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At Harris Primary ED the picket is at the front entrance used by teachers and staff. The kids go in through the gates at the rear. As I understand it (I’m not a teacher) it’s understood by other staff (teachers in other unions) that the protest is aimed at the government and not at the other staff at the school.

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Welcome back to the area Fionamb. The offers have just gone out for reception places for this September. You?ll need to check in with Southwark and the local schools for which may have space. I would start with and enquiry to Southwark school services explaining your position. My kids are at Harris Primary on Lordship Lane. They?re really happy there, but I have to say I have rarely heard anyone say anything bad about any of the local primary schools. We?re at the station end of ED and I know people very happy with all the schools at this end: Bessemer Grange, Goose Green, Dog Kennel Hill and into Peckham Rye with the Belham and St John?s and St Clements. There is a Facebook group called East Dulwich Mums that might also help (I think dads are allowed too, perhaps it should be changed to Parents and carers!) Good luck with the move.

Update. I just passed by on our way home and it was a plastic chain therefore I was able to remove it. If it is the councils and there for a purpose then I am very sorry and will give it back to them. I highly doubt this is the case.

I have just emailed my councillors asking for their help with this. Someone has put a chain across the entrance to the cycle path along dulwich village, just past the Picture Gallery as you head towards Dulwich College. This is the point where the cycle path moves from the road and turns right to then share the pavement. This morning myself and my 6 year old were left stranded in the middle of the road looking for the gap in the chains which is normally there, to find it was chained off. I was left making an emergency manoeuvre in the middle of two way traffic with a small child. Luckily we are ok. Normally my child cycles on the pavement, but the pavement through dulwich village is so busy with pedestrians on a Saturday morning, that today was the first time we tried cycling on that road together. We last cycled that route on Thursday evening (when my child used the pavement as there are fewer pedestrians at that time) and there was no chain across. I only glanced at the chain but it does not appear to be the same as the other chains on that stretch. I have no idea why this would have been done. I have asked the councillors to arrange for this to be removed urgently before someone is injured. It was a really shocking position to find myself and my child in. For cyclists, if you continue past the bollard that protects you as you make the right turn, there is a drive a little way up on the right that provides access to the cycle path.

I went to kings last Thursday and my husband on Sat. Whilst we both had appointments they also had a walk-in clinic and it was all running smoothly and efficiently. I?m not sure how the walk-in works though, whether it?s open to all over 18?s yet? Also the changes in rules over the weekend may have changed the number of people turning up, so might be different today.

I tried one when I had to go to Staines for work and the office I was visiting was some distance from the train station. It had ?no-go? zones built in so wouldn?t work for example in the park (nor unfortunately on the cycle Lane as it ran alongside the park - but hopefully the sensitivity of that can be adjusted). I would hope that such functionality would be built into these so that they could only be operated as a push scooter (i.e. not motorised) within park boundaries. Interestingly the map on the relevant scooter app showed they had also designated the pedestrianised high-street as a no-go area along with the area immediately around the station - essentially anywhere that often has lots of pedestrians. Unfortunately this cannot be applied to private e-scooters, tho they are not currently legal.

Isn?t it only the start of half term for private schools - I think most state schools are still in this week.

Rockets You say: ?Of course, any active travel journeys are good and it is great to see kids cycling to school but it is not good if they aren't replacing car journeys - which the LTNs are supposed to target. ? But isn?t this part of the long game? If kids now have space to cycle and to become confident cyclists then they don?t become the driver of the future - they become Legal Alien who takes public transport and active travel out of habit.

To the owner of silver Peugeot LP09 ETE parked on Melbourne Grove, I?m sorry to say your rear left tyre is flat.

Walked past this morning and there was a burnt out car. It had been removed by this afternoon.

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I?m resident on MG and haven?t received a newsletter.

I can assure you no offence was intended, in fact quite the opposite. An upside to making a Halloween walk more enjoyable for all in these rubbish times is to increase footfall along the road which should hopefully help advertise the local businesses. I?m sure there are those who will happily sit at their phones and write that it?s not enough etc but it has been weeks of planning and work by the local community for the enjoyment of all, which I am saddened to see you have chosen to view as some form of veiled threat. FairTgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rockets Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I did chuckle to myself as I walked down > Melbourne > > Grove today - the residents have done a great > job > > decorating the street for Halloween and putting > up > > the gravestones but I love how one of them is > > trying to make a point by creating a couple of > > headstones with "Rat Run" on them.....and Cllr > > Newens suggests there is a problem with trolls > > from the anti-closure lobby!!!! ;-) > > > > I wonder if the Rest in Pieces headstone is in > > fact a reference to the businesses on Melbourne > > Grove being impacted by the closures.... > > > > > > > > > > 568787456?s=09 > > This has not gone unnoticed by the businesses and > I dare say it doesn't feel terribly coincidental > to them given the threats to boycott them > personally and on this very forum. There is one > entitled 'Yule Be Next' aimed at a business. It > would be understandable if someone took that > personally given the context of what is happening > on the road. > > Tiddles, 'Shat on' does seem quite apt and yes > most businesses in DV and ED bar a few are saying > they are struggling since road closures. > > On another note does anyone know if Southwark > Spine Cycling Route is still planned to go ahead? > If it does it might involve removing parking for > Bellenden Road businesses, and putting permeable > filters on Crystal Palace Road among othr changes. > > > https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/a > ctive-travel/cycling/cycle-improvements?chapter=3& > article > > If they go ahead with Phase 4 in Peckham cars will > be seeking routes through Crystal Palace Road and > residential roads in Peckham where they plan to > put this Southwark Spine Route. > > Having had a look at the present cycle routes in > Southwark - with very few east to west just like > Southwark bus routes, that cycling lobbyists would > be satisfied with these road closures. They don't > seem to be serving them either. Surely they would > like to see some proper investment in actual > interlinked cycle paths, rather than short closed > roads which then spit them onto busier more > polluted RMR roads. > > Southwark is giving them cheap as chips planters, > not real routes that go anywhere, and everyone > increased pollution and congestion on other roads.

The planning application for both sites included an agreed to construction traffic management plan to arrive at the site from the Herne Hill direction to avoid construction traffic coming on residential roads next to the site.