stecoward101

Not sure why you sarcastic remark is needed. I believe caring for the welfare of children walking to school is more important that access to shops both ways. Please remember that the shops are still accessible to cars if they travel the other way. I live, work and volunteer in this community so maybe you should take your sarcasm and use it where it works.

You say "This is nimbyism in the extreme" at the same time complaining the cars will pass your front door. Surly that is nimbyism in the extreme.

I notice the coffee shop is still doing well. I am not sure cars drive down Melbourne Grove to buy a smoothy or get keys cut, try on second hand clothes or visit an Italian who has been empty for over a year. Blocking off Melbourne Grove is a great thing for local, cyclists and pedestrians and also improves the safety of the children who attend the school. I urge the local residents to stop using the businesses that are trying to unblock it.

Hi Is there anyone available to assist with laying a lawn this week. I have removed the old turf and dug over the garden (well I am doing it now and then realised I don't know what I am doing) and I can get the turf delivered from Tuesday but happy with anytime this week. Looking at YouTube it seems straight forward but due to the fact that I have never done this before I could do with some assistance from some one who has. Obviously I am paying so please ping me if you are free. Thanks for reading and enjoy your Sunday. Ste.

Kidkruger - This was not an assumption this was a fact. N&P are offering a 10 year fixed mortgage for 3.89%. Which is an amazing low rate for borrowing. If you took this deal I would streach your borrowing as far as you can (obviously not to a rate where you could not pay the mortgage if you are a month out of work) as historically (since end of WW2) london house prices have risen 4.9% per year. As London is growing faster than ever before and it is expected to have an addtional 2m people by 2025 which is the same population as two Birminghams. This combined with the supply/demand laws of economics (there are currently 12 buyers for every one property available)would suggest that house prices are going to continually rise.

Just thought I would help or hinder with regards to Interest rates. They will not rise for many years to come. This is reflected with the long term deals that are currently available. Norwich and Peterborough offering a 10 year fixed rate mortgage at 3.84% here is a link http://www.nandp.co.uk/mortgages/full-mortgage-range/

Just to conteract the doom and gloom of purchasing ex local authority property. I purchased a 3 bed Ex LA flat in 2005 (granted before the crash) in bethnal green. I bought the property for ?185K and I have had 1 major works program (?9k) since buying the place and it was recently valued at ?370K. I now rent the property to fantastic tennants for ?1850 a month (who enjoy the property as much as i did). Additionally I had the best neighbours, a 40 foot garden, over looked by a school so no noise at the weekends and a great location from the tube station. I suppose what I am saying is that the numbers still work in Ex LA properties and they can be as good to live in(and even better to rent out) as any other property. hope your new place brings you smiles.

Stacey-lyn We are in Melbourne Grove. I have no idea how they keep any customers. However they did refund me the 15 months money that I had paid for their terrible service.

My expeirence of virgin is explained in a letter that i sent them Sir, I am not usually one to put ?pen to paper? however when you read my experience with Virgin Media I am sure you will agree that your company has failed to provide any reasonable expectation of service and are in breach of contract as you have repeatedly failed to deliver the service(s) that you are charging for. In February 2012, I decided that after 7 enjoyable years with SKY that my requirement was now for faster broadband and I would change my service provider to Virgin Media, as I believed that all the service providers offered very similar packages and service. This na?ve assumption has led to a year of enduring telephone conversations, being lied to, hung up on and insulted by call centre staff and I have lost many weekends waiting in hope that a virgin service engineer will finally resolve the myriad of issues. Since my first appointment to install 3 Tivo boxes, broadband and telephone in March 2012, I have been engulfed with issues and excuses which have included running cables to wrong rooms, no telephone service, slow internet, no internet, poor picture quality, unable to run on-demand programmes, unable to record programmes, unable to watch channels that I have subscribed to. Disappointingly , I have had on average a phone call to or from Virgin Media every week since March 2012, this call will usual last between 40 minutes and 2 hours. I will be passed between several different departments, all promising that this will finally resolve the problems that I have been experiencing. I have confirmed with your call centre that I am currently on my 20th service engineer visit and an additional 7 times when engineers were arranged but failed to arrive after we sacrificed a full day waiting in. After 14 months I am now being told that the engineers have completed a range of testing at the exchange and now understand the problem has been 2 fold. Firstly, when installing the system the cable connection to the property was incorrect and the cable used could not cope with the number of devices that were connected, this is due to be replaced to an RG11 cable and secondly there is apparently a damaged cable somewhere in the street and it will be necessary to excavate the road to replace the cable. Although I am relieved that this will soon be resolved, I am at a loss to understand how a simple installation can be complicated and with so many errors, how a call-centre can be both dismissive and unable to coordinate with your service engineers and why I am expected to continue to pay for services that I don?t receive and that I will be credited the money back to my account when the service is fixed (and therefore imprisoning me into a long term contract). Although I have already had some refunds I believe that I am entitled to a full refund as the system was installed incorrectly and I have been unable to receive the full service. Additionally, I feel that I should be compensated for the number of telephone calls that I have had to make to Virgin Media and for the number of lost days waiting in for engineers. I would be grateful for your immediate attention to this letter. After failing to turn up to their next appointment, I dropped Virgin media and I would reccomend that anyone thinking of using their services to think again.

Whatever you do, do not go to the Melbourne Grove practice. They are without doubt the most incompetent bunch of chancers that I have ever had the misfortune of dealing with. I have undertaken programmes of work for PCT?s and am sure that Southwark PCT would take a dim view of their procedures.