worldwiser

This seems like more of an aesthetic exercise than any of the other cited ambitions. Start with real problems like junction of ED Grove and LL and afterwards fix the things which will give Southwark adequate excuse to raise pitch rents.

An organisation like Evans knows what they're doing. They're not coming here for a punt, of course they'll have the customers. With the appalling public transport in this area unlikely to change measurably for 20 years or more, cycling is bound to become ever more popular. Great addition.

How many times have we been over this. If minimum pay increased to the LLW tomorrow across London, the economic impact would be cataclysmic. Also, why does someone living and working in zone 6 deserve as much as a commuter into zone 1? Do you deny someone living just outside the M25 the LLW while someone in the next street qualifies? The overwhelming majority of companies in London don't operate the LLW. Fact. If Picturehouse deserve a kicking then where's Odeon or Vue who are far larger entities and with whom Picturehouse do and must compete? And indeed 99% of the other businesses we all interact with on a daily basis? This cinema chain is not deserving of the special vilification it's receiving. It's only because of BECTU and their ability to marshall well-known types into the fray that we even heard about it at all. I say leave them alone. And I look forward to the ED branch opening with great anticipation.

PaulaBianca - perhaps you can pm the details of who you contacted. I shall be more than happy to echo your sentiments. I feel it's a blight on our street and with no obvious need for it. By any measure, their development is massively out of keeping with what are essentially cottages on our street. If they're contravening your PWA agreement, surely the surveyor you appointed can wade in? This previous thread is relevant: http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1226336,page=3 Apparently an email was circulated from the council saying the development would be finished by June 2014.

Where did I say the document is fake? I said the document only represents half the story and that's not enough for me to form a complete opinion worth expressing on a public forum.

I still can't believe that in this borough anyone can take up a hundred feet of public highway without a licence from the local authority. Without a timetable. With near non-existent communication with neighbours - they occasionally promise but never do. Why set up the expectation if you're not going to follow through? I desperately hope that the owner ends up hating his new house as much as we do.

And whose viewpoint is all but unexpressed anywhere in the article referred to. You're basing your opinion on a highly partisan and unverified document clearly written by disgruntled employees with an axe to grind. I'm not prepared to vilify a company based on such limited and one-sided information and neither should anyone else.

Wow, what an extremely unbiased, balanced piece of journalism. Why are people under the delusion that Picturehouse is some kind of workers co-op? It's a commercial enterprise and the people running it in an extremely competitive marketplace. They can and should run it the way they need to to keep the business viable. Emotionally charged articles masquerading as truth and offering but a single viewpoint do nobody any favours. People get moved around, reassigned or let go in thousands of businesses every day of the week. Why pick on Picturehouse?

SARP near the station if the brutal tactics don't last!

Judging by the huge 'POP UP SHOP' sign in the window, the long-term occupant of the premises is clearly still out there somewhere waiting to be found...

No, I said Anorak.

Let's put everyone out of their misery for goodness sake. Anorak.

Rubbish. About the only time of year when no one buys is January. We sold our flat in December and we were beating them off with a stuck.

Just don't believe a major brand like CK would be happy with a less than 2-year lease only to be kicked out after massive fit-out costs. I very much look forward to the mystery being solved.

There are various ripping tools available that you might try - just google. But depending on what copy protection was used to create the DVD, you may ultimately find it's extremely resilient to being copied. Copy protection these days generally works.

OKR is nowhere near as bad as Walworth Road which is a choked up embarrassment of a major artery into London. And tens of thousands of people already live along it. Why put a tube line along a road that hardly has anyone living along it, build new housing so that people will move in and therefore justify a new line! It's utter madness. Start with fixing the problems we already have before creating new ones. I mean, build another one along OKR if you want, but Walworth Road clearly comes first.

It occurs to me now, maybe a Little Waitrose or similar has said they'll take it from October 2016, hence why such a short lease is on offer.

Alarms are a waste of time, no one pays the slightest attention to them. I have external doors set in a concrete frame made predominantly from steel with a multipoint locking system. To a passer by they look like ordinary doors and cost not much more. Someone referred to the drop in car crime by pointing to the evolution of car security. Why on earth don't people extend that logic to their homes? I'll live with being insensitive if people wake up to how totally open most homes are to even amateur intruders.

Forgive me if I seem naive but I've never understood how people end up being burgled. If you have a proper door (ie one not made of either wood or plastic) and proper windows and you actually lock them, you will never be burgled. Unless they know you've got the Mona Lisa on your wall, they'll just go elsewhere. It really is the simplest thing in the world.

It's very simple: the UK is one of the few countries in the world without meaningful laws to govern property conveyancing. Depending on the situation, the buyer or seller can nail the other party and hold them to ransom for no better reason than because they can. If there were stricter laws covering the conveyancing process, everyone would seem more honest. When the opportunity arises and in the absence of legislation preventing it, people almost always revert to the worst versions of themselves.

Only on the EDF could a discussion about plastic bags include terrorism. Ban plastic bags and the sales of bin liners will rise exponentially.. google it. The net effect of banning them is barely worth the trouble. And, like others have mentioned, it makes people think they're saving the planet when it's having almost no effect at all. Better to encourage people to do far more useful things like insulate their homes, drive less, don't buy bottled water - that kind of thing. And smoking in pubs was banned because people have a right not to have to breathe your poisonous smoke. Jeopardise your health if you want to, but do it in your own space. Are you arguing we should continue to poison the public for the sake of keeping a nostalgic smoky smell alive?

Is this commissioned or are you in development?

BigED, like it. Will try this. My correspondence with the council has been with the principal licensing officer at Southwark. It's Dirty Harry's, the Bishop's contracted provider. They pick up bottles right outside the side door, sometimes as late as 2.30am. There's no one else this could be for. I've even tried corresponding directly with them since they are just as culpable. This has got me nowhere either. FOI here we go...

The Bishop pub has been routinely flouting its licence for years with regard to middle-of-the-night refuse collections. I have complained repeatedly (more than 5 times) to the council and indeed to Mr Barber as the noise is extremely intrusive. They hardly ever reply without multiple, exasperated reminders, and no sanctions are ever brought to bear. They collected again last night at 12:15am. They clearly have no intention of complying, their licence is meaningless, and no-one in authority is prepared to do anything about it.

Does anyone know whether post Thameslink programme the intention is to have more tracks into LB than there were until now? Or just the same as before?