James Barber

So far 5 supporting families with another 4 with slightly younger children. Please do email your support. We need 180 to make a fabulous schools happen. Please also indicate if you'd like to join a steering committe for this school.

Maximising choice is really important. Coed a must as we have choice for single sex boys and girls schools locally. Plenty of religious schools in Southwark so non-faith is important.

TO REGISTER SUPPORT GOTO www.newschool.org.uk Today we can announce that our chosen provider is Haberdashers' Aske's Federation to provide a new secondary school on the Dulwich Hospital site. It will be modelled on their Hatcham College (but without the junior school). Now 751 supporting families. Thank you. Do you support a new East Dulwich secondary school? We need 180 families to support a new 6 form entry secondary school to make it happen - 90 families with children starting secondary school Sept 2016 and 90 starting secondary school Sept 2017 - currently in year 3 or 4 at primary school. (or 150 for a 5 form entry school). If you have children due to start secondary school Sept 2016 or 2017 please email me your support for a new exemplary secondary school stating your name, child?s date of birth and your home post code to: [email protected] Background: Locally East Dulwich councillors have been working to solve the Primary school reception places gap. By September 2016 the gap would have risen to 215-235 reception places. We?ve supported one free school that?s opened by finding a site for it and provided the evidence and suggested sites for another two free schools. Together they should provide 170 of the required places and Southwark Council are providing places in neighboring areas relieving demand on Dulwich schools by about 45 places. But after primary school where will these extra children go ? do we need a new exemplary secondary school to provide enough local places? The bulge in primary school places started in 2009. Those children will need secondary school places 2016. We also know that currently few families are being offered the secondary school places they want. Instead many are being offered places in New Cross, Crayford, Walworth and that?s before the 2009 primary bulge takes effect. Council officials tell us we have plenty of places. The same officials that said we didn't have a problem in 2009. They plan secondary school places on a borough wide basis. But most families think much more locally than that. To test the numbers the Lib Dem leader asked the Labour council leader about school places (page 19 second paragraph). If you ignore the political ping pong he stated ?The forecasts show continuing demand for secondary places and suggest that in the medium term from 2016 additional secondary places may be needed in the borough.? These jigsaw pieces tell me we need a new secondary school in the Dulwich area opening September 2016. This date is useful because the East Dulwich Harris Boys Academy will have had two sets of GCSE result by then and should be even more popular with the anticipated great results. So it wouldn?t suffer from a new competing local school. The Charter School and Kingsdale School are both already immensely popular so shouldn?t suffer any rival new school. Where and what? Residents don?t need another single sex school because we now have one of each . So a new school would need to be co-ed. The Dulwich Hospital site is the only Dulwich land with sufficient space for a secondary school. A secondary school would still leave plenty of space for the proposed primary school and proposed medical facilities. Which provider? With your support we will attract a great provider and convince Southwark Council to plan places in a more family orientated way. Do you support a new East Dulwich secondary school? If you have children due to start secondary school Sept 2016 or 2017 please email me your support for a new exemplary secondary school stating your name, child?s date of birth and your home post code to: [email protected]

Hi oimissus, Not strictly true. An education authority such as Southwark Council can tell schools its responsible to expand against the wishes of the head and governing body. But it can't direct academies or free schools which don't report to local education authorities. We'll have the East Dulwich Harris Free Primary school opening Sept 2015. This will provide 60 additional places. But Southwark Council have decided, as they did with the Judith Kerr before it opened, not to include this school in its admissions process. This time round Judith Kerr and its 50 places are in the admission process. So we've seen 110 extra places go into the system locally in a relatively short space of time. This should take the building pressure for this round. Hi rachel83, Hopefully we won't get to that stage. But they can be. The schools that bulged over the last few years often returned a former classroom from being used an ICT suite of music room to a classroom. In the case of ICT suits they've been replaced with trolleys of laptops and iPads taken to classrooms.

Hi LadyShip, I would suggest people need to complain to the contacts I've previously given. If enough people complain something will be done. But as a councillor I don't have any direct influence.

Hi rahrahrah, I must say I feel relieved the original statement and advertisement by council officials is apparently wrong. They stated closure for 18months. They've done nothing to correct or readvertise that it's upto 18 months or to get the street name correct! Some have been told up to 3 street closures a day each of 15mins. Others have been told 30mins. Baffled how something so simple could have been made so complicated.

That's a little harsh Falklands. I was sent an email by council officials telling me Crawthew Grove would be closed for 18 months. I alerted people to this. Those officials have since said it wont be closed for 18 months and only up to 3 times a day for 30mins. They've not explained why so much of the road has been handed over to the builders for offices, huge skips, lavatories. Hi EDLove, That looks great. I just wish they could put a little more thought into planning how to achieve this desgin being thoughtful about impact on other residents.

Officers contacted me last night to say it will now be 3x 30mins a day of closure. That it won't be for 18 months but they've issued a temporary traffic management order for 18 months because that's the maximum they can issue one for and you nevertheless know it might take another 18 months! The TTMO has to be advertised. The public notice ad placed in Southwark News p.53 was for a road called "Carthew Grove". Clearly not the same road. So if you get held up by any road closures on Crawthew Grove call the Police non emergency number 101 - little point calling Southwark Council.

Yes it is DB&B. It took a huge expose I worked on with Southwark News. We still have 2 x 2 stars and 6 x 3 stars schools in Southwark which isnt acceptable but huge progress.

Swimming pool and cinema! The applicant is Scott Collins of 92 Crawthew Road. If you know Scott please tell him to get his builders act together. I have no problem with them having a 3 bed house with cinema and swimming pool. Good luck to them. But what really bothers me is that they can't achieve this without minimising hassle to neighbours. ~They've taken over lots of public space in that corner of Crawthew Road and now want all of it for up to 18months. BTW if you live at 68, 70, 70c, 70D, 70D Crawthew Grove or back onto the site in Worlingham Road I hope you've organised Party Wall agreements with the developer (which would be at the developers expense). This big hole comes with danger. Just received phone call from BBC London News. Apparently...the contractor has asked for 3 x 15mins closures for deliveries / day. The architects say another 6 months the woroks will be finished not 18 months. But the same archtiects also said the wohl build would take less than a year and we're now over a year. Bewildering why Southwark officers should advertise an 18months total closure and loss of parking unless that's what they were asked for.

Try searching for SE22 schools hygiene ratings: http://ratings.food.gov.uk/authority-search/en-GB/%5E/se22/desc_rating/7845/528/%5E/1/1/10 Langbourne School doesnt do well with 2 stars 21/05/13(improvement necessary ) Kingsdale School 3 stars 14/10/11 (generally satisfactory) And I have heard of people being poisoned it just didnt make the newspaper. Local Authorities don't undertake inspections for the fun of it!

Today I was emailed the attached Temporary Traffic Management Order starting on Monday and lasting for 18 months. It's to enable building works in the NE corner between Spurling and Frogley - involves a basement swimming pool. I can't imagine whoever lives there will ever be popular with how they've treated the neighbourhood before moving in. I've formally objected to this excessive road closure. If you also think its OTT then please email the responsible council official and CC me... [email protected] 0207 525 2014

The East Dulwich Police Sgt. has told me today: "Well the good news is that yesterday our pro-active unit arrested a LARGE group of people for buglary in a neighbouring area. We have already recovered a very large haul of property from the dulwich burglaries." Figers crossed we'll see a dramatic fall in attempts and actual burglaries.

Hi Coccinelle, I receive 60-100 councillor emails a day. I visited your home and agreed the vibrations were really evident on the pavement. I contacted officers to ask them to investigate. Apologies but they've not responded so I will chase again.

I've had a number of negative comments about local East Dulwich GP practices. I'm sure a number of complements are also out there. Since 1 April 2013 to make complaints about NHS health care: If you have a comment or a complaint about a GP, dentist, pharmacy or optician contact the London office of NHS England at [email protected]. You can also contact NHS England on 0300 311 22 33. There is more information available at http://www.england.nhs.uk/contact-us/complaint. If you have a comment or complaint about a hospital, mental health or community trust please contact the respective organisation directly. If you have a comment or complaint about any other local health service please contact NHS Southwark Clinical Commissioning Group, via the South London Commissioning Support Unit at [email protected] or telephone 0800 456 1517 If you need support in making a complaint please contact VoiceAbility who provide NHS complaints advocacy at [email protected] telephone 0300 330 5454, Textphone Number 0786 002 2939 or fax 0330 088 3762 More information on the website: http://www.southwarkccg.nhs.uk/GetInvolved/Pages/PALSandComplaints.aspx

Hi Kiera, To investigat ethis will take officer time and they havent allowed any budgets for this hence why I#ve had to find the money in another budget and have it reallocated. Hi unlurked, Making Lordship Lane 20mph was funded by a Cleaner, Greener, Safer application. That project came in ?4,000 under budget so ?750 of this will be used to fund the research at 3 sites. If it shows the railings can be removed presumably some more of that ?4,000 wil lbe required. Hi Loz, When can I visit your sofa! Hi olly, We have finite public resources to allocate. We have locations which have more crashes than the Underhill/Barry Road junction since we improved it. The Underhill/Barry Road junction officers suggested ss many improvement as they could think of for the cash available. The problem is either we need buckets more cash and put a raise treatment covering Barry Road. That would certainly slow down all the traffic but as likely cause neighbouring residents building vibrations. OR ban parking for 50m in all directions - but that's as likely to make Barry Road drivers go faster with better sight lines. Another option is average speed cameras which should be self funding when people exceed the speed limit.

How awful. Hi landlover, We can obtain funding to gate those alleyways - didnt realise any were there. Please email me seperately and we'll get them closed to non houseowners. You can also have a free property marking kit and other crime prevention items. The Police who visited should have explianed tihs. If they didnt please email me and will ensure you are offered them.

How odd chillychap. Sorry. I've PM'd to wrk which housing case I've not responsed to. Hi Kiera, Officers have told me I have to find ?250 for a railing assessment to be undertaken. I've found sufficient funds for all railings on Lotrdshop Lane to be assessed. Hopefully it wont take long for the assessment to be undertaken.

To help our children at that age know when it was ok to get up we put a bedside lamp on a timer switch in the corner of their bedrooms. Worked a treat until they were old enough to rea

In response to complaints about Colyton Road/Forest Hill Road crossing council officers have eventually obtained the below from TfL. It effectively says the green phase for people walking is not sufficient but the red light for motor vehicles doesn't go green for a little longer so people walking will probably be out of harms way... To: Barber, James Sent: Fri Nov 22 11:05:10 2013 Subject: RE: Enquiry 330919 Pedestrian crossing time at the traffic signals Colyton/Dunstans/Forest Hill junction (ref: 330919) Dear Councillor Barber, Sorry for the delay in getting back to you we were not happy with the first response we received from TfL which was as follows: Traffic signals Peckham Rye Forest Hill Road Colyton Road Thank you for your recent communication with regards to the traffic signals at the above location. At traffic signals the green man time is an invitation to cross designed to allow all pedestrians waiting to cross to step onto the crossing. Pedestrians are not expected to cross the whole carriageway width in this time. The clearance period that follows allows everyone on the crossing to complete the movement before vehicle signals change to green, this clearance time is extended by detectors monitoring the crossing confirming the presence of moving pedestrian . TfL had promised to go on site and check the signals were working correctly. After much chasing we finally received the following response today: Following concerns raised about the detectors that extend the pedestrian clearance period, an engineer visited the site to check their operation. All detectors were found to be operating correctly and the clearance period was being extended when required as per the junction design. Kind regards

I did approach the Bermondsey Shortwave cinema but zero interest in opening an East Dulwich cinema. I was very surprised.

A new development of 40 homes is proposed to replace the current warehouses at 2 & 2A Crystal Palace Road. Please see attached. The developer is holding an exhibition of the proposals 2-8pm 28 November at the site. Please do pop along and give your views. I've not seen the detail yet. My initial thought is what a shame some of the site couldnt be used to extend the Dulwich Leisure Centre. What do you think?

Hi Kiera, No lordship lane railings are a Southwark Council responsibility. With TfL buses running along Lordship Lane they are consulted in changes that will slow the buses but no more. And yes I am treating it as a road safety issue. If you look at the reported crash data www.crashmap.co.uk it suggest the problem lies between Whateley and Melbourne Grove.

I'm not the police have phone numbers recorded for every car. They should have accepted your call and for a blocked drive blocking you exiting they will assign a non urgent ticket and send someone eventually. If you privately email I will happily look into it for you.

A cinema is generally at its busiest at different times to the high street. So no it's not the same as an M&S. I very spent some of this evening out with our local Police. We came across two groups of teenagers in the wrong space and frankly with too little to do. A cinema would be a useful contribution toward fixing this type of issue.