James Barber

Hi Lynne, This is bizarre. Let me see what can be done.

Cllr Barrie Hargrove has helpfully confirm that funding is in place ?45,000 for the next financial year 2012/13 for either a new crossing at the shopping parade or around Fenwick Road. So far more people have requested a crossing at the latter location. Seperately the Peckham Rye crossing proposals being worked on to improve this junction. www.crashmap.co.uk shows this junction has had a lot of crashes of worst kind over the years.

Hi David A, Costing costs do vary wildly. For example a Zebra crossing where lampposts are already in helful places would costs a few thousand pounds + legal costs versus the other end of the sprectrum with a raised treatment, new electrics needed could cost toward the top end of what you've suggested. But the top end would be very unusual. Schools. Near enough every school in Southwark has a School Travel Plan aimed at making more sustainable and safer travel to school. Southwark also has some support services. For example the Heber School travel plan will see around ?10,000 of changes to Heber Road - everythnig from relining, building out kerbs. Does that answer your query?

Extending the number 63 bus to Honor Oak station has been cmapianged for by both local Labour and Lib Dems for a number of years. Obviously makes lots of sense especially since the East London Line has a lot more passengers than predicted when the number 63 was dismissed as marginally outside cost benefit on the low forecast ELL train useage. I would be curious how Val Shawcross intends to pay for the extension if elected. Average bus route receives ?4M subsidy pa.

Hi Worker, It will only be a few more days before these crossings are working. First started campaigning for them in 2006. You would not believe the hassles and problems - everything from formal complaints about officers who've since left Southwark Councils employ, Judicial Reviews, etc. Fingers crossed everyone will wonder what the fuss was about after they've successfully opened.

Hi northlondoner, The Environment Director is Gill Davies - [email protected]

We started going down the seperate vaccination but then couldn't get the final single one. Company manufacturing them went bust from memory. This meant rather than not be fully vacinnated we had to go with MMR. In hindsight we shouldn't have gone singularly - but we thought it was the best decision for us at the time several years ago. The oroignal MMR vaccinations used from memory Mercury for preservative effect but the current MMR doesn't. If you are going singularly do ensure you can get all three and that it's a substantial supplier who wont suddenly go bust or choose other work.

Hi Ossa, If you manage to reuse nylon bags 300 times that is fab. Well done and please do keep that up.

Apparently the warning was for the Oakhurst area and not an East Dulwich wide problem - but still sensible advice about not keeping any keys near letterboxes/hallways.

How terribly sad. I recently read research that showed that children can't judge vehicle speeds above 20mph. That means they may well have thought they had a genuine opportunity to cross when they didn't. Critising kids for having the pyschological limits of being children is at best pointless. East Dulwich Road near those shops desperately needs improving to make crossing the road safe. This stretch of road is the boundary between two political wards - Peckham Rye and The Lane wards. The cabinet councillor for transport Barrie Hargrove is also one of The Lane ward councillors. If you feel strongly about this please do email his [email protected] I'll email him in a moment to ask if he already has plans for this stretch of road, I seem to recall plans were added to the stratgy some time ago.

Hi monica, I'm not aware of any listing for the roundabout. Checking Southwark interactive map after clicking for listed buildings/structures doesn't show this roundabout as listed.

Apologies for a few days of with family emergency. Hi freirnlocal, I'll ask abotu the freezing showers - this seems a recurrent theme. Hi monica, Many thanks for the feedback hear and via email. Sure we'll get it all sorted. SNUB do great work and I'm keen to support it. Hi Ossa, I'm really sorry abotu this muddle. I know that staying in with toddlers and not getting them out and about can be a realy pain. So far, you're the only person to report having any problems. Several other on this forum have reported very proactive behaviour. Please do try again and email me if your the slightest problem. The whole point of thep roject is to make energy advice and actions as painless as possible. Hi Scuffy Mummy, AbDabs, Bags are, for me, an interesting subject. Brown paper bags a la USA shopping take more petroleum than plastic bags. On an eco course I did we had to produce an essay on the life cycle management of such bags. Fascinating. As you say cloth bags can be the most eco friendly solution if used repeatedly over several years. But they also have a psychological aspect of making people think about shopping locally. And yres one does wonder where all the original SNUB bags ended up. Come on people get them out again. Hi the-e-dealler, My mind is boggling at what you must wear with huge pockets for all your shopping.

Hi eastdulwichhenry, I couldn't agree more - Goose Green rounabout would be fine as it is if they fixed the wall. Hi monica, Sadly the info you've provided about the bike project beign repeated for a second year has'nt reach councillors who allocate the funds. So where would you run the project? SNUB bags are FANTASTIC. I love the idea. But after the first experience they don't appear to meet the criteria of capital projects ie. lasting a large number of years - your application stated 40% of the bags lasted 18 months and after four years you need to repeat. BUT it is revenue i.e. it doesn't have a lasting affect. We do have some revenue but only ?10,000. Hence why I asked if you'd apprached lordship traders to share the costs?

Hi henryb, Sadly TfL buses blocked a zebra from being constructed outside the Coop - they said it would cause problems by being to popular with people using it.

Night flights operate 11pm-6am. Upto 30 a night around 10,000 a year out of Heathrows 580,000 flight allowance. Apparently they're critical to the airlines, airport and supposedly UK economy. I joined Heathrow Action Campaign Against Noise (HACAN) some time ago. Night flights cause hundres of thousands of Londoners impaired sleep. Crazy. If the noise troubles you join up with HACAN as well. The night flght system is up for review this year. Hopefully they'll be banned and everyone can get a better nights sleep.

Hi Monica, I can see two CGS grants that look like yours. 1st for a repeat of the SNUB bags at ?10,000 applied for by you. 2nd for Recycle a Bike Dulwich at ?8270 to recycle 80 bikes applied for by Stewart Vanns. The second one says it will be based out of ED Police station stable blocks. But at the last ED SNT ward panel we were told the stable blocks are no longer open for public use. Can you please expand on this as currently it doesn't look a feasible bid based on the info we have from the Police. The SNUB bags. Could we share the costs with SSBA/Lordship Lane traders so they get a chance to show their green credentials? CGS is a capital funding stream and we're meant to be able to show a long term typically 20year benefit. The application states that at 18months 60% of the original spend had stopped being an asset and then go onto say that after 5/6 years virtually none of the asset is left. Don't get me wrong I think the concept is great. We do have revenue budget via the Community Fund. On funding highway improvements. Very small schemes are often funded by CGS as they would never happen otherwise. That's the point of devolving capital money.

Hi Jeremy, I must admit it did make me grimace to be criticised for something people have been asking for for years and is clearly needed. Can't please everyone all the time. Hi Maxxi, It's not about encouraging people to be lazy. Some people can't walk far or have young children. We need Lordship Lane to compete with places where crossing the road is not an issue. I've had in the past requests to cmapiang for a cash machine on the eastern side because crossing the road is so awkward for so many people. But making it easier to cross seems a far better solution. Lets see how it actually works out and THEN give me a hard time please.

Making more options for pedestrians to cross Lordship Lane will make it easier for people to cross closer to where they want to. Would have preferred zebra crossings but TfL buses blocked that and said Southwark had to take the more expensive option of signalled crossings. Are you worried people will be zig zagging along Lordship Lane crossing at every opportunity causing traffic hold-ups?

BT are going to move the phone box. A tree should also have been moved.

The hearing for this application will take place 10am Monday 5 March (edited to correct the month!) at 160 Tooley Street. If you have objected and wish to attend you need to contact the committee clerk - If you feel you've witnessed problems caused by this establishement and would like to relate them to the licensing sub committee please get in touch with me so we can arrange that.

Hi Fenton, The turn up and go train fare to Birmingham isn't ?360. It's ?158 standard class return and ?254 first class return London Euston to Birmingham. With a modicum of planning you can get fares for tomorrow at ?85.50 return. You then need to balance parking costs, ability to work while travelling, etc. Why do businesses base themselves in London. Reports of higher productivity staff and a huge pool of labour.

Hi ITATM, Yes, the current proposals are to keep the tree but reduce the overal diameter by 1.5m and giving that space to vehicle lanes. It will make the rounabout quicker to negotiate and increase capacity. This would make it less safe to all users. Hi eddie, No repairs to the roundabout have been undertaken in the last 18months. The South Camberwell ward and East Dulwich ward councillors have proposed that we use some of our Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding to repair it. We've been blocked from doing this as the council wants to change the roundabout. It will look like we're on an industrial estate, increase capacity and vehicle speeds. It will as a result have more collisions and collisions of greater severity where people are injured. The proposed changes would cost ?30,000-50,000. If this plays out as it did a decade ago. The next step will be for officers to say then perhaps we keep the roundabout the same size much make the lanes bigger by taking some of the Goose Green land. Then we all say no to that. Then they suggest traffic lgihts as happened a decade ago. A big public meeting. All to avoid repairing a few bricks a couple of times a year which can't costs more than a couple of thousans pounds a year. So a payback period of 15-25 years. Hi Penguin68, I agree. The very high levels of traffic using it have highway engineers baffled by the very low collision rate. The rounabout diameter is a key aspect of really slowing vehicles down. I fear changing a largely winning configuration worrying and believe it will result in more collisions for all users. Hi AbDabs, I find it puzzling as well. The last time this proposal was made the councillor leading the meeting had probably the hardest time I've ever seen at the Southwark Council public meeting.

The council have issued plans to radically change Goose Green roundabout - see attached. I recall a past public meeting where the Labour councillor Nick Dolezal tried to persuade local East Dulwich residents that we would prefer traffic lights or a radically changed roundabout so more cars and lorries could pass through our area more quickly every day. He also revealed that Goose Green roundabout defies highway planners by having an unprecedented low collission rate. The attached plans are the current attempt by council officers to make more road space to speed up traffic at Goose Green. The fig leaf of an excuse is lorry damage to the roundabout brick wall. Very occasionally a lorry will hit such a roundabout but if the council never repairs it it will look much worse. And the council hasn't repaired the roundabout for nearly two years now. Apparently its to dangerous to repair the brick work - but not so dangerous they can;t remove all of the roundabout brick work, shrink the roundabout by 6 feet and resurface the road - hypocrites comes to mind. Do you think Goose Green roundabout should be changed?

Just heard Grove Vale library is reducing its hours from 33 pw to 25pw. I met with the heado f libraries and suggested a number of measuresto save enough money to avoid any cut in hours to make the ?98,000 saving stated as required.

Hi Cora, Longshot...but forecasts show we need another primary school with 60-75 children admitted per year. A new 'free' secondary school has just been agreed for 100 chilren admitted per year. Suspect that will turn into 120 as educationalists views are that 4 x form entry (4 x 30) is minimum required to have enough teachers to give a broad enough curriculam. Eitherway such a new school is likely to have a domino affect releaving pressure locally to some degree. IF we wanted antoher local secondary school and the case could be made with forecast pupil numbers it would need to be as a minimum of a similar size to the ED Harris Boys School. OR saomehow not need to have the minimal size of admissions. Steiener schools tends to be not so pescriptive on curriculam so could in theory be smaller. But only one in the country that is state funded.