisan will come out and support it shortly. But you're always very welcome to email me about this at any time.

For those interested I've asked for a break down by postcode and ward. Sadly getting someone to run what should be the same report but with one parameter added will take a number of days. Bit buzzard as this is asked every year, often in advance but yet to be provided in one go.

Hi Renata, I hadn't seen you post this data and attachments so I did.

Please see attached files. 95 more secondary applications than last years (2,500 vs. 2,595 61.4% received their first choice. 88.5% received one of their first 3 choices. 94.4% received one of their 6irst 6 choices. 5.7% offered a place they hadn't expressed a desire for. That's 147 Weirdly the 94.4% and 5.7% equal 100.1% This represents a lot of disappointed people. If you need help making sense of your allocation please contact your local councillor and/or access the School Preference Partnership for a 20mins slot - first come first served 5-12 March 9.30-12.50 & 1.50-3.30 Peckham One Stop Shop, Peckham Library OR call them on 020 75255211 [email protected]

Hi singalto, WRT cold calling - please tell Southwark Trading Standards when it occurs - especially if they don't have ID. The number ot call is Tel: 020 7525 2000 I'm afraid this is a call centre so might be clunky also you can email them at - [email protected] Thanks for confirming you've recevied rthe resurfacing letter. Sometimes they don't get delivered before the work. Hi fazer71, Interesting. Thank you.

Hi ITATM, Sorry I had assumed banding and distance within bands. A la Lewisham school generally and I believe ED Harris. If it aims to ensure a comprehensive representative sample of local children across all abilities then that would work for me. To ensure it's working I would anticipate any school we help create regularly reviewing admissions to ensure its meeting this aim. Tyis would be for places after things like siblings, SEN, looked after children.

Hi TE44, No privatisation of our is planned or proposed. It is against the law for state schools to be for profit. So I'm bemused with what you've posted. Hi edanna, ITATM, I think you're mixing banding with popularity. ED Harris Boys Academy hasn't had any GCSE results yet. Everyone is expecting great results and it's popularity and distance of banded admissions to decrease. As some have highlighted here simple crow flies can see people moving to guarantee places it also doesn't ensure comprehensive intakes. Banding can result in different issues. Their isn't any one pure correct admissions. Lottery to me doesn't feel right as we wouldn't necessarily end up with a local community school. People who love close to any school with the demerits of such proximity are unlikely to obtain places when our new. School becomes incredibly popular. But I don't get to decide these things. It would be the preference of any great provider we all ask to take this project on. And looking around most have banding.

Hi Katy, I feel a lot of sympathy for long term Families being gazumped for school places in the way you've described. The key for me is ensuring we have another equally popular secondary school to avoid such situations. It seems most secondary providers use banding which would go someway to avoiding those situations described.

Extending the tube to Camberwell using DLR tunneling success would cost arond ?200M. With current interest rates that would take ?4M to service pa. The average bus route subsidy pa is ?4M. Terminate a couple of bus routes at Camberwell rather than E&C and you could pay for it. But it would take political will to make it happen. TfL don't want a little extension. They want a multibillion extension that annoys outer London tory boroughs such that they don't support it. Until TfL scales back the extension solely to inner London boroughs it will go knowhere with a tory Mayor of London. Sadly a Labour Mayor of London didn't and wont allocate the resources to it because the areas involved Peckham and Camberwell are rock solid Labour.

i couldnt agree more rahrahrah. But while people speed what do you do?

I agree. I had no idea officers were going to waste so much white paint. Completely unnecessary and contrary to the DoT guidance. I'll take a look at the weekend and ask officers why they've over egged something that should have been simple.

Hi DenmonthSmith, ITATM, Apolgoies, my mistake, I thought the following was obvious. IF admissions was distance based... The Charter School admission footprint, as with other now popular schools, has shrunk partly from a growth in local child numbers and partly from becoming more popular. All I was suggesting was any new school, whoever provides it, will not convince everyone a year in advance of opening when places are applied for that it will be fabulous. That with success and even just being open a schools credibility will rise, its popularity will rise and IF admissions is distance base that distance will start shrinking. IF admissions based on distance and when it become fabulous that distance would shrink significantly. Which why many have suggest purely distance based would not be ideal for a variety of reasons.

All of Silvester Road will be resurfaced (weather permitting) 7-10 March. Please see attached.

The works are to calm speeds and also to allow cyclists to cycle both ways along Henslowe Road. Last traffic count September 2011 average of 429 vehicles as day - busiest day 1,109 vehicles. Average speed 21.3mph but 85th percentil speed of 27.3 which means the remainder are travelling at sped great than 27.3 mph. Removing the one way ness was felt it would recreate the original problems making it a rat run despite Friern Road closures.

Please do submit views for or against the latest planning application for this site. A small request please copy me as a ward councillor on any email submissions so I can check I haven't missed anything I should have raised.

I've never seen A Matter of life Or Death on the big screen. When everyone pops along to the public pre planning application consuls tuition event do ask that as part of the lunch they have a public vote on the first films to be shown.

Hi Denmothersmith, Any new school is likely to have a much larger admissions footprint if distance based. But the steering group with the chosen partner would decide the admissions scheme it would like to implement and this would be consulted upon as part of the application process.