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Good afternoon all, I am looking for recommendations for a very good, reliable brick layer to build a garden wall, using old bricks to match Victorian house. Wall is about 85 feet long. We are based in East Dulwich, SE22, off Forest Hill Road. If you know anyone you would recommend and previous work can be checked, do get in touch. Many Thank Didier

Good afternoon all, I am looking for recommendations for a very good, reliable brick layer to build a garden wall, using old bricks, about 85 feet long. Based in SE22 If you know anyone you would recommend and previous work can be checked, do get in touch via email. Many Thanks.

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It took more than one month to get a reply from the council and the only reason I got a reply is because I emailed our MP but here it is for you to view the reply... Feel free to email the council.... Thank you for your email which has been passed to me for a response. I am sorry that you haven?t had any responses to your previous emails. I have answered each of your questions using your numbering and trust that this will give you all the information you have been seeking. 1. Can you confirm that the rubbish collection (blue, green and brown) has been included in our council tax until your new proposal? Yes ? the service is funded primarily from council tax and government grants, and continues to be free for general waste and dry recyclable collections, along with other services such as hazardous and clinical waste collection from households. The law allows discretionary charges to be made for provision of some household waste services including garden waste. A decision has been taken to introduce a charge for garden waste collection from 2019/20 onwards ? this approach is already in place in the many councils which provide a garden waste collection service. 2. Can you confirm that this is a way to increase further more the council tax as all the bins collections were included until now? This is not a change to council tax. The collection of garden waste is a discretionary service for which the council can choose to make a charge. This has been the legal position since the Environment Act 1990. In 2019/20 the council took a decision to make a charge for the first time as part of the annual budget setting process. 3. If you feel that some resident do not use the brown bin service, why not reduce their council tax as the bin service is included in the council tax? The Council has no power to reduce council tax for households not using particular services in this way. Council tax is a property tax based on the value banding of the property and levied according to nationally fixed rules ? it is not a service charge made for the provision of services, and the council has very limited powers to make local changes. 4. Can you confirm that this is an extra tax on people who maintain their garden as an eco friendly space, contributing to allow birds, bees, insects and many endangered species in London to live? The introduction of a charge for the collection of garden waste does not affect how any resident chooses to maintain their garden. The most environmentally sustainable way of managing garden waste is to compost it within the garden, and use the resulting compost in the garden. We have provided many thousands of home composting bins for this purpose already, and many residents already compost their own waste in preference to having it collected. Not only does this minimise transport impacts in collecting and managing waste, it recycles nutrients back into the soil; the compost heaps provide habitat for a range of insects and fungi; and home composting minimises the overall carbon impacts of managing the waste. 5. Can you confirm that by introducing this new charge, you are encouraging residents with a garden, to pave their front and back garden, therefore contributing to destroying the planet? No ? the council is not encouraging residents to pave their gardens. 6. You are telling people to separate food waste and garden waste in different bins: 6.1. Does it mean that there will be a different collection for food waste bins? 6.2. If it is the case, isn?t it an extra cost for the council for nothing as it ends up in the same place? 6.3. Veolia staff are telling residents that the food bins and brown bins will be collected by the same truck, so why ask people to have two bins? We expect that a separate collection for food and garden waste will be required in the next few years, with food waste and garden being composted through different processes. This change begins the process of providing separate collections, and although we will initially co-collect both waste types in the same vehicle, this is not expected to continue in the longer term. Separate collection and different treatment routes for food and garden waste are already an aim of the London Environment Strategy, and the government centrally has recently consulted on national measures to implement this approach. 7. By introducing this extra tax you are also encouraging residents not to separate their garden waste to their green bin?s waste? Garden waste is not collected in green residual waste bins. If residents present significant quantities of garden waste in their residual waste bins they may be treated as contaminated and not collected. Residents should either compost their garden waste themselves, bring it at no charge to the Househld Waste Recycling & Reuse Centre, or use one of the paid services for collection of garden waste that are provided by the council. 8. With this tax, you are also encouraging people to steal stickered brown bins? Collection stickers include the address of the address serviced. This helps ensure that people get their own bins back, and if stolen, they can be recovered and returned to their rightful owner. 9. How are you going to deal with stickered brown bins stealing? See Q6 above 10. What information will be printed on the stickers as residents do not want their address and name on their bin? Names are not included, but addresses are ? not least to prevent theft. Given that the bin will be located at the address to which it relates, printing the address on the sticker will clearly not breach any confidentiality. 11. How will you be renewing stickers of stolen bins? Where a bin is stolen and reported by the resident, a duplicate sticker will be issued to the resident with a replacement bin ? unless the missing bin can be identified elsewhere and returned. 12. Can you confirm how the council will dispose of the unused brown bins collected in an environmental friendly way and explain this way? Many of the bins recovered from non subscribing households will be retained, and cleaned for re-issue. Those which are damaged or not required will be returned to the bin manufacturer. The bins are then shredded, and the plastic is granulated and cleaned for remanufacture into new bins. 13. The streets of Southwark are littered with bins which are left on pavements all week long, obstructing the way, smelling and being an eyesore, what is the council doing so that people move their bins from pavements and keep them in their property until the collection day? Not all residents have suitable storage space within their property for storage of bins. The council takes a practical view with regards to bin storage and will normally take action to remove where the bins cause an obstruction or have other adverse impacts on the local area. If bins are withdrawn, residents would be obliged to present their household waste in bags, and this might result in vermin having access to the waste and increase mess on the pavements, so we would seek to take a balanced view that takes account of these factors. Where residents do have suitable space for storing bins and have left them on the pavement for an extended period, the council reserves the right to remove them entirely. Whilst I fully appreciate that your preference would be that the council provide this service without making a charge, the decision to charge for collection of garden waste is not one that has been taken lightly. It has been necessary to introduce a charge to avoid the need for reductions in other areas of service, as the council must balance its expenditure and income across a range of important services. With best regards Caroline Caroline Bruce Strategic Director of Environment & Leisure Southwark Council 160 Tooley Street | London SE1 2QH Email: [email protected] www.southwark.gov.uk

I wrote to Eleanor Kelly, Chief Executive of the council on 29th May, to ask some questions about this extra tax and the consequences. I sent the letter recorded delivery so I have proof that it was received on 30th May. She has duly ignored me and my many questions. On 25th June I email her and copied Peter John, Chief Councillor of Southwark asking for a reply, again I have received no reply! Today I have again emailed them both asking for an acknowledgement of my email by the end of today, let's see if I get any reply. I have told them both that failing to get an acknowledgement I would raise the matter to our MP Harriet Harman. Many people in our street and in the area, including myself, have not paid for this extra tax. I attach a copy of the letter (file and picture of it), I have taken. off my name and email address from the file, I invite you to email it again... [email protected] [email protected]

Hello, I am looking for a good, reliable electrician to do some re-wiring in the garden for outdoor lights and pond pump as well as fitting two outdoor lights in SE220RX. Thank you for your recommendations.

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Dear Ms Hamvas, The buses have been rattling our houses since Saturday 24th August. They have been a real danger to pedestrians with many buses not respecting the 15mph speed limit yet the council is doing NOTHING. Since last Friday they are now telling us it is not their responsibility but it is TFL's! Even the bus drivers we have spoken to are not happy with the narrow streets and turns they have to make. Harriet Harman wrote to us on 20th August promising consultation and a meeting, we are still waiting! Is it was you call consultation? PLEASE CAN EVERYBODY WHO IS CONCERNED CALL OUR MP HARRIET HARMAN ON 020 72194218 NOW AND LEAVE A MESSAGE

All we have been asking is to manage the situation but the council with the letter above as well as all the emails received is refusing to acknowledge previous problems caused by buses to houses in Marmora Road. They have chosen not to reply to many of our questions. Residents have been pro active in suggesting quite a few alternatives for the buses but they were rejected without consideration. They tell us their contractor have now agreed to put additional resources on this project and aim at reducing the time it will take. Yet they are already 3 weeks late starting, they only advised us about the delay 10 days after the work was due to start and only because we sent emails after emails. Yes Harriet Harman seems to be taking the matter seriously, she asked our ward councillors to arrange a meeting with local residents to address the issue we have raised with her. Yes we do want this meeting. Until it happens, please carry on sending emails to Harriet Harman

The work was due to start on 5th August 2013 in Forest Hill Road. Nothing happened, we contacted the council and eventually we were told 10 working days later that the work had been delayed due to a Thames water emergency! It is now scheduled to start on 24th August 2013 for 3 months. With the 3 weeks delay already incurred you can expect that it will last longer. 63 bus, every 6 minutes day time, will be diverted from Forest Hill Road to Therapia road then a sharp turn to Scutari Road and another sharp turn into Marmora Road and again a sharp turn into Forest Hill road. Are you ready for a bus in your street every 6 minutes day time? How wide is Therapia road, what will you do when in your car you have a bus coming towards you? The same for Marmora road and Scutari road. Buses used to drive along Marmora Road in the 80s and caused considerable damages to some houses. The residents got together and the service was stopped because of the damage caused. Do you want your house, flat to be damaged? The Dulwich & South London Press had a front page article on the matter on Friday 26th July 2013 3 months with a bus every 6 minutes can do a lot of damage to your house, your flat, your car etc.... We urge you to email your MP Harriet Harman [email protected] and copy the Councillor Barrie Hargrove [email protected] A few of us have already emailed her, we need more of you to do it as a very good alternative route was proposed via Brenchley Gardens but was refused without any consideration by Councillor Barry Hargrove