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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-41985715 Here's one link from a very quick search

Hope we're not being led down another mistaken route like we were years ago when we were told to buy diesel cars to reduce CO2 emissions.🤔

Consider getting a structural engineers report to see exactly what the problem is before contacting your insurance company unless it's obvious you have as major problem in which case you have to go straight to your insurance company. Your insurance policy will indicate what subsidence cover you have and if there is a large excess. If you go to the insurance company for something that turns out to be a minor problem you could have sorted with a builder, your insurance can be blighted in the future. Whether you can stay in your house all depends on how bad the problem is and what needs doing to repair it.

Yes that my first question. Answer was - yes borough wide CPZ is going to happen

The Dulwich village zone meeting at the library was a bit of a shambles. These are question and answer sessions with about six tables with a Councillor at each table and local residents squeezing around a table wherever they can and then talking to the one councillor you happen to have on your table who then will feed back to the council panel in charge. It's not an open council meeting by way of consultation. Feedback from that session is that the CPZ is coming borough wide. That is decided. The councillors say these sessions and the survey are about giving residents some input into the final design in each zone, so days of operation.. weekdays only or 7/7 etc, hours of operation. Those living on zone boundary roads like lordship lane will get a permit for their side of the road but would have to pay to park on the other side! Go along and speak to the councillors and see more detail for your zone but be aware it seems to be a done deal.

But you can chip away at that argument too. There is a cost to maintaining a garden that keeps a green space available to wildlife, water drainage and fresh air that benefits the overall environment. If you pave over your drive (eg to avoid a parking cost) and install fake grass (to avoid any garden waste) you can avoid the cost of a garden waste bin but that's not good for the overall environment. General taxation to fund a range of services is a principle that a labour council would have once upheld but like many other things, it is beginning to be chipped away. I expect to see many more charges removed from general taxation and allocated to the individual as time goes on. Parking charges for CPZ in streets that have no issues with parking is just another personal tax.

I've noticed that a lot of council meetings have such poor sound on zoom and YouTube that I'm beginning to wonder if it's another deliberate act of the council to avoid proper scrutiny. If you can't hear it you can't comment on it.

The council already started down that route years ago by charging individually for garden waste collection.

I asked my local Councillor Andy Simmons if there had been a consultation regarding borough wide CPZ and when the decision had been made and he referred me to this document. I certainly have no recollection of borough wide CPZ being raised at all in the past and it's the sort of thing one would notice. So it would seem that there must have been very little publicity put out by Southwark over something that would obviously be controversial.

Apparently it was all in this document that comes up if you Google Southwark Movement Plan 2019 Not sure how extensive the consultation was.

The source is Andy Simmons by email

Councillor Andy Simmons says that the borough wide CPZ consultation and decision was made in 2019. Does anyone remember that happening. Have to say I don't recall any borough wide consultation on CPZ.

Extended CPZ on streets that don't need them leads to more people paving over their front gardens in order to park their car off the road. This is bad for wildlife, rainwater soak away and therefore flooding and subsidence. It's a bad thing every time a front garden is paved over.

You should cut through the big stems at the base now so that the ivy dies. It will then be much easier to peel it off the brickwork in a few weeks when it has dried out.

It's horrible stuff and an ecological nightmare. It gets really hot in summer. It smells if a fox or dog pees on it and it's hard to get rid of the smell and you have to vacuum off the leaves and debris. Look up @shitlawns on twitter to hear the truth about artificial grass. There are so many much nicer things you can do with your small garden.

Difference is motor vehicles are insured and aren't on the pavement. If you are injured by a bike whether legally on the road or illegally on the pavement there is no come back. If you cannot work for a prolonged period due to an injury caused by a bike hitting you on a pavement you cannot identify the person responsible if they cycle off and you cannot claim against insurance. You potentially lose your livelihood because of an individual's thoughtless and illegal behaviour. And yes that is talking from personal knowledge. Electric bikes on pavements are fast, heavy and can inflict significant damage if they knock you over. The least we can do is expect them not to be moving on the pavement. Same for pedal bikes.

That's a very interesting article. Thanks for posting and thanks to James Dallaway for writing it and doing the engineering.

"Poundland" Is there actually anything for a pound? Seems like their original USP is no longer valid. Just another shop.

How about U3a in Dulwich? See if there's a group that interests you. https://u3asites.org.uk/dulwich/groups

If you know who owns the flat you should tell them and if you can see which company is sending the parcels tell the owner and the owner can deal with it. It can be quite difficult to convince companies that an address is being used fraudulently and that they should stop sending stuff. But it is a problem when the invoices are linked to that address and go unpaid in terms of credit ratings, bailiffs etc so the flat owner definitely needs to know.

I realise people don't often need a bank but there are times when they do. I tried to bank coins at the post office after a charity event and the post office person told me to spend the coins and do a bank transfer because they can only take £20 worth of one denomination. Ridiculous. I tried to sort out a joint account and had to take ID to a bank because of the age of the account holders. Third party access for an elderly person required face to face contact. The reason banks are withdrawing from high streets is because it is profitable to do so. The loss of Barclays has resulted in the loss of 5 cashpoints, 3 inside. I imagine robbery and attempted robbery is far more common in outside cash points. There continue to be services that require face to face contact in a bank and to not have one bank in a busy high street is a crying shame and a derogation of responsibility by big finance imo.

A bank!!!

If you're in the older age range, retired or semi retired there are bridge groups at U3a. https://u3asites.org.uk/dulwich/groups

The lyrics below will reassure you that even without a garden the spiders will be do just fine outside once hatched. https://wordsforlife.org.uk/activities/incy-wincy-spider/