James Barber

Congratulations Simon and the wider Charter East Dulwich team. Either application winning - Charter or Haberdashers - East Dulwich wins. So well done. My biggest fear had been neither or both bids being approved. And a thank you to the losing team. Both bids involved a huge amount of time and effort and it is now time for everyone to come together and support the Charter School East Dulwich into being. It is exactly 12 month ago that Southwark Council finally conceded that a new secondary school serving the wider East Dulwich area was desperately needed. So great that the first anniversary of that a new free school is approved to proceed. The Prime Minister announced the approval to proceed and the decision clearly stated it would be on the Dulwich Hospital site. I've lined up the land via the Right to Contest application I made just over a year ago and granted last month.

hi kristen, I'm not proposing any cull. I'm responding to a genuine concern and the person raising it has agreed to speak with the RSPB.

Lets find out what the RSPB tells us and then decide how we proceed.

Hi kiera, Yes that is my understanding.

Please email me or pm me your phone number.

Hi DB&B, Southwark Labour passed their budget last week which stops providing biodegradeable food waste bags to residents from 1 April. They cost 35p /year /resident. From memory it will make a headline saving of ?118,000/year. They have suggested residents buy their own - which they say retail at 8-10p each or ?4.16->?5.20 / year. OR use old newspaper to wrap up peelings etc - newspaper and wet food waste don't work! I doubt everyone will continue to take part in the scheme. Officers haven't explained the expected participant reduction. I've had two people ask how to return the brown bins and caddy's but council officials have so far declined to tell me. If more food waste isn't recycled the council will have extra landfill and landfill tax costs , some food recycling rounds will have fewer participants so unlikely to be able to reduce the collection costs but less collected. some rounds may stop being economic. So I'd be amazed if the total NET cost isn't higher after this change that will obviously reduce recycling rates. Really sad poor policy making - ignoring the total lifecycle costs and all the externalities let alone knock-on costs to the council. It will probably be dressed up as the coalitions fault rather than local poor judgement. Obviously we proposed in our counter budget not doing this.

Hi first mate, I ask council officers what analysis had been undertaken as part of the 1 hour changes. They reported ZERO analysis had taken place. Their is no evidence for it. I checked with the local traders association and they said they're happen within anyting 30-90 minutes. My gut feel is 30mins can easilly get swalloed up queueing. But with the new 10minutes flexibility being introduced by the coalition I think that would have covered it. hi Bessie1974, I'm afraid I don't know enough to comment on this. Can you get some RSPB advice and if they agree then yes we'd need to try and make it happen?

More road works and closures coming... Turney Road (between Croxted and no's 47 & 100) 25->27 March Melford Road (10m south from junction with Woodvale to no.56) 17->18 March Any concerns or questions please call the relevant officer on 020 7525 2014.

Hi Kate, No I don't but I will ask for them by East Dulwich ward and SE22 post code. It will take a few weeks as officers are dealing with more worried parents than past years.

What a weird letter. Harris Federation have been clear - and to Southwark Council Overview & Scrutiny Committee in person as well - that if insufficient Nunhead parents aren't interested in seneding their kids to a new primary school at Dul.wich Hospital site then they wont deliver it there or likely anywhere as no other site has been found. My instinct is parents will say no thank you and it wont happen. I'm not sure it will increase the space available but we still need to sort this uncertainty out.

Hi Tessmo, I would suggest people email this request in as part of the consultation response and ask their local councillors to support this. At the Dulwich Community Council we can affirm our support for this. I will also suggest directly that it would be better to have an indie report presented AT the DCC meeting to avoid any time delays. I have asked for this. Hi villager, I'm at work - give me a break! Hi P68, Spot on - most private and public bodies don't do post project reviews. and rarely go back a year or two later to check. BUT if things really bad that can force a review - but none of us want that to happen.

I've suggested to the Labour administration who I would choose as an independent voice to review all the materials so far - John Dale of Urban Movement.

The Fusion contract doesn't have that long to run. I would anticipate extra responsiveness unless Fusion don't want to run Southwark's leisure centres. Any problems feel free to escalate to me or Cllr Rosie Shimell or for that matter Cllr Charlie Smith.

hi richard tudor, I like your simple definition with parenthesis impied - "30 mph on busy roads, 20 on residential roads and [roads with] pedestrians on the pavement" Hi mako, Across the Dulwich Community Council area - 3 wards- College 3 Lab cllrs, East Dulwuich 2 x Lib Dem + 1 Labour, Village ward 2 tories + 1 Labour. So even locally 5 Labour councillors vs 4 others. Hi richard tudor / rdyney bews - Clegg & tutuition fees. Didn't you notice Lib Dems are 8% of MPs and both Tories and Labour (who introduced tuition fees having promised not) are in favour of them. We managed to get a deal which is much more progressive than what went before vs. what the tories originally intended. 63% of children from the poorest back grounds in London are no going to universty - a higher proportion than any other social group across England & Wales. UCAS even noted a huge leap in the poorest now going to universities since the change. Hi Loz, They haven't included cyclsits - bicycles don't come with speedometers which is why you legally can't charge them for speeding.

That's a really good point Mrs TP. That makes areal difference and would put a lot of people out of their misery. It's a shame that Southwark Council dont liaise with the private schools for admissions. That would really move things along.

I've visited this school several times and been truly impressed with it and more importantly its pupils. I wish I'd been half as nurtured at the comp I attended. So I wasn't surprised but was chuffed to see the stunning 1st GCSE results they've achieved. Above the national average and some of the highest in Southwark. This is especially impressive when the first two years the school was off site at Langbourne some considerable way away and without all the facilities it now has. You could also ask to visit the school again before making a final decision.

Hi Tessmo, I would support a fresh pairs of eye reviewing 8A option. Looking at the percentage above capacity each option presents - and I would suggest that at the very peak hours the current junction is over capacity - 8A throughout the day has the lowest over capacity. But that may be the wrong way to assess these things. Hi Villager, I'm at work so don't have themto hand but Google Scholar throws up - http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/7/3/234.short http://injuryprevention.bmj.com/content/15/1/13.short Neither is the research I remembering reading. This might have been it - http://trid.trb.org/view.aspx?id=365831 / http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0001457594900914

How pointlessly mysterious. Perhap they're gonig to open 1 or two screans only to start with.

EDITED to add London stats. 68% first choice across London. So Southwark not doing well at 60%. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-31698086 Today is secondary school admissions being announcement day - from 5pm online and letters overnight. GOOD LUCK. 2,637 on time secondary scghool place applications, 42 higher than last year. Slight reduction in people being offered their first preference 59.6% (61.4% in 2014), first three preference 86.5% (88.5% in 2014), 93.2% first 6 preferences (94.4% in 2014), 6.8% none of their choices (5.7% 2014). So 179 children not allocated any school their parents and they wished for and 355 families didn't get one of their first three choices. I've attached the official Q&A, stats results and details of where you can go to ask for support and advice - apart from your local councillors. If anyone needs help please get in touch. It is amazing how much of s shake down happens and families ultimately getting acceptable school places. all going well the following year families will have an extra local secondary school to choose from.

I've received an email pointing out that NICE recommends 20mph to reduce early deaths (children under 15 years of age: https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph31/resources/new-nice-guidance-to-reduce-number-of-child-injuries-and-deaths

Hi Slarti b, No, that was perception using the junction on foot, bicycle and car. I was posed the following question which I guess all local councillors are being set: "Do you think that spending ?220,000 is justified when historic data proves that there is not a safety problem with this junction and that recent modelling commissioned by Southwark shows that there will be increased delays to the traffic?" My response for transparency: Yes I think TfL should spend such sums on improving child safety walking and cycling to local schools. The trouble with solely basing highway safety improvements on reported crashes is significant number of crashes that involve injury are not reported. They're treated by hospitals and that's it. We learn nothing. For slight injuries from memory I've seen peer reviewed papers suggesting only a fifth are actually reported. With random probability waiting until some is killed or seriously injured often would mean fixing a location making safer when its unlikely to have a crash for some considerable time even decades. The research even found under reporting of death on highways. I don't know the maths but it feels right to review junctions,especially ones with high usage levels such as this one, assessing if it is inherently unsafe and address issues before a death or serious injury. My understanding is that such an assessment has been made hence why TfL are willing to fund changes. What I would be interested in seeing is the maths related to all junctions having been assessed and prioritised for upgrades so we know that this was the best possible choice in Dulwich for a junction to be improved. For example Townley Road junction with Lordship Lane and Heber Road has many more crashes and is also a busy route to school and a real barrier to cycling. How does that junction compare and others. I'm sorry my answer isn't a binary yes or no but I do feel strongly that resources should be allocated but the allocation method needs to be made more transparent. ----- Looking at the options 8A looks to have the least impact overall. But clearly any of the options will have impact. The two-stage right turns for cyclists is interesting. I'd welcome knowing how these work in Denmark. I'm not keen on the cycle gate results in a drastic narrowing of Greendale eastern footpath. It looks like the signal gates are causing the lack of signal time for all the other required manoeuvres. It also makes it look complicated. The eastbound East Dulwich Grove cycle stop line looks unnecessarily far back from the pedestrian marked crossing area. Even 1/2m would increase capacity going in that direction. It looks like a smaller tweak on the westbound facing traffic on the east side of the junction on East Dulwich Grove. Again tiny improvement in capacity could be squeezed out. The big open new pavement expanses would need new tree pits or other planting. I think red light cameras should be included. I think that's one of the biggest issues of this junction - people driving across when just turned red. Countdown would be useful to aid pedestrians. But I don't support the do nothing suggestion.

Sadly from a planning perspective objectors and supporters normally carry most weight if they live within 100m of the development site. Certainly at planning committees supporters and objectors can only speak if living within 100m of the planning application site. But certainly councillors can't help but be influenced even if sub consciously if they receive lots of emails. But the councillors to influence will be those on any planning sub committee that will decide this planning application. But it can only be refused on planning grounds else any successful appeal could see Southwark be charged the applicants costs. So worth checking the applicant versus the Southwark Plan and highlighting if it's an overdevelopment - we're suburban here, design, parking pressure - http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/856/planning_policy/1241/the_southwark_plan

Hi slarti b, Happy to ask those questions. Hi goose green, Apologies for types and being sensitive.

EDITED to add copy of Traffic Management Order Just a heads-up that St.Aidan's Road will be closed for Thames Water works 9 March - 6 June. If anyone would like further information they can call 020 7525 2014.

Hi slarti b, That is useful. Thank you. Do you want me to ask these questions of council officers or have you or will you on Saturday? Hi Goose Green, Do you really expect 9 councillors to hang around for at this public exhibition for several hours probably ohgging the officer time asking questions that will be documented in the report that comes to us anyway? This exhibition si about residents having a chance to ask questions. I pesnally think a publci meeting would have been better where everyone hears the answers to other questions. But the council administration prefer lots of 121 conversations. This weekend I'll take a look at all the documentation.