James Barber

I've had two reports of rubbish bins vanishing: 1st Junction of Worlingham Road with East Dulwich Road 2nd Bus stop outside the closed Police station entrance (Lordship Lane/Whately Road junction) I'm hopeful we can get them put back. IF you think a rubbish bin has been removed and it is needed please let me know.

Hi ZT, Good idea except their is only so long traffic will wait. Adding another phase to these traffic lights will lengthen the whole cycle accordingly. For those that suggest leave the junction alone. Southwark Council I've been assured has had safety audits of it which showed it to be a dangerous junction. I haven't a copy of the audit. I cycle both way across the junction and I don't feel very safe. But diverting right turning traffic elsewhere is likely t just shift the problem - much I suspect would use Lordship Lane and then Melbourne Grove. And the Melbourne Grove/East Dulwich Grove junction already has more crashes than this junction. So this aspect to me appears flawed.

Hi Gunore, The litter pickers probably ran out of time. I'm sure they'll finish it of in the next day or so. Hi uncleglen, You will always have some people getting that impression. I think it is more to do with different parties with different policies spending money on different priorities to them.

Hi DenmotherSmith, February is my understanding. The govt Dept for Education don't trust free school applicants to find their own land/premises. So they employ the Educational Finance Agency to organise this on behave of free school applicants. Not the most dynamic organisations. Before recognising the need, initating and leading the campaign for a secondary school on the hopsital site it was proposed for the first Harris primary school. The NHS property people blocked this such that another site was found. But Southwark council helpfully issued a letter allowing a primary school on the hopsital site. All this work has meant any evenutal secondary school will happen a year or two earleir than if we hadn't originally tried putting a primary school there. Harris would prefer to build a primary school on their Girls Academy site on Homestall Road. The hopsital site isn't a first choice for them - hence why I think Southwark Council holds the chips in this.

They are lovely people running a great jewellers. Really sad they were raided. Appalling. If you've been do pop along and visit. Show your support for such local independent shops.

Clearly any new school on the Dulwich Hospital site will affect everyone in a very wide area. The hospital serves people, even in its reduced state, for some distance with the services it still provides and the services that are proposed to be provided. As a ward councillor I'm always likely to feel a bit precious about things in the ward I represent but that's not a bad thing in moderation. One of the things I found particularly attractive about Haberdasher's being the school provider the Steering GRoup chose - and from past experience worknig with them - is the very long term view they take. They would expect to provide a school and think in terms of hundreds of years. So it is really important to get it right. But I can;t pretend I'm not impatient to have it built and opened. Primary school. Clearly this isn't ideal on this site as well. I hope a sensible pragmatic solution is found ASAP. That might be the conultation finds it no longer is needed. Or it might mean a better site for it is found.

Hi nigello, Roundabouts are much more dangerous for all road users than traffic lights. So don't think that's the answer. Hi rch, I don't see why feedback saying keep the right turn from Townley Road would need a new scheme and another consultation. Hi BNG, The suggestions have been made with the best possible intents. But it is easy to get carried away and not fully appreciate how others will view such a scheme. The Safe Routes To School committee is made up of local parents, school reps, the council, Southwark Living Street, Southwark Cyclists. I used to be the Southwark Cyclists rep until about three years ago. They/we did lots ofp promoting walking to school week, cycling to school weeks, cycle training, walkin to school trains, travel planning with schools. It seems pretty clear that we need phyiscal changesto make our streets more conducive to parents letting their children travel to school on their own safely. Getting those phyiscal changes right is really tricky as this scheme amply demonstrates. Hi Jennys, It would help if the private schools didn't have such massive footprints in terms of distance their pupils travel. As Townleygreen mentions without controlled parking not much you can do about detering teachers and parents parking locally who live some distance away. And the most vocal opposition to the rejected controlled parking came from people living near this junction. It's non starter. Hi spider69, Thats not very fair. As a local councillor when I received information about this proposed scheme I immediately objected to the parts I disagreed with and told people about it.

Hi Otta, I have fed that back. Until March I had a number of meeting with Southwark Council where they said no secondary school was needed in south Southwark. They changed their minds under political pressure when we have over 500 families saying they wanted a new secondary school. THEN officers changed their reports to reflect the political decision to support the campaign. So I'm not convinced about pupil projections given by the same people about primary schools. They have produced the stats to follow the political lead they've been given.

Hi Sanstopit, This is not what I would desire but Southwark Council and the EFA have so far not found another site. I have suggested sites to both authorities and neither have followed them up. So we're stuck with two intransigent public bodies who both by their actions will make this happen. Yes voters with children already in primary schools support a secondary school and don't want more primary school places. Are you surprised. Parents without places in primary schools have said they want primary school places. Are you surprised. They have different interests and the experiences of people with kids in primary schools is mostly that they achieved the places they wanted. So of course they don't see a need. Hi boanonme, No you can not assume I would abandon parents who supported two Harris primary schools. But I will continue to fight for another site for such a primary school. Hi Otta, Agreed!

Constrained is an interesting term. IF the approved primary school and as yet to be approved secondary school need a site and the EFA end up prposing they both go on tHE Dulwich Hospital site how small would they be? Haberdashers have said ideally they'd need 19,500m2. The total site is 28,300m2. The health people have said they need 7,000-9,000m2 but that include car parknig for 100 cars. A primary school woudl be around 2,000-4,000m2. IF the secondary school had good travel planning and was ground and 3 storeys rather than ground and 2 storeys then it would need up to 17,500m2 (talking to local school architect). No reduction of open space and a number of local schools have such height school buildings and it would be no taller than the current hospital buildings. So we end up with a constrained school with the same outdoor space. The bigger problem in the new Southwark Plan proposes no new school until after the new health facility opens. So the new secondary school would open 2018. Two years later than all the signed-up supporters need it to open.

..and do point out that 2 stations proposed for each branch isn't enough. We need a statino every km as it is for the rest of the Bakerloo line. So that owuld add one for Walworth Road and Denmark Hill. The proposed stop at Peckham Rye would work well for one half of East Dulwich but one at Denmark Hill would work well for the other half of East Dulwich.

Hi volga85, Tell me where litter bins were removed and I'll get them put back. Hi Alex K, I think a large social shift would be required. Southark council could explore this but it would then need to enforce it. With so many people moving in and out it would be a constant large education campaign. I think this would need to be bigger than Dulwich or Southwark to work.

Hi Sarah, It might be worth asking the advice of the local community cinema club - http://www.paradisofilm.co.uk/

Yes.

Hi Bunk Wallave, Call the Police non emergency number 101 to report it. Once you have the crime reference number please email it to me and I'll chase with our local police. We now have the crime details from 2009 when a van reg. no. was recorded. So the Police hopefully can cross reference either the van still in use or the owner of a newer white van.

Like I said Mike. Keeping the streets clean was a priority for Lib Dems in Southwark - and we used a lot of seasonal contract staff to achieve thiswho were logged under consultants in the councils budgets. Other parties have other priorities. I don't know any boys that were employed as a result. But if you feel anything inappropriate occurred contact the Police borough commander so a criminal investigation can take place. Hi LadyNorwood, I spotted a lady last night doing this on Calton Avenue.

The developer and I met with Network Rail 2-4 years ago to try and come up with a scheme that resulted in a new station ticket office and lifts to the platforms. Network Rail wanted ?1M from the developer to shore up the railway before they'd talk seriously about this. So sadly it didn't proceed.

Hi edhistory, No it doesn't. Hi @Woodwarde, You're getting a bit silly now. The Draft cycling strategy has come after this scheme was proposed. But to ensure the cycling stratgy looks good they've hoovered up whatever schemes are on the book and included them into the strategy. No one can take a cycling strategy that includes two south Southwark junciton improvements this being one of them. a N-S route and existing TfL plans and call it a strategy. The North-south spine is a reformating of London Cycle Network route 23 from memory. LCN 23 has been around for 20+ years and crosses this junction and proceeds along Calton Avenue. It's spin with extra TfL money to give some substance such as this junction proposal. And even keeping the Townley right turn the proposals will be a step improvement for children walking and cycling.

Hi apbremer, Yes but mostly no.... Southwark Council reduced the street sweeping to once a month. So yes they do, but at that frequency it feels like no. When my lot led the council we employed lots of extra staff for leaf fall periods - Labour then made a big fuss about how much we were spending on consultants (which was largely this type of work but in the accounts listed as consultants) and it helped them win an election. Locally in East Dulwich we've used devolved capital and revenue funds to buy a mechanical sweeper. But the one purchased only has the brushes at the front. We're looking at another with vacuum sucker so litter and leaves around parked cars can be sucked up as well. But we've not cracked making the change from daily to monthly street sweeping work. Funny that some say all politicians are the same. In Southwark the two main political parties have very different emphasis on litter and eco crime.

Hi @Woodwarde, I'm sure TfL produce their own stats but they'll be for the roads they're responsible for. If you'd like to view traffic and speed counts please see: http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200212/egovernment/1370/southwark_maps and click "Southwark traffic flow survey" option and then move the map to the location you're interested in. I've found this mapping doesn't automatically include all counts but most. Currently pairs of rubber tubes across lots of roads - so lots of traffic count results coming soon.

Hi MarkT, and other more recent victims. It sounds remarkably similar set of accounts. MarkT, Can you please email me privately with when the incident your experienced happen. Others please report your incidents and share the police reference numbers. I'll help the Police collate these to ensure they act. With a known white van from the past and new more recent incidents their is enough for the Police to investigate.

Hi @Woodwarde, The only other schemes I'm aware of are cycle contraflow Overhill Road junction with Lordship Lane. Island buildout looks a little too big + Crystal Palace Parade which I believe will go out to consultation in the next week or so. I believe these will also be presented at the 28 January Dulwich Community Council.

Hi @Woodwarde, Melbourne Grove is part of the Vale Residents Association. The Dulwich Community Council meeting that will discuss this scheme will be 28 January. I'm very clear that Cllr Rosie Shimell and I will propose the right turn from Townley Road remain. I'm not sure a petition is required and always runs the risk of another petition being raised by schools with long lists of parents for the scheme as is. You really don't want to snatch defeat from what appears a compelling argument.

Have you reported either hopefully both incidents to the Police? Such behaviour will eventually lead to something much work - pellet in the eye, etc. And yes the Police would like to know about every such incident. If you catch a number plate that would be brilliant.

I've received plans of the proposed pavement works to 133-159 Lordship Lane to remove the ponding and make an even surface. It is expensive complicated work as utilities are close to the surface, private shops forecourts and shop owners need to agree to the works. These works would be centrally funded. I've also asked officers what it would cost to use some devolved highway renewal money to do redo other parts of Lordship Lane pavements that are in a pickle.