James Barber

East Dulwich Road will be resurfaced 3->5 November each night between 8pm and 5am between Grove Vale and Crystal Palace Road. This assumes no surprises or bad weather. Noisy work will be, as much as possible, contained 8pm to midnight each evening. I've asked what the diversions for bus route 37 & 484 will be and other traffic. I've also had an extended dialogue with council officials over the summer about taking this closure as an opportunity to renew all the road markings and zebra crossing markings at Goose Green roundabout. Fingers crossed this all goes to plan as well. Importantly if you park your car of off East Dulwich Road you'll find access harder and may wish to park elsewhere for these two nights. If you have any problems or concerns please let me know.

Hi P68, I am solely going on meetings where we've asked question of Thames Water and Southern Gas Networks.

Hi P68, I'm sure you're correct and I should have said Victorian or Edwardian. Either way a century old +/- a decade.

Most of our gas and water mains were installed in Victorian times. A significant amount of patching and temporary fixes were made during WWII to keep thing going. Fortunately no one flooded.

Hi bobbsy, When we know everyone is a perfect driver and all children will act as responsible adults from the first time they walk. Crashing a vehicle into the human body greater than 20mph results in a high probability of death - if not death life changing injuries. The average speed of vehicles is so low anyway why would you want to speed to the next hold-up?

Hi Nigello, I've also reported it.

Told a few minutes ago that 42" Thames Water mains has burst on Townley Road. That Townley Road is totally closed between Dovercourt Road and Calton Avenue. The repairs is estimated to be complete by Monday 2 November. Please avoid that area.

Hi Bic basher, That sounds really odd and not right. Can you email me more details - typicaday and time this occurs please.

Hi Northeastview, The police are sadly not doing much. they argue nationally that 20mph should be self enforcing. Your perception of no Police enforcement of the 20mph is correct. Speedometers are not highly accurate so the Police allow a high margin above the speed limit before they enforce. Traffic police have been significantly reduced in the last 20 years (not due to austerity) in favour of policing of more politically acceptable policing. concern about the 'war on motorists' fiction. But in Southwark more people are killed and seriously injured on our roads than from other violent crime. In these circumstances a rational person will be sorely tempted to go over 20mph. I have tried to get average speed cameras on local roads such as Barry road and Lordship Lane as they are incredibly effective at enforcing and giving people the confidence to drive no faster than the speed limit - it takes the pressure you've described away imposed by others. A ?700k Southwark Council fund to deploy physical measures on the most blatant areas of people speeding greater than 20mph will be used soon. But ?700k will result in very few physically measures. We clearly need more done on making 20mph speed limits work.

Pictures on Twitter show two fire engines and a number of firefighters and lots of hoses and connections to water fire hydrants plus several police cars. hopefully only loss of property involved and no one harmed.

Poor taste kibris.

Which one slarti b? If bottom of Dog Kennel Hill I've gone through this cycle three times so far.

Thanks Cedges.

The problem is that the cube in the middle with dimples is a electric sub=-station apparently celebrating Michael Faraday. If they moved that they could have built a new signalled crossing in the roundabout and then over a weekend linked it to the existing roads and the disruption would have been nil. The peninsula was photoshopped with a market and people. I doubt very much whether it will be anything other than a deserted piece of ground and huge waste of money. I really hope I'm wrong. I doubt very much it will be safer than the existing roundabout as it's so bloody complicated. Nothing clear it intuitive about it. Again I hope I'm wrong. I suspect that 5-10 years time they'll rip the whole thing up and put in a signal crossing. If it is a dismal failure I hope this second stab happens quickly to minimise deaths and serious injuries.

Hi @Woodwarde, it was in the classified section of Southwark News yesterday. Didn't say what the Traffic Management Order was for.

The campaign have a petition with over 8,500 signatures. They've confirmed addresses for neighbouring ward they have around 1,500 signatures which means they have around 17% of the electorate there. So I think the poster is quite reasonably stating huge anger etc.

I can't find any details about this on the HSBC website. I can find reports of about 30 branches closing with individual pdf files explaining why each of those branches is closing. But nothing about East Dulwich closing. Would expect them to follow the BBA code.

Hi slarti b, Further traffic order has been issued by Southwark around the Townley Road/East Dulwich Grove junction. I'm unclear what this is about and have contacted council officers - but hopefully it starts addressing the safety audit reports concerns. Hi ruffers, pipsky2008, Calling the council switchboard should work - 020 7525 5000. If you wish to email me I can get it investigated and hopefully if confirmed look at how we can tighten the process so others can't do the same.

Hi first mate, I have started the ball rolling for a call-in for the sub station application - it isn't a safe proposals, blocks the pedestrians crossing, and no noise mitigation has been proposed. Can you imagine living close to the thrumming sub station 24/7. Upland Road/Crystal Palace Road - I would expect the developer to fully reinstate the pavement at their expense.

we recently had a kitchen /dining area extension and the under floor heating is wonderful. Makes the space cosier, no radiators, occasionally the kids have laid on the floor out of pure joy. But I've not checked the heating bill yet...

Hi RobMiller, I have raised the matter with council officers and escalated it to them in the last week and when originally created. A decent construction management plan could have avoided all this danger and closing the pavement for so very long by building works on the former Police station. Contrast the other side of the road where the developer is clearly going to great efforts to avoid inconveniencing people. Hi slarti b, I'm expecting this audit report to be presented at the next Dulwich Community Council meeting with what remediation has taken place and will take place. Ultimately though the decisions for this junction are with the cabinet councillor not ward or more general Dulwich councillors.

Major changes to trains in South London this Christmas These changes will take place from 1pm on Christmas Eve to 3 January 2016 (10 days). The work is part of the Thameslink Programme, which will be making major changes to the tracks and signalling at London Bridge. They will also be bringing a new viaduct at Borough into. As a result, from 8pm on Christmas Eve, there will be NO Southeastern trains from Charing Cross, Cannon Street, Waterloo East and London Bridge, with services diverted to and from Victoria, Blackfriars and New Cross. There will be other stations on the network that may not have trains during this period, tickets will be accepted on alternative routes and rail replacement buses will be in operation. Also, there will be no trains between South Croydon and Redhill, and the Gatwick Express service will be suspended. There will be some diverted train services and bus replacements to help passengers complete their journeys. Passengers can check www.nationalrail.co.uk/christmas before they travel, or visit their train operator's website for more information.

I'm obviously not a Labour fan generally but I really don't think they have a hidden agenda against car use. The population of London is rapidly expanding. The number of roads isn't. We have to cram more people onto the same amount of road space to make journeys. If you drive around London expect even more competition for that limited road space. So either we have to collectively become much more efficient at how we use road space OR build many many more roads. The latter would require demolition of large numbers of peoples homes - they started this in the 60's - hence the Bricklayers Arms disaster. A bigger problem than crowded roads is lack of reasonably priced housing. So clearly demolishing lots of housing to try and solve a problem of crowded roads that isn't as acute a problem as housing wouldn't make sense. The drive for cycling is because new tube lines and the like take decades to make happen and cost many billions in the UK. Segregated bike lanes cost millions and be done in a year or two. IF we reach levels of cycling such as Copenhagen and Amsterdam we will have avoided tens of billions in new tubes lines, improved average fitness, and relieved the pressure that would have been on road space for extra buses and motor vehicles. But change isn't comfortable and isn't an exact science. Some changes will and wont work. The important thing is trying to solve the problems.

Hi rahrahrah, TfL has reiterated its requested that 2018 & 2019 South London suburban trains come under the cpntrol of TfL. why 2018 & 2019 that when two train franchises come to an end. London Overground to/from Clapham Junction changes 2018 to running every 10 minutes - not tuv train frequencies of every minute or two but still often enough to be a turn up and go service. We also know that when TfL takes on train services they upgrade the trains, platforms and staff the stations. WRT to 20mph Lab, Lib Dems and Green Parties all promised 20mph. But as ever the devil is in how you implement it.

Hi XIX, The decision didn't go to committee quickly enough. That's what has happened. Hi fzer71, Southwark and the UK have huge numbers of new homes with approved plans. The developers then sit on those approved scheme until they choose to build them. The problem isn't with the planners. The problem is no land taxation. So land banking in a rising house price market makes more sense for many developers than actually building them. Hi KalmietyKel, The new substation is surprising at this stage. I've seen something like this where a new lift was installed. So I suspect the extra lift provision to the proposed new additional floor is driving this.