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If my neighbour planted a new London Plane 3m from my Victorian house I would be very worried about future damage to my house. This is effectively what happened when these trees were planted around 20 years ago. It seems there was no concern for neighbouring buildings and future risk of damage by planting new trees. Other lesd massive trees could have been chosen. The pruning done recently was fairly minimalist, not like a French pollarded city Plane tree, and by the time Southwark does another round of pruning all that growth will be back and even more. I appreciate the intention at the time but I really don't think it was thought through properly. The problems, like the trees are only going to get bigger.

You overlooked the fact that every building has a water pipe, many original from circa 1900s, from the street main into the buildings. With the trees so close together, it is inevitable that roots will find their way towards and around these supply pipes and that soil movement risks damaging these pipes. I believe Thames Water covers the cost of such repairs so I guess Southwark isn't worried about that.

At the same time needing to address the rapidly growing Plane trees, many of which were planted only 20 years ago. These are already huge and have caused breaks in the water main and sinking and lifting of the pavement and are going to get a lot bigger in the next twenty plus years. I foresee ongoing and bigger problems in store.

Where the parking bay has been intentionally positioned between the lines and the pavement, it is a parking bay. That's how it was built when the crossing was put in and the pavement built out some years ago. There are parking bays where the lines are painted into the bays and, in that case, the bays can't be used at all. There is a bay like that in Dulwich Village. But the one on lordship lane is not one of those. It could be one of those if that's what Southwark wants but they would need to repaint the lines or turn the bay into a pavement. This ticketing in legitimate parking spaces has only started recently in ED since the recent employment of a large number of attendants on Lordship Lane. I imagine it is generating a lot of extra work in dealing with challenges given the number of people suddenly being ticketed. There is a cost to that. I'm interested to know is that cost covered by the ticketing company or Southwark.

Has anyone received a PCN despite being parked in a legitimate parking space along and adjacent to Lordship Lane shopping area? The most recent for me has been in the parking bay opposite Bells Bathrooms at the junction with Whateley Road. Just trying to gauge how much work is being generated for Southwark in having to deal with challenges to incorrectly issued PCNs by overzealous parking wardens.

I think the dish in the photo was £12

Just had this delicious Jamaican street food which has popped up on the forecourt of the now closed Dulwich Beer Dispensary, corner of Melford Road and Lordship Lane. Jerk chicken, Curry Goat, Rice and Peas etc. Robert, the chef, is there on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 2-10pm. Nice to see this forecourt being used for something new to this part of Lordship Lane.

Repetition! Concisely answered April 29 😁

Oh yes I see what you mean. I misunderstood, incorrectly thinking you were saying Physician Associates were similar to hospital registrars which, we agree, they are not as PAs are not doctors. 👍

Not comparable to a registrar in a hospital who will have done 5 or 6 years at medical school, a year of foundation training, two years of core training at least and then 1 to 6 years as a specialist registrar before ready to be a Consultant. GP trainees will spend a year of foundation training after 5 or 6 years at medical school, possibly some years as a core trainee and sometimes Specialist Registrar and then a minimum of 3 years on a GP training scheme before becoming a GP and many will take a number of postgraduate exams including the MRCGP (Membership of the Royal College of GPs) Physician Associates are not equivalent to a hospital registrar or a GP registrar and should be working under supervision of a fully qualified GP or Consultant. While a Physician Associate may be very good, they should not be being confused with a doctor and patients should know clearly if they are seeing a doctor or a Physician Associate. The title can mislead.

Your understanding is not correct. The camera is situated on Townley Road so that you cannot turn left from Calton Ave onto Townley Road at certain times of the morning and afternoon. You can go up down Court Lane and Woodwarde etc with no problem.

Chimney breast removal definitely requires party wall agreement and if yours above is not being removed it will require steels to support the chimney breast above. You should consult your own party wall surveyor and serve notices on your neighbour and they will be liable for the cost of your surveyor. Also worth contacting the southwark building regs inspector for advice as removing a load bearing wall also requires steels to support the walls above and will require building regs. Has your neighbour shown you the plans to show how they are going to support your walls above?

You probably don't need to understand it better!! But basically you used to be able to drive up and down Court lane and Calton Avenue across the Dulwich village junction with gay abandon and now you can't because that part of junction is now blocked by multicoloured woodwork and planters. So Dulwich village is split in half for vehicles and you have to drive a long round to get from one side to other. Some people (the majority who responded to Southwark's seemingly flawed consultation) hate this, especially those living on roads to which the through traffic has been displaced and those who have to drive alot further to get from one side of DV to the other and some people like it. The debate will go on forever without a happy ending for some of the people. That's it really 🤔

Don't forget South end of Underhill Road. Good sized houses with good sized gardens and short walk to Dulwich park, Dulwich Woods, Horniman and Peckham Rye. Transport access in five different directions which is super useful and the little P13 gets you to Lordship Lane shops in no time. Easy parking. IMO a little part of Dulwich underappreciated by some living right near East Dulwich shops but much liked by those that find their way to this quiet corner of Dulwich. Good luck to you

Do report any that you see. Sometimes it works! https://www.fillthathole.org.uk/

https://dulwichfestival.co.uk/event/concrete-and-clay/?mc_cid=3d6c0c4c30&mc_eid=9ffe7a527b The person doing this walk around Belvoir road and Dawson's heights for the Dulwich Festival might know unless this research is for part of this walk 🤔

How about asking the Monumental Mason on Wood Vale as that looks like a commonly used font for a gravestone. You could get a quote for a gravestone as well. He did one for me a while back which was preferable to buying one online.

Apologies. 10x4hrs is full time for Hospital Consultants. For GPs it's 37.5 hrs for full time according to the BMA and anything less is part time.

As far as I understand ten 4 hour sessions would be full time so if you work anything less than 40 hours a week as a GP you will be considered as part time. A 35 hr week that is full time for most people would be part time for a GP.

I'm really happy to recommend Jeff from Streatham Decorators. He has done several jobs for me now. His work is very good and he is punctual, reliable, clean and tidy and reasonably priced. https://streathamdecorators.co.uk/

Not sure if this helps 😕

O2 coverage is good in ED although drops off in Sydenham woods and Dulwich Village.

Thanks for that comprehensive reply. It is reassuring and appreciated that you, as administrator, are keeping such a close eye on reviews. I will continue to try to disregard reviews from new accounts with one posting just to be on the safe side.

Curious to know if anyone else struggles to sort the genuine reviews from the self posted. I have had a few tradesmen off the forum who have glowing reviews eg excellent work, great value etc who I have found mediocre and very expensive. I prefer to only review if the work is good and, for poor or mediocre work, I tend to say nothing as I don't want to blight someone's livelihood from my one mediocre or worse experience. But I now notice, across different tradesmen, how many reviews come from newly registered names on the forum with only one post saying how a particular tradesman was absolutely fantastic. Sadly I've started to think these are probably made up. It's such a shame because it makes the review section lose it's value.

He did a great job on my windows too.