James Barber

Being picky but SPACE did not initate the secondary school campaign - my ward colleagues and I did. We launched the campaign publicly 5 December 2013. We formed a parents steering committee in March 2014 which then also took up the mantle for promoting the idea. as you say the whole point of a public consultation is to consult on points such as this. So I hope many people have responded with their thoughts. Having a nodal pioint where the site meets Jarvis Road - as proposed - is not ideal. Residents on Melbourne Grove are concerned an entrance will be proposed there. If it were - from our surveys of local residents - the school planning application would generate many objections. So the one place a nodla point should'nt be is where it is proposed.

I used to live above a sandwich shop. Great combination. During they day they kept an eye on the two flats above them and took parcels in. Other times we kept an eye on their shop. great sandwiches on the way to work every day. But when I bought the flat mortgage providers didn't have an aversion to such flats.

Hi chazzle, Yes, I had seen that and Cllr Roasie Shimell and I have asked for thedecision to be called-in and decided by councillors.

Hi No name, Yes. They're now ensuring more consistant supply of numbers of appointments each day. More use of Locums to cover holidays etc. Thy gave example of a new Locum spending an average of 20mins with patients rather than expected 10 minutes and not finishing the surgery until 9.30pm. Which causes a different problem of excessive late appointments. The PPG discussed this and DMC agreed to review how they keep people informed about this. The NHS England complaint I made was resolved with an agree action plan that they have to report on every two weeks to track progress. They appear to be making real progress but it will take further time to complete this. Hi hpsaucy, Please do try to register again and tell me how it goes. Apologies but can we use you as a litmus test for this please!

Last night I attended the Dulwich Medical Centre Patient Participation Group. Other examples of what you've described Goodliz. They have their AGM in September. Goodliz, Please email the details of your experiences so I can take up with thE DMC. They appear to have a generic issue. They are recruiting more admin staff to answer the phone first thing as well as support other admin work. Just a couple of points before I write up my notes. DMC release appointments to online booking at 7.30am every day and then phone and in person bookings from 8am. Currently virtually no one is booking GP appointments online. From memory 9 people in May booked an appointment GP online. If people have tried and found the online system rubbish please tell me why and when so we can get it worknig properly.

Hi Missdumpling, The lcoal ones are being funded via Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding. Effectively trialling them on a very sdmall scale. I hope we can scale this up significantly and use Section 106 funds from big developments - promoting people to cycle from East Dulwich to work makes big developments in the north of the borough more feasible throguh relief of public transport. If you email me I'll try andget your street at the top of the next list of sites. regards james.

Hi jeremy, I doubt it. The developer wouldn't have any reason to agree such a condition and any appeal is likely to succeed. Appeals can incur costs for councils if the original refusal is thought unreasonable in terms of planning laws and council policies.

Hi BNG, Southwark Labour have chosen, despite being asked repeatedly by Rosie and me, to NOT revise the current Dulwich Hopsital Planning Brief. That brief emphasis is on replacement health faciltities, housing and then community use. They say this document doesn't need changing or to be withdrawn. They've said it would take too long. We're now 15months since this was originally requested. We suggested how to fund this using our devolved budgets. So in planning terms yes. BUT when I appied for the Right To Contest 17,000m2 was allocated for non health use. I'm hopeful that Southwark Council will refuse a secondary school for anything less than this amount of land. The Educational Finance agency could dig it's heals in as the price is likely to be very high for the land. The local health service have said they need 7,000-9,000m2. The site is 28,300m2. So it looks like something upwards of 2,500m2 will be free for housing. NHS property will try and obtain the most cash for this possible which would mean going up. We will resist non suburban densities but Southwark council is very pro towr blocks and big developers currently.

hi Zak, Howeverm uch we'd all like to keep that corner with the currently cottage look & feel - the actual cottages have been hugely knocked about over the year and I doubt have sufficient original features to get listed - which is why they sos far haven't I guess. Irony being with sufficient time and other examples going they would eventually have sufficient merit. The planning system in Sotuhwark now feels extremely developer focused with the national government encouraging this. The cuts ot council budgets have hugely ecnouraged maximising new council tax. Private homes often little use council services. If they have children the council gets cash per pupil for schools. So with more private homes they have more council tax to spend supporting existing services. The cynic in me suspect this is why the Heygate Estate isn't being replaced with similar levels of social housing.

If a developer applies for more than 9 homes or flats in this case then 35% have to be social housing. So addign 2 flats to previous 8 = a net huge loss in value to the developer. They've obviously realsied this so the new applicatiions are for 2 flats and offices. Once the new flats sold they'll use permitted development - almost impossible ot resist to convert the offices to 8 flats. Neatly side stepping the social housing requirement. Eitherway Cllr rosie Shimell and I will call-in the new planning application - but also encourage as many people as possible to submit objections or statements of support.

Hi BNG< Yes, I believe so. Yes but Southwark Council gave the developer the run around for some tweaks to make the build simpler and mitigate the huge build inflation. They keep hoping to get started on site and will therefore need the whole cutailage of their site. But I'll dig out their details and ask. Hi Ozymodo, Yes, it is a pickle. It appears flats above the shops are doing this. Council officers 3 weeks ago assured me they were on top of this but clearly not enough. I will ask again.

Hi Otta, March 2014 I organsied a meeting with Southwark Labour Council leader Peter john to talk about desperately needed new secondary school. he listened to me and parents and education officers for Southwark and he agree a huge U turn and changed council policy from beign anti a new secondary school to pro. BUT he talked about the Dulwich Hospital site and how the school could be more vertical and tall so that plenty of space would be left for lots of new housing. So I can see that the Dulwich Hospital site will have taller buildings proposed than I'd want and I suspect many local residents. osuthwark Council have also propsoed various other local sites for housing developement - quick Fit, neighbouering timber yard, Jewson's builder yard. All developers would rue how close they wer to East Dulwich station and should have many more units and height. ta, I believe we do have a risk of very tall buildings being proposed and first mate is right to point this out.

Hi UVArchitects, The applicant applied over 9 months ago and appear to have had quite a run around by Southwark. So no one is being rushed. In fact the inordinate delay is worrying as every year anothr 60 pupils are added to this school. The build and design is limited by the budget set by the government. The budget has also been severely stretched by ?6M for the site. If you have some hepful thoguhts to offer please email them to me so I can share them with the Harris project team who can then discuss with the Educational Finance Agency (gov't agency) who procure the building on behalf of the free school.

Hi andyskip, Construction Management Plans are rarely useful or impressive - and often Southwark over the last few years have agreed to allowed construction works if quiet outside restricted hours of Mon-Fri 8am-6pm , Sat 8am-1pm. But those 'quiet' works are often very noisy and Southwark councils response to this usually poor. Hence my suggestino that any condition about requiring a CMP in such a sensitive area have the provision that Dulwch councillors and the Dulwich Socieity and perhaps thetwo nearby schools are actively consulted on it. Rather than left to officers to work without any reference to any stakeholders. And yes the figures are important to ensure the correct level of measures of H&SE wrap-around to minimise risk and disturbance. Underground parknig is a worrying precedent for Dulwich. I've now confirmed that this scheme will go to a planning committee. Fingers crossed one I'm a member of so I get to hear all the evidence to make a decision.

hi first mate, The new plans do look better. I'm not sure they're any bigger as both will be following the Dept for Education rules about space sizing etc. The brick does look much more in keeping of what we already have. We now need it approved so that it can be built in time ot house local children by September 2016. That means 180 places. WRT to tower blocks. Our area is classified as Suburban. The labour administration is proposing changes to the Southwark Plan so that such tower blocks could be build anywhere in the borough and not excldued from subirban areas. I hope they can be persusded to not make this change. either they think little or no chance of happening - in which case why propose it OR they genuinely will be encouraging developers to do this andthey should say why.

Hi Andyskip, I would also share your concerns about large tipper truck numbers visiting our area. They have a much much higher incidence of crashing with pedestrians and cyclists and those crashes resulting in death or signficiant life changing injuries. Tipper truck capacity is usually 16 tonnes or 10 m3. So I'm not clear your numbers are correct but either way objecting to HOW a construction will occur is not grounds to successfully challenge a planning application. How ever unfair that may be. You would need to object on plans grounds such as an over development. But for that to stick you've need ot assess whether more habitable rooms are being proposed than the Southwark Plan suggests for the area. Well worth speaking to THe Dulwich Scoeity who have a sub committee who will have worked those numbers for this site. The HOW would be covered, if people were concerned, by a Construction Management Plan. Any approval could included a condition requiring such a plan to be approved by officers and I would encourage concerned objectors to ask that such a condition involve Dulwioch councillors and the Dulwich Society be consulted prior to any officer approval of such a plan. Best way of ensuring this is to ensure the scheme is decided by a planning sub-committee. For that people need to object with at least 5 objecting OR two councillors need to call this application in. As it's in Village ward I would feel uncomfortable as an East Dulwich ward councillor (although southwark constitution doesn't make this distinction) leading on that but happy to support any of the village ward councillors if they initiate this. I will email this offer to them. Hope this helps.

If you have a high end car that you service via an authorised garage they'll download lots of car data - that data is usually stored in Europe on the Channel Islands - so Police can't do a mass trawl of speeding, etc. So it may be possible to ask an authorised garage to report on certain days car data in the cirucmstances you described dimples.

Please see proposed new alcohol licence for the new ish bakery on Zenoria Street. Tues-Friday 8am-4.30pm, Sat 8an-6pm, Sun 9am-5.30pm. If you're for or against this let the council licensing team know via [email protected] and please copy me as a ward councillor.

Hi BNG, Worried might be too strong a word but I would recommend removing it.

No saffron. The workers generally are walking around squirting gutters on days suitable to do this - dry days I guess.

Yes Lazero speed bumps, raised tables at junctions and crossing. I also hate speed bumps whether cycling, passenger on bus, car, etc. For some they're extrucitatingly painful if back problems, etc. Thery're a blunt instrument. I agree with your take on average speed cameras. But London has a lonson Camera Partnership controlled by the mayor of London. So I'm not clear if we can have them locally without LCP agreement - let me find out.

Hi setter, Southwark Council have plans to review all speeds and have allocated ?700k for additional works for the areas with the worse problem of speeding post 20mph. In some respects I hope Barry Road is the worst so we'll see some of that money spent here. But I suspect it isn't the worst across the whole of Southwark. About 2 years ago I suggested to the Labour cabinet councillor a way of getting average speed cameras there at no cost to Southwark - a scheme from Siemens paid for by 3-4 people being sent t speed awareness courses each day. Sadly no interest to even consult locals about this as a possibility.

This is the response I've had from council officers: " The council's cleaning service use 2 separate herbicides within the borough to treat weeds as the use of chemicals is deemed to be the most cost effective way of ensuring the borough's footways and housing estates remain weed free. The products used to control weeds are RouteOne Rosate 360 and CDA Vanquish as they have the lowest environmental impact in comparison to other products on the market and are widely used by many local authorities. Both products contain glyphosate as an active ingredient but have been shown not to be carcinogenic in tests. All of our weed sprayers are fully trained and certificated in using Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAFF) approved professional products and follow approved codes of practice. The Weedingtech Foamstream product used in some of our parks involves the application of hot water and foam to active weeds and while this may be practical for use in parks where areas can be cordoned off for treatment with minimal disruption to the public, the product does not lend itself to use on the public highway and housing estates because of the need for a power source to heat the water and for the area to be cordoned off whilst treatments takes place. " So while these pesticides are legal and the alternative so impractical for our roads I can't see a path to change this. ...

Hi P68, I thought Switzerland rather tify and they have referndums about lots of things - perhaps the exception proves your rule. Hi apbremer, You could email [email protected] aboutthat van. if you don't get a response feel free to escalate to me. Hi Blahblah, indeed but they still showed tax discs that were lapsed. Not unreasonable to suggest they may not have renewed this tax. Either way several cars now removed across the area as a result of this thread.

Still plenty of summer for other streets to hold a streey party this year. And we can even help with a little money to make it happen IF you apply by 24 June - email me for details. Lots of local exerptise in how to make it happen as well.