alex_b

I wonder whether with the ongoing problems with Southern people are parking nearer Peckham Rye to take alternate trains into London. The extra double yellows haven?t helped either.

It should show up on the planning map on the council website.

Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my view the only > consideration here should be whether the bridge > closure adversely affects residents living in the > vicinity of the bridge . > > Hopefully southwark will disregard responses from > people with a postcode outside the immediate area > so that the convenience of road users, of any > sort, doesnt end up taking priority over the > people who have to put up with the consequences. Does your definition of "vicinity of the bridge" include those of us around Bellenden Road who have suffered a huge rise in traffic since the closure?

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Just could not believe that plot of land cost > nearly ?1m! > > The Land Registry record should be available. > > I'm tempted to spend the ?3. Zoopla doesn't have a sale listed (if it's the place I'm thinking of) and has transactions as recently as August 2017. I must be doing something wrong.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > Mr Patel was a long term business that fell victim > to the effects of Gentrification and rent rises. > > I'm talking about new Businesses who are aware of > the rent and rates when they take on a new > business > and still believe they can a go of it by charging > the earth because they only want to work as little > hours as possible. You suspect the principal cause was gentrification. I'd suggest that it might also have something to do with a declining demand for newsagents, two similar stores within 2 minutes walk and a Tesco Metros a few minutes further. I'm sure the increased affluence in the area has pushed up rates (because freehold values have risen) but I doubt that's the only cause of the closure. As for the new shops, I can't think of any shops on Bellenden with restricted opening hours. There was/is a fire shop off Lordship Lane with short opening hours, but that's because he does the fireplace fitting during the week. If shops really are opening with short hours and high rents then going bust, eventually people will stop trying and rents will fall again. But again I don't see any evidence of that in Bellenden, care to name any specifics?

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't understand why people who have moved into > an area aren't considered 'part of the community'. > After how long are they designated part of the > community? In the West Country where I'm originally from it's about three generations even if you only move from the next village over! 'Those London types' are never really from round 'ere. More seriously it is a reasonable question, especially as London is so big that it's hard to quantify what makes someone an incomer.

Our son has just started at Oakfield and really likes it. Unlike some of the other schools (don't know about Rosemead) it isn't hot-house academic and seems very child-centric in their approach to learning. We also liked the fact that it is co-ed and non-selective which seems to give a more mixed group of children (and parents). The pre-prep head is brilliant and the new overall head seems nice but will clearly take a little bit of time to settle in. Personally I think that the uniform is a bit over the top, but you can't have everything. PM me if you'd like more.

Sad to see a local shop close, but I do wonder how Bellenden Rd ever managed to support three newsagents/convenience stores (Yogi, Village Grocer and Bellenden Food & Wine).

George Orwell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In conclusion, don't waste your efforts > complaining as you won't get anywhere. Learn to > love it or move. I wouldn't recommend Richmond or > Kew though. I lived in Twickenham and actually think it's worse here in some respects. At least in Twickenham you get a pretty much guaranteed half day of no noise due to runway alternation (even though the other half is noisier). Here you between Heathrow and City the noise is almost constant, plus they stack the planes above us before the curfew lifts leading to noise earlier than I used to get it in West London. That said I lived in Windsor for a bit and that was truly terrible.

Another vote for stamptastic, super easy to use.

kford Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > If you've ever lived in a CPZ, you'd be glad we > don't. Exactly, a complete pain in the backside for having friends or family visit or when getting any work done on your house. Plus it's another way for the council to award lucrative contracts for issuance and enforcement.

We used Bathrooms by Designs in Richmond/Mortlake. They have really nice stuff, and their staff are really knowledgeable. PM me if you want info on what we did right/wrong design wise.

We were paying ?180 a day for our guys if it was just the one day, but got down to the equivalent ?140 a day inc materials for doing the whole house.I posted a review in the trades section if you're looking for people.

I think there is an issue that Waze and other apps have been re-routing traffic that once would have used the designated A roads onto side streets to save a couple of minutes per journey. My biggest problem is the coaches, trucks and vans that should be using commerical sat navs turning residential roads into major thoroughfares. I'm not sure how you solve it though without closing roads completely.

We've had them come by a few times. Very aggressive and selling expensive tat.

But Ronnijade and Eliphinstone's Army both said it was around midnight on Friday/Saturday. I can't think where a BaE146 would be landing at that time of night and why it wouldn't show up on flightradar.

The don't all appear in all areas, but it's pretty reliable in London I think. I do find it odd that a plane flying so high would be that noisy though.

Have you spoken directly to your building control person (strictly they work for you not the builders)? I found our loft people had a habit of putting their own spins on things. For kitchen fire doors you can get pocket fire doors if that helps, also normal fire doors no longer need to have self closing mechanisms making them more child friendly. By way of comparison for our recent (non-open plan) loft conversion and kitchen extension. We were required to have a 30-min fire door on the main loft door (looks identical to our normal white four-panel doors) and linked smoke alarms in every room. We didn't need fire doors on the kitchen or any of the existing rooms.

What time was this? I had a look at flightradar24 and the only thing I could see coming over us was a Qatar Cargo plane (Houston to Liege) at 35,000 feet at 12:08am Saturday morning. If you're searching yourself, note the flightradar uses UTC so is an hour behind BST.

To steal a joke from the internet: I hear house prices in central London are holding up well, last week a woman paid a billion pounds for a home in Downing Street.

DulwichLondoner Wrote: > Can I ask roughly where, how many bedrooms and > what price range? Adys Rd (yes I know it's stretching the ED definition but just up the road from the Tribeca development). 2 bed (no garden) and 3 bed (with garden) in Victorian properties at around the ?700k mark. > What are your views / recollections / experiences > about prices now vs 4 years ago? We've only been here 3 years, certainly there seems to be less stock than when we were looking, but asking prices seem to be about 25-30% higher.

We were given building control approval on the basis of putting interlinked smoke/heat detectors in every habitable room. This removed the need for firedoors (with the exception of the loft door) or sprinklers. Has your building control person said this isn't an option?

I'm not sure I believe that the market is as dire as suggested. Two of our neighbors both sold their flats at above asking on the first day of viewings.

That seems like such a waste; hopefully they'll work out a way of combining fleets in future.

Can you only use the flex cars for one way journeys or can you use them for return journeys at the normal hourly rate? Seems curious to have two fleets dedicated to the two different journey options.