James Barber

Hi cate, Southwark have taken delivery of 1,000 brown caddy things and have another 2,000 on order. Hence why you have to ask as they don't have one for every household in the 10,000 home pilot. Blue wheelie bins. I've order several for homes in the pilot area and it was clear to me they were available. Suspect this change in policy has'nt been passed to the call centre yet. That's the touble with rushing a pilot through with no consultation.

Thompson Road new street lighting - EDF energy have caused inordinate delays but will be back on site 27 October to finish the works.

Hi gerritsmith, Will ask why this is happening. Clearly keeping Dulwich Pool pristine is impossible if outside shows allowed as you've described. Woemn showering. Lots of pools and people don't have compulsory showers. The key is the cleanliness of the water and after the description of the process, much less chlorinated, involving UV light I feel happy.

Southwark Council website has some information on where its recyclnig goes/used: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200084/recycling_and_waste/463/what_happens_to_my_recycling Hi Sophiesofa, Many parts of Southwark have co mingled recyclnig collections - for those areas mixing up paper, metal, plastics is fine. Many parts are still on segregated recyclnig where you still need to keep putting paper in blue bags etc. By the end of the summer all Southwar kwas meant to be comingled recyclnig but this has clearly not happened. I'll find out which areas are on what and let everyone know.

As homes in the pilot will have green wheelie bin/s, brown bin/s and often have multiple blue bags and boxes a couple of residents - PeckhamGateCrasher and Fuschia - asked if they could swap blue bags and boxes for one blue wheelie bin. Peckhamgatecrashere in a pilot area has received her blue wheelie bin, but unfortunately Fuschia outside the pilot areas wont. Southwark officers have agreed a change in policy so that homes in the pilot areas can swap blue bags and boxes for blue wheelie bins. To order your blue wheelie bin please call 020 7525 2000. Any problems let me know.

We arranged last year to buy the materials and have funding in place for the installation of electric pop up points. So every stall should have electricity.

After comments about long queues while fusion staff look on I raised the issue and it is now being looked into by senior council and fusion managers. I'm still asking about mystery shopping to give useful feedback on how the service feels. Please do keep me posted of all your experiences that are noteworthy as good or bad. Please do note the name on the nametag for both good and bad experiences. for great customer service i'm really keen for praise to be given but equally the opposite when that's appropriate.

Elephant&Castle roundabout closed from 8pm this Friday 8 October until 5am Monday 11 October. Buses will be diverted: Route 12 will be diverted by Kennington Park Road, Brixton Road and Camberwell New Road. Routes 35, 40, 45, 68, 148, 171, 176, 468, P5, N35, N68, N89, N171, 343 and N343 will be diverted by New Kent Road, Rodney Place and Heygate Street. Personally, I'll avoid the area this weekend.

On Friday I asked for the pilot to be givem prominence on the Southwark website. Just checked and it now has been. Before it was quite well hidden. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/

The changes to Child Benefit affect the 15% richest households and as someone wrote poorer households help pay for it. I can see argument about dual income families indiviually close to the threshold but jointly over it still recieiving this benefit - but suspect they'd have higher childcare costs. So overall a sensible change to cope with dire financial circumstances that ensures the poorest in our society still get help. I don't get the delay unless its timed to coincide with 10,000 tax allowance.

Do you remember that Labour minister Liam Byrne who left a welcoming note on his desk "There?s no money left". This year alone the government, on all our behalf, is borrowing ?158 billion. To have created this financial pickle is appalling. To remove child benefit is painful and the execution of this is raising lots of questions especially where we live being so expensive. My mother was a single mum who would have been around the cusp of the threshold and she found it hard to bring two kids with child benefit. But to keep paying child benefit to the richest 15% of families in the country is hard to justify. The other choice would have been perhaps ending child benefit at 16 rather than 18 which would have discouraged kids from staying on at school. From where Laim and co left us it seems one of the least bad options.

Hi njc97, I'm not aware of any research to show the Swedish 'free schools' modfel as producing anything other than average results. Hi Fuschia, I'm with you on this one for host of reasons. Fortunately free schools is yet to prove popular - it takes a lot to create a viable school. The Tories in the colaition government wanted free schools. In exchange the Lib Dems get the Pupil Premium - where schools get extra money for every child from a disdvantaged background - based on Dutch idea. The first tranche of Pupil Premium arrives Sept 2011.

Hi charliecharlie, I don't think that's true. Retailers in Southwark have been supported. Small retailers told us they find it hard to compete with chains for investment etc. So the Lib Dems set up a scheme Improvement of Local Retail Environments - in East Dulwich that is going to see the shops on Underhill Road helped. To our west Norwood Road, to the south Lordship Lane opposite the Harvester. From memory ?4.5M of capital funding was assigned to this and every community council has received a share which it allocated after public consultation. The scheme started about three years ago when Cllr Richard Thomas was the eexecutive councillor in charge of Regeneration. Useful summary of the programme - The ILRE programme has been developed to ensure the long term survival of vital local shops and sustain the communities that they serve. In consultation with the retailers, a strategy developed identifying main areas of action such as de-cluttering of the existing building fabric, improvements to the public realm and the replacement of shop fronts. The public realm improvements often consisting of repaving, lighting.

Hi The Nappy Lady, A lot of frantic running around gettting The Real Nappy people to change their website to have no limits on the number of Southwark residents who can get a real nappy voucher. Your input and my resulting query made this happen. So well done. I've asked about fuit stones and whether they count as food waste. People who don't have a front garden are not in the pilot. So that for now isn't a problem.REducing green bins sounds possible until you consider the fortnghitly collections. Extra biodegradeable bags will be provided and you can order more by calling 020 7525 2000. Hi Peckhampam, I think what you think is the brown caddy is actually the 23Litre brown bins. Hence why The Nappy Lady doesn't have this problem as she's using the actual brown caddy.

Hi Peckhampam, The biodegradeable rolls of bags are meant to be used in the brown Caddies. So presume they fit in them but feel foolish I didn't ask to witness that myself. So if you're trying to use them on the 23 litre brown bin - size of a tall office waste bin then you wont be able to. If you need a kitchen caddy get in quick by dialling 020 7525 2000 asI'm reliably told only 1,000 ready for delivery and another 2,000 on order to cover the 10,000 homes.

Hi Moos, When I canvass I tend to put bins carefuly to one side for that very reason but as different bin people get bins ready to those that empty them into the truck not sure what can done without significantly more resources. The Police have never suggested to me that bin days see increase in crime. Hi peckhamboy, Guess I do!

Hi Bubbles, I specifically asked that the online survey confirmed name and address. I also asked that survey ask whether people wanted the number of stalls to rise from 20 to 30 OR 40 solely on Saturdays and that the stall number rise only be proposed for Saturdays. I'm in opposition to a Labour Southwark Council. I had imagined that something so local would defer to ward councillors wishes.

Hi Moos, Apologies I didn't see your post in this thread. It is expected for people to put bins out ready for the bin people on collection days. Occassionally when I've forgotten this they have fetched them but I wouldn't expect them to put them back. If the pavement is narrow I would expect the bins to be placed at the mouth of any homes footpath and be placed back there after being emptied. Hope that answers your question. Hi PeckhamBoy, I made a point of stopping and watching these lights around 8am end of last week. Afraid I don't recall the day. They are on demand and frequently used. The tail back was between 20m-200m. I can see a delay of 5-10 seconds might help but beyond that pedestrians would lose patience and cross - which would be denagerous. Is it so bad that we must take acton immediately. Its doesn't feel like it and as it would require TfL traffic light people who have huge backlog of work.... I know one set of lights waits 46s between green phases and it is so long many people ignore the crossing. When asked why the huge delay I was amased to discover it was 'only' 46s between cycles and a lot less if not used for a while ie close to on demand. It felt like a lifetime.

Hi Bubbles, The consultation is not asking or proposing to close Northcross Road to traffic on market days. If sufficient people respond in the other comments box then that might be somethingh we propose at a later date and that would have its own consultation with opportunities for full comments.

Hi charliecharlie, I think you'd need to ask Pretty Traditional why. Markets usually have a minimum stall seperation between stalls selling the same stuff.

Finally I've been able to upload copy of the consultation.

Hi bels123, One way streets see a marked increase in average speeds as drivers don't have to consider cars coming the other way. Collissions go up and the severity of collissions goes up. So I'd need a lot of convincing about this. I'm hoping you're seeing few big vans and lorries going down your road and instead sticking to main roads.

Hi apmuso, So far I've been unableto meet the PCT. I'll keep trying. Hi Fuschia, Squ1rr31, Herne Hill area thwy have controlled parking zone covering noon-2pm. THat would seem to kit lunch time trade and deter friend from visits the area for lunch etc. So something like 11-12 would seem to fit the bill IF people want it. And yes some displacement would occur. Its the degree befreo they park near another station OR don't drive to our local station. Does it have the risk of creaping. Yes, I'm afraid if people near East Dulwich did want controlled parking it would have that risk of creaping as new streets experienced the problem.

Hi The Minkey, Southwark has a team of five people people who will be knocking on doors to helping people adjust to the new recycling regime. Hi CharlieCharlie, Those ideas sound great - but the pilot starts today. I don't get the feeling they'll want to change now. If they did then theri would have been a public consultation. Their certainly was a one month warning the scheme was coming but no public consultation.

I'll asked the head of leiasure to ensure some mystery shopping at busy times. Clearly Fusion need to be a 'top act' if the investment is to be really successful.