James Barber

Hi ilondoner, Peckham Rye high street is a lo way from East Dulwich but i do agree some shops have unappealing smells and I'm not yet a vegetarian. The council fpFood Safety Business Plan for 2011-2012 is about ot be decided. Sadly it's already halfway through the financial year but no earlier than we September the cllr Rcihard Livingstone will authorise the plan. It on my lists of things to review this weekend but I would encourage you to take a look at http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=13195 and please do give feedback to cllr Livingstone and me.

Father Gerry was very generous with his time this morning. He is certain that the Thomas Moore Hall is absolutely not viable in it's present form. The hall is owned by the diocese and not the parish, so I'm sure he would only be taking the actions so far with the authority of the diocese. During the next 3 months he plans to undertake a feasibility for the hall. He is absolutely clear that the Thomas Moore Hall is very run down. I asked if he would welcome ideas and offers of help and he was clear that at this time he doesn't want to opern those potential flood gates or make his contact details more public. I highlighted that local East Dulwich Councillors have helped arrange capital funding for religious centres that host community activities - from memory Christchurch bread of life ?100,0000, URC on East Dulwich Grove ?30,000, Mosque on North Cross Road ?20,0000, Christchurch ?30,0000. And that we'd like to keep the Thomas Moore Hall improve and thrive. I've offered to show him and any of his colleagues other church halls in the Dulwich area that have nurseries during week days and other community activities at the weekends and evenings. A great example of this is is on Half Moon Lane - they gave me a tour recently and it was an incredibly well run ship. He suggested the Thomas Moore Hall is run as a social club and has very few members. That maybe but it serves a useful function hosting so many other community activities. From a planning permission perspective I'd be surprised if the site would quickly gain planning consent for other uses whether shops, offices or housing. Normally such a change of use would require several years of marketing for a new owner under it's current designation. I'm sure many could show no effort at engaging the community to make this site viable had taken place.... Unless things suddenly change. I did counsel Father Gerry that ideally he'd share as much information publicly as possible to show why the decision to close in the current format had been taken. Fingers crossed he does this.

Hi Coach Beth & Townleygreen, I'm also surprised how long this is taking. I was assure it would be finished before schools returned. I've contacted council officers to ask when they're now planning to complete the works and to ask what is causing the unacceptable delays.

The community centre at Goose Green contacted the father to way any community bookings looking for a venue they would try and help. Sadly the father wasn't interested. All very odd and strange.

Tonight the Dulwoch Community Council will decide whether Lordship Lane should have a new crossing outside Coop/Somerfield and at the junction of East Dulwich Grove with local parking ammendments to ensure no overall loss of parking. The meetnig starts 7pm at Dulwich Library meeting room (368 Lordship Lane) on the 1st floor. If you have a view either way do come and help inform our decision making.

The proposed changes were about the worst kept secret ever - tell 650 MP's the information was embargoed until Monday midnight. Hi newmother, Last elections were National and Council elections on the same day May 2010. National parliamentary elections are not recorded by ward but local elections are. I suspect most voters voted the same way in both elections. So adding up all those local election votes by ward (and as 3 votes in each ward dividning by 3) suggests: 17,656 Labour votes, 15,757 Lib Dem votes with Conservatives and Greens so far behind didn't seem worth counting for this excercise. So I would be amazed if Tessa, if she chose to fight on, would jump towards any new Dulwich & Sydenham seat over a Brixton seat. But the proposals are just that and a long way to go before anything finalised. Hi Peckhamrye, Great irony of you posting on the East Dulwioch forum but not wanting to be part of a Dulwich parliamentary seat.

Shame that electricity sub station can;t be placed under ground. It original dimensions would have been required to support electric switch gear. Such switch gear is now a fractino of the size and burying it would be quite feasible. We'd then have a mini public square.

Many such halls are used by nurseries during the day. The nursery packs away and then the halls are used by evening and weekend groups. Great combination to ensure building are used to their maximum. We do need more nursery places locally and am sure that combining both is fully feasible. Can someone please PM me the contact details for Father Gerry so I can meet him?

The head of Southwarks markets has told me that their understanding is... As the forecourt is less than 7m from the public highway it is covered by section 21 od the London Local Authorities Act. The footway and forecourt are maintained as public highway. BUT that markets staff spoke with the persons on the stall, indicating that the cost of the pitch would be ?24.00 and they could join the main market. They were also told that the first two trading days would be free to help get them established. Common sense prevails. Well done to everyone.

Hi Sue, Yo can have a smaller green wheelie bin. Te standard size is 240 litres but you can swap that for a 180 litre one. Phone 020 7525 2000. Or if you get one well with your neighbours share their green bin. Regards james

Hi Pebbles, Can you please email me who in the local police rang you. Mibole phone companies are strictly licensed in the frequencies they can use and straying from that would be illegal and liable for a Dept of Tade and Industry fine. Can you imagine the chaos if phone masts were allowed to go wrong and not be fixed. Retards James

The food washe pilot has been successful but what is being rolled out to all 'street properties' is not the pilot. What is being rolled out will see 'dry recycleables' - paper, glass, plastics collected fortngihtly. One lesson that was learnt from the pilot was that many people wanted a wheelie bin solely for their dry recycling. So that at least is some good news for those that want these. Southwark several years ago moved from fortnightly to weekly recycling collections and had a big increase in uptake and % increase in recycling. Plenty of evidence to show that going back to fortnightly recycling collections will see a drop in those materials being recycled. However it is obviously cheaper to collect it fortnightly. Also the recycling will no longer need to be seperated. Seperated recycling has a higher resale value. Unseperated recycling collections tend to see a slightly higher rate of recycling. Tetrapak recycling. Last time I checked with the Tetra pack corporation any Tetrapaks collected will be bundled up and lorried and shipped to Sweden for recycling. The Life Cycle Management of tetrapaks that are NOT recycled in the country of collection shows its environmentally more damaging to collect and recycle than treat as rubbish. Great appeareance of being green but its just for PR until their is a tetrapak recycling plant in SE England and their are no plans for a UK plant.

To be fair to Mark - Southwark has a 1,000 Police officers and people say to me they never see a Police officer.

How absolutely daft. Can anyone email more details so I can get some common sense applied?

Hi Val162, I'm afraid Renata hasnt given the whole story. The Planning Permission for the relatively new East Dulwich Harris Boys Academy included what is called a Section !06 (S106) agreement. This is a legal agreement aimed at agreeing measures to help mitigate or resolve any disbenefits of a new developement. Party of the S106 for this school was that they would not use Peckham Rye Park or Common for sport. Instead they use the excellent on site gym - they building is quite a tardis - or bus the boys to sports fields in Dulwich Village (the site previously used by Southbank Uni). This school is already heavily oversubcribed. Huge increase in demand for secondary school places and without this school being planned and built locally we'd have much bigger school demand issues. I would really recommend you visit the school. I have and was very impressed with what they've created. However, you will see boys on Peckham Rye as the sports pitches are booked by other schools based further away. So we have the perverse situation of kids from ED Harris Boys school sited across the road from Peckham Rye with local kids attending the school being bused out of the area and kids from outside the area being bused in to use Pekham Rye football pitches. I've visited the school and they are absolutely clear what their S106 obligations are. So, they are planning to invest a lot of money in renovating and fixing other local pitches (Athenlay FC). So you may well see ED Harris Boys in sports kit in the future jogging across Peckham Rye to that football ground. Hopefully one day when the school has filled up and has more lcoal connections we can get the S106 block on booking football pitches as other non local schools are allowed to lifted. I'd also hope that Southwark jointly with the school could install drainage on the common allowing more football pitches availability (they flood at the moment). I'd hope that such a deal would see the rubbish changing rooms on PEckham Rye replaced with access to the excellent ED Harris Boys changing rooms.

All buses have cameras on them. Please do report this crime. The Police should be able to locate CCTV of the crime and potentially a good chance of catching the thief. November this year the bendy 'free' buses will be replaced with standard double deckers. This should be safer for passengers and less chance of being robbed in this way.

For several months I've been trying to arrange for Southern Gas Networks to come and present what their plans are for East Dulwich and the greater Dulwich area. I've just been told its agreed for them to present those plans at the next Dulwich Community Council 15 September 7pm at Dulwich Library (1st floor). The meeting will also dicuss the Library Review and Lorship Lane crossing (pelican crossing outside Coop/Somerfield and East Dulwich Grove.

This is old news from over two months ago. A report sponsored by the previous government was issued in June/July from memory. It makes recommendations that would involve all rail station ticket offices closing in Southwark except a handfall of major one's - London Bridge. For a summary I made 1 July: http://jamesbarber.mycouncillor.org.uk/2011/07/01/east-dulwich-station-ticket-office-closing/

When this is fully live, tested and stable it should mean its possible for public indicator boards could be added to bus stops without going via TfL hugely bloated excessively costly official countdown programme for them. I live in hope. Every bus stop should have an indicator board.

Hi bynameHere, Weeds are incredibly destructive to highway fabric. So t council needs to keep them at bay to avoid spending lots more on highway renewals. So that's a kind offer to weed your street but the council would need to know that it would happen reliably for years. Hi Roy of the Rye, Which bits of Dunstans Road? Regards james

For this who've spotted weeds on Goodrich and Crystal Palace Roads the weeding will take place by 25 September - thanks to Nero for highlighting this to me. What otter streets need weeding? Regards James

Last time I was the waiting list was 40. But the Market has been increased from 20 to 30 stalls. In theory that should have led to a reduction in the waiting list but I suspect it will have increased interest. I'm really sorry that you've called and emailed and had no response. I you forward me those emails i'll ask the manager concerned what is going on. I you can roughly recall when you called I'll also what's going on with that. Clearly not acceptable to publish phone numbers and emails addresses and then not pickup or respond - on behalf of the council please accept my apologies.

Hi trinity, I made a point of popping over to the Village Way road works. I'm bemused why at 19am on a Saturday with the whole road closed nothing was happening. However I didn't see any of the problem you'd described but I am awaiting council officials to properly feedback.

Hi alik, The signage for all the roads bounded by Lordship Lane, Barry Road, Whateley Road and including Whateley Road are currently having 20mph speed limit signs installed during the next two weeks. So before mid September Whately road will have a speed limit of 20mph. Sorry its taken quite so long to make happen. The change of administration stopped the original plans and we've had to find alternative funding to continue with it.

Hi trinitiy, I have reported this problem to the council manager concerned. I;ve asked the temp lights be checked as a matter of some urgency. That if incorrect phasing be corrected. If correct phaising what enforcement can be undertaken and if the video smartcars would be appropriate. Thank you for raising this matter. If anyone spots such problems please email me as I'll see it sooner.