James Barber

Hi wolfhound, NR have refused a new station at Camberwell in the past unless they closed Loughborough Junction. So I suspect any new Camberwell station would just served the route not served by Loughborough Junction. Hi rahrahrah, Indeed. Why hasn't Southwark COuncil? I'd suggest an attitude that trains are somebody elses problems. The current administration has just refused to help fund some station accessibility. When ED councillors suggested we go halves with South Camberwell councillors to fund some East Dulwich station (the ward boundary goes down the middle of those tracks) they blanked us. We proceeded to fully fund additional passenger cover ourselves. Rail and public transport is such a common good that my lot think and many councils of all political persuasions agree to help improve things. Hi Lazero, Supertram I believe is still bubbling...

Hi Otta, Providing central fireworks displays are often part of a strategy to minimise firework night issues for communities. I've not seen the overall council/police/fire/ambulance strategy for minimising firework harm so can't confirm this is the case for Southwark but I'd be surprised if it isn't. No councillor especially Renata wants to see facilities closed for any section of our community cut or closed. The latest Tory cuts are not necessary and are about a huge fundamental change in the proportion of national income spent on public services. Ideology over practicality. Equally presenting the total cuts as one number, even though it covers several years, implies to many that the cuts are for that year alone. It's part of what drives the Labour led administration at Southwark to push for so many new homes - especially 2 bedroom flats in skyscrapers. These new homes occupants generally use few council services but each bring in new homes bonus and council tax. This has and is softening the cuts - but is radically changing the face of Southwark in my mind for the worse. The other factor is getting to keep a proportion of business rates 30% and in the future 100% from 2017 when the riverside area of Southwark is seeing so much more development delivering business rates. Again softening these harsh cuts. For those who'd like to help ensure the adventure playground remains start a public online petition.

Sounds a really painful trip for you and others. Although I am a councillor for East Dulwich that is a councillor for the London Borough of Southwark. So you can report any issue to any Southwark councillor but usually your ward is recommended. Considering the number and degree of trips caused an urgency to avoid further people suffering I've reported this moments ago. GET WELL SOON Sue.

A new station if served by Sevenoaks route could be really useful for Camberwell. Moves afoot to transfer the Sevenoaks route to TfL and it come under the London Overground umbrella. That would be a minimum of 4 train per hour, better stations, London Overground ticketing. Clearly not as useful as a Bakerloo extension. But it could happen much much quicker than 2030. Also plans afoot for a tram route from Camberwell to London Bridge. Both together could be a useful alternative to a Bakerloo line extension.

It isn't illegal. We don't have the mechanisms to differentiate parking between vans which block sight lines and other vehicles. The good news dramatically were crashes at this junction than the past. Other junctions now need to be addressed before we return to this unless the vans continue - in which case double yellow lines is them out likely result there.

Categorically North Cross Road market is CLOSED 26 December as it's a bank holiday.

You can get metal property marking kits to deter this. But it isn't cheap. Some years ago we funded some of this for lead roofs in the area to prevent such crime. if we see any of this crime in our areas I will organise some of this metal marking kit stuff. But feel free dulwichgourmet to mark your own now - probability they will be back.

While we're worried about crowding...Network Rail is applying to bring vacant station block into use as a restaurant http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk:8190/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=_STHWR_DCAPR_9562848

Yes Abe_froeman, but to have a pedestrian phase they'll be planning on staggered crossings. So the islands will need to be longer and wider.

Hi Wulfhound, You mean the island within the Harvest site? That would be between the two directions of traffic direction. To place such an island TfL want to widen the road. So no.

Uncleglen, How awful for your sister - especially at being the victim of such a freak avoidable crash. This morning am dash to work spotted a cyclist on the pavement cycling at speed either side of Oval tube station. Never a Police officer when you need one. I think we all want reckless cyclists, whether on the pavement or highway, stopped by the Police and deterred. Much as we have driver education courses we need the same for bad cycling.

Hi P68, Those early bus termination are a result 'regulating the timetable' and turning buses around to get them back on timetable. Of course bus drivers should have breaks. But why in the middle of bus routes and not the end. Hi snooks, Can you email me or PM exactly where so I can ask you questions please.

If you ever feel the crowding is dangerous then you should report the incident to the Office of Rail Regulation -https://raildata.orr.gov.uk/riddor/ If enough incidents are reported I'm sure they will investigate. I have also asked them to proactively investigate citing the reasons of this thread - I've also experienced them and frankly scary how many people are being crammed together.

Email me particular problem streets and I will see what Southwark Council can do to counter this problem.

Hi P68, Let me try and get the facts on this. Bues stripping short is often the result of road works which we seem to be particularly suffering recently - E&C, VHX. The thing that drives me nuts is changing bus drivers. Why do they do that mid way through a route. Bizarre. And why does it take so very long.

P13 In response to a casework query about poor service. " We continuously monitor the bus network to ensure we are providing the appropriate level of service for passenger demand. I can confirm there are no immediate plans to increase the frequency of route P13. We consider the current frequency is sufficient to match demand provided the service runs reliably. We have noted the concerns raised by Cllr Barber?s constituents and have investigated the reliability of the service. Route P13 has intermittently suffered from delays as a result of traffic congestion which we are aware has been more sporadic of late. Unfortunately, this has impacted afternoon journeys, and if a bus is delayed, there will be invariably more passengers waiting to get on the bus. This will give the impression of insufficient capacity. To mitigate the impact of the delays, Abellio, the bus company which operates the service on our behalf, has been taking regulatory measures to return the service to timetable. Route controllers intervene to ensure there is a good separation of buses to ensure continuity of services. For instance, if a bus is severely delayed the route controller may ask a driver to stop the bus short of its usual destination. While operators are encouraged to use other ways of recovering lost time this can be the most advantageous way to ensure customers travelling in the opposite direction do not have a lengthy wait. We of course ideally want services to operate without resorting to these measures. Rest assured we will continue to closely monitor the route?s performance to ensure it is operating as intended. This will also help us to identify any opportunities to initiate a scheme to improve the operation of the service. "

Just announced that government decision about SE England airport capacity - Heathrow 3rd runway - is being delayed by 6 months. So it seems pretty clear they do plan to agree Heathrow having a 3rd runway but are putting the decision off to after the London elections next May. If Zac Goldsmith become London Mayor he has said he would resign as an MP. He also said he'd resign if Heathrow selected for a 3rd runway. So looks pretty certain a by election that hopefully will become a referendum about this decision and the electorate will send clear unambiguous message to the government.

Hi P68, Southwark Council is the planning authority. SO I am hopeful if the TfL plans look good that the freeholder and leaseholder will agree as part of any planning agreement. But we have any steps before this could happen.

Hi Otta, I agree. But the south circular is a TfL road and so they are the highway authority for this junction. Relinquishing some of the land for a wider road allowing a pedestrian island other than via a Compulsory Purchase Order will need the cooperation of the Dulwich Estate as freeholder and the leaseholder.

Hi EdButler, TfL say they have final draft plans ready to proceed with WHEN the land/money is provided by any new development there. The plans involve taking some of the existing land, widening the road a little to enable a new traffic island in the middle so the crossing on that western arm would be a two-stage pedestrian crossing. Or at least that's what they're proposing. My hunch would be 2-4 years time. We could seek to pseed this up by agreeing with the Dulwich Estate and getting some devlovled TfL funding from LIP but I doubt the administration or officers would be keen to take this approach - it would be swapping speed <12months for circa ?50,000 of TfL Southwark would never see in the future. But I can ask.

TfL have told me via GLA Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon that adding pedestrian phasing to the traffic lights is dependent upon funding from any development of this site.

Hi P68, You may have a point. The publicly published crime stats cover until end of October - http://maps.met.police.uk/tables.htm Total East Dulwich ward crime 1/11/13>31/10/14 = 803. For 1/11/14->31/10/15 = 708 Residential burglary reduced in that period from 109 to 82 for the last 12 months with respect to the 5,250 ED ward homes. So annually rate recently around 1.56% or once every 64 years. But these crimes are often concentrated on homes with several flats or repeat burglaries of the same home or neighbouring homes - they know the lay of the land. Notifiable offences reported in October we had 60 of all types. So we are relatively low crime and indeed lowest for Southwark. But still 2 crimes a day being reported and anecdotally people often don't bother to report crimes. Failure to report crimes means less Police resources for our area. On this thread the Beauval Road, Playfield Crescent burglaries would be in Village ward. Over the last 24 months residential burglaries per month:Month Burglary in A Dwelling Nov-13 21 Dec-13 19 Jan-14 7 Feb-14 5 Mar-14 4 Apr-14 5 May-14 11 Jun-14 4 Jul-14 8 Aug-14 12 Sep-14 4 Oct-14 9 Nov-14 5 Dec-14 3 Jan-15 9 Feb-15 13 Mar-15 6 Apr-15 3 May-15 10 Jun-15 8 Jul-15 4 Aug-15 9 Sep-15 5 Oct-15 7 So average of 6.5 pcm

Hi Grok, They have extra uniform and plain clothes patrols taking place in response. But they're are clear we have very low level crime levels. My analysis is that East Dulwich ward crime rate per thousand population is average bottom quartile for Greater London. We'd be bottom decile were it not for Lordship Lane which has shop crimes. This is no concilation to any victim of crime. If anyone would like a free property marking kit please email me your address and contact number and we'll get you one from those bought using funds from the East Dulwich Crime Prevention Fund I established some years ago and still going strong.

At the Dulwich Community Council meeting the local Police Inspector commented on crime levels. Burglary - very slight rise in reported burglaries from an incredibly low reported burglary crime rate. Violence- very occasional violence against the problem. Please, please, please locks windows and doors as the few crimes occurring are opportunistic. They will produce a simple guide as to what we should expect from the Police and how to engage them.

We fought against it, during the decision call-in it was agree to consider exemptions for poor families. Before the service was free Southwark had lots of fly tipping.