James Barber

Hi davieh, The last collision map for Southwark showed reported crashes all along Lordship Lane concentrated Goose Green to Whateley Road. The Underhill/Barry Road junction as reported beofre I met with council highway officers and the local Police sgt. we met off site and on site to assess the junction and we've attempted to replicate the Upland/Barry Road junction as much as possible as it had not have a single reported collission over the previous 3 years. The changes made so far at Underhill./Barry Road junction - raised entry treatments both sides, re marking the worn road markings. So far no reported crashes at this location since these changes.

The DLC manager KAy has helpfully provided the following responses - and as I've been unavailable to post since she provided it last Tuesday 26th: - TV's displaying messages - will see how this can be changed. - tests music system and couldn't hear any distortion - please if you ever hear this ask to see the duty manager. - The building has brand new Building Management System and it will be double checked as it does have aircon booster capability on hot days. So it can cope it a matter of the settings and controls. - gym designed to pair machines so people can excercise together when they want to (research suggests people more likely ot stick to training if they buddy up). 50 items of cardio equipment for cV training and the same number of running machines as before 13. - limiting treadmills to 30mins Mon-Fri 6-8pm, Sat/Sun 8am-noon. one of the side effects of the extra popularity. But I would say if someone if gonig to run for longer then breaking up the excercise with other CV is not a bad thing.

Hi Artfuldogger. I'm hopeful that this extra traffic is due to the road works that have been taking place on Peckham Rye. Can you please keep me posted via email if its still a problem still in a months time. Hi Bob, What is it about the Silvester Road sorting office that is wrong? Post going awry, speeding vans? Hi Fuschia, I thought I'd sent you a link to the DfE website where they keep this. Has the email got through with the link or not? If you email me, in confidence perhaps, to let me know why you need this so I can decide how much effort to keep putting into this.

Hi Ko, I haven't been to Peckham Rye Park for a couple of weeks. Are you telling me the 1 O'clock club fencing has been removed and now no fencing in place?

Hi Silversurfer65, monica, My understanding is that when the council housing office that covers the Dulwich area is closed - called Crown House on East Dulwich Road it will potentially be handed over to the Youth Offending Service. We will then see ever offending youth in Southwark visit East Dulwich. I'll ask about the Fostering and aDoption offices and what is planned. hi GrahamP, Let me take a look and come back to you.

Hi northlondoner, their will always be times the pool isn't universally available - everything from kids swimming lessons, kids swimming parties, etc. what is the time you're really missing being able to use the pool? Hi bluewallpaper, milk76, Let me find out what the reality of this is and how things can be improved for us.

Hi Marlene, traffic lgihts are installed by Transport for London and the London Mayor Boris Johnson is damant he wants less traffic lights not more. They typcially cost ?50k and a lot of disruption. The collissino rate art this junction doesn't warrant traffic lights. We have worse crash locaiton in East Dulwich - namely Lordship Lane shopping area.

Hi GrahamP, Apologies. I visited Dunstans Road. Rode them on bicycle and complained to council officers they weren't sinusoidal and was told they'd been fixed. I've not check them since and will do so in the next week.

Hi DJ, YOS - moving from the centre of Southwark to East Dulwich means kids from Rotherhite, E&c will now have to trk to East Dulwich. 2/3rds of Southwark residents live north of Peckham Road (which is a rough line across the middle of Southwark). So moving this service so faraway from teenagers doesn't make sense. We want them to be able to stick to appoint times easily. They're in enough trouble as it is. Not sure you read the first post on SNT. ED and Village SNT local police alternate to ensure local coverage. Sharing one sergeant will preclude them from doing that. So we will have much bigger gaps.

Hi KPinED, Southwark's borough commander wanted to keep SNT entirely entact and use his budgets differently. New Scotland Yard has decided they know how to police Southwark better. Execting SNT's to become more crime fighting than prevention but then deciding to take all vehciles away from them so they can't get to the scenes of crime quickly is perverse. Agree some practices are daft. Why can't a senior PC manage a team of other officers. Having 1 sergenat and two teams means they must be on duty at the same time. As currently one week ED SNT and alternate weeks Village - losing that will mean big gaps in local Policing. As for street drinking in Camberwell. They have SNT team there and community wardens. How much resource can it take to resolve street drinking problem and why does it need all the ED Police and Village effort to resolve as a time where we have burglary crime wave - 12 in June alone.

Bulk rubbish collections appear to have a large backlog - one resindent has reported a date 14 days out being offered. Any one else offered a collection date more than 2 works days (Mon-Sat) out?

Hi genwilliams, no.37 does run 24/7: timetable with buses running every half hour from 1am to 4.30am and slightly more frequently either side. it doesn't help that so few bus stops habe countdown so you're never sure it its running properly. Hardy person who waits at 02.30 for a no.37 bus.

Edited to add - the East Dulwich Police panel are holding a public VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE in Ian McPherson who came up with the daft changes to Safer Neighbourhood Teams. 7pm Weds 27 July outside the Police station. I've attached generic letter presented to the ED Safer Neighbourhood Team ward panel issued from [email protected]. Rather draconian centralist changes. Sad that our borough commander who proposed different changes keeping SNT intact isn't being allowed to manage his team or budgets. Process led by a senior detective interested in 'proper' crime. As East Dulwich crime rate is now low East Dulwich SNT will share a sergeant with Village ward SNT with teams on duty at the same time rather than staggered and covering each others patch. Each SNT will have their marked patrol and unmarked vehicles removed. Currently SNT are focused on crime prevention. The changes are that they will be on duty when crime occurs but with no vehicles to respond - I kid you not! The team will also be more often 'extracted' for other duties, not just royal weddings and olympics but for example the next two weeks to address street drinking in Camberwell Green ward. Effectively the SNT concept is being killed. If you think this is wrong tell Ian McPherson and Boris Johnson ([email protected])- bizarre he's allowing this so close to mayoral elections. Ideally borough commanders should be left to command. IT GETS WORSE. The Youth Offending Service is currently based in the centre of Southwark (Bradenham Estate). This service receives all Southwark's offending youths. It is planned to more this Southwark wide service to Crown House on East Dulwich Road in East Dulwich when the housing office is closed. They absolutely have to go somewhere. But 2/3rd of Southwark live north of Peckham Road. Moving a service to be remote from the bulk of its users appears to make little sense. uit's also making it harder for youngsters to attend appointments so more will default and be arrested. If you think this is daft then please contact your local MP Tessa Jowell ([email protected]) who might be able to influence the Labour led Southwark Council to find other accomodation more centrally located.

I found this blog form Jon Snow useful insight: http://blogs.channel4.com/snowblog/somalias-famine-agony-historic-part/15838

Hi jenniejenjen10, I'm sorry a neighbour has vandalised your ability to easilly recycle. Impersonating someone I would have expected to be an illegal offence - they don't work for a national newspaper do they? Hi Renata, Bit rich. When Lib Dems took over from Labour in 2002 recyclingg across Southwark was 3.6% and falling. When we left council officers were predicting 24.6% which somehow turned into 22.13% in reality. Somehow your election pledge to double recyclnig is stated as 40% - come on it should be either 44.26% double the rate you inherited OR more honest double the predicted rate when you wrote your manifesto ie. 49.2%. And I am doing everything I can to help encourage that - trials in East Dulwich blocks of flats for food waste recyclnig, blue wheelie bins trialed in East Dulwich. Eitherway one of the keys we found to increasing recycling was to go from fortnightly collectinos of recycling to weekly. I think reversing this is a mistake. Yes, comingling does increase recyclnig rates which is wht we planned to introduce it last summer. I'm sure the more recent delays on top of the delays we experienced getting planning persmission for the new waste centre on the Old Kent Road is not helping - the extra build delays shouldn't have occurred. Upshot is with fortnightly collections we are likely to see a fal in recycling rates. As for the food waste its shipped to the Greenwich and then the Sittingbourne. Really we should anerobically digest it in Southwark - we funded a food waste pilot for commercial businesses a couple of years ago and the food was digested in Lambeth.

Hi Freddy1929, LAst I was told was August to minimise disruption by installing during the summer holidays. But I've not heard more and would have expected to by now. Let me check this saga's latest and come back to you.

Its been unrelaible recently due to Denamrk Hill being closed for a period of quite a few days and since the nand until 29 July Denmark Hill has had a 3 way traffic lights at its northern end in Cameberwell.

Transport for London have contacted councillors and have asked for inout as part of this routes review. The next contract period starts 1 June 2013 and the contract award for this route will take place august 2012. So Transport for London are asking for input between now. Please tell me what you think is good and bad about this route for East Dulwich and I'll collect al lthe views and comments together.

Lots of news: 18-22 Grove Vale - planning permission given last night for development of 20 flats, small shop unit and new Grove Vale library of 250 m2 + 50 m2 terrace. So useable library space will double from current 100 m2 to 200 m2. I cam up with this schemes concept of a new Grove Vale library in 2005. It's likely to be built 2014. The recession causing 5 of those years delay. Mayor of London has decided new countdown system will be placed where existing countdown units are and a few more locations. This probably has more to do with logistics of deployment of majority before mayoral elections.

Hi kford, Agree on the white lines but they don't ask cllrs before doing maintenance. I've just been sent the crash stats for the junction of Goodrich Road with Lordship Lane. In the 3 years up to March zero reported crashes. Slightly further afield - 5 slight and 2 severe road casualties on west half of Lordship Lane between Heber Road and Townley Road, 3 slight injuries across from junction with Landells road, and finally 1 slight injury 50m south from junction with Milo Road. I'm hopeful that the road layour changes near to Plough Lane will resolve those 3 going forward. What has come from this is a problem around the bus stop by the dentists. Echnically being the west side of Lordship Lane these happened in Village ward but I don't think I'l be treading on their toes by asking where this location fits in officers plans for reducing road casualties.

Hi Fuschia, The 2010-11 Section 251 report (it has been renamed) can be accessed from this link: http://media.education.gov.uk/assets/files/xls/s/workbook%20budget%2010%2011%20southwark%20210.xls Council officials are still in the process of resolving some queries on the 2011-12 Section 251 Statement, that have arisen after this has been uploaded onto the DfE website. These should be resolved by the end of next week.

Hi ianr, Sadly no rules to declare an objection vexatious. Ita a very convoluted process and as a member of the Audit and Governance committee it was a relief they didn't follow it through to the courts. The working papers is annoying. Ive repeatedly asked the audit commission for a copy of their annual audit project plan. They've never been able to produce one. I did once try to FOI it but they declared it had to e kept secret. So without such a plan and listing when they need to see what papers it does make it harder for council officers to support. But i suspect it's 6 of one and half a dozen of the other.

in this day and age that would be ridiculous - making people attend in person. I've chase the educatino dept finance partner for latest sectino 52.

It's a tricky one kford. Good sight lines often result in speeding. Barry Road/Underhill Road will take a year from the changes to decide whether they've had the impact I hope they will. Lets find out the crash stats for this junction. One my current understanding of crashes in East Dulwich we should get Lordship Lane between Goose Green and Melbourne Grove 20mph.

We have had one chap object to the last five years accounts. Each of these objections has cost the council MANY tens of thousands of pounds for the audit commission to investigate. The council has an Audit & Governance committee which I sit on and has plotically rotating chair have chaired in the past. It was meant ot have tory chair this year but they messed up somehow. We never have any members of the public coming along but all are welcome. Meeting dates. The last meeting was a hum dinger - annaul fraud report pages 8-28 sections 28, 32, 48, 52, 56 in particular of the following: http://moderngov.southwarksites.com/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=3868&T=10 A question I've asked via colleagues is when fires have happened in council blocks officers have anecdotally told me very high proportion of illegal sub letting detected and I've asked what has this been found to be.