worldwiser

I very much doubt the new school will generate much parking. With the demand for places likely to be insane it'll come down to residency within shortest distances from the school gates. I expect the average commute will be somewhere between a quarter and a third of a mile. Parents would be out of their minds to drive a distance which would take longer than walking. I for one will be choosing to walk. Assuming of course we get a place.

http://www.ormeretail.co.uk/download/?file=workspace/uploads/property_pdf/15:17-lordship-lane.pdf

I imagine the original poster would have no problem with yummy mummies who ordered everything off the menu then? I've seen students, entrepreneurs, the unemployed and the self-employed all park themselves in caf?s for a day and order nothing but a coffee. Whether or not this is acceptable is the proprietors' problem not yours but stay-at-home mums and dads are a mainstay of the daytime economy and shame on you for thinking that they're all alike. If you branded other sections of the population similarly you'd be quite fairly called a racist.

Have you ever taken a bus up the Walworth Rd? It's quicker to walk. That's why the tube needs to go to Camberwell.

I believe the plural of the term is 'yummy mummies.' If you're going to insult people for being idiots, try not to seem illiterate yourself by using rogue apostrophes. London is for all comers, that's what's so wonderfully unique about the place and ED certainly doesn't belong to any one demographic much as you may wish it to. If you really can't find your niche here then take David Wooderson's advice will you please?

Why do the staff of the new cinema have to live in East Dulwich? There are many arguments that can be put in favour of the LLW, but that's not one of them. Do you imagine the shopstaff of Harrods live in Knightsbridge?

Oh how boring.

'in excess of' ?45k per year rent + ?11k rates and only a short lease on offer until Oct 2016. Who on earth is going to invest in starting or relocating a business on those terms? I predict the ex-EDD will be empty for quite a time.

M&S Planning Application - 7pm Tuesday 22 July this planning application 14/AP/0280 will be decided (Southwark Town Hall, 160 Tooley Street, SE1). The meeting will hear from objectors living within 100m, the applicant, council planning officers and from ward councillors. The proposals have several show-stopping flaws but officers have recommended the application be granted planning permission. So this committee is our last chance to get common sense to prevail.

James emailed his mailing list to say there's a meeting on Tuesday 22nd where the public are invited. I suggest going - 7pm Southwark Town Hall.

Still don't think it's possible to sign up online. The info says you have to visit a Picturehouse in order to do so. Curious.

Feel very sympathetic towards the residents of Chesterfield Grove. I would find deliveries before 8am on any weekday intolerable if I were living there. Why can deliveries not be banned to the side before, say, 9am and after 8pm, and a part-time loading area in front be created for these hours as per Co-op to reduce this impact?

At least what the bricks did do was provide a visible section for people desperately trying to cross the road there. Now there's nothing so I will fully expect more harassment of pedestrians by motorists and stranded parents with buggies. Fabulously done Southwark.

Except if you try emailing the publicised address, it bounces :-(

Um, has no-one been to Alleyn Park just a stone's throw away in West Dulwich? Google it. Fabulous place and extremely nice people too.

I'm not sure on what basis they can threaten legal action. I'm entitled to say I think their Croque Monsieur is an abomination as long as I have actually tried it, which I have, and made clear it's my personal opinion. The only way they could threaten legal action is if they could prove I'd never tasted it or if I'd stated it as absolute undeniable fact.

Le Chandelier. But again, nothing more than the name. Their Croque Monsieur is an utter abomination.

1. If the guy who owns the building knows what he's doing (and his CV says he really does), he'll be looking to maximise every square foot of space he can. 2. Their basic floorplans say they will be used as roof terraces. 3. The technical equipment may very well not be needed or can be downsized/eliminated/reconfigured for flats. I don't know many flats with aircon anyway. The public have a right to see what they're going to do with the rear of the building before they do it. It is highly visible from dozens of properties, mine included. Maybe their plans will be perfectly acceptable, but until we see proper elevation drawings, how are we to know? The council has waved the permission through (whether they had no choice in the matter or not) and I expect a potentially major development to be authorised in the light of day, not in a back room.

It's not that the terraces may go from daytime to potentially 24hr use. It's that a space currently used for machinery, fire escapes and multiple aircon units may end up being developed for outdoor amenity purposes with no public scrutiny. At present it would be dangerous to use it for anything and hence it isn't. Turning this industrial space into private terraces for flats is not a fair employment of the change of use legislation. I have served an enforcement notice on the council and await their reply.

Based on pms, trying a last-ditch approach to convince people to be concerned by this.

V511, sorry to hear you'll be moved out. The lack of office space in ED is unfortunately not one of the criteria that the council is permitted to use in evaluating change of use applications. So no, it won't have been considered. I'm beginning to wonder if their strategy was to get the change of use put through and then, when everyone's gone, apply for a more elaborate scheme with full planning permission. Purely financially, it's not in their interest to do a basic job on these flats. They'll want to do a full reconfiguration and update the outside of the building, back and front to maximise the capital value. Who knows, they may even apply to build upwards. The building is owned by a plc and run by someone who used to work for DTZ Debenham Tie Leung, one of the biggest property services companies in the world. I doubt very much if they're going to do a quick turnaround on this.

Just for the hell of it, I've emailed the architects who promised the newsletter to ask if/when they intend to send one.

Sign up to Freecycle Southwark. Someone will no doubt grab them the same day. I've used it 3 times this year alone.

Wow, it was really a model of franchising. The staff were equally rude there according to reviews.. remarkable carbon copy.

Sorry, my bad, just seen that.