James Barber

Hi ktbg, I was told they stopped providing bags with handles to save money. Cuncil officials agreed an experiment with tow of the Friern Road blocks having bags with handles and two without and then to compare the results in terms of number of bags used and amount recycled. I've yet to receive the results and the trial was meant to have started many many months ago. Personally, not having handles REALLY puts me of off food waste collections. I do it but as you say the bags are much less full and balacning a bag while trying to tie knots in the bag is a problem for me. Mrs TP, I'm sorry I've not obtained a reply from officers yet and I should have told you it was taking time. Sorry.

Hi Peckhamboy, You're right this is very odd. The contraflows were one of my suggestions when the original Grove Vale plans we proposed along with contraflow out onto Grove Vale. In fact tat Puffin crossing should really be a Toucan crossing. ReAlly not sure what has happened to get to this at best piece meal Implimentation but have asked and will feedback as soon as know what is happening.

Hi ed_pete, Peckhamboy, My understanding was tht the Grove Vale junction would allow cyclists out. Before that junction is made cycle friendly it would be useful for residents living along there. Hi trizza, Let me ask again. Hi flocker spotter, Yes, I agree.

Ideally you'd contact Southwark Council via 020 7525 2000 and they'll come and remove it.

Also father xmas grotto outside Herne Hill station as part of a Festive Fayre - this Saturday 10 December

gedwina Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi James, > > Thames water are back on the corner of rye lane, > any idea how long they are ping to be digging the > road up this time? > > Thanks Hi gedwina, Council officers have suggested that the traffic jam was a combination of Southwark housing works with concrete being pumped onto site and a delivery lorry the opposite side of the road at the same time. I've been assured that parking enforcement will be stepped up to avoid this occurence while ther designating loading bay for the development work is in place. BUT please do keep me posted on this. I rarely travel along Rye Lane preferring Green Lane.

Please emailing me all your details and I will find out for you. So your name, phone number/s, address you are moving to and te date you plan on exchanging and moving in.

This chairperson of the Dulwich Community Council Cllr Lewis Robinson (whose ward this site is in) has kindly explained and my understanding is that the property owner was not happy with the public inquiry required for a CPO and is challenging it in the high court. Hence the delays to any work getting underway.

I'm told today by the South Southwark Business Association (SSBA who are mostly Lordship Lane traders) that they have no plans for such late opening this year. They said "We have tried this for a number of years and unfortunately there is not the night time footfall to warrant it. In fact over the years fewer shops stayed open and there ceased to be a big enough draw. I think shops are doing their own thing this year in terms of extended opening hours and mulled wine etc etc."

Hi gedwina, Southwark Council highways inspectors were made aware by TfL buses of this work yesterday afternoon. A highways inspector was due to visit first thing today. The manager had a hunch it might be to do with a Southwark Housing project around 178/180 Rye Lane. I haven't visited the site to confirm if it is this location. Eitherway, digging up the street is only meant ot occur after giving the highway authority i.e Southwark Council notice. We may have one part of Southwark Council fining another part of Southwark council for not following the rules! As soon as I have more information I'll come back to you again.

If you think metal theft is a real problem one proposed solution is to make it illegal for scrap metal merchants to pay cash. If you think that's a good idea then please do sign this petition: https://submissions.epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/406

1-11 Pytchley Road was approved for sale at the 22 November council Cabinet committee. The next cabinet 13 December will decide to sell Badminton House (block nearest East Dulwich station).

I don't believe this advertising conforms to the rules around advertising. I suspect even Straferjack would be alarmed if advertising was a free for all and allowed anywhere! I've asked enforcement officers to check this wall - some time ago and will chase.

Hi gedwina, Oh no. I'll try and find out what is going on and timescales. Many thanks for alerting me.

Apparently Southwark Council is the freeholder of the site. The leaseholder is Dulwich Hamlets Football Club. Unusually the lease has been described as being on a peppercorn tat te leaseholder can extend. The only way te freeholder can revoke te lease is if they have a specific purpose. Apparently residents are now pushing for this Metropolitan Open Land to Have allotments - which Southwark is incredibly short of - and are not persuaded by the ever creeping DHFC.

Hi first mate, I would expect the report to talk about all data officers have received including from petitions. Equally they've been set the task of assessing controlled parking on specific streets so the more specific a petition and the closer a signature I'd guess the more weight it/they would carry. but I've never written such a report. You might want to refer to the relatively recent report about the Herne Hill CPZ extension into Holmdene Avenue. A bit different in that residents were asking for this extension but I'd guess the format would be similar if more complex on these ED station proposals. Another way to use petitions is to ask to present them to the Community Council. You'll need to decide which Community council as I imagine (but you may wish to check) a petition can only be used once.

Continuing the off topic - all BT Exchanges serving Southwark are due to have inifinity by the end of December.

New proposed cycle contraflows along Copleston and Oglander to fit with new junction with Grove Vale. I'm really chuffed that I suggested these contraflow as part of the changes to Grove Vale and they're now happening. Please see attached for plans - look at the bottom.

Hi first mate, To be fair to Tessa Jowell her constituency is made up of 8 wards - 5 in Lambeth and 3 in Southwark. Her constituency is SW of Grove Vale which forms the border for her. NE of Grove Vale is Harriet Harman's constituency. I think you'll find most politicians whose area includes the proposed streets will be horrified. Some streets will probably be in favour of controlled parking and clearly lots of people outside those streets who will be against. Whatever a politician does will alienate some faction. You'll probably find politicians with no proposed streets in their wards much more likely to join the antis because they wont have any voters who want it. The process. Normally after such a public consultation for a scheme funded by TfL the cabinet member would decide based upon an officer report. Cllr Barrie Hargrove kindly agreed to my request made before the public consultation that the two relevant community councils be asked for their views to add to the material Barrie will consider. Hardly the actions of someone trying to stiffle debate. Timings. Camberwell CC will meet 8 Jan and Dulwich CC will meet 24 Jan. Barrie would decide in Feb. IF any proposals were to be implimented that would be before 31 March and the financial year end. The officer report should be issued 7 days before the 8 Jan. Due to holidays etc I believe that it will be issued around 23 December. When it is I will place a link on this thread or if small enough attach it or both. Hope this helps.

From memory JCDecaux will be giving Southwark Council ?80,000 pa. Sounds a very profitable line of business.

At last nights full council assembly I had a question asked about school places (No.10 it's logged as coming from the chair of the Dulwich Community Council Cllr Lewis Robinson). The answer stated that September 2012 an extra 1 to 1.5 form entries will required above the current capacity for the area. 1 FE = 30 children. That by 2015/16 revised forecasts state we'll need an extra 2 to 2.5FE. The recommended optimum school size is 2 FE. So assuming further investigation confirms these new forecasts we need a new school in Dulwich. The obvious place would be Dulwich Hospital. With a new government perhaps the 5-7 year process can be abridged. The reason I had this question asked is we've produced a Lib Dem paper about Dulwich Hospitals future and we need to know whether a new school needs to go on that site.

But surely your point Nero is that we should make the area around the station more attractive not give up!

Southwark Council has signed a deal with JCDecaux UK Ltd to allow 90 x 2.746m (9foot) tall x 1.472m (4'9") wide free standing pavement advertising hoardings. The plan is they'll be illuminated 24/7, 6 sheet rotating with the first application for one outside East Dulwich station - 11-AP-3314 - heaven only know what the carbon footprint will be. If you think this is a great or bad idea please do tell the planning officer [email protected].

The trouble Loz, is you don't get to decide. If they build the new DHFC grounds and club house as per this application the freeholder of the current DHFC grounds decides what is built subject to planning permission. So even if you don't care about Metropolitan Open Land being built on. And I would be surprised if it was low rise houses. That area would fall in the urban zone and be 4-6 storey blocks OR an out of town shop or some kind. This is a major threat to East Dulwich.

This would be a club house with far less room for spectators. Also the application by Hamlet Football Club avoid any mention from my look of the current grounds. We also know that a recent application to build a number of flats on their existing car park was made.