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I saw someone in a new Volvo SUV this afternoon drive full on into the bollard turning left from Nutbrook into Adys. Their left wheel was at least eighteen inches onto the curb when they hit the bollard!

I had assumed that this must be a scam due to the .co.uk domain (rather than police.uk or gov.uk), but it appears the be legit: https://www.met.police.uk/police-forces/metropolitan-police/areas/campaigns/2025/stay-informed-with-met-engage/ What on earth were they thinking setting up a site that could so easily be spoofed?!

It’s only “hazardous” if you chose to drive in such a way that your vehicle crosses the pavement and risks hitting a pedestrian. If the junction is too tight for a vehicle to be able to safely do so the driver should take an alternative route - no different to avoiding a low or narrow bridge. Also the council had already removed parking opposite the junction to give vehicles more space to manoeuvre, it used to be much worse with coaches regularly getting stuck. .

I live near that corner. The current bell bollard is the only one that lasts five minutes without being taken out by a van, truck or car. It used to be less deeply set and was unearthed fairly regularly. It’s clear there are a large proportion of drivers who think driving across a pavement is acceptable as you cannot hit it unless your vehicle crosses the pavement. Last year it was replaced by a taller upright bollard that literally would be knocked over within a day of being installed. The council must have fixed it six times in two months before reinstating and more deeply setting the current bollard. My son was almost hit by a van that cut the corner while he was walking on the pavement. It’s likely the bollard saved his life. If a vehicle cannot safely navigate a corner without crossing the pavement then it shouldn’t be driving on that road.

Has planning permission been granted for demolition? I would have thought someone would have shared that information if it were the case.

It’s really not the big deal other people (who generally don’t own EVs) claim it is. Full charged our Polestar 2 has a range of 250 miles. It only really gets used for shortish runs to Costco or places that a pain by public transport. Even when my wife commuted with it most days, it still only needed charging every other week. Generally, I recharge when we hit 20-25% and top it back up to 80-90%. That’s an overnight charge on the char.gy on street chargers at the off peak (midnight to 7am) tariff. There are five chargers on Everthorpe Rd, another three on Oxenford St and at least another five in the surrounding streets - all of these are a five minute walk from my house. So a ten minute detour after dinner on evening to start charging and then another ten minutes to pick it up. In the unlikely event they were all full/blocked (which hasn’t happened in three years of ownership) then either I’d leave it for another day or if I really needed to go somewhere further than say 30 miles I’d stop at a super fast (150kW) charger and pay the higher fee for a top up (70-80p per kW vs 35p per kW). We sometimes do use the expensive fast chargers when we do longer trips but not that often. If we were a family that drove 100+ miles a day regularly then having an EV without off street parking wouldn’t work for us, but for us (and I expect most Londoners who have a car) it’s fine. A car club and occasional car hire would probably be cheaper for us, but the convenience makes it worthwhile. Overall, even with the price hikes for public chargers I still think it’s marginally cheaper than our old diesel. EDIT: When I owned a combustion engine car I also tended to refill when I hit quarter of a tank

Found the thread: Since that time The Gowlett closed and then reopened with a refurbishment and I believe under new owners.

We live on Adys (just round the corner). The area is safe and we’re happy for our child to walk around by themselves. There are occasional phone snatchings outside East Dulwich Station but I don’t think it’s massively different from most of London. The Gowlett is pretty tame, there are tables outside so there will be some noise of course. We have friends on Gowlett and they’ve never complained about the noise. I seem to recall that a couple moved in to the road and made life pretty difficult for The Gowlett for a while over noise, if you hunt around you should find the thread. I guess it’s whether you’re looking at a house straight across the road from the pub or further down the street but overall it’s a nice area, convenient for transport and the schools are decent. Good luck.

I know someone who regularly stays at The Victoria on Bellenden Road and is very positive about it. I haven’t stayed there myself though.

The normal position for road signs in the UK is the left hand side of the road, so as an attentive driver that is where you should be looking. However the signs on Amott (and Adys and Ondine) are on both sides of the road. Their position on Amott are just on the Adys side of the Keston Road junction. As there are 3m double yellows on that junction there is at least 6m clear in front of the sign on the left hand side of the road even if the right hand sign was obscured by a high sided vehicle when you drove down the road.

Andrew and Arnold are very good. They have UK based techies and are proactive in managing OpenReach as the copper supplier.

It’s helpful they’ve given explicit guidance on ridge raises and mansard extensions. When we did our loft we were told by loft conversion companies that these were completely banned and it took me a long time to persuade them to apply for planning permission to do our conversion that way. The application sailed through planning permission so it’s nice that’s now going to be in official guidance.

Not allowing children in pubs after 7 or 7:30pm is hardly unusual and could well be a condition of their licence. Why would you suggest that means the owners “hate families”?

I think the team at FitFor (used to be ESPH) by the cinema on Lordship Lane are really good. I busted my knee earlier this year and they got me back running.

I was told the work had stopped because of the bird nesting season.

We had one that projected stars and played lullabies. It was a soft toy bee with a hard plastic back. I know we used it but can’t recall how effective it was. What was brilliant was the Lulla sleep doll which has a heart beat sound. That was a critical sleep aid for the first couple of years.

We use Electroverse, which lets you charge across most of the networks. As Octopus Energy customers it’s also added directly to our energy bill which is handy. I tend to use the char.gy lamppost chargers as there are more of those around our house. Source has a really aggressive idling charge given they are slow chargers - kicking in after 10 mins rather than after 24hrs with chargy - I tend to leave our car to charge overnight once a week on a schedule to take advantage of chargy’s overnight rate. That wouldn’t work with Source. When I need a faster charger to fill up before a long trip the ones at Tessa Jowell are handy but more expensive than the slow onstreet ones. Remember to register your licence plate when you arrive to avoid a parking fine.

Ours (Adys Rd) was activated almost immediately after installation. We have been tracking slightly above our old unmetered rates.

My understanding is that for last year there was an oversupply of school spaces and that even The Belham (which had been massively oversubscribed in the past) wasn’t completely full. I’d call them about mid year entry, in our son’s year group there always seem to be a couple of kids joining each year and a few leaving to move away. Once your 5 year old is in all schools give priority to siblings so your 3-year old will be fine For nurseries our son’s friends at the Belham seem to have mostly been at The Villa or Little Jungle. For public transport I think it’s better to be near Peckham Rye than East Dulwich because there are far more lines. There are loads of roads that would get you into The Belham and be 10 mins walk from the station, anything North of Amott and West of Copplestone is probably ok.

If you don’t speed you can’t get fined. Why is enforcing the law for motorists considered unjust?

Anyone know if it’s still burning/burning again? The smell seems to have become worse over night.

I was just about to start a thread about this. It smells like burning plastic around Goose Green this morning.

For halls you have the Copplestone Centre, the community centre in Nunhead and the centre in Dulwich park. The only one with a hall and bar that I can think of is the Liberal Club in Peckham but that’s very large (The Belham hold their school discos there). The Nunhead centre is at least next to the pub, which might work depending on the age of the kids. I seem to recall that the centre at Dulwich park were fine with people bringing alcohol in.

I’ve run past there over the last few days. The space between the end of the current double yellow lines and the start of the dropped curb is not a full car length. At the moment there is a transit van parked there that overhangs both the driveway and the double yellows. I expect this severely limits visibility for someone trying to exit the driveway for that block of flats. I expect the 6m of double yellows is to cover the existing small space plus the driveway (which currently has white hazard lines instead). The proposal isn’t as ridiculous as it first seems.

Edit: misread post.