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Thank you James, for all the information, that you have provided this site with, in regards to MS. And I hope you will continue to do so. Thank You Fred Ricketts

Hi Get on to James Barber, through Councilor can I help. Put some stick where it belongs with our stupid Councils. Fred Ricketts

Hi James Could you please find out for me, Southwark Councils camera cars, are they, licensed for all types of PCNs contraventions, including footway contraventions, or just specific ones.??? And what licences do they need to operate. Thanks in anticipation Fred Ricketts

The whole Housing dept of Southwark is iffy. They sell off houses and flats cheap, and the owner then leases them back to the Council, who then let them to tennants, HOW CRAZY IS THAT. And how much does that cost the rate payers.?

SHOULD HAVE IT CLOSER TO HOME.

4.2.10 This area includes Dulwich and is dominated > by houses with gardens rather than flats, with > development between 200 and 350 habitable rooms > per hectare. There are some bus routes and railway > stations, however the level of public transport is > lower than in the rest of Southwark. Less > development is going to happen in the Suburban > Zone and we allow more car parking to a maximum > between 1.5 or 2 spaces per flat or house. How can this apply, if they are doing away with a car park? It?s not the whole communities, which this affects, it?s the local residents.

pipsky2008 A message to me says 'TGE have been clever and asked for all complaints to be made to the pub management, thus avoiding formal recording of such complaints'. Adventure bar did exactly the same, Its Not Mr Barber you have to watch out for, it?s the people sitting on the committee. The Adventure bar had several objections but the committee at Tooley Street took no notice of the whatsoever. It?s a very good idea to have the meeting local, as more people will turn up, as I think its part of the Councils strategy to put it where most people cannot be bothered to travel to. Government want to kerb binge drinking, yet they have changed the licensing laws to encourage it.

I sent mine back with a note in the corner where the stamp goes, saying to be paid by Capita or Southwark Council.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi Cllr Hamvas, > Your proposals, decided at February budget setting > Council assembly, make the hurdle for residents to > object to a planning application much higher. > Planning applications will more often be decided > by unelected council officials even when people > have objected. please can you say what the hurdles will be in future? Until this change 3 objections were needed to prevent decision by officers. What will it be in future? It appears idiots are now allowed to decide what is best for Residents in there communities.No consideration for our way life.Big brothers telling us whats good for us, when they have not got clue.just tow the party line.

These question are sent to all households regarding council tax at some point, i agree a lot of people want things For nothing.i have had plenty of experiences with companies like CSL,Liberata and capita thet cock up and Just change there names, and still get the contracts,there cock ups Cause a lot of pepple a lot of stress but no one is accountable. These companies are in it for profit,and that profit comes from our pockets. Only because Governments and Councils are to incompetent to run them.

Its not the stamp, its the priciple of being ripped off, by Companies, contracted by the Councils and Government, its well known that these private sector companies cost twice as much and never give a good service, its why the Country is in such a stste. To many rich people creaming it off, and we are paying for it.

the-e-dealer Get a toilet roll and rap it around you neck to collect the amount of crap that comes out of your mouth.

penguin68 Thats right Capita have chatged the Council for the stamps and envelopes and we have all paid for them, so why should pensioners pay for them, and poor people, its mainly pensioners that live on there own. Capita have the contracts for Housing and Council tax, which in turn costs us twice as much as if the Councils was running them.

the-e-dealer Stuff you, we should not have to. The price of stamps for pensioners is enough. Especially when Capita are earning millions of pounds from rip offs from Government contracts, which in the end are paid by all of us.

I have a problem with the letter I've just received fom Southwark about the Council Tax single person discount review which requires me to sign and return a declaration that I am still entitled to the discount, does not enclose an envelope to return it in and threatens that my discount may be cancelled if I do not return the form within 14 days. Is this genuine or a wind-up of some kind??? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ I have received the same letter, and I think that if Capita, which is the company, that is asking for the information, for the Council, seeing as they want to check the information every year, that they already have, they should be supplying the stamped addressed envelopes?. Capita is earning millions of pounds from our taxes, housing benefits? and Council taxes, it seem like they are doing what the Government is doing, cutting back on everything, to save the government money whilst having the lion?s share of the cut backs. How the rich get richer down to the poor.

No, sainsburys used to be kings college sports ground

I'm afraid that the reason Mr. Ricketts gets so apoplectic is that there have been a number of flat conversions in the streets close to Iceland/M&S in the last 10-15 years and the level of car ownership has increased dramatically because of it This is not the only reason Mr. Ricketts gets so apoplectic, I get apoplectic, mainly because of the over population of East Dulwich, and the stupid planning laws which seem to change every five minutes in favor of what the Government , Councils and developers want, not what the people who live here want. It seems any bit of open space now is free game to build on, why? I have lived here for 49 years and seen the changes to East Dulwich and they are not for the good of East Dulwich. Urbanization of East Dulwich has now become realality. As one person on here said ? I would like to see more big shops in our town? East Dulwich is not a town and never was, it used to be rural area, its going the same way a Peckham where I was born and no longer wish to visit. Sainsbury?s used to be open fields, where cricket and football was played, now they are trying to build more flats there. If I want to go for my weekly shop I go to Sainsbury?s where they have a big car park, and I don?t interfere with anybody. As Another person said on here? do we want to maintain the feel of ED as small scale and residential with most shops being of a proportionate size, or do we throw all that out and welcome in any amount of chains and start building up and out everywhere?.That?s how East Dulwich used to be small scale and residential with most shops proportionate size. And that?s how I would like to keep it. I have seen the Councils give longer drinking hours to the wine bars and clubs in Lordship lane without any consideration as to what the local resident rate payers want, I have seen their consultations, with bits of paper put on lamp posts where no one see them, and they only consult two people in a road, I have been to Tooley street on behalf of residents and found that it was a waste of time because their minds where already made up. I hope allot of these people on this site who are not concerned about the changes around this area actually live around this area. Cars will be here until the oil runs out and you will not change that, nearly every household in the Country has a car, and to expect people not use them, is stupid, I once believed that the companies that built big shopping centers with big car parks, did so for the reason to elevate the pressure s of car parking in residential areas, it?s obviously not the case anymore.

These pictures show what most local residents are objecting to, and this is happening all the time in Ashbourne Grove and Chesterfield Grove. And why should we have to put up with this all the time. And it is not getting better, but in fact getting worse.

These pictures show what most local residents are objecting to, and this is happening all the time in Ashbourne Grove and Chesterfield Grove. And why should we have to put up with this all the time. And it is not getting, but in fact getting worse.

Money for the Government? Sheer Fantasy The Government have their fingers in all the pies. Especialy M&S pies they are twice the price of others. Except for running the country properly. More flats and houses for all the illegal imigrants that they dont know are in the country.old saying in regards to most MPs and councilers,"The working class can kiss my arse, I have the charge hands job at last"

I am not knocking James, as I know he works very hard For some residents,the fact that he is making sugestions to the planning aplication ,sugests that he is in favour of it, and probably knows,that no matter what objections go in, it will be passed,as the Governmet need the money,to make up for the money they have squander over the years and still are.

When the residents of Ashbourne Grove went to Tooley street to object to the late night opening hours of the bars in Lordship lane, there was a considerable amount of objection put in by local residents and James Barber attended for the residents, and it was a waste of time as the licensing committee had already made up their minds, that they would allow the late night hours, and take no notice of the complaints. It?s now happening again with this application for M&S. Consultation times so short and like all there consultations only certain people are consulted and the residents that it really concerns are not consulted until it?s too late. Same thing happened with Somerfield?s car park. And flats above. The developers broke their planning agreement by not having any where to put there rubbish, and what happened three years later, they still have nowhere to put their rubbish they put it on the public footway. They also kept from the residents that the flats above were for people coming out of prison. Its business over residents and there is no democracy. It?s about time the council did something for the rate payers.

I have already. But its a Waste of time, its already decided, like the late night opening Hours of the bars in Lordship Lane.

It?s a waste of time trying to stop this development, as the Council will have their way, which is the way of the Government, More houses and flats with no where to park their cars, which in turn will lead to less parking spaces, which in turn will lead to more parking fines, we have already seen Dulwich go from being a suburb into an urban area. More flats and houses more rates, bigger classes in the schools more traffic and it goes on and on. The Council is already calling Dulwich a Town. The Councils planning department at one time would not allow development to go ahead without allowing for parking facilities, and the Dulwich Club that was once in Lordship Lane was turned down on them grounds after being in existence for over a hundred years, it?s now eight or nine houses. Its about time Dulwich was saved from all these new developments, because the only people it affects are the residents already here. I have been here for over forty years and Dulwich is slowly being ruined by the Council and Governments. I feel sorry for the residents of Chesterfield Grove as they will suffer the most.

CALL FOR A STOP ON UNFAIR FINES AS LAMBETH COUNCIL CAMERAS ROLL The recently built pinch point on Salters Hill has become notorious for creating ?give way? offences and generating penalty notices for unsuspecting motorists. According to Councillor Graham Pycock, ?This restriction may have slowed down the traffic at a dangerous point, which is what we wanted. However, the council?s camera cops are regularly there to generate penalty notices and revenue. The alleged offences are based upon dubious camera long-shots and take no account of speed.? ?This is legalised mugging and these motorists are victims not villains. Meanwhile a yobs? army of the untaxed, unregistered and uninsured drivers never has to pay these fines. Lambeth Council, like the government, is tough on honest motorists and soft on cheats. It is grossly wrong that the council is prosecutor and judge on technical offences which only exist because the council itself created the camera trap.? ?I will request that the use of mobile enforcement cameras on Salters Hill is reviewed, alongside a review of the effect of the pinch point itself. We want safer roads not unfair fines.? And this is what all the Councils seem to be doing.