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Ted Max has "got" it.

That's an endorsement? It might appear so on the surface. Read it again? It's good the journalist has read the standard academic history and raided it for the article. And I do like the word "snootification".

> seriously - do you really think they would only can 250 on a flat here? That's crap - there are so many people nowadays with that much and more to spend I think you are missing something. And your evidence for this assertion?

The older I get the more I realise how little I know about anything. But I do hope to become the world expert on Goose Green ponds before I die.

> one problem is that LL won't necessarily reflect this and lower c/i groups won't find that their needs are met (cf: any discussion on replacing iceland with m&S). That must have been a wind-up post. I can't believe it was serious when it was suggested that Iceland should go and the old and poor who used it should walk to Iceland in Peckham.

I wonder if one more small coffee shop might be coming in on the trough of a wave.

> I've been living here just 3 years - found ED when searching for an affordable house large enough for teeanage family and two elderly parents-in-law to all live together. A new East Dulwich extended family. Good stuff.

The OMO problem. Bring back clippies.

> Retrospective planning permission is not at all rare and not confined to big businesses. I noticed a planning notice outside the small cook shop almost opposite caffe Nero applying for, you've guessed it, retrospective planning permission. Green Cuisine is innocent (of this one). It appears to be Parkhill Properties and the added top floor. I don't think Green Cuisine applied for permission for their new shop front though.

This map pre-dates St John's. I believe it dates from 1861. There are no ponds. Not even on the site of St John's.

The answer lies in the Victorian Metropolitan Water Board sewers. With the caveat that I can't remember these being replaced. The sewers have a design capacity. This is an objective fact. There has been no impact assessment of sewage disposal for the c1100 persons that will be squeezed onto the site. This is a calculation for a civil engineer. If the sewers have insufficient bore and gradient planning permission cannot be granted without replacing the sewers. Planning permission also cannot be granted if this calculation is unknown. This would be reckless. If planning permission is granted despite this calculation being unknown there are grounds for appeal.

> 58 then. Youngster!

Discussion of Target Arms brought this man to mind: R.V.Jones He would be my nomination.

Thanks, Sidhue. That could be really interesting for East Dulwich if this is the next increment in no-smoking legislation. It made me wonder which local pubs have the longest blocks to "walk around". The Plough and Crystal Palace Tavern?

The local Stasi is located at 47 East Dulwich Road.

Nothing wrong with spam fritters. They were a real treat when they came up for school dinners.

> In Boston the rule is that you can't smoke while standing still, so pavement smokers from pubs have to walk round the block while fagging it. I had a look at www.cityofboston.gov to find the wording of the City Ordinance to see the possible effect if similar legislation was applied to East Dulwich. I couldn't find anything. Is this for real or an urban myth?

The property is not subject to business rates. I can't imagine there would be any objection to reclassifying the ground floor to retail usage again as the shop frontage is already in place and this is in line with Southwark's development plan for Lordship Lane. If interested why not register an interest with the owner? People change their minds.

>> East Dulwich are working towards being the first town who will be plastic bag free in london > Who says so? Is it the Community Council?

I walked down Lordship Lane today and thought how little original Victorian commercial or public street furniture remains. Did I miss anything of note?

> East Dulwich are working towards being the first town who will be plastic bag free in london Who says so?

What's this got to do with eating and tasting nice?

> I heard that there is a train stuck in the tunnel.. Nice conflation. It goes well with the rats and grease story. But you've got the wrong line. In the 1950s (after the trains stopped running) walking the railway line was a pleasant short cut to Crystal Palace just like Jah Lush wrote. After the tracks were lifted you had to watch out for the deep drainage shafts in the tunnel. I don't think my ankles could take walking any distance on ballast these days.

That's very young! It's a different perspective when you can't do anything to defend yourself or run away.

> I for one, feel this talk of it being a frightening or scary place is a bit OTT. You must be one of the young people?