James Barber

This is truly bizarre. Such a survey/consultation was carried out about 18 months ago. We've been repeatedly told the analysis hadn't been undertaken for lack of resources. So they've taken a similar level of resource to run a new consultation broadly repeating the exercise! Hi P68, I'll ask why these details are being asked for.

Hi DulwichLondner, It is immensely frustrating. But would you want a son, daughter, partner, friend, neighbour killed by an out of control moped or scooter ridden by someone being chased or even the police car or cars chasing them about a smartphone theft. Epseically when those phones can be valueless if the owner uses some common sense. The obvious solution is to make smartphone valueless once stolen. It is imperative we all ensure our smartphone locks/pins/passwords are used and remain hidden and not 1111. Regulation about their design so they can be deactivated remotely (that means us all noting the IMEI code for our phones), the speed phone companies can process a theft report and deactivate a phone, not buying knock-off goods/smartphones.

Hi Broyal, I'm really sorry to hear you suffered from a burglary. If you need a free property marking kit contact me. You might like to undertake this online survey about how protected your home is - I found it really useful and fixing things / upgrading house protection has been keeping me busy - https://goo.gl/gGG3BT

Hi geobz, I can't dispute the ugly comment. But what do you expect a local councillor to do to fix this? I can't make the Police break their London wide held rules for chasing people on scooters. You'd need to convince the Mayor of London to change that policy. You can email them him at - [email protected] I suspect he doesn't read this forum. What Cllr Rosie Shimell and I are doing around crime prevention - and have been since 2007 - free home property marking kits, anti attack alarms (we'll be restocked with these shortly), alertboxes to help businesses protect each other, free motorbike ground anchors to make it much harder to steal these scooters in the first place, purse bells, gating alleyways. If you can think of any other crime prevention please let me know.

Hi schokoschnecke, Historically building works has only been allowed Mon-Fri 8am-6pm and Sat 8am-1pm. But over the last few years the council have been quite liberal allowing works t other times if they're not noisy. Builders quite often try it on. The other factor is without a Construction Management Plan the pavements and highway often gets taken over by builders. The council is now extremely plaint to builders on this. But overall you should be ok those hours work for you and your household.

Hi world wiser, I reported it that morning directly. Thanks though.

This is the feedback I've had: " [Your constituent] current position on the garage waiting list is 214th for the Dulwich area. When prospective garage tenants apply we inform them that there is a wait for a garage and that we are unable to ascertain how long they may wait. Once someone rents a garage from the council they may keep it for a couple of months or many years, thus making it difficult to say how long the wait will be. As soon as a garage becomes available we contact the person at the top of the waiting list for the area specified, offering them the garage, if they do not take up the offer we go to the next person on the list and so on. The waiting list changes rapidly with people being assigned a garage and new people being added to the waiting list which would make it very difficult to keep everyone informed of their position on a regular basis. " It might be worth you asking, possibly via this forum, if any current garage renters wish to share especially if they're only keeping a motorbike in a garage.

Anyone not heard aback about renting a garage get in touch and I'll find out for you.

Lib Dems Gail Kent Lab Helen Hayes Are the only ones announced so far for Dulwich & West Norwood. A number of East Dulwich people are actually in the Camberwell & Peckham constituency with only the following two candidates so far in place. Lib Dem Michael Bukola Labour Harriet Harman

Hi DeeDee, Apologies it has taken quite so long but I have some answers for you. The yellow box is active and will be enforced. It's there to ensure access to the end of Friern Road where in an emergency the bollards can be removed for access.

A total of 3,165 on time primary applications for the September 2017 intake have been received. This is a further increase in numbers and contrary to the forecasts shared at the Dulwich Community Council. A total of 2,796 (88.3%) families received an offer at their first preference school ? this is an increase of 3.2% compared to last year and locally in Dulwich made possible by the new primary schools local parents supported - Belham, Harris East Dulwich Primary recently and the Judith Kerr several years previously. 3,108 (98.2%) Southwark families have received one of the 6 preferences they listed. Sadly 57 families did not receive a school out of the 6 schools they listed and have been allocated an alternative school place at the nearest school to each family?s home with capacity. If you're one of those families and need help do get in touch. Attached is a Primary Q&A and details for help/advice if you need it.

Cyclist taken to major trauma centre - sounds grim. This will be a Police investigation and potential charges. Not sure it's helpful to speculate on this thread while evidence being collected and until a jury have decided against any charges.

Also reported ay 9am by me!

Hi P68, I'll try and find that out for you. Hi rendellharris, DulwichLondoner, I think you're both missing the point that in the last 20 years the population of London has risen from 6.5M to 8.5M inhabitants. The forecasts are for a similar increase in the next 20 years. Whatever you do, without a huge decrease in the ratio of people owning and using cars you're going to get much more congestion. In fact London has been seeing a small decrease in the proportion of residents owning cars - but so many more people more than counter this I absolute numbers of cars. Hence why the Congestion Charging Zone is now congested again! IF we were to reach Amsterdam or Copenhagen levels of people cycling it would largely counter this huge increase in population.

Hi alex_b, I'll check out that thread in a moment. One of my past roles was as a Human Computer Interface expert - loved it. Yes, the 'new' council website - aimed to make it more mobile friendly - makes the desktop, ipad type user experience much worse. Real retrograde step. I've also found my mobile use of the website much poorer. I've tried raising this and effectively had a King's clothes conversation. Sorry.

Bus route 176 is being re contracted. New buses new timetables. New service started June. The plan is to rebalance the service for when greater use occurs - the negative consequences are less with the one hour bus ticket concept Caroline Pidgeon campaigned for. Either way, in response to concerns about the degree of rebalancing: " Subject: REPLY: Bus Route 176 Dear Caroline Thank you for your email. We carry out regular reviews to the bus network to allow us to determine the needs of a given route and ensure the level of resources is matched to the demand experienced. When we make changes to the frequency of a service, we aim to ensure the capacity offered is sufficient to accommodate the regular route usage, based on our passenger usage data. For example, if a route sees relatively low usage throughout the day but there is a narrow timeframe where a higher frequency is needed, a low frequency would be sufficient for the majority of the day. Rather than running a high frequency route at all times, which would lead to considerable cost without an accompanying passenger benefit, we would look to introduce a low frequency route with additional trips in place only for the period of higher usage. This enables us to ensure that our limited financial resources are used in the most effective way, and reduces unnecessary vehicle levels on London?s streets, as well as helping to reduce unnecessary emissions across the network. In the case of route 176, we are looking to reduce the Monday-Saturday daytime and weekend night frequencies to better match actual usage. We developed this proposal following a review of passenger usage on route 176, however I would add that we are also looking to include additional journeys in the peak towards Tottenham Court Road in the morning and towards Penge in the afternoon, to accommodate extra usage at these times. These changes are due to occur in June 2017. I hope this information is helpful. "

Hi nxjen, The sorting office on Alleyn Park was closed a number of years ago for parcel collections. This has been a trend for some many years. They give two reasons. 1. somewhere to park vehicles. I've suggest some public highway could be designated to help resolve that. 2. sheer quantity of parcels. I need to explore this.

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WE can all help by ensuring neighbours doors who are away don't have things poking out of letterboxes for example. Or other items left on the doorstep. Lets's all keep our eyes open to help each other.

Hi Willard, Hindmans Road - south of Upland Road is in East dulwich ward and ablate have free motorbike ground anchors. Hopefully the Peckham Rye ward councillors will choose to support this type of crime prevention at some point if you live north of Upland Roads.

Hi bargee99, Every motorbike theft costs taxpayers significantly more than ?500 in Police time and effort. Southwark Council doesn't realise the savings of stopping such crimes but overall society and the tax payers does. It also has a great impact of reducing motorbike insurance premiums with time keeping more money in the hands f local residents. We could offer to do it for a fee but the take up would be much lower and our local society as a whole would be poorer. Hi ianr, A number of instance landlords had to give approval. So no they're not just going to private individuals and families. Hi Abe_froeman, I don't believe I've ever done anything to block private car ownership. I've campaigning fiercely to stop needless double yellow line and for people to have the ability of cross overs without double yellow lines. I would always encourage people to walk and cycle as much as possible though because it better for the environment, their health and saves money which tends to stay in the local economy - cars and petrol are not something we make locally!

Hi bargee99, In East Dulwich ward we have 3,250 doors behind which we have 5,250 homes. So most properties in ED are not houses - we have huge proportion of subdivided houses. I know from delivering leaflets over time to all of them. I'm afraid in most cases these bicycles can't be taken in doors - which is the point. We're also spending ?500 per motorbike on ground anchors to stop those being stolen as well. We've spent a lot of home free property marking kits to reduce burglaries as well. we've spent money on bolts to stop number plates from cars being stolen in the past when that was aa problem. If people could safely keep their bicycle outside then I'd probably agree with you. Hi alice, Many of those houses have been subdivided into flats. Or the houses hallways are too narrow to use and have bicycles. Hi rendelharris, Inconvenience results in lower bicycle ownership and less bicycle use. Private bicycle sheds. Good suggestion. Let me check that out. Thank you.

Hi bargee99, rich regularly has applications approved or she has applied for things others have also applied for and she kindly helps shape how the combined project happens. just a few weeks ago robin and I accepted her offer to give advice about which new street tree where. Offer gratefully accepted by me. Cycle parking promotes people cycling which reduces car ownership and use. That benefits everyone. The extra cost is council officers consulting residents and the legal paperwork legally required to place a BikeHangar on the public highway. I suspect people would soon post how annoyed they were not being consulted or the law being broken. Hi Nigello, Even simple changes to the highway cost a lot more. Education has to be done repeatedly/annually so over time more expensive. A BikeHangar should last 20 years.

You're very welcome bobmylous, Caesi01. Hi Willard, Which ward did you get a Southwark Council paid for ground bike anchor so we can help promote this there as well?

Hi Sally Eva, For East Dulwich ward we have ?20,000 unspent capital. BUT we've been holding this back for physical measures to help protect the new North Cross Road market where pedestrians will be more vulnerable than present if the security assessment advises these are needed. We have ?12,000 of Neighbourhood Funding revenue spending to allocate. This has come from an extra third of a street cleaner not being provided by the council as decided upon for last year. We've been faithfully promised we will get this financial year 17/18 and that they'll use the street cleaning machine East Dulwich ward councillors bought using CGS capital funding several years ago. Any one wants the depressing dull whole story ping me an email.