worldwiser

Many will have noticed that a good portion of the street was not collected last Tuesday. I've put in multiple complaints with the council who claim it'll be collected as a 'matter of urgency.' Which at this rate means waiting until next Tuesday when it'll have been a month since the last collection. Southwark Council, delivering our promises.

Most skip companies organise the licence for you. In fact I think they're required to under Southwark byelaws. The skip company has to be registered with Southwark. But the Saturday delivery may well be your bigger obstacle as has been pointed out.

I think if you're going to post this on the East Dulwich forum, you would do well to make it very clear in your subject that you're referring to a nursery that's not the one in East Dulwich. You're almost inviting confusion.

We've been getting quarterly credits for Virgin's underperformance since August 2016. It's about 120meg under the advertised speed we pay for. Every couple of months we get one of those job numbers but I've long since stopped holding my breath. I'll just keep taking the credits although I wish they'd fix it. The only reason I stick with them is that no-one else can offer me their high upload speeds but if they did I'd be off.

roywj - I'm not sure you actually read my post properly. I said our street (and by implication) our surrounding streets are already full to bursting, just as yours are. Both our streets are equally blighted and you come dangerously close to implying the street outside your house is owned anymore by you than it is by me. The difference being that you on the apparently rarified west side now get calmer streets at the same time that we'll forced to ensure untold misery. You really shouldn't assume which way I voted: whether voting for or against, everyone on our side of LL loses as as result of this. The status quo was perhaps tolerable chaos and one forms a view based on that. What now results is completely intolerable mayhem.

Our street is also clear today when it's usually choked. We will be one street outside the new proposed zone and, along with the dozen surrounding streets I usually try to park on, we will no doubt be the recipient of all your unwanted cars. Why should we be made to suffer this additional burden simply to enable half of ED to get what it wants? Even if we're not living in that zone, why can't we have a permit to park in your streets? It's the most utterly utterly selfish, anti-community direction this issue could take and unspeakably unfair.

I wish Southwark would just carry out their plans, whatever they are, rather than engaging in a pathetic, illusory consultation to make people think we're being listened to. We now know that whatever results emerge, they will be repackaged and revised to suit. At least we could be certain of one thing that less of our money is being frittered away on overpriced consultants.

James, this vote was done on a community basis. The result should stand in the spirit of that exercise, as a community. I don't believe anyone can possibly have concluded during this referendum that results would be eventually be divided up street by street. You and the council are twisting an apparently open, transparent process into a total sham. Why go to the trouble of creating two separate areas and two separate votes if they didn't, ultimately, mean anything? We exist as a community, not as one street pitched against the next. You will create huge resentment in this area and you will bear the consequences of it. This isn't Brexit. It's abundantly clear what the people voted for. It's utterly extraordinary to me that we're having to fight to get it.

This is going to create utter chaos. If the two sets of recommendations are implemented the East Side of LL south of EDR will be at permanent saturation. It will lead to a swarm of additional circulating traffic on really narrow roads and means permanent misery for everyone. Whether they voted for or against. Do nothing at all rather than this appalling 'committee' solution. What have we done to deserve this?

The garden sacks you pay for seem to be in a section of Southwark's website that deals with flats and estates. Does that mean houses can't use them?

The stuff I put in the brown bin (aside from kitchen waste) consists entirely of leaves that blow into our garden from neighbouring properties. Why should I have to pay for that?!

I once left a bag on the train at Denmark Hill and notified the station manager with its exact position just as the train was leaving so that someone might grab it at the next station for me to collect within the hour. Imagine my bewilderment when I was told that the only mechanism available to retrieve my bag was to hope a passenger and then the train driver would hand it in at the end of the line and for me to avail myself of the pay-per-item TFL lost property system, not knowing whether or not it actually had been handed in. 7 days later I got it back. For a fiver. And the money in my wallet had been counted was paid to me by cheque. By post. But I really think the police have enough on their hands without having to store lost umbrellas and festering food.

A very large proportion of children at Harris do walk in but there are all kinds of reasons why a few people might come by car. Not the least of which is that people do move house and are no longer in the immediate area. Some people have to drive to their work or might even need a car for work and can't be expected to walk back home again after dropping kids. But it's only a very small minority who are in this position. The vast majority do walk.

doogsey - I think this is already plain from both the consultation documents and the positive comments on here. Despite people's blind assertions that parking spaces decrease, occupancy rates return to current levels over time etc etc, this is not the experience of anywhere else CPZs have been introduced. Being able to find a parking space within a short walk of your house and being able to find that space in a short space of time. That is the benefit. It's a balance of priorities to be sure but who is more important? Parents with young children trying to get home or commuters? Elderly or mobility-impaired individuals who can't get disabled badges or shoppers? People with permanent roots in their neighbourhoods or estate agents?

I think it's inaccurate to state that a CPZ is predominantly designed to stop commuters. Its purpose is to benefit residents. They are the ones who own or rent property here, pay bills and support the local economy vastly more than anyone else. Quite understandably, the available kerb space should be primarily theirs with visitors and shoppers still able to come free of charge outside of restricted hours. It seems to me that a CPZ is only controversial in ED. Everywhere else in London at this radius from the centre has one. Every city in the country has them. Come to think of it, every city in the world I've ever visited does and their existence is unremarkable. This is how sensible cities (and especially ones that were built for the era of the horse and cart) manage traffic.

One or two roads, I have no problem with. Today at 11am Crawthew, Frogley, Spurling, Worlingham, Lacon, Nutfield, Archdale, Ashbourne, Matham and North Cross were all 100% full. I'm delighted to hear that there are parking paradises elsewhere in ED but where we are the situation is utterly dysfunctional. A CPZ is nothing short of a necessity and you will hear yelps of joy from our entire street when they start painting the lines. I'll be the one handing them cups of tea and biscuits.

My work regularly takes me to three London boroughs - Islington, Haringey and Hammersmith & Fulham. Parking in all of those areas is a breeze for residents. And in two of them I saw what it was like before they transitioned. So I'll be looking forward to some of what the rest of London has. And 2.50 for a day guest permit is fine with me. Probably even less if they go for the part day restriction.

I don't know why it is that so many people assume that their experience must be everyone's. We also live on a road off LL and I can state categorically that there is no way (other than pure luck) of getting a space between 8.30 and 6 within 5m walk of our house. The demand for these spaces is enormous and getting worse. Has been for the entire time we've lived here. I will rejoice when the CPZ arrives.

For clarification, is it proposed to make the entirety of ED a single parking zone that allows residents to park anywhere within it? I note that in spite of the huge effort, thought and expense the council have gone to, there remains NO attempt to resolve the lack of pedestrian crossing at the LL/EDG junction. Absolutely maddening. No engagement at all on one of most pressing safety issues in the area.

Well at ?1.33 per mile you really may as well get ubers everywhere and save yourself the trouble of ownership and indeed the walk from wherever you're able to park. Plenty of people who are neither elderly or disabled depend on their car for all sorts of reasons. I for one could not do my job without one. Tradespeople of all types could not. People with young children find life quite restricted without one. People who live in parts of the city that are abysmally served by public transportation find life difficult without one. Oh, like ED or the entirety of South-East London. And I don't need or want to be able to park my car outside my door. I'd just like to reliably park it within 3 streets.

I find that hard to follow. If you have the means to own, service, insure, fuel, tax and MOT a vehicle, a parking permit will not be the thing that stops the maths working for you.