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Of course if a place comes up before September, then it's no harm, no foul, right? I'm glad your two are at a school you all like. But for many families it's not a case of missing out on one super-oversubscribed, Outstanding school in Dulwich and getting another super-oversubscribed Outstanding school in Dulwich. Many families are missing out on all the great local schools and their kids are having to travel much further, and to schools that are not as highly rated (possibly unjustly) as the ones local to where they live. I genuinely don't know the prevalence of how many people move in and out of catchment to get school places, but I know it does happen. There's also a case to be made for families who just move out of the area for unconnected reasons to not have the sibling priority. Anecdotally, my two siblings and I all went to different schools, and it didn't cause any problems at all. The same is true of my own kids. Obviously, situations involving children with SEN should still be handled with sensitivity.

Soylent, I'm not certain that's right. If you have two kids or more and at the time your eldest is applying for secondary schools, they can't get a local school because other families have moved into the area to get their eldest in, and then moved out and the younger ones are getting sibling priority, would that not be a disadvantage?

Hi Spartacus, I did the inferring, which literally means reading between the lines and drawing a conclusion. You're not really putting the record straight as you have answered a completely different question from the one that you originally posed. Thinking about your question a bit more though, possibly the best answer I have is that as two out of the last three mayoral elections have been won by a Conservative candidate, that the actual candidate plays a big part in it. But that is me reading between the lines again, so may not be the rationale at all... :)

How would anyone be able to answer that? I infer that you don't think he has done a great job and can't comprehend that others might have a view that is different to your own. Am I way off in thinking that? Spartacus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Is that down to half of London believing Khan has > done a good job or a case of not wanting a Tory > mayor ? > > Would be interesting to understand rationale

Shaun Bailey is that candidate. If you are confident that would be a vote-winner, maybe get yourself over to William Hill as they will give you 16/1 on that currently.

Northern Monkey, I think you could be on to something there! I would suggest that such a change might be borough-wide, rather than just at one or two, currently popular schools. This has been done in two other London Boroughs, Brent and Wandsworth a few years back. As well as making school admissions fairer, it should have a positive effect on traffic/pollution in the area. It may take some of the heat out of property prices in the area if people no longer rent short-term in catchment. There may be other benefits around levelling up the desirability of other local schools. I would be genuinely interested to hear any arguments against doing this, maybe it deserves it's own thread as if people are interested in discussing this idea, it would take this one away from the intended topic.

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Who is it that wants to have a pint with him?

Regardless of your standpoint on the lockdown issue, this is just nonsense. According to the roadmap, most restrictions will be lifted by then anyway, with a full return to normal scheduled for mid June. But more critically, the Mayor of London doesn?t have the power to lift the restrictions anyway.

I see Lawrence Fox has enetered the race, funded by a ?5M donation from CPFC shareholder, Jeremy Hosking. As a Palace fan, I think his money might be better spent on a new right-back, but each to their own.

Given that we live in a free market economy, I'm not sure that being more attractive to customers than local competition is grounds for denying a business that chance to operate.

> > I think I saw some yuppies by Goose Green the > other day. They'd arrived in 4x4 Volvos (because > Goose Green is on a mountain) and were head to toe > in Belstaff, all with takeaway coffees. Do they > sound like yuppies to you? > No, they just sound like middle-aged people in a park - also that you imagined most likely

Serious conflation of terms here, I think. Yuppie is short for Young Urban Professional. So if you are middle-aged, have kids, drink IPA - you are almost certainly not a yuppie. Have some sympathy though with the lady quoted in the article. I go the Cemetery often and though it's widely accepted that the old part especially is also a recreational space, visitors should treat the surrounds with the respect they deserve. On my visits, I rarely see people doing otherwise to be fair, but she obviously has. And I would imagine that she is talking about the newer part of the cemetery which is worse as the plots there are more recent and clearly having living relatives who would visit. My only concern is that it's also yet another case of othering a group of people due to the perceived behaviour of some individuals.

Thanks for the update. Great to have you back!

Locale was a bit of a flop. There weren't that many places to get pizza back then in ED and they still couldn't make it work. I quite like the split level. I don't think that's the problem. That layout worked fine when it was Greens/The Green? I hope the new owners make a success of it.

That?s reopened now as The Brougham, http://www.thebrougham.co.uk/east-dulwich.html

I thought It's Immaterial were from Liverpool?? Great song though. Used to get played a lot in house/balearic clubs in the late 80's. And much later, a dance act called Dab Hands built a track around Driver's Seat which was pretty effective. I won't post the YouTube link here as it's a bit off topic.

Hey Rockets, The data you have quoted indicates that some of the through traffic ends up on the main road. I don't think it demonstrates that some of the through traffic is not dissipated in other ways, such as my earlier post. Would you not need to know the total amount of traffic originally using the now LTN route and to know whether or not that equalled the uplift on the nearby main roads? I don't have any hard data to back up what 'some people may do'. I do know from my own experience and anecdotally, that people do sometimes make those decisions. And I take it you wouldn't argue that there are not more cyclists on the road nowadays; or that the population of inner London has grown significantly over the last 20 years - which to me suggests an increasing number of people who favour a lifestyle where the car is less paramount, than it would be if they had moved (back) to the outer suburbs. I certainly wouldn't expect someone to move home because they received a ticket. I didn't say that. I do believe someone who normally whizzes their kids to school in the car when it takes fifteen minutes each way, may consider doing something different if it starts taking twice as long and you can't park anywhere near the school as it's now a school street. There's a continuum of examples between your one and mine where I doubt we would agree on each case but some would conceivably lead to a change in behaviour and some would be impossible/unrealistic.

Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Yes I was amazed Cllr Rose said that and it > further highlights how flawed these closures are > because through traffic doesn't jump on a bike or > walk - it goes another route and this comes back > to my initial concerns on this whole programme - > it doesn't know what it is trying to deal with and > all it is doing to moving the problem a few > streets over. I'm not sure if you have data to back up the assertion that 'through traffic doesn't jump on a bike or walk - it goes another route" but over time people who are used to making longer commuting journeys may well do any of the following: Jump on a bike - yes they actually might Catch the train Move closer to where they work Seek work nearer home Find a way to work from home (at least some of the time) Travel at less busy times And these may also apply to kids coming into school from out of the area and driving for any other reason such as shopping, leisure etc.

I guess they most do, they have been running similar ad's for decades...

Certainly sounds like a natural reaction to recover the runaway dog, no problem with that. But drivers should be switching their engines off when parked anyway, why would you not?

Not a direct comment on the premium increase, but this is a high risk area for subsidence. Pretty much all of south London is as the underlying substrate is clay which has a high water content and so can expand and contract with changes in the weather, proximity of trees, nearby water courses etc.

He was living there for a while quite recently I think

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As you say, it's not the only reason. And far from it.