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Hi Herrd, Which Piolice Neighbourhood Forum were you at? I was at East Dulwich one and don't recall it coming up and I was taking the minutes!

Hi ClareC, I think you mean north east Rodwell Road.

Blimey the-e-dealer, My point was that I sympathise with residents feeling frustrated at so many extra vehicles visiting when services at the church are on.

Call 020 7525 2000 to have them removed. I'll also raise it with the local Police at tonights East Dulwich Safer Neighbourhood Team Police meeting. They might know what this is.

The church building looks to predate motor cars. It would originally have a served a very local population who walked there.

Hi fazer71, gm99 and Ms B, I think this issue result from several changes. Since April litter picking is now meant to take place alternate days versus past daily. These litter pickers are meant to pick up any glass they come across. I've had two instances where residents have been able to prove the litter pickers haven't been doing their jobs. If you can provide several pictures of litter not being picked please do send it to me. Suc evidence is irrefutable and we can get things improved. The other factor is street sweeping which used to take place fortnightly changes to 4 weekly. So this other mechanism for fixing this is now much less frequent. And finally the new waste collections regime. I doubt that's making it worse as either a blue wheelie bin that gets tipped into the rubbish truck of a blue box/bag that gets empties. The old process of hand picking in theory should have been more prone to breakages. IF you see broken glass please report it via 020 7525 2000 or [email protected] and feel free to copy me. IF you can see litter generally isn't vanishing with 48hours please tell me. Hope this helps.

Why not go and ask them? I did this with a crew working on the pavement outside my house and it turned out to be some dodgy Virgin Media sub cotnractors. Dodgy in the sense it wasn't emergency works and they were not signing and barriering their partial road closure. When asked they packed up and went.

Hi DulwichFox, I think your fears are unfounded. I've seen an itemised report of issued tickets by category and I don't recall seeing any tickets numbers for that type of issue. We will have two crossings - one outside the Coop which is clearly them ost obvious required one. The second from The Bishop is partly ot help cross Lordship Lane but partly to put breaks inthe traffic allowing vehicles in and out of East Dulwich Grove and to make EDG crossing easier for pedestrians. Long story but the original proposal to have traffic lights at that junction would have meant much less parking which ED cllrs couldn't support to the degree required versus the 'benefits'. I proposed a zebra crossing to break up the flow. After several years council officers/contractors came up with a Puffin crossing and agreed probably the only way to achieve the aim without signalising the junction etc. Feel free to call me for fuller explanation. Hi eddie, I think the two will work well and actually are intended to achieve different things. See above also feel free to call me about them. Hi Ipool, I'll ask officers abotu your suggestion. Thank you. Hi TownleyGreen, Yes Labour have led the council since May 2010 but these crossings were started some years ago. I doubt Labour would have wanted to stop these crossings. Also a lot of background with officers leaving the council and compliants by ED cllrs upheld etc. Very sad its taken so long to happen but we're getting there. The Artfull Dogger. Haha. I needed that on a cold Monday morning.

Hi Lynne, I'm just back from weekend away which is a roundabout way of apologising for not responding sooner. I dn't know what the rules are but will find your email, forward it to the parking team and ask them and then respond to you. Hopefully will get an answer today or tomorrow. Hi Bellenden Belle, If the back room could still be booked it might be within the consent already given but it would be worth planning enforcement to review this business as gm99 has kingly suggested.

I've been told by one local shop keeper that Starbuck's are sniffing around Lordship Lane. BUT we have a limit on the number of non shops allowed to shops - ratio of 50:50 - as well as classes of use.

Hi buddug, Re reading your and dfazer71 posts on leaseholder housing management I'm unclear how I can address 13 years of past history. But I can help with the next tranche or work. You should have received an estimate of the next years work. If it looks odd please email me and well arrange for me to visit you.

Hi buddug, My family have a car. We avoid using it as much as possible but yes we own a car. My children are not quite old enough to have the sdame stamina for wlaking etc as me. I was responding to the assertion that cars are a necessity. Plenty of people locally find they are not. Whether this is an economic choice or other factor. A car for most costs around 1/2 to 1 working days work per week.

Hi buddug, Grove Vale new ponding/puddles. The contractors will be on site tomorrow or Friday. They will slightly adjust the levels of the footway and introduces small gulley.

Unrestricted parking provision results in Los Angeles style land use where most land is devoted to stationary parked cars. So paving over Peckham Rye isn't the answer. Cars a necessity? Half Southwark households exist without cars.

Derwent Grove street lights. Last night visual check of how many are not working. Officers amaxzed at how many not working for this lighting scheme installed in 2007. So they double checked all other local lighting schemes installed in 2007 and non have suffered a similar mass failure. Today lighting engineers will try and fix them. If any are related to the electricity supply then the monopoly provider will have to dig the street and that can take ages to organise (and no its not a dastardly plan related to controlled parking before anyone asks!).

My understanding is that under the Leasehold Reform Housing and Urban Development Act 1993 if 2/3rds of qualifying flats in a property want to buy the freehold you legally can. Various rules about qualifying flats. I failed to buy freehold with adjoining flat due to the businesses below being more than 25% non residential. I spent some time exploring with neighbouring Company Secretary any wheeze to make it happen and we failed. I'm not ignorant on this subject. So if anyone lives in a house sub divided into two flats and both are leaseholders of Southwark council then you can buy the freehold and no longer have Sotuhwark Council Housing ruling you. If 2 flats in house subdivided into 3 flats you can also do it, etc.

Hi BraandNewGuy, Apologies I really had thought I'd responded. Of course any solution for some will be better than any of the other proposed recommendations. Recommendation 1 - do nothing - is clearly a rubbish option if you passionately want something done about parknig on your road. No.2 - is rubbish if you regularly park on corners and couldn't care less about the impact that has on others. No.3 - Melbourne Grove - if you don't care about parknig pressures perhaps don't have a car then this is a rubbish option to you. No.4 - if you live outside the proposed streets this is a rubbish option for you as you may well prefer the problem to stay where it is. Etc. It's all down to perspective. Is Southwark Council going to provide a station car park. Clearly not, because apart from not having the large capital to buy land for this and I doubt the building merchant wants ot sell, why would people pay to park at a station car park when it's free on local residents streets. Should Southwark Council provide car parking to businesses. Well it effectively already does - on residential streets! But weirdly shop owners park as close to their shop as possible rather than thinking perhaps that makes life harder for potential customers. Hence the reason we have such high levels of criminality of parking plates vanishing around East Dulwich. Hi grisett, My understanding of the loss of parking you talk about is the current parking controls timings. The difference between when single yellow lines operate and when they don't. You're comparing when yellow lines don't operate and stating that's the available parking now and when they do operate now or under any controlled parking which is clearly less. I'm sure it's a genuine mistake but it is misleading.

Hi AD, I've asked if parking enformcenemtn could take a look this morning.

Hi fazer71, Please emails me your details and lets explore that freehold purchase. Only has to be 50% private leaseholders to qualify from memory. I can assure you that the managers in Southwark Housing are very keen to not be accountable for acquire street properties as it costs a lot to deliver the nightmarish experience you've described.

The agenda and timetable for tonights Camberwell Community Council can be found at: http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=3882&T=0 Deputations are planned for 7.10pm - one definite deputation about the CPZ consultation report and a second one where theperson hasn't completed the arrangements. If you're that person contact the committee clerk ASAP. The Camberwell Community Council chair person, second hand, is planning to stick to the agenda which would mean the main CPZ consultation report is timetabled for 8.55-9.05. That seems ambitious to stick to only 10 mins for this topic but the study is quite clear no controlled parking is proposed for the streets within Camberwell Community Council area.

Hi Fazer71, I understand your anger but if you have evidence of criminality please do go to the Police. Making such unsubstantiated allegations might make you feel better but wont solve the problem at puts at risk the forum itself.

Hi buddug, Councils can't give away freeholds despite as we both know and officers do that for 'acquired street properties' it costs the council a lot of money to deliver its freeholder obligations - much more than the nominal ground rent. They're such a liability that housing associations wouldn't want them.

Hi pipsky2008, Depends what informaiton you want. It may already be in the public domain and I could sign post it for you or acquire it quickly if I request it. Failing either of those use the Freedome of Information route. Feel free to email me and I'll give try giving you a more specific steer. Hi buddug, Grove Vale pondiong. Sadly, another non housing contractor. I've asked when the mini lakes will be resolved and presume this would be undertaken as snagging issues. Housing. Talking to Southwark accountants if they could they'd give freeholds away to tenants as technicalyl they show as an asset but in reality they're a liability and give poor service to boot. As a result of your query I investigated the leaseholder conundrum at length with council officers vs freehold and also delivered and kncked on all leaseholders na tenant doors in East Dulwich ward with my colleagues.

Hi rahrahrah, I did but the school roles forecasts have radically changed so I believe demand can now be shown. The only fly in the ointment for this would be it might be free school. Whereas I suspect most people would just want a good local community school.