James Barber

They had quite a struggle with planning which I was glad to help about a couple of year ago from memory.

EDLove, We should not turn a blind eye to the Dulwich Estate gagging a new local junior school from talking about the disservice the Dulwich estate has done to them. The Dulwich Estate has ensured this new state funded school has no playground so that the Dulwich Estate can maximise funding for better facilities and subsidies to local private fee paying schools. You are right in that the terms of their references are being strictly followed but those terms don't mean they have to be so brutal in the execution of property management. It is hard to accept that they are being charitable or working charitably for the greater good. So with respect to this threads title - for the Judith Kerr state funded school on Half Mood Lane the Dulwich Estate is indeed a latter day Robin Hood in reverse.

Boy this is a tough one. Admissions is complicated enough already. I can see why Wandsworth are trying this experiment. I guess if you said siblings had to either be at an address the same distance or less as the sibling already in the school or within 800m whichever is the higher. Then you're covered for the occasional bulge class. You're ensuring people don't rent a house just for the original admissions purpose. Non of the East Dulwich primary schools have admissions distance close to 800m. Part of creating a great school is having a local school community. If people dip in for admissions and then move further away they're less likely to be able to support that wider school community.

Or just ping me an email - I'll check you're in the areas covered (East Dulwich ward) with a couple of hours and get onto the Police for you. Ideally include a phone number so the Police can call you to arrange their home visit to drop the kit round.

Hi helenmct21, you should ask for an itemised bill. You should also check what actions you can take see: https://www.gov.uk/leasehold-property/service-charges-and-other-expenses

Hi Healeay, Camberwell and Walworth Road rail stations didn't survive an extensive tram network being installed. The trams went but the Bakerloo line extension building works started around that time but then stopped. So I would suggest people argue for one of two extensions via Camberwell and further south as well as Old Kent Road. If it fails we plug the Southwark Supertram or reopening those railway stations. History suggests pushing for all thos things is likely to see none of them come to pass.

Hi pipsky2008, Will take a look.

Hi bloonoo, I don't but will find out.

Attached is my input to the consultation - we need two extensions. One via the Old Kent Road and one via Camberwell to Herne Hill, Tulse Hill and to Streatham. Whatever your view please do respond.

Hi P68, nxjen, EDLove, So you think it morally acceptable to ensure state school kids don't have a playground so that bigger subsidies can be given to private schools?

Hi ontheedge, Such charges will be estate based. If you'd like to email me I could help obtain a detailed calculation for you.

Hi P68, The Dulwich Estate decided to limit the space for the Judith Kerr state funded school - they have no plasyground - so that they could build houses that will be used to subsidise local private school more. It ensured a gagging order in the lease so that the government department and school are not allowed to even mention this for fear of breaking the lease. Clearly even the Dulwich Estate realise that what theyve done is morally wrong else why the gagging order? Such behaviour is clearly contrary to what Edward Alleyn would have ever expected and the Dulwich Estate Governors should be ashamed of themselves.

Hi pipsky2008, Isn't that immediately outside the entrance to 12 studio flats above the Coop/ Are you absolutely sure it hasn't moved in any way? When I lock my bike up I always do it in exactly the same way with the same locks through the same points. I'd hate for a resident to get entangled with Southwark Council about as bicycle being removed that they had legitemately parked.

A sad example is where the Dulwich Estate has ensured they provided the minimum possible space to the new Judith Kerr state funded free school. They have kept 2/3rds of the site for future residential development to maximise their receipts at the expense of Judith Kerr state school children having no play space. So this thread is very apposite. The DE are subsidising private education locally at the expense of state school kids. It is morally wrong BUT this is how the Dulwich Estate has decided to fulfil its charitable aims. I would hope that freehold enfranchisement could be altered to give people on the Dulwich Estate the option of buying out the Dulwich Estate. Most streets on Dulwich Estate land are or should be in conservation areas to ensure the look and feel of the area is maintained.

Hi DF, Sort of yes but most likely no. IF segregated cycle paths lead to many more people cycling rather than driving then congestion would be reduced for people driving. Taking space for blue tarmac but not creating such good cycling conditions would increase congestion. You may not have seen the volume of people currently cycling into/out of town. Multiplying those numbers by several factors would reduce air pollution, improve health, and keep more money in our economy.

Hi hannahleone, Escalate via a councillor.

My undertstanding is that they're planning to deliver fewer superhighways but to a much higher standard. So instead of lots of blue tarmace actual segregated cycle paths. Now I'd dispute the detailed design which I believe is flawed but the thinking of making new facilities to a much higher standard is for me a good thing.

Hi ALan Medic, Parking Wardens should treat all road users the same. I've even heardo f a non urgent police car being ticketed but yet to hear of a parking warden vehicle being ticketed. Most now travel on mopeds to reduce this problem. I would say an obvious busy van or lorry with doors open and boxes going in and out is much more clearly delivering in loading bays than Joe Public parked up with no activities. Have you had a recent experience that you feel is unfair. If you do please email me direct so I can try and help. Hi Peckhamgatecrasher, Lordship Lane has looked a pickle. My ward colleague Cllr Rosie Shimell raised this and I have witnessed our mechanical street sweeping machine at work cleaning the place up. Rosie and I will speak with street cleaning to see what can be done to get our patch back up to scratch. [Thanks Rob Miller broadly 20% of council spend comes from Council Tax, 75% central government, 5% from fees]. Hi ITATM, Watch this space on the kerbs thing. Will have some news on this before next monday. Hi Ant, What is your address as clearly this isn't acceptable. Hi willish, Please email me directly and we'll get this sorted for you. Hi eastdulwichhenry, Yes, I will ask officers what went wrong. We've had several such problems recently - which residents beign told pavements being resurfaced but whole road done, marking only being redone and whole road resurfaced, etc. It does feel chaotic at the moment and I'm sorry this has affected you. Hi rahrahrah, Already signed. Hi ED_NAGAIUTB, Hmmm, we used to have this problem with red large vans for hire across the area. I would contact your Police Safer Neighbourhood Team and ask them. If the vehicles is breaching a legal requirement then yes but otherwise no however annoying. Hi MissusF, I have tried to get average speed cameras installed on Barry Road because people do drive at crazy speeds. The highest recorded in a speed survey was 99mph - the recorded couldnt go higher. Hopefully it was a police car responding to a call. With Cllr roaise Shimell we have funded our local police speed having speed guns. They are starting a a Community Speed Watch scheme to enforce local speed limits and they'd be really supportive of anyone wanting to join in - email me for details. Being a bus route it has limited what physical measures we can have installed on Barry Road. I'll see if we can get some extra enforcement. I have several pieces of casework about people on Barry Road suffering severe building vibratinos due to the limited number of riased road junctions on Barry Road already.I suspect the whoel road would need to rebuilding to take the vertical battering it already is gettign let alone adding to this. Hi tiddles, Yes, Sotuhwark Council have gone bonkers about dropped kerbs. (yes on the mend thanks). Rosie and I will have some ideas about what we can later this week. Hi Pugwash, kford TfL cost a lot to isntall traffic lights and take forever due to large backlog. I prefer kford suggestion of removing wihte lines. I'll ask officers if we could remove the lines - and record speeds before and after. hi spider69, That's a not really unnecessary.

Yuo can get number plate screws that are theft resistant. If this theft happened in East Dulwich ward the Police should have offered them to you. If they didnt please email me so I can chase it up with them.

Apologies to everyone I'm a little behind due to illness but will catch-up by Monday.

The scam would be access to someone's home, distracting them, and then robbing them. But it does look more like a Virgin Media cock-up.If you don't make any rapid progress with VM please get in touch as I have different avenues I can use.

Latest notes from local Police presentation at Dulwich Community Council 10 September. For all wards April-July crime is down. College 11 officers Lots of Shell Petrol Station crime on Crystal Palace Parade driving away without paying. East Dulwich 8 officers 57 crime compared 83 for same 4 months this to last year. Village New sgt Ian Berkley9 officers Tues 18/9 high visibility Action Day. Every street will be patrolled on foot twice during the day. Experiment to see if it will reduce crime? General prob - fraud against older residents sometimes over the phone - bank account raided. Don't engage with them.call the police via 101 number. Little Book of scams - http://www.met.police.uk/docs/little_book_scam.pdf International terrorism ? threat level increased from substantial to severe. Highly likely an attack will take place. Please report suspicious activities or people. Hotline 0800 789 321 Burglary ED ward - more officers patrolling. Some in plain cloths. Crime prevention advice free ? please ask for a home visit ? [email protected] Motor vehicle crime - decoy car in College ward for 4 months May-Sept. Result has been a 50% reduction in car crime. East Dulwich station. Criminals often use public transport to get around since Police Auto Number Plate Recognition patrol cars in place. Two operations have taken place - 15/8 x2 arrests + number of warnings, 4/9 x2 arrests + number of warnings and. Mobile CCTV obtained and initially being used to fight Anti Social Behaviour around the Lordship Lane estate.

Southwark Council is embarking on revising its planning bible the Southwark Plan. I've requested that it state clearly that for the Dulwich Hospital site only health and education uses are expect on the site. This request was rejected with housing also proposed as a priority for the site - this would result in a much smaller secondary school. At last nights council Overview and Scrutiny Commuittee the council leader was interviewed. After several questions he agreed to remove the reference to housing. We'll need to ensure this happens throughout the process. How painful can it be to make this new school happen!

It kerb or kerbs but we all knew what was meant.

Hi jrpfinch, Not that I'm aware - I'll ask Caroline Pidgeon GLA Assembly Member if TfL stufy this holistically across London. As TfL vet around ?3M of borough spend by each borough annually they must have a view if boroughs have incldued sufficient cycle parking provision.