James Barber

The gap is still only 2762 vs. 2733 so please do get as many people to vote as possible.

The chaos was entirely avoidable if Network Rail had kept 9 terminating platforms and built 9 throguh platforms. Effectively shuffling the terminating ones along south to where platforms 17,18 and 19 used to be - http://jamesbarber.mycouncillor.org.uk/?p=417 The planning application should have been measured against a Southwark Plan that insists London Bridge redevelopment must result in more train services to Southwark stations. The planning committee rubber stamped the current dogs dinner which ignored this policy. (particularly annoying as I had ensured those words were present). Sadly our planning committee is no longer critical of plans and rigourous. It used to review all the plans in detail. Now it's railroaded to whip through schemes pronto. It even appears to now vote en bloc along party lines. And the enitrely avoidable chaos for so many results and will run until around 2018 - so London Bridge station can cope with twice as many long distance commuters. I'm lucky I'm able to use a bicycle and must as I can no longer use train delays as an excuse for lateness with my employer.

Hi libbyer, Yes 3 on Hillcourt and 3 on the section of Goodrich between Dunstans and Hillcourt. I think an extra one is needed on Hillcourt to do the job properly closeto the Goodrich corner. Goodrich road is part of East Dulwich ward from Dunstans Road west. Thanks Townleygreen.

Only 11 votes in it - pleasedo vote for this local school.

Hi Dulwich Born&Bred, WE have discussed whether a new swimming pool would be possible. The new free school alone couldnt afford the running costs and the free school programme doesn't buy them. But talking to Southwark council leader he was interested in a join Southwark Council/free school swimming pool integrated with the health centre. Not a high chance of happening in my mind but definately on my/our/their agendas. Hi LondonMix, Camberwell also has a school places problems as does Peckham and most of what you've descirbed is designed to filfil their gaps. Perhaps you know this.

Hi libbyer, Hillcourt/Goodrich to Dunstans Road has 7 sets of 3 speed cushions. Clearly they're not reducing speeds sufficiently from what you've said. Replacing these with full width sinusoidal humps would. even just replacing ever other set would have a big impact. To replace them costs around ?1,800 ea + ?5,000 admin, consultation, legal fees, newspaper fees. if you look at reported crashes via www.crashmap.co.uk since 2005-2013 one report minor crash on that corner involving 2 cars and one injury. So it is unlikely to be funded from central council money. So you'd need to persuade Peckham Rye ward councillors to use Cleaner, Greener, Safer capital funding to do this. A petition of residents could make the case for you with those cllrs. Hi kiera, No problem thanks for trying to help. I can still give advice of how to proceed and sometimes issues have systemic route cause which I can try addressing.

Hi tiddles, These are usually to carry out origin and destination analysis. track the exact proportion of traffic taking each particualr route. I would anticipate this is part of council officers trying to come up with new proposals that don't include a banned right hand turn at Turney Road. Sometimes you'll see such cameras on poles - usually a study every year or so and I get asked what they're for. Unusual to do an ad hoc one for a particualr junction but the recent proposals for it did cause a lot of disquiet. Hope that answeers your question.

Hi LondonMix, I have not suggested we want two new secondary schools in our area. Southwark needs two new secondary schools and both the Charter and Habs would seem ideal candidates in that they're now working with Southwark talking about providing new secondary schools. The two needed are one in East Dulwich and one in the north of the borough. You've said lots of plans for new schools and expansions in the area - they came after the Harris Nunhead was proposed and approved. It troubles me that Southwark would prefer to spend council tax money providing things that the government has already allocated money for. We're talking millions of pounds. But I've explained repeatedly how Southwark isn't reliable at predicting pupil numbers. Spaces are escerbated by being in the worng places or needing cars to travel to - e.g. Dulwich Woods/Langbourne. Already families are travelling some distance or going to schools outside Southwark - Lewisham and Lambeth have even more pronounced primary school crisis. I've been told Southwark's model doesn't include fewer places outside the borough from being squeezed out there. equally many gaps between admissions for existing schools which need filling. If you recall 2009 we were being told we had no crisis and had to open bulge classes with 6 weeks notice. So the modelling isn't reliable any more. 19,550m2 is the ideal amount of space as per Habs. This is more than Hatcham College or Charter currently has. I believe they could fit into 17,000m2 by going up one floor in any building constructed. Other new London schools have had much less but we all clearly want as much as possible.

Hi simonthebeaver, I still think we need more primary school places. But if the space available has been reduced to 17,000m2 then I'm unclear how a seperate Harris primary school could go there. I'm still extremely concerned that the spare land will be sold at such a price that it wont all be bought for a new secondary school. BUT today's news makes me less fearful of this. I've also been told by a government contractor that we still have a long way to go.

Hi simonthebeaver, How much space do you think is required?

A year ago I submitted a Right to Contest the spare land at thE Dulwich Hospital site. This right was created by Lib Dems in the coalition government. Please see the letter from the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP - Minister for the Cabinet Office - NMP625917 I'm delighted at last to report that as a direct result of my request the spare land has now been added to the Register of Surplus Public Land. This is a key pre requisite for any new use such as new schools. NHS property have held back 11,300m3 of the 28,300m2 for the new health centre. So I will check whether more than the 17,000m2 can be released at this point. In public meeting they've said they'll only need 7,000-9,000m2 for the new health centre. I suspect they're being ultra cautious. Patience is a virtue I have little of but I'm delighted that all the chasing by myself and Lib Dem colleagues at all levels of local, regional and national government and the support of the Cabinet Office has been successful. This prepares the ground for the Educational Finance Agency to tell us its decision of whether they've selected either The Charter School or Habdashers' Aske's Federation to open a new secondary school for us and have a site to house it in. AS you can imagine I'm rather chuffed.

A year ago I submitted a Right to Contest the spare land at the Dulwich Hospital site. This right was created by Lib Dems in the coalition government. Please see the attached letter from the Rt Hon Francis Maude MP - Minister for the Cabinet Office I'm delighted at last to report that as a direct result of my request the spare land has now been added to the Register of Surplus Public Land. This is a key pre requisite for any new use such as new schools. NHS property have held back 11,300m3 of the 28,300m2 for the new health centre. So I will check whether more than the 17,000m2 can be released at this point. In public meeting they've said they'll only need 7,000-9,000m2 for the new health centre. I suspect they're being ultra cautious. Patience is a virtue I have little of but I'm delighted that all the chasing by myself and Lib Dem colleagues at all levels of local, regional and national government and the support of the Cabinet Office has been successful. This prepares the ground for the Educational Finance Agency to tell us its decision of whether they've selected either The Charter School or Haberdashers' Aske's Federation to open a new secondary school for us and have a site to house it in.

Denmark Hill will be closed for crane work for the new King's College Hospital helipad from 8pm Fri 13 February to 5am Monday 16 February. The new helipad should really help speed up patients treatment. Please see attached leaflet. Pavement access will still stay open - so cyclists should be fine as well. The diversion are very long. Avoid the area. Bus journeys will be much longer - even buses such as no.12 are likely to take longer with diverted traffic.

Friern Road resurfacing. Officers and TfL buses have confirmed that on relfection diverting buses onto other roads and blocking local residents access would be so painful that Friern Road will remain open. Phew. Hi kiera, libbyer, You're right but I can still advise libbyer that the ideal way to get traffic calming is via annual Cleaner, Greener, Safer funding. To make it clear to officers and councillors that it's needed worth asking for a traffic count which woudl record traffic volumes and speed. Also worth running a petition of all residents. Make it clear it isn't just you who wants it - would recommend recording people for and against to added clarity. If it helps I can give you a list from the public domain quite esilly of who is on the electoral roll so any petition can be systematic as you go from door to door. theboycj, BNG, Yes BNG is correct but not much comfort to victims. In East Dulwich we've fund another 610 free property marking kits for local East Dulwich ward reisndets. After 8 years we've also persuaded College and Village wards to copy this programme and they're each funding 500 kits for those wards. These are from 15/16 funding so should be available in April. East Dulwich ward has had very few burglaries recently but any burglary causes real heart ache and hardship for the victims. The local Police have had a number of dedicated officers assigned to proactively patrol the area. We can also help each other - keep an eye out for strangers around neighbouring propoerties - the Police would sooner attend in error than not be asked and miss a burglary in the act. Hi spider69, I don't have a list but you can see double strips of rubber tubing across roads around Southwark. As soon as the results are in I'll ask for them to be added to thE southwark COuncil online mapping tool so we can all see them.

Highway renewals this week: Friern Road 8am-5pm 3-5 February - from junction with Etherow Street to Lordship Lane. Please see attached letter. Clearly buses will be on diversion. I've not yet been able to confirm the diversion route for buses or the access arrangements for house and blocks of flats. My guess is residents there will need to park somewhere else. These works won't affect the pavements. For those homes with H white bars you'll need to contact officers to ensure they put them back! Contact [email protected] or 0800 138 9081 for this.

Hi Jennys, I don't believe that's quite caught what was meant. The proposed scheme introduces an advance green phase for cyclsits gonig south. So that would mean rephasing of thel ights. To keep the Townley Road right hand turn which is most of the north bound traffic would mean keeping the current north bound green. So what I take from that is that the E-W green phase was/is proposed to stay the same length of time but officers designing a new scheme have the conundrum of how to divvy up the remaining time. Also a diagonal crossing implies an all green pedestrian pahse is longer further reducing the N-S traffic green phase time available. Hope that makes sense.

Hi ITATM, No, I don't beeive they'll be treated like planning permission BUT they must be advertised as part of the traffic management order process. Any objection will result in the individual TMO coming back to a community council to consider the objection.

Cllr Rosie Shimell and I will ask for this planning applicatino to be called-in and decided by a planning committee if officers are minded to grant planning permission.

Hi toffeese15, A secondary school is just as likely - I think really good chance we'll have one. The issue is whether it would have as much land as we'd like for it. But it is really good news that after 22 years clear firm plans for sorting out the Dulwich Hospital and its site.

thanks nxjen. Have corrected.

Yes, they said... outline planning permission for the super duper new health centre in about 3 motnhs time. in parallel 1 year of work getting business case through the NHS governance. 18-24 months ot build and open new health centre. So they estimate opening it around 17/18. Number of ?25m to buuild it was mentioned which seemed very strange. suspect that full fit out with lots of clever whizzy kit rather than moving existing medical kit. The spare 2/3rd of the site they're looking to sell at "market value". They soft marketted the site for housing with the likes of Berkely Homes so I have a real fear that this value will be so high that only a smaller part of the spare land can be afforded for new school/s. Finally. How to fund it. Bizarrely selling 2/3rds of the site - will see the proceeds go centrally. Without that cashs the funding of the new health centre is a problem. So they're comsindering a PFI via an entity call LIFTT. P bloodly FI. Do we never learn! Apparently our health civil servants are so brilliant at knowing what we'll all need for over next 25 years that they can sign a PFI contractor precisely stating what they want over that period. hope this helps. End of rant.

Dropped kerbs and double yellow lines - I've had some movement on this where new dropped kerbs have to come with 2m of double yellow lines either side of the dropped kerb - http://jamesbarber.mycouncillor.org.uk/?p=2909 Hopefully our decision will stick and this is the first sign of moving the council rules to somewhere more sensible.

It was discussed at last nights Dulwich Community Council - new scheme to be worked up and consulted upon with no banned right hand turn. Many peiple attended just for this one item. Sorry you had to wait so long before it was heard.

at council assembly last week it was announced that the 20mph policy is costing ?450,000 to introdunce the signs - publicity, pre traffic speed monitoring (44 locations in Dulwich area) That before 12 months are up speeds will be recorded and then ?792,000 spent on physical measures where speed are higher than 20mph. I suspect that will hardly touch the sides for the speeds people are still travelling at but a start.

The site is a warehouse. The previous business occupying the site needed 18 wheeled lorries several time a week. A warehouse of this size on a residential road doesn't work. The plans propose 44 underground car parking spaces. Seems OTT. But I still think it will add to parknig stress as visitors won;t park underground. Should have good cycle parking. If you think this is good or bad tell the planning officers.