James Barber

Hi ITATM, The same council has repeatedly approved school building for private schools on MoL. One rule for private schools another for state funded schools.

Hi starti b, Two approaches. One support the proposals but highlighting the few bits you don't agree with OR object with specific reasons - hopefully adding the features you do support. If losing the right turn from Townley Road is a show stopper for you then I'd recommend you take the latter route. Hi @woodwarde, The process is a scheme is suggested, officers explore and it may or may not then be progressed and programmed. This cleary has been. Detailed proposals are then worked up, then consulted upon, then decided upon. Some highways schemes reserved for the local community council to decide. Butthis scheme will decided by the cabinet member/councillor. However, I have asked that this scheme is presented to the Dulwich Community council and that group of 9 local councillors will make a recommendation to the cabinet member. The meeting will be 28 January. The Dulwich Community Council and cabinet member will be influenced by the level and content of public responses.

And don't forget any street that would like to have regular street closure for children to play - Play Streets. Eas to organise a monthly 2 hour slot. Just get in touch.

Hi @woodwarde, I've never had a party whip on any local issues ever. I can't speak for the Labour of Conservative lot. My lot really make a point of listening to all views in the party and taking into account other views before taking any Southwark wide stance. It can be painfully democratic, very challenging when you're trying to take many with you, but the whip is rarely needed or used. And I was the Lib Dem group chief whip when we led the council and in opposition. WRT these proposed changes I'm for them generally but specifically against the banned Towny Road right turn. Overkill in my opinion based on the evidence given. I've stated this repeatedly. I've made clear my membership of Southwark Living streets and Southwark Cyclists but I think they're wrong on this (and a number of others issues sometimes ver cautious and sometimes overly zealous).

The Hadley Group suggest that a new ground of astroturf would mean they could rent it out 50-60 hours per week rather than current 5-6 hours. That they'd include two Multi Use Games Areas which could also be rented out. That these together would enable a better income stream. The flip side is they'll have built 200+ homes to recoup the ?6M they've spent so far on buying the grounds and club. Their plan depends on building on open land the current football grounds. But they have employed Bellenden serious PR people to try and make it happen.

Yes removing a half hourly SLL service and replacing it with 4 trains per hour to different places is likely to see more people travel. But the number would be even higher is the SLL was reintroduced and 4tph.

Hi Nigello, Thanks for that and yes that makes sense unless a bin isn't used very much. Let me find out about this one as well. ...Has anyone else spotted a gap where rubbish bin used to be in East Dulwich?

Hi first mate, NO, I believe the system works with an applicant proving a need with sufficient families giving their support for a proposed free school. IF such an application is considered proved and is agreed THEN the EFA look for a site and take full ownership of finding a site they think meets the applicants needs. Once they think they've found a site a consultation takes place. This would be due in February and if families no longer think the site matches their needs then it goes back to looking fora new site. But this is consultation is primarily about families with children who need reception places in 2016 - delayed by a year due to problems finding a site. Once a site in principle is agreed then a planning application will be submitted and then the whole community is able to give it's input. Hope that helps explain a little more how the process works. It's the same with the two secondary free school applications. When a site for them is proposed a consultation will take place. Assuming only one of them is offered the Dulwich Hospital spare land they will be the one consulting about using it.

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.