James Barber

Hi Bono Fido, Locking bicycles to these Sheffield type of bike parking is about the securest way of bike parking you can get in a publci space. BUT two good different type of locks should be used. Different as apparently bike theives tend to carry one type of lock breaking kit. Two locks as seperately front wheel and frame should be locked and second lock for back wheel and frame. Absolutely no evidence that placing sheffield stands results in more bike theft. Locking bikes to solid items does result in less bike theft.

Hi TheAllSeeingEye, Iceland have a yard out the back for their delivery lorries to park up and unload. They shouldn't be parking illegally on Lordship Lane. I can imagine its quicker to park on Lordship Lane than fiddle with parking in their yeard.

Hi Barry, Great program of works. Well done. East Dulwich station. You said your number one priority was extra covered waiting area on the platform facing London Bridge. You said it would cost ?12,000. We were going to split this ?4,000 from South Camberwell councillors Cleaner, green, Safer funging - Cllr Jenny Jones applied for this - unfortunately they have not granted this share. However, I anticipate the East Dulwich councillors will be able to allocate ?6,000. We patently want to make East Dulwich public transport better. Are you able to match fund 50:50 rather than the previosuly agreed third?

Hi Nero, Good to hear my request has resulted in this visit. I've requested that for a while this school is added to the mobile CCTV rota. Hopefully, encouraging more acceptable behaviour will result in bad habits being broken.

Hi dbboy, Councillors are aware and have made council officers doubly aware that after this cold winter, and it was bitterly cold over the weekend again, that we have many more potholes exiting this winter than usual. We've assigned another ?4M for road and lighting renewals this coming financial year of which ?3.2M will be spent on renewing roads. Thats a lot of potholes and roads be fixed. But all those potholes can't be repaired quickly. While the weather is still freezing overnight more potholes will appear. Water seeps in cracks, freezes and when thaughing cracks the road surface further creating potholes.

I've had an anonymous letter. Very rare. Shame really as wonder why they felt the need to fire in comments but not want a response. Little bit barbed about mush and brains, etc but compared to others this is fortunately very tame. It starts by complaining about the number of cycle parking stands being installed. The stands have been installed where 'free' cycle parking has taken place. The idea is having something to lock bikes to will reduce theft and make life a little easier for those that cycle. It also directs cycle parking to locations more convenient for pedestrians. Also, they complained that cycle parking is on the footway rather than the road. I agree in theory but having had a bike wiped out while parked on the pavement by a car mounting the pavement I can't see how to park bicycles on the road. All ideas welcome to resolve this. Complained about removing guard railings. I'm proud of the changes to Walworth Road where its no longer two alleyways between shops and guard railings. Guard railings generally were put in place to ensure car drivers didn't have to worry about stray pedestrians and resulted in drivers going faster - common phrase for guard railing areas is 'sheep pens'. The whole culture of traffic planners in the past treating pedestrians as 'sheep' is wrong. Hence gradually guard railings are being removed. Clearly some exceptions. Criticism of having a cycling officer but not having walking officers. Hmmm. All officers are trained in traffic and highway requirements. So in effect trained in vehicles and to undertake their role must be ambulatory ie. walk. But most do not and have not cycled. So to bring this into the mix has required a cycling officer. When all transport officers have good solid cycling experience we wont need a cycling officer. Lastly suggestion that the cycling officer should'nt cycle in their own time.

Council officers have told me that the wrapping stayed on while the concrete dried. The very cold weather delayed things but that all the wrappings should be removed today.

Hi intexasthe moment, In various posts I have responded about the costs of Southwark Life and our requirements to produce such a magazine. I've posted the documents stating how roads are assessed, the costs, what proportion is spent on roads and lighting. It was then suggested I'd been 'slippery' and Steveo wanted more information. You added that you wanted more information which I thought I'd provided. What is the issue you want persued? Is it related to Cort Lane?

Hi intexasatthe moment, Southwark needs new secondary level schools. Each school, apart from land costs, costs around ?30M to build. Southwark doesn't have the ?90-?120M as spare cash to build these schools. UIt can be rejigging various bits of land find space for the necessary news schools. The only way central government pays for new secondary school building is if you allow them to be Academies. So could the local Lib Dem led administration have dug its heels in and said no we don't wont locally unaccountable academies and are happy for Southwark kids to travel far and wide for find school places. No, we bit our tongues to ensure the best for our Southwark kids in these central government led circumstances. Back to admissions criteria. In 2002 every school you applied to requried a differnt application form at secondary level. These wer unified under Carolines direction. We paid for one test that all schools used the results of. Am I personally happy that Harris Academies have since opted out of that, of course not. Can we make Harris Academies join in no. But hopefully they eventually be persuaded.

Hi ryedalema, I'm sorry about the overgritting you experienced. I haven't recently checked but suspect the salt/grit short rationing is over with little further propspect of snow in the SE..... However, the weekend was bitterly cold - especially yesterday. Even spotted icy puddles. It was a lovely sunny but bitterly cold weekend.

With elections coming Thursday 6 May I'm pounding the East Dulwich streets more than usual. They seemed clearer this and last weekend that before.

Hi elliescott, Speed humps and bumps are not likely due to Barry Road serving a number of bus routes. I'll try and check what house number this sign is outside and report this malfunctioned active speed sign so it can be fixed. Agree some vehicles drive at excessive speeds. Have you noticed any particular time of day this occurs?

Hi Steveo, I'm sorry you feel I'm being 'slippery'. I'm trying to answer your queries without becoming the councillor solely for Steveo. Hi intexatthe moment, With regards to secondary school admissions policy. I did take to long to answer and I hope I apologised at the time for that delay. It didn't feel like an urgent piece of casework compared to others. I had thought I'd answered your queries about this and corrected my original response. If you wish me to respond further then please PM me. Road renewals. Residents in community council areas were asked via the community council take note newsletters, letters/emails sent to all community council attendees and also posters to various community groups across Southwark. Southwark website I'm assured also referenced it. I don't have back copies of Southwark Life to check if that reported this consultation and I'm not clear any public value of asking council officers to check. And yes this is a small subset of all residents but reaching all residents would have been dispraportionality expensive compared to the funds being allocated. If anyone is keen to receive such documents for the Dulwich Community Council area, which includes East Dulwich, then email the committee secretary [email protected]

I travel to Birmingham 2-4 times a month. I've found the most relaxing way to do this is bus or walking to by Denmark Hill then train to St.Pancras. Then walk 5mins to Euston. Then train from Euston to Birmingham. I've generally found the cheapest way is to buy seperate train tickets and really get a cheap deal from Virgin TRains for the Euston to Birmingham part.

Report this scary incident to the Police.

Hi sophiesofa, Francis Park is in South Camberwell ward. It was provided by Sainsburys are part of the Section 106 agreement - Sainsuburys are supposed to maintain it and I believe that includes locking it at night. South Camberwell councillors are - Green Party Jenny Jones, Labour Party Peter John and Veronica Ward. However, I'm interested as many East Dulwich residents access Sainsburys via this pocket park. Hence my involvement in the direct path replacing the muddy track - admitedly too narrow.

Hi Steveo, The report describes the british standards that all our roads and lighting are measured against before prioritising them. The fact that all our roads are assessed using a british standard method of assessment I find reassuring. Clearly that standard doesn't always correspond to how a road superficially looks to you or me. Hi Jeremy, The principles are Southwark wide. But agree not sure how much value trying to get beyond such a report will yield.

Hi Ant, I've asked officers to see the complete list of all the 19km of principal and 329km of non principal road condition reports. We can then see where Landells, Pellatt, Landcroft, etc are relative to all other Southwark Roads.

Nothing Freudian just terrible spelling and a word I've rarely if ever type before. Thanks for teaching me something clearly. Perhaps it was freudian slip. I remember one gang. told to follow the road line. They interpreted this as follow a straight line, incentivised by being paid by the metre. I don't remember the details other than it taking some time to correct and sort out. Not much navigating went on with that particualr gang. Anyway, thanks for correcting me.

Please see attached report.

I'll try and get a copy of the officers report that highlighted what should be done and post it here.

Crystal Palace Road resurfacing will start in urnest Monday 22 March for two weeks. It will be completed in fours phases: 1. East Dulwich Road - Upland Road 2. Upland Road - Underhill Road 3. Underhill Road - Goodrich Road 4. Goodrich Road - Lordship Lane The works will take place during the hours of 8am-5pm Mon-Fri. Any problems or concerns please contact me.

Apparently, the works to realign the kerb line and traffic island and changes to loading bay and motorbike parking will start from today. So presume those trenches to get electrics to where the new realigned islands will be. Normally any road surfaces get fully fixed after such works completed.

What a cynical bunch! A whole host of reasons why 'knocking off' might be appropriate. Perhaps the day went really well and they reached the limits of homes that had been warned? Perhaps some material deliveries were delayed? Perhaps some machinery went faulty? Perhaps another job needed extra help? Perhaps they had an accident? This type of work must be phyiscally hard. I was once seconded to help manage teams of knavies for a week. Amazing insight into London. It is really hard physical work. Southwark doesn't pay for these teams by the hour. They pay by results.

Hi simonl, Tell me where and I'll ask enforcement officers to visit.