worldwiser

People may be interested in Helen Hayes' thoughts: Thank you for contacting me in relation to the EU referendum. I have always been passionately pro-European, and I campaigned very hard for the Remain campaign both in my constituency and elsewhere in the months leading up to the referendum. Whilst I don?t believe that the EU is perfect, I am absolutely certain that we are better off remaining within it and working from within to make it fit for purpose for the 21st century. I am proud that this support is shared by so many local residents in Dulwich and West Norwood and that Lambeth and Southwark voted overwhelmingly in favour of remaining in the EU last Thursday. I share the devastation that many residents feel about the referendum result. I have received many hundreds of emails from local residents who have signed the petition for a second EU referendum, or who have contacted me regarding David Lammy?s suggestion that Parliament should vote not to act on the result of the referendum. The referendum result was extremely narrow and within a day of the result being called it has become clear that the key promises made by the Leave campaign were, quite frankly, completely dishonest. This is a pattern of behaviour we have come to expect from Boris Johnson in his former role as Mayor of London where he presided over the decimation of London?s police service, and repeatedly failed to tackle London?s housing crisis. UKIP leader Nigel Farage has admitted that it was ?a mistake? to promise ?350million extra funding per week for the NHS as a consequence of Brexit, and former Tory leader Ian Duncan-Smith now claims that he never supported this pledge despite being photographed almost daily in front of the Leave campaign bus emblazoned with this slogan. Conservative MEP Daniel Hannan, key architect of the Leave campaign has said that he has no intention of limiting the numbers of EU migrants coming to the UK because the UK will have to accept the free movement of workers in order to remain within the European Single Market, in complete contrast to the claims made during the Referendum campaign that leaving the EU was the only way to reduce migration. Large numbers of people voted Leave on the basis of these claims and it has become very clear that they have been deliberately misled. I strongly believe that 16 and 17 year olds should be able to vote in UK elections and should have had their say on proposals that will impact on them more than any other generation. The blatant dishonesty of the Leave campaign, combined with the closeness of the result and the exclusion of 16 and 17 year olds from the ballot, to my mind create a very strong case for a second referendum. This second vote should give electors aged 16 and above the final say in accepting or rejecting a detailed proposal on the terms under which the UK would leave the European Union, a decision the consequences of which would reverberate for decades. I will do everything possible to ensure that Parliament explores this possibility to its fullest extent and would of course once again strongly campaign against these proposals to leave the European Union. I am afraid, however, that despite my very strong support for the Remain campaign, I cannot back the proposal for Parliament to reject the referendum result. Support for the Remain campaign was highest in London and Scotland, while devastatingly low in many other parts of the country and I don?t believe that a plan to override the expressed wishes of voters in large parts of the rest of the UK would be credible. I also believe that the strong support for Leave in parts of the UK was as much a vote against the political establishment as it was a vote against the EU, and for a part of the political establishment then simply to disregard the result would be highly divisive and potentially dangerous. We need to work instead on a vision for the country which addresses the concerns people have been seeking to express by supporting Leave, which unites our communities and which offers hope for the future. I will campaign for a second referendum based on honesty about the consequences of leaving the EU, but the decision about whether to Leave or Remain must continue to rest with the British people. Best wishes, Helen Helen Hayes MP Member of Parliament for Dulwich and West Norwood

All of the things you outlined are self-evident. But we were never asked to vote on capital punishment or the legality of homosexuality. We were asked specifically for our view on the EU, we spoke, we should be listened to. That's the difference. There are too many forces against the implementation of the referendum result, I simply don't see how it'll ever happen anyway. Cameron should never have called the referendum but he did the kindest thing he could have by resigning without seeing through Article 50. It's just that we all now have to endure a few years of turmoil before that inevitability dawns on everyone.

If 15 year olds are signing the petition I can only encourage more of them to. They're the ones who'll have to live longest with a decision predominantly made by people who'll live with it for no time at all. Was ever such a calamitous blow dealt by so few to so many.

Surely we can expect Helen Hayes to vote against any Act of Parliament that would see us leave the EU. Doesn't she have to vote according to her constituents' view? Otherwise what's the point of a constituency MP?

It's already up to 420,000 names and rising evenly at about 1,200 per minute. By Monday it could be many millions and would have to be taken notice of.

This is a very bad start. Not officially taken over the contract? They've been hired for a period of 7 years, are they waiting for the first day before someone tells them where the light switches are? My hopes are low for how this is going to work out.

We're back with our usual 110meg down and 24meg up speeds. I hate Virgin as much as anyone but, when it works, there's really no-one else.

They claim they have an engineer working on it. He must be tired because that's what they were saying at 9 this morning. Anybody else down?

We were told that new management would be taking over from June. If so why is the old Fusion website still up and running and why have members received no information about the transition? Has the changeover been delayed?

Your best defence against burglars is a proper door. Most of the world fits metal-framed and plated exit doors with multi-point locking systems. We in the UK are more likely to choose wood or plastic with predictable results. Don't buy cures, buy prevention: buy a proper door and with it proper peace of mind.

If you want to be legal I'm afraid the rules under permitted development state that anything constructed forward of your front elevation must have planning permission. Class E is what you want to look at. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/516238/160413_Householder_Technical_Guidance.pdf Frankly whoever decided on the appearance of Southwark's mandatory wheeliebins has done more harm to the streetscape than any developer. I would go ahead and sod the council. There is almost nothing you could do that would look worse than what they've already imposed on us all.

Did you actually ask him to do anything? If not you don't owe him a bean. And no doubt can have him prosecuted..

We used to live in another part of zone 2 where permits for most sensible cars built in the last 5 years cost less than a pound a week. And the zone only needs to be operational for a half hour in the middle of the day and be insanely well policed.

It works well in every other part of zone 2 across the entire city. The council should just do it.

Honestly the best thing would be if you can finance a mirror scheme on your side of the fence. This is a great opportunity to do a side return of your own and would be the cheapest time you'll ever be able to do it. If that's not your cup of tea, then think about the following. We got planning permission (that we're actually not going to use) for a side return that was only 2.4m high at the boundary. The roof structure contained the guttering so wouldn't have affected neighbours. Get them to do likewise. Like others have said, unless you really don't get on with your neighbours' surveyor, don't bother getting your own. At the very least you'll be putting your neighbour to about 2k worth of extra cost which they'll hate you for, the build will take longer and nothing substantive will have been achieved. Legally they are independent professionals in these cases. Right to light can be an issue but in our case we face south so would never have been a problem. And a 2.4m high wall isn't high enough to matter - most fences are legally allowed to be up to 2m and 40cm isn't going to make a big difference. And if you paint your side of the wall white, you may even end up with more light. Don't bother objecting on the grounds of noise and inconvenience as you will be ignored. Better to work with your neighbour and mould their scheme into something acceptable because putting up a fight will just extend the build and cause you unnecessary stress.

James - it's now been over a year since you requested a site meeting on this issue. Did it ever actually happen? And if so, what was the result?

This does sound wonderful. Hopefully they'll put in a decent extractor though - living in the vicinity of SeaCow had become absolutely foul!

Not really going to affect us that much is it? Royal Mail is only one of dozens of couriers now and none of them can use Silvester Rd.. Parcel Force usually takes undelivered parcels to the PO anyway. It's had its day, not really a surprise.

Great, thanks for this.

Hmmm.. http://www.diynot.com/diy/media/untitled.79933/ is it anything like this?

pipsky - thanks for the contact information, although it doesn't seem worth making an issue out of it. There are no penalties for late compliance so what would be the point? They can respond whenever they like.

Hi Jeremy - you wouldn't be able to PM me a picture of it so I could show my builder?

We've unbricked a chimney and intend to install a cooker into it with an extractor above. The ducting goes up the flue only a few centimentres and then across the ceiling void to the outside. I'm trying to figure out what kind of extractor I should be buying and how it should be mounted. Canopies only seem to mount into a cupboard, but there's no room for that. Chimney hoods can be secured to a back wall but there isn't enough height for the vertical steel casing. If anyone's done this I'd be grateful for any guidance!