James Barber

If you ever have a missed collection - after 6pm report it via - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/general-household-waste/report-a-missed-collection

Hope lots of street parties to celebrate a four day weekend 2-5 June take place. They're easy to organise and Southwark make the legal requirements clear here - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/events-culture-and-heritage/events/planning-an-event/street-parties but you have to have applied 6 weeks before hand so on or before 21 April. So do get cracking. I've just finished "...And What Do You Do ? - wWhat the Royal Family Don't Want You to Know" by Norman Baker. Every royal is tax avoiding, dodgy expense claiming in ways that you or I would at best be sacked for gross misconduct but more likely charged for criminal offences. Hard to celebrate such scrounging from ALL the royals. But celebrating a long weekend with neighbours and friends I do get.

Can someone please place a copy here so we can all see? I'd hope that anything purporting to suggest a direction voters should vote has an imprint of who the body suggesting this is, their address and who printed the leaflet. If it doesn't and it's delivered within 6 weeks of the election, after 25 March then I believe it breaks election law. If Labour were to lose they could go to the courts and demand a re run due to this. For transparency I wont be running in this election.

We've installed a Catalytic Convertor Property Marking Kit - https://www.selectadna.co.uk/products/selectamark-cat-marking-kit As a former Councillor, this is the sort of thing we used to bulk buy with public money to give residents for free use to reduce crime. Incredibly effective at reducing crime.

So people with access to this app get an acceptable/better GP service. Patients without such access get a rubbish service - likely older sicker people, poorer residents. I don't think Tessa Jowell would be proud. How sad to commenorate someone with a GP practice that gives a poorer service to those more often in greater need.

Great to see these proposed change. It has been a very long time coming. 2008 Southwark Council then Lib Dem led proposed significant Peckham Rye station improvements -http://www.peckhamvision.org/blog/?p=237 I hope these plan complete before 2028 !

TfL have today stated...The Northern line (Bank branch) will be closed between Kennington and Moorgate from 15 January to mid-May 2022. If you travel in via East Dulwich or Peckham Rye stations to London Bridge you will not have a working Northern Line service from Saturday 15 January until "Mid May". This enables Bank station upgrade. During the closure: There will be no Northern line at Bank, London Bridge, Borough and Elephant & Castle There will be more Northern line trains on the Charing Cross branch of the Northern line There will be fewer Northern line trains between Camden Town and Moorgate Many lines and stations across central London will be busier, especially around the City of London To get to destinations in the City (including London Bridge, Bank and Moorgate): Use the District or Circle line from Victoria instead of Embankment Use Southeastern services from Waterloo East to London Bridge, instead of the Jubilee or Waterloo & City lines from Waterloo To get to Canary Wharf: Use the DLR from Bank Use London Overground from Clapham High Street or Clapham Junction Buses Consider taking a bus for all or part of your journey There is a new temporary bus route running Monday to Friday from Oval to the City (Finsbury Square) - route 733. This will stop at Oval, Kennington, Elephant & Castle, Borough, London Bridge, Bank and Moorgate Walking and cycling There are a number of Cycleways that can get you to the City, including C6 to Blackfriars and C3 to London Bridge Use Santander Cycles within inner London Consider walking part of your journey

I, along with my then East Dulwich ward Councillors, approved ?18,656 of devolved ward funding to help support Goose Green Primary School install such air filters installed pre COVID in January 2018. The Friends of GG also helped fund these. This funding route could be used across the area and Southwark. Even without COVID they made lots of sense in reduction in common cold, flu circulating around classes and causes pupil absences. It seems unlikely the government will change classroom requirements and fund the circa ?2bn needed. Quite possibly the HEPA industry wont have the number of units required etc except over multi years. Leaving this to local schools likely means those schools whose parents have deeper pockets getting them. In some areass such as Sotuhwark we have other routes to funding e.g. Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding stream (introduced by Lib Dems running the council in 2002). Petitions to government, however worthy, wont fix this problem for our local children any time soon. If your child is in a cschool without such air filteration why not ask your local Councillors if they will allocated some of their devolved CSG funding to hel pthe school - checking the school would be willing to have them? If anyone needs help making this happen - get in touc

IF you have compaints about your GP practices please complain here - https://www.cqc.org.uk/contact-us/how-complain/complain-about-gp-dentist-or-eye-care Please, do not suffer in silence. Many do which is why things so often stay rubbish.

The average home pays Band D Council tax to Southwark Council of ?1,034.11 this council tax year April 2021 to March 2022 - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-tax/bands-and-charges The council cash spend pa has remained stable partly due to new homes - every new home the government pays councils ?9,000 for the first 7 years. Hence all those studio, 1 bed and 2 bed flats across Southwark. I can't think of any organisation I pay over a ?1,000 every year and am unable to phone someone when I have issues.

I had this a couple of years ago where Virgin Media contractors turned out at 8pm on a Friday evening to dig the road up outside my home. I asked them what they were doing and for the permit reference number. They waffled. I checked this website -http://public.londonworks.gov.uk/roadworks/home;jsessionid=hQnthghJ5JfQpT2Lpn8DTLQQs0lpFtP0WmMzwsbQwQ5wgyXppTYV!987534351 - and no permit to work had been given. They were still place bollards. I took photos. I told them they did not have a permit and should leave. They waffled some more. I started placing their bollards in the back of their lorry and told them to leave. After a little heated but temperate words they closed their site and left. I emailed the Virgin Media CEO with photos and made a complaint. Contractors hate such complaints - i used to managed such contractors we would be incandescent if a contractors was acting rogue in this way. I also referenced the local highways in Southwark. Do not suffer in silence with such nonsense.

Hi KH, What rotten bad luck. I presume you're asking if ay of the businesses around that section of Lordship Lane have CCTV cameras - I think you'd need to visit the businesses and ask them. KH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I?ve just watched a car scrape the back of my van > as I was parked in a bay on lordship Lane opposite > Chener Books/TruePenny's estate agents. > I was in such shock I was too slow to note down > the license plate, and a van then pulled up after > it, blocking my view. > > Does anyone know if there is CCTV that might > capture that stretch of the road/the parking bays? > > > Thank you.

A number of years ago as a local Councillor we did exactly this via the CGS funding stream. From memory local schools were offered them for free. Don't recall whether any local businesses took up the offer. The council official would have ben Andrea Allen.

Hi h3+, Plants and artwork led by The Camberwell Society - http://www.camberwellsociety.org.uk

Jules-and-Boo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do TFL own the station? I didn?t realise they were > holding up the improvements No, the station is managed by Thameslink. But it has TfL Overground services. Hope this answers your Q.

The system is in crisis. I know a number of GP's. They all work for their own practices and not GP companies with multiple practices. They work their socks off. One goes to work 5am every Saturday to work on the huge volume of paperwork each practice has these days before seeing patients. Two are retiring early 50's due to the pressure. The system GP's work within is broken. Some making fortune by not focusing on patients and creating GP groups of practices the DMC"s of this world. The ones worried about serving patients well are being flattened and squished. Some are then giving up and selling out to those mega GP groups which increasingly are US owned. Many find it hard now to enjoy work feeling constantly they're not being allowed to do the best for their patients. Fortunately they still get some satisfaction from making enough people better to stick at it. I read that GP's now have 20% more patients on their lists. And this is from more UK people and fewer doctors wanting to be GP's. Most GP's don't want so many patients or admin.

After many years of campaigning by the Camberwell Society, GLA Assembly Members Caroline Pidgeon and Florence Eshalomi. The Dept of Transport, Network Rail, Thameslink, TfL earlier this month opened a second station entrance on Windsor Walk. How are people finding the new entrance? Do you think it has relieved the Champion Park entrance people congestion?

Both are definitely open - Dulwich Library yesterday Saturday 25 September was open when I visited.

A neighbour has had a letter telling them you have a non complaint car and that UELZ is coming. SO I suspect it will be ANPRS camera enforcement and wont be just boundary entry or exit, and a little bit like the TV licensing people saying we know you have a non ULEZ complaint vehicle. So expect investigators who may record if a non complaint vehicles is parked in different places and no charge paid.

Early days to tell if Afghanistan wont be a base for international terrorists. Clearly Islamic / Sharia law is alien to western values. Equally taking the 2001 theocracy through to resilient democracy would take circa 100 years if history is anything to go by. US has lost over 6,000 people killed in Afghanistan. Nearly half military, remainder contractors mostly for security. Over 20,000 seriously injured. And spent over a trillion USD. What is amazing is that the US / NATO didn't leave well over a decade ago. What may be hopeful is Taliban leadership living in rich Middle East states for most of the last 20 years. They've enjoyed more modern life styles - TV, mobiles, internet, security and freedoms. Id be amazed if they return Afghanistan back to the 2001 they were deposed from. Or that the 38 million citizens of Afghanistan having experienced the huge economic and social uplift of the last 20 years wish to return to 2001. Equally 22% of Afghan GDP is currently from foreign aid almost exclusively the west.

Taking a 12yo to see a sibling going/coming from university may help inspire them. So much to do and see in Newcastle and the surrounding area. Most university accommodation has start date options on Saturday or Sunday. It would be feasible to travel to Newcastle from East Dulwich on a Friday and return on a Sunday. Many you can order duvets etc cheap starter packs to be there awaiting the students arrival. Many first years can't be left to meet there soon to be new friends quickly enough! I hope it turns out really well. Emotional time for everyone including your 12yo. All the very best.

Southwark have extra legal controls against street drinking which apply to all areas except Dulwich Village - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/community-safety/drugs-and-alcohol?chapter=3 So the Police already have specific powers to confiscate alcohol etc at this location.

Hi Gesunheit, The above advice reflects the casework I had as a local Councillor 2006-18 for East Dulwich. I'd take a couple of further points. Local councils are not allowed to have sinking funds where leaseholders effectively save up via responsible freeholders for major works. Quality of repairs / renewals by Southwark Council contractors can be poor and eye wateringly expensive. With around 14,000 leaseholders you will always have a proportion who really have been poorly treated. But you hear about these. Other non council leaseholders you probably wont hear about. Be ?ber cautious about anything with cladding or above 14m as fire prevention works quite possible. Councils seem incapable of doing fire prevention works once and getting them right.

You could try Southwark Anti Social Behaviour Uint (SASBU) - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/noise-and-antisocial-behaviour/antisocial-and-threatening-behaviour

I would anticipate it being reopened after 19 July the date the UK govt has decided the country will use the herd immunity idea to live with COVID.