James Barber

These are all as per the Southwark Street Design Manual - and yes Southwark has decided to apply it's own standards. Expensive ones.

Council officers assure me it is working fine. Seemed fine Wednesday evening when I used them.

Great project. If it become incredibly popular cyclists will find other quicker routes. You might like to ask the local community council and councillors if they could allocate some of their Cleaner, Greener, Safer underspends to immediately help. Also the next round of CGS for financial year 16/17 opens for applications 7 September. I can't wait until it opens.

From all the casework I've dealt with and currently dealing with. Wherever possible buy the freehold from Southwark Council - I know that wont apply to many - but if it does buy it. You are then in control of what happens. I'd be amazed if you couldn't negotiate better quality and pricing than Southwark.

Hi Siduhe, That really helpful Siduhe. I will ask why this is changing and whether having been assured no changes were occurring it appears one has and are their any others. Hi Richard tudor, Are you referring to the Southwark Labour Party 2014 council election manifesto?

Hi Charles notice, I thought I had. With the necessary caveat that I've not made a final decision as I've not had all the facts. Hi EDAus, Tricky. increased visibility often results in greater speeding. Catch-22. Full humps positioned better than current ones could help.

FMConway were selected for a term contract. It will have followed OJEU processes. So please don't libel people who udner took this. It is apparently one of the cheapest deals in London - I attended a riveting highway maintenance conference hosted by TfL a couple of years ago. So cheap that it didn't make sense for Southwark to join a sub regional amalgamated consortium of local councils. But you usually pay for such deals in service. Equally Southwakr specifies the materials. Clearly we need to get Southwark to review the materials they select for global warming impact - shipping from China - supply chain delays, if you run out it takes a while to restock. Even if the materials headline pricing might be cheaper. Either way 7 September.

Latest crash data show two crashes Melbourne Grove / Ashbourne during 2014. www.crashmap.co.uk well worth a look at the area in general.

I've just had the answer that these works will be completed 7 September. The delay due to obtaining kerb stone - weirdly not ordered sufficiently before the works started and that they have to be imported. You could not make this up.

Hi skylorikeet, Sadly as an opposition councillor I'm limited in being able to help solve that. It is immensely frustrating. But this is what I'm doing to try and solve this generic problem: I have submitted an FOI asking for information of when works are due to start, when they, when they are due to finish and when they actually finish for the last three years road works Southwark undertakes. I suspect this information will highlight a systemic issue and I can then ask formal questions about when and what will be done to solve this. It does appear FMConways don't have sufficient resources to undertake the works Southwark request of them.

Yesterday evening I had the opportunity to ask officers about when the junction will reopen. He stated is will be safe to open for 2 September new school year but wont be totally finished. So presumably finishing pavements in places.

Hi richard tudor, I've always said it sounded like a good idea from Cllr Charlie Smith. That I would listen to further evidence before making up my mind and I still say that. Should the southern end be closure be proposed, expensive buildouts, replacing the current speed cushions. But to me doing nothing wouldn't be an acceptable answer. The evidence on this thread hadn't had that effect.

The Alleyns Bursar has been in touch with me in response to a query from me. They have apologised directly to those that have contacted them about this noise event. It was the first wedding reception they've hosted in a marquee with music. They will not take such bookings again to avoid the risk of this noise problem ever happening again.

I will try and get a copy of draft Terms of Reference and share hear. After having a useful debate with some residents last night. I'm really not clear closing Melbourne Grove southern part close to East Dulwich Grove would work. Sending residents of local streets via Matham Grove and the horrible junction it has with Lordship Lane would make sense. But as I've said before until we have a feasibility of the possible options and consequences I've yet to make my mind up.

It now looks very close to completion.

Hi Pugwash, Getting Southwark to remove scaffolding is a regular item of casework in the last 3 years. If you email the exact address today I'll chase or I'll take a look in person over the weekend and then chase. Hi landsberger, Pupil number for primary school. I met with council officers about pupil numbers as their reports stated we have an over supply of 60 reception places and each year. I then contacted all local Dulwich Primary schools and discovered we have an over supply of 20 places. !6 at Dulwich Woods Primary schools and the rest sprinkled around. So the officers report was significantly wrong. We need Harris ED Primary school and without it would currently have a shortage per year group of 40 places in local schools. One can't help the feeling the school number forecasts are politically driven. Hi artfuldgodger, first mate, The parking consolidation order? I've been assured in writing that this consolidation order involves no changes to any parking but rather amalgamates a large number of smaller order. That such amalgamations is considered good practice in the parking enforcement profession. If its about the introduction of 1 hour parking locally. Labour stood on a platform in 2014 of introducing this. We even had a Labour councillor elected as one of the three East Dulwich councillors on that platform. I have always told officers I'm against changing free parking around Lordship to 1 hour parking restrictions. This has been discussed at the Dulwich Community Council. But the several parking places they talked about I don't think will make a material difference and I'm not aware DCC agreed to any. The prime problem we currently have is shop owners parking all day on Lordship Lane and existing parking plates stating parking restriction being repeatedly removed making parking restriction enforcement impossible. One small victory was getting parking enforcement to adopt the approach Cathedrals ward Lin Dem councillors highlighted to officers to remove the car parking outside the shop at the northern end of Lordship Lane. I'm rather chuffed we've made that happen after all those years of trying.

residents have two options. Either buy their own food waste bags or give up on food waste recycling. Please do stick with the system even if the council is making it less attractive without free bags. Hi Bellenden Belle, Why not get involved in Bromley local politics whatever your political philosophy and changes things.

Southwark Labour are about to introduce charges for bulk waste collection - have any clear outs now while still free. Proposal is ?15 per collection.

Hi hoonaloona, My understanding is the school is still planned to open Sept 2016 so you will be able to apply. BUT as the school isn't open Southwark usually doesn't include the school in the normal admissions process. So you'd apply direct to the school and effectively get another application in. Harris. I can understand their concern that they may end up having undersubscribed schools. All rival schools challenge new free schools. It part of the warning the New School Networks gives to people considering applying for free schools. Head and governors like the status quo. Hardly surprising when they're leading such complex school operations. But I doubt the DfE/EFA will delay this new free school. for the last 2-3 years I've had casework with families with no local secondary school offered to them. That was one key factor in why we initiated this new free school campaign. The other being the 2009 bulge class children needing secondary school palces in 2016. Some comments have been made at how disjointed the system is without local council control. Local council control would have seen this free school killed at birth. Southwark Council were always adamant this school would never be needed and it was only 3 months before the 2014 local elections with 550 families signed up that it performed a complete U-turn agreeing to produce a report completely changing pupil forecasts to support the need. Additionally not all local councils run education competently and it was Labour government that removed Southwark education from the council and handed it to Atkins contractors and then Cambridge associates due to Southwark Council's then incompetence. It took several years to persuade the govt the council had been turned around before they handed control back.

Hi BeadyBoo, I escalated the issue of the temporary crossing on Friday. Was assured it was working correctly. Escalated the issue again after a harrowing description of nearly happened there - which should have been possible. Thank you for also highlighting this issue. Hi Andrew1011, yes I think that was the quote - removed from the wider quotes context about if it was feasible. But never let a quote taken out of context get in the way of the point you wish to make. Hi mockingbird, We have different opinions on what the data tells us. I think over 300 vehicles speeding greater than 25mph a day down a residential road isn't acceptable. How we solve that is up for debate. This doesn't mean I'm not fully open to more authoritative interpretations of the data, lobbying by residents or consultation results. Hi Abe_foreman, It is and isn't an ideal site. If we could have found a better site we would but it is also close to the primary admissions black holes which is good. Longer-term I could see the bus stop and nearby pelican crossing swapping places as others such as robin have suggested - again if the officer advice is that would make things safer. We have a small study about options to improve Whateley Road/Lordship Lane junction safety.

Hi Phil, The former Police station (junction of Lordship Lane/Whateley Road) will become the permanent home of the Harris East Dulwich Primary School temporarily located on Homestall Road. Plan is to have it ready for September 2016. Hi BNG, Agreed - which is why a feasibility study of options will be taking place. Residents asked for an immediate experimental closure we said no we need to assess all options and impacts. Hi Robin, I think 15% of over 2,000 vehicles a day driving at 25mph or more is a significant proportion when the speed limit is 20mph. You don't. At the time of the deputation the majority of your neighbours agreed with me. They may not now.

Hi EDAus, I think you've jumped the gun. The study hasn't even started for possible options to reduce traffic and speeds on Melbourne Grove. The petition is worded well but then you've summarised the wider study you're asking for by saying don't close Melbourne Grove. Why are you asking for a study you've pre determined the outcome. Some of the points you've listed appear wrong. If Melbourne Grove was closed why would anyone divert to Townley Road? I would have thought it makes more sense to call on the feasibility to be widened to cover the wider area and all local issues - we then need to list those local issues.

Hi Charles Notice, Don't you think closing those roads might be why they don't have lots of vehicles using them? Hi ZT, I believe milo Road was previously used as a cut through / rat-run. which is why it was closed. The fact that no one can imagine those roads being rat-runs now suggests the closures have been incredibly successful. I can't claim any involvement in these successes.

Yes, I admit it. Police funded a traffic count that showed significantly more vehicles than I had appreciated with a significant proportion speeding along Melbourne Grove and I want to help resident fix that. The idea of closing that section of Melbourne Grove is appealing and I'm keen to see what an officer report says would be the consequences and also other options and consequences. You have me banged to rights for trying to help people. And yes when newspapers call me up I sometimes get quoted by them. I'm not very good at giving them sound bites so I don't get so many calls as I should court.

Hi DF for contacting me. Currently you can only sell this stuff for medical use or catering purposes. But what's to stop someone diverting a catering use to drug taking. Nothing. So society has a choice. So far one person I believe has sadly been reported as dying from taking this stuff. The sellers are almost all taxed businesses - if many are pretending to be selling for catering purposes. Outlawing it would be national legislation. Using by laws to stop selling on our streets eminently practical if Lambeth feels it's a really high priority for them. I would suggest we have many other drugs that cause far more problems. In Southwark the under aged cigarette trading standards operations stopped for lack of resources. If Southwark has resources I would suggest it uses them in this area.