northernmonkey

Thanks - will go round and check out in person at some point then.  Probably not helping them get customers though!

I've been meaning to try it - but get confused by the opening times on the website .  Is it really the case that it closes at 4pm every day.   I can't really reconcile this with the existence of an 'evening menu' .  Perhaps the times are wrong?

Halloween trick or treating is always on Halloween itself, not an alternative night.  Sometimes there are Halloween discos etc that run on the weekends, but for knocking on doors its the 31st only. The past couple of years Sydenham have run a halloween trail that looks really fun, but we've never been to so no first hand experience. 

Only knock on houses that have decorated / have pumpkins out - and yes, we're usually out of however many sweets we buy by about 7pm at the latest.

I think its nicest to just do streets around your own neighbourhood though so that you're knocking on doors where you know people.  My kids sometimes go out with their friends too and knock on doors where their school friends live.

have you checked to see if it was registered on bike register - you'll need the frame number - turn the bike upside down and its near the pedal crank

I'd imagine it will follow the same diversion as the 37 @richard tudor - theres no where for the bus to turn round so won't be going to the hospital.  Closest stop is probably Elsie or the station and then using the cut through path from Melbourne Grove north end by the charter school entrance on Jarvis Road. 

either is pretty interesting and a nice change from a nail bar - will have to wait and see what opens then!

Great - feels like its gone full circle as it was originally chopsticks!

James McAsh is the local cllr for G Green.

I think that there are some separate points here - firstly is the theft and dumping - these are nothing to do with your local cllr but would expect that the insurance would pick up on this as its a loss arising from the theft.  You've had some good advice though on the lambeth fine point.

The fines for driving into Tintagel are totally separate - I assume its because you've been driving in during the school street hours as otherwise there aren't restrictions on driving.  My understanding is that there are exemptions for residents but you have to register (I don't know how the registration process works - but presumably you do as you previously had your own car).  Did you register your mums car when you started using it - if not then that will be the issue. Going forward if the car won't be registered in your name you will need to avoid driving it during the restricted hours. 

Does anyone know what the new shop on Lordship lane is going to be please? - the one that was once a chinese restaruant and then an indian and has been a pop up gallery too - it has a sign that says 'chi' I think.  Its the one next to cheese block

CB  - your post is ridiculous and antagonistic.  

In terms of the overall thread, something along the lines of  'We heard from Alleyn's that some of their students were mugged by some students from a nearby school / charter - just a heads up to let parents know and to remind their children about how best to stay safe on their school journey' would have been helpful. 

Instead what we seem to have got is a 'charter school kids are mugging Alleyn's -and some kind of inference that the school is doing nothing about it.  No one can know what the school is doing unless you work there and are involved.  There is a local schools policing team who work really closely with all local schools and I find it hard to believe they won't be working to identify those involved.  However, it is a police matter that the school will help with.   As to who has been responsible for mugging Charter kids - does it matter ?  Does it make it less of a horrible thing to happen? Its not more or less wrong depending on which school you go to. 

The bigger question is why are muggings taking place outside schools and why isn't there enough of a police presence locally to deal with antisocial behaviour and crime of this nature.  Its not as easy as asking what one local school is doing about it - and frankly suggestions that the local schools reputation is risked by criminal behavior from a minority is ridiculous.  It is however a concern for local parents if the muggings have ramped up again.

3 hours ago, Nigello said:

“It’s not inconceivable” doesn’t mean “it doesn’t need reporting because all of us will have already conceived of it”. Is it so unremarkable and unimportant that children should be mugging other children to the extent that it not be reported on a local forum? 

Nigello - not sure why you're looking for a fight / suggesting that anyone thinks it isn't an issue?  Sometimes its hard to deduce tone on here but if in doubt, best not to post.   The question was to the original poster -what were they hoping the school would be doing.  The Alleyn's email indicates that police are aware and its pretty unlikely that Charter wouldn't be working closely with the policing teams on this via the school policing team.

The problem of muggings coming out of school is sadly not new - last term there were a fair few muggings of Charter kids on their way home too - so not inconceivable that Alleyns students would also be targeted.  If the students were in Charter uniform I would assume this had been reported to the police and that the schools policing teams would be involved and that the school will be working closely with them.  Did you have something in particular in mind in starting this thread?  Not sure what the school would be doing other than cooperating with any relevant police enquirries?

All the Anna Jones recipe books are fantastic. Recommend them for plant focused meals. 

There's also the community choir on Sat mornings from 10-11 at JASSPA that runs from JAGS.  This Sat is the first week and they were encouraging new members.  Its not an audition choir- just one you can join in. 

I think with Greendale - most of the time its safe, sometimes there are reports of undesirables - generally on the top section where it turns into small paths with bike muggings etc having taken place in the past.  Its probably happened a handful of times in all the years I've been on this forum and heard about it - but its enough to put me off letting my kids cycle on there alone at night once it starts to be darker - eg if they're doing after school clubs.     The stupid barriers on the path between Sainsburys and Greendale are also unhelpful from a safety perspective.  If there is a reasonable alternative might be one to consider - my son cycles via Greendale in the morning, but back via an alternative route mostly - this seems to work.  Plus towards the village is faster as downhill so feels safer!

There  was some CGS funding agreed last year to work on Greendale safety further, but nothing at all has happened since it was granted - the council has a backlog on these projects and they're seemingly not being delivered. 

Not clear why he wouldn't be able to attend school? School days in state run from around 8:30 -3pm so gives time for pre and post school training.  Kids who swim or row work around this.  Assume that the twice a day is strength / fitness and then coaching or match play  which feels as though it could fit around.   Private schools may have better facilities and more focus on high level sports but unlikely that they'd have a compressed timetable to facilitate.    

Think someone mentioned upthread that it was going to be a Chipotle

Realised that I'd seen something on skateboarding in peckham - school of skate.  Maybe see if any convenient group classes there.

My eldest plays D&D but they just set up an informal group of them from school and play at each others houses on a semi regular basis.  If he can find kids at school who are into it they could form a group - or does school have a D&D group given how popular it is now. 

As i explained in my message -  you need to register for a parking account and then you can buy permits on there.   Those permits can be for shorter times than all day.  If you bought a whole day permit though i assume you did this online, so you need to purchase the other options onto your account. 

5 hours ago, heartblock said:

I’m happy with CPZ, my only issue is not enough pay as you go/ point of use for tradesmen and casual parking. My friend picked me up to go to a funeral yesterday and I had to pay for a whole day guest park. Some provision for park by the hour and plumbers/electricians and drop off needs to be factored in more seamlessly.

just in case anyone is reading this and thinking ' oh i'll have to buy a day pass to cover parking for an hour' - this isn't true at all.  You can get a 1 hour, a 5 hour or an all day permit for visitors.  It may work out cheaper to do all day if they're picking up and dropping back and come in each time, but generally there are different options on visitor permits to facilitate just the scenario outlined above. 

The difficulty for people without a car or with OSP so no need for a permit is that they do need to register for a parking account to buy the online permits.  There are some pay by phone bays within zones too though meaning some short stay option don't need a parking account. 

I normally don't bother responding to you Rockets because you have your narrative and you don't want to listen to anything else.  Also you do love to post.  However on this occasion i will respond, just in case anyone is reading and thinking 'oh he must really know what he's talking about, he's looked at the data'.  Let me be clear.

The underlying data does not show lots of increases - it shows an overall trend downwards.

The central strip monitoring on EDG isn't a fiction - but you know this and i know this but it suits your narrative to suggest that it is.  We've been over it so many times that anyone remotely interested (of which there are vanishingly few people who aren't posting on this thread) can go back and look. 

Finally on monitoring - there has been years of monitoring - at some point it ends.  The council has limited resources.  Other areas haven't had the same amount of data analysis.  Also - as your thread has shown, its a pointless waste of time and money because no matter what the data says, you don't believe it and it just encourages micro analysis of distinct data points to make your point, disregarding any overall analysis anyway. 

Sorry @Rockets but  you can't just state that data shows something it very clearly doesn't. 

1.  " And the trend in the data in the dashboard (the devil is in the detail and all that) suggests that many other roads were heading toward the red category before the council stopped updating the dashboard and removed many, if not all, of the monitoring strips."  This just isn't remotely true by looking at this data.  There are 2 columns, one showing a comparison to pre Covid (eg 2019 data) and one showing a comparison to 2021 traffic (just in case there was a concern that comparing to pre covid meant that the comparison wasn't reasonable).  BOTH metrics show a fall. 

The 2 points showing a year on year increase were those where the actions of lobbying by One Dulwich and the like had resulted in the hours of the filtering times being reduced.  So there is a clear correlation between the filters and the reduction in traffic and a clear link in the opposite direction when removed. 

The only other point is the EDG E which will always be difficult to fully reduce without reintroducing cut throughs from EDG to GV and so the only way there is to reduce traffic overall - and the year on year monitoring shows that this is actually happening. 

I don't think that the council has stopped monitoring because the data doesn't support traffic reduction any more, but rather they don't monitor in perpetuity and there has been extensive monitoring in Dulwich which has shown clearly that traffic has reduced. 

For the avoidance of doubt - the latest data dashboard we have shows virtually all traffic counts were lower than pre covid and for those that weren't lower than pre covid, they had fallen between Sept 2021 and Sept 2022

The exception for this were Townley road and Burbage - which incidentally is where campaigning from 1D and similar resulted in the hours of the restrictions being reduced between Sept 21 and 22! 

Don't know what the minimum standard is for the band  - but the guy was really friendly and nice who runs it so worth getting in touch.  Its a new group so might still be getting up and running. 

There's also track cycling at the velodrome - theres a skills session on Mondays and possibly other days too - check the website for session times. If he wanted to learn that - once you get a bit of experience there are other sessions too. 

If he's grade 2+ standard there is also Dulwich Youth Orchestra that runs in the main end of term holidays - doesn't help on a weekly basis but is a whole week worth of 'wholesome' non screen time activity!

Looks amazing - do update on when you have a date to open.  Wishing you the best of luck!  Can't wait to visit.