James Barber

It will be interesting to see what residents on the proposed streets input. mikeb, how can you saying stopping commuter parking wont make it easier for residents, if that's what they indicate they want, to park? peckhamboy, Virtually all the the streets are under parking strees i.e. 80% and above. hi Loz, If you look at the word document I think it explains. People that drove into the area after 6am and left the area much later that day were assumed to be commuters of some description. I can;t recall if Grove Vale is proposed controoled parking - assuming you live in the area please do take a look at your consultation pack. 10am. On average 20% of the vehicles Mon-fri are commuter parking. Remove them and the streets will be easier to park in for those that have permits - again, if that's what residents indicate they want. I don't understand why everyone is bluring what is a simple decision for residents. Do they mind the current parking stress. If they do are they willing to pay the price for controlled parking - heavy version or 2 hour lite version. It would be really helpful for people posting to say what their relationship to this consultation is - do they live on a proposed controlled parking street and if not how far away.

Of legal parking space.

Please see attached parking data and generic letter. So some cold hard facts! Let me see if I can get the answers to the other questions.

And I confirmed my reference for Goose Green School making such a bid to other funding stream yesterday.

If anyone has problems ask your councillor to help find out what is going on. The process should work smoothly if you've submitted all the right documentation and drawings.

My understanding is the smaller libraries run with 3 staff - minimum requirement of 2 at any one time so third to cover lunches. I would have thought moving to 2 staff with a part timer to cover lunch times would ensure the smaller libraries make the savings required but keep the same opening hours.

Hi Renata, Please. See your administration Southwark Events Strategy 2011-13 decided in September by your cabinet. Section 20 and 21: " 20. The proposal for a festival celebrating light, bringing together annual cultural events including Guy Fawkes Night, Diwali, Christmas and Hanukkah, all of which take place around a similar time of year and use light to celebrate in some form. 21. Based around a November 5th, we would work with local communities, traders, TRAs, faith groups and local schools to commission two or three light based projects. These could be lantern parades, projection based, night walks, lumiere type events, late night openings etc. They work across all cultural mediums and with a range of local organisations. These commissions could be part of the fireworks night event or as stand alone happenings. " This Stratefy was published 13 September. Presented to Dulwich Community Council 15 December. At the DCC it was stated a two weeks consultation on what the community wanted. Then a decision point and Cllr ward and officers said 5 weeks would be plenty of time to organise the event. The whole thing was BONKERS on so many levels. I'd hope we could all move on by now. But if you want to keep digging be my guest.

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Hi peckhamboy, Bother, let me check my maths - I plead in advance very long days. 4.30 x twice a week x 52 weeks a year = ?447.20 or ?37.27 pcm (or off peak ?34.67) 2.30 x twice a week x 52 weeks a year + ?50.10 axess card = ?289.30 or ?24.10 pcm (or off peak ?21.51). 12 months x ?24 = ?288 Apologies for my poor maths. Its 10p a month more expensive using Axess peak times and a bit fiddlier having to take money.

Hi Loz, If it happened I wouldn't expect a large number of front gardens to go - most potential ones have gone already. But some of the few left might go. I also don't beleive a loss of legal parking would occur. It will make it plainly clear where parking taking place against the highway code is definately not allowed. Hence why some streets have seen more than 100% parking. Stopping such inconsiderate parking is partly where the safety argument comes from. Hi Penguin68, I can assure you no administration likes to hear about inconsiderate extreme enforcement. If anyone feels hard done by appeal and contact your local councillor. When I've received such casework of unfair ticketing I've helped get those ickets cancelled. I think your suggestion of building multistorey car parks to solve the problem would just encourage more car use along our roads and make East Dulwich station a destination for far more people to drive to. Equally why would people pay to park in a multi storey car parking next to free residential street parking?

Hi Michael, I'm sure I've written this up in the past - eitherway.... Regular swimmers at the Dulwich Leisure Centre could use a Leisure Axess card gives a good a discount this card costs ?50.10 or ?72.30 for a family card. ?2 off peak adult swimming and ?2.40 peak time for Axess card holders. Non Axess card holders pay ?4 and ?4.30 respectively. So if someone swims twice a week at peak times they'll spend ?19.20pcm as opposed to the old swim only membership which cost ?24pcm. Hope this explains why officers have changed things.

Hi Renata, You're repeating the explanation Cllr Veronica Ward made in an email to loyal Labour party members which was full of mistruths and inaccuricies to cover herself. Yes, your adminsitratino wanted to also celebrate Christmas on Friday the 4 November as well as not calling a fireworks event on Guy Fawkes weekend Bonfire night but instead the "The Colour Thief: A Winter Extravaganza Celebrating The Changing Of The Seasons". As I said at the time BONKERS. At the September Dulwich Community Council we were told by Cllr Veronica Ward that the council had made no commercial commitments and a consultation with the community of what they wanted would take place starting 7 weeks before the proposed event and ending 5 weeks before the event and that the council would have no trouble organsiing a complex event with only five weeks when one of the those weeks was half term making it harder for schools and clubs to organise. That consultation was pulled by your adminsitration after a week from public ridicule But if you're now saying a commercial commitment had been made then you're now telling us Veronicia was lieing.

Hi bonamoe, Cllr Jonathan Mitchell is taking a well earnt holiday this week.

Hi karter, Yes, it is clear on the East Dulwich Forum people are generally against controlled parking near East Dulwich station. But those that have stated they live in the proposed streets for the controlled parking seem to be in favour. My own personal experience of meeting people on doorsteps is those closer to the station in the proposed zone are very much in favour. This means that potentially weighing up the wishes of people near the station who say they're suffering parking problems against those that are not currently suffering parking problems but fear they will if the zone is implimented. The damned if you do and the damned if you don't problem. So I await the consultation results with keen interest. Hi Ris2011. Petitions without full names and addresses although interesting are a problem. With the North Cross Road Sunday Market consultation it became clear that not having to give such details made the responses such that it threw the whole consultation in my mind under suspicion. It looked like one side had really doctored the results, Its also important for the petition to have clear wording that people are signing up to. If its a loaded closed question that also wont help your cause. If you wish to discuss this via email. I'm keen that the best overall decision is made and would like ot ensure that any petitions are done such that they could carry weight.

Hi bawdy-nan, Council officials have been very quick to explain that 20mph is the minimum speed limit a local authority can have on a public highway excepting Home Zones. apparently where we all see 5, 10, 15 mph signage is on non public land. Weirdly public parks fall into this category. BUT your suggestion of planting etc to create a Home Zone I believe would make lower than 20mph possible ie. 10mph. The following Sheffield document has useful ideas - http://www.homezones.org.uk/public/resources/documents/SheffieldHomeZoneGuidelines08.05.01.pdf http://www.homezonenews.org.uk/ But this is probably the most helpful: http://www.sustrans.org.uk/assets/files/liveable%20neighbourhoods/DIY%20Streets%20info%20sheet_FINAL.pdf In November the next round of the Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding will be launched. Why don't you and your neighbours apply for funding to doa DIY Street? If I can help in any way ask me round to meet with you and your neighbours.

Hi rahrahrah, You make a very good point especially as its only 70m long! So I've asked officers how or if we can make Plough Lane 5mph. fingers crossed it not difficult in the circumstance of being a short residential cul de sac. NB. The signs are roughly ?50 each. It used to cost ?15 for a cycle logo on the road so it must cost ?50 of less for 20mph in the road.

Hi Ris2011, It is key that people respond to the consultation. If collecting signatures please ensure you have the full address and printed name to ensure it carries any weight. This allows officers if they choose to double check against the electoral roll. I wouldn't want lots of effort against the proposals to be wasted.

Hi first mate, It's not still being pushed. It's still being demanded by many residents but clearly not by all residents. The last time a formal council consultation took place was around 9 years ago.

Intersting idea from Salisbury - "a group of local residents in Salisbury, including a number of pensioners, have reduced anti-social behaviour, illegal parking and graffiti since they started to patrol the suburbs in hi-visibility jackets." http://www.crp-news.com/htm/n20111018.348010.htm Any takers for East Dulwich?

Hi BobBy P, We visited Melbourne Grove 1-63 odds numbers and evens 2-44 ie those homes in the proposed zone. I'm sorry if you think I'm predetermined in how I will react to residents consultation responses. I'm certainly not clear on what the outcome will be. I'm sure the administration and the cabinet member Cllr Barrie Hargrove have not predetermined their views. Yes, the consultation is asking people whether they agree with the proposal or not but if residents are clearly against I will be campaign to ensure it doesn't happen. Hi Prickle, Only managed to visit even numbers on Elsie Road stopping at 6.30pm. Like i said we will be calling before the consultation ends.

Hi DJKQ, You're right it never occurred to me when the council had a large events budget to push for the then Lib Dem led council to devolve the major events budget. We should have spotted it but we didn't. too busy fixing other things. But when you plan to halve the budget and initiate big changes everyone then does take a look. I'm clear that the Lib Dems would seek to devolve this budget. If labour had done that every councillor in Southwark would be on the hook for making the required savings happen and maximising the relevance to their local communities.

Yesterday we we asking people whether they had any issues we could help them with and we also asked whether people were in favour of controlled parking or not. If people wanted to talk about it we answered questions and I hope I was pretty unbiased in my replies. Hi a-m, Over the last few years people. I the area have unsolicited contacted council officers asking for controlled parking and complaining about parking pressures. For those 40+ people to reach the right offices to have their contact recorded probably means others have similar issues. The last formal consultation over a much larger area took place nearly a decade ago. My colleagues on the southern side of Grove Vale ran a survey in all East Dulwich ward about 3 years ago. Hi Peterstorm1985, Reading the Home Owners Council papers for the next meeting where controlled parking on estates is present the parking permits are free for the first one - but they have been running a deficit of ?550,000 pa. They're now hoping to resolve this by renegotiating the contract. The report isnt clear if the council housing parking enforcement contract has been renegotiated with the highway parking enforcement contract as the report implies one new contract saving exactly ?550,000. Another query to resolve to ensure no cross subsidy. Hi Penguin68, I used to live in an all day scheme. I was delighted to ensure that one of the options is a 2 hours mon-fri option which should mean most people could choose to avoid needing visitor permits. Are you local to the area the CPZ is proposed? One of unhappy consequences if it proceeds is likely to be a few more front gardens being turned over to car parking.

Can you tell me when these 3 burglaries occurred? I ask as a prolific burglar was caught late August. Regards james

Have you thought, are you able to walk the 15mins to Kings?

I spent yesterday with colleagues undertaking a mobile surgery on most East Dulwich ward streets in the proposed CPZ area. We'll visit the other ED streets before the consultation finishes. Perhaps not a representative sample - people in on a Saturday afternoon. Melbourne Grove (1-63, 2-44)and Derwent Grove overwhelmingly in favour. Elsie Road 50:50. Grove vale in favour. I should say that the 10-12 mon-fri option was the clear winner. I highlighted that all residents should respond if they want to help decide whether it happens or not. It's great to see lots of debate here but only responses submitted to the consultation will end up in the council officials report to Councillors. And no my mind isn't made up but responses here don't show where the person commenting lives and we know some forumites provide thoughtful comments but live outside the area and in some cases even the UK. I used to live in a Southwark CPZ area some years ago and it really wasn't that painful once I obtained some visitor permits.