James Barber

Two interesting planning applications that i've requested to be decided by local councillors: 11-AP-1705 Foresters Arms (The Bishop) pub, 25-27 Lordship Lane. Advertisement consent for 12m x 8m advertising hoarding on the scaffolding while they redevelop the building. 11-AP-1730 Shell Service Station, 112-122 Gipsy Hill. College ward Police have told me in the past that this and the other Shell Service station on Crystal Palace Parade are circa 20% of all crime inthe area. Any comments about these application should be emailed to [email protected]

Hi Renata, Earlier in this thread you indicated a lot of lost applications in the post from Dog Kennel Hill. You're now saying lots of late applicationds - which implies 60+ from the wider East Dulwich area. This all looks very odd. We would only get so many late applications if Southwark has unlearnt the lessons from 2009. Guess we're all keen to see what council officials have to say.....

As East Dulwich cllrs we've been asked whether we think the community would like a gap before more Southern Gas Network (SGN) after the extended event Lordship Lane disruption. The next planned works are 20 July To November Norcroft Gardens to 208 Friern Roas and 20 July to October Peckham Rye to 40 Friern Road. 16 weeks seems outlandish and I've queried this length of works. The former would include Etherow Street which has the entrance to St.Anthony's RC school and requested that any worksonly last and take place during school holidays to maximise child safety and disruption during the busiest traffic periods. What do you think?

I've contacted the Southwark admissions team to ask why a buldge class is required at St. Johns and Bessemer as well as already announced at Goose Green and Dulwich Village Infants. They've told me it will take 10 days to respond presumably with the logic of the decision - this is really worrying as the ligic must have been crystal clear when the decision was taken and should just be a cut and paste job of what was proposed to the cabinet member councillor. 2010 lots of critiscm announcing the allocations so late. This year they're announced much earlier and clearly got it completely wrong if we need an extra 2 bulge classes with such short notice. As queried earlier in this thread - what schools are left to bulge next year? The only one I can think of is Langbourne - that would only be accepted by most if it guaranteed a place at Kingsdale which it doesn't yet. Most school grounds/playgrounds arent big enoguh to take temp classrooms. As soon as I have a clear explanation of why what seems without more info bizarre decisions have been taken I'll post it here.

Hi Peckhamboy, Grove Vale - the latest is that the proposed changes have been hugely changed and the raised treatment will no longer happen. Shame when I requested this I was ignored last year and it took an 800 person petition for common sense to prevail. Sadly in an attempt to please the council leader has stated he'll look into a bus layby at the bus stop outside 50 Grove Vale. Such laybys cause buses delays. Hopefully council officers will successfully explain he's proposing to bugger up all bus journeys northbound through East Dulwich.

Hi Fuschia, Let's see whether the smart cars help resolve the problem outside this school.

Hi fuschia, The school you requested enforcement of parking controls has been added to the rota for smart car time tabling, if you see no improvement please re contact me.

Hi Tonyquinn, Clearly keeping a local police station means police are more locally present when things like burglaries etc occur on local roads such as Barry Road. You don't seem to know of the ED Police station recent history or the decision making bodies involved for London Police stations. The Met Police is controlled by the Met Police Authority and the Mayor of London and they make the decisions. The original proposal to close it was made when Ken Livingston was the London Mayor. It has been implied under Boris Johnson's mayoral term when it started and more recently. We have a London election in 2012 so I'd be surprised if it closes betweem now and May 2012 and I'm hopeful we'll be able to get mayoral candidates to pledge to keep local Police stations open. However, something will need to happen to ED Police station as the attached photo shows it has concrete cancer. Equally the old ED Polcie station junction of Crystal Palace Road with Upland Road should be sold if capital receipts is the issue. Ideally the old police station would be used for a couple of years while the current one is repalced. Proabably the ground floor kept for the Polce and other local publci services and floors above for apartments. ideal would be a S106 providing a front Police station counter with a long lease from the police ot house officers there and the semi commercial rent pays for the front desk to be opened. WRT the First Road Hill traffic plans. I've requested them and will chase as it has taken a long time to not have them to forward them to you.

Hi Belle, Have passed on your details and confirmed to the local police that you are an East Dulwich ward resident - you should hear from them I the next couple of days arranging a home visit.

To reiterate. The more people that respond to this survey the less likely they'll lthink they can close our Police station with such active residents.

Hi Fuschia, If you email me the picture at [email protected] I'll make sure it goes to the manager resonpsibile for parking enforcement. Would be useful to add commentary of time, date and confirming the vehicles was stationary etc. Do you think school drop and pick up a particualr problem that needs some visits fro mthe smart car?

DJKilla, I think at this point its clear we disagree. UV pens are largely to aid the return of stolen goods to the rightful owners unless stickers are placed on entrance doors etc. They cost ?1.49 per kit retail which reflects the relative merits compared to Selectadna which retails at ?55 per kit and is considered to provide much better evidence and thus much better deterence/crime prevention. I'm sure the leaflets are useful and lots more information on the web as well. Please don't get me wrong. I think its great that the Peckham Rye ward SNT have these UV marker pens and are distributing them. I think its a shame they don't have the best product on the market and that they can't give that best product out for free. I'm chuffed to bits in East Dulwich we can.

The Alleyns planning application for flood lighting of it hockey all weather pitch will go to the main planning committee next tuesday the 14th 7pm at the town hall. I'm tempted to go along and support it as it it would be one of the few lit all weather pitches in the area and closest to ED.

Apologies Jeremy. DJKilla posted that other wards also had crime prevention kits and I knew this to be incorrect. Poor excuse to be allow myself to be riled about past political choices of others.

Hi DJKilla queen, The councils call centre was established several years prior to 2006. I stood and was elected in 2006. No year has seen Southwark Council spend ?100M setting up the call centre in a private company. I don't know how much it costs to run the call centre each year but revealingly Southwark Labour have made no proposals to close it or insource it.

So I was correct that only East Dulwich ward locally has full property marker kits due to East Dulwich Lib Dem councillors over a number of years allocating roughly a fifth of all the money at our discretion to crime prevention measures. DJKillaQueen, I'm sure the UV marker pens and leaflets help but quite the same as SelectaDNA property marking kits. And yes I am political with this. Politics is about choices. I think local tory and Labour councillors over a number of years have made choices to NOT support crime prevention - soft on the causes of crime. I'm more hopeful that if a further round of Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding should occur we'll persuade them to back crime prevention.

Apologies dbboy, Hardening a home is about upgrading the locks, putting locks on windows, london and manchester bars on doors ie making it harder to break into a home. Hi DJKillaQueen, What's in the kits you've mentioned - please don't say Smartwater property marking as that has a short shelf life. Hi catma, I will find out about all local wards and what they offer and report back.

Hi Julie, It might be helpful if you used the auto signature so everyone can be clear you're speaking as a council official and 'in the know'.

I remember it very well. The African drumming seemed to help my first child decide to come out!

Hi ladywotlunches, On reflection I don't think I should request parking enforcement - Francesca Cabrini is in Peckham Rye ward. I wouldn't welcome councillors from other wards deciding such matters for East Dulwich ward. So I have emailed the PR ward councillors highlighting these concerns. If you find nothing on the ground changes then by all means email me privately at [email protected] to discuss how to take forward. Hi Sue, I've asked that replacement photo be installed. We kepy some money back from this project precisely for such an eventuality. Hi Fuschai, Not sure if your comments related ot Francesca Cabrini or St.Anthony's? Hi TonyQuinn, I've asked if I can have a copy of the Forst Hill Road plans to pass onto to you.

Hi Gimme, Stand outside St.Anthony's and you see lots and lots of kids being walkedto school.

Sky-blue, I think you miss the point that the parents would want their kids to attend an RC school. Also when I was last taken through the admissions many of the kids going to st.Francis Carpini had put it after st anthonys.

Hi Catma, Up until this financial year the Lib Dem led council provided ?110,000 capital funding for every political ward in Southwark to spend on Cleaner, Greener, Safer projects. In East Dulwich and other Lib Dem wards we've funded lots crime prevent projects - that includes so far 2,000 free property marking kits. I also applied to Labour and Conservative neighbouring wards. Non of these allocated any of their money to crime prevention. Various responses - one was it's the polices problems not the councils and similar. I applied several years running. So I'm afraid locally this scheme is just in East Dulwich. We still have 300 kits of the 2,000 left. As Labour have decided in the first financial year of running the council to have no such capital devolved budgets well not be able to buy more kits for the foreseeable future once the 300 run out. Hope that makes sense.

Partially true skyblue. More likely kids will go to RC School St Francis Caprini and Lewisham kids wont have places to go. Expanding this school will mean more kids will be able to walk and cycle to school.

Hi ladywotlunches, I know exactly who to ask about this - which is worse schools drop of or pick up?