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Hi Scruffy Mummy I appreciate the switch to academies has allowed freedom of criteria to be set by each school and that a few schools have a lottery system, but most don?t. The majority of kids have access to a school based solely on distance. A FOI request would source this info. Just seems a shame it can?t be shared transparently, with the obvious caveats on different criteria.

Hi HP I?m really looking for a comprehensive set of data, readily available for all, covering all schools local to East Dulwich. This should exist on Southwark?s schools admissions page. Not piecemeal info buried in messages on a site like EDF. Again, unless I?ve missed something...

Considering the Government?s education minister recently stated missing one day of schooling to attend a global climate change protest was unwise as it can adversely affect a kid?s education, it?s crazy how much time we as a family have already spent since the summer taking our 10 year old child away from her primary, in order to visit potential secondary schools. We are doing this despite many of them are likely to be far beyond viable catchment distances. Why is it that its so hard to find the max catchment distance to all local secondary schools? I appreciate that the max distance changes every year due to many factors, but if the system was completely transparent, for example, sharing the last 5 years of catchments for each school, then we would be much better informed and could be much more efficient in making our choices. Without this information to hand, as parents we have no choice but to hunt around trying to find six schools that we are prepared to contemplate our kids travelling to each day, even though many are likely a waste of time due to unknown catchments. Renata - can Southwark publish the max catchment distance for all its secondary schools over the past 5 years? It would be just as useful if Lambeth and Lewisham did the same, as we are visiting schools within those boroughs too, so as to have a shortlist to edit down to 6 choices within 40mins of home. Maybe this catchment information is readily available somewhere, but i can't find it on the web - if so, can someone please put me right! Thanks very much

Most lampposts seem to be converted or run by a company called Ubitricity and their website has 2 ways to pay, via a smart cable or pay-as-you-go. https://www.ubitricity.co.uk/residential_charging/ No mention anywhere of free charging. Abe_froeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Those who want/need to charge up their car/van > could just park by their won homes instead and run > a cable from their own electricity supply. > > I don't agree at all with the council providing > free electricity indiscriminately for people to > run expensive electric vehicles. It's literally a > free for all for people from outside southwark and > for businesses to fuel their vehicle for free when > we have poor people in the borough living in > squalid conditions because the council supposedly > has no money. > > It also flies in the face of all the BS posted > above about the council implementing CPZs in our > streets to try to discourage people from using > cars.

Question for the councillors: Great to see evidence of Southwark engaging with Ubitricity to create a network of lamp post charging points for electric vehicles in SE22. I need to change my car and I?d love it to be electric but I don?t have a driveway where I can install a charging point, so I would be reliant on these converted lampposts. There are at least 4 Ubitricity lamposts near where I live, so all good so far... but the space next to the lamppost is not reserved for electric vehicles! Until LB Southwark dedicates these few isolated bays, in the same way that a disabled space or city car club bay is marked out, then it?s pointless installing the charging points, as anyone can park there. Please can someone tell me Southwark is aware of this issue, on top of it, and in the process of resolving? Many thanks in advance.

Just reviewed consultation boards. 3bed terraced houses on a side street in East Dulwich without dedicated off-street parking...that?s what this area is almost entirely made up of. The boards only show scale of buildings, not their proposed design, so concerns about window sizes are misplaced. Anyone objecting to this is wasting their time. There is nothing controversial here.

As a cyclist and parent at Bessemer Grange, two things have become clear during the road closure there: - it?s genuinely possible to see how the kids feel safer just outside their entrance, particularly at this school which is split across both sides of the road - even with lots of traffic wardens and teachers around monitoring, it doesn?t reduce the stupidity of some drivers to stop their cars in the worst possible place, endangering the lives of anyone but their own kids

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AVOID www.loftlife.net Not good at finishing a job or coming back and sorting out issues which arise when 'complete', despite the guarantee.

I went to the Heber consultation. The nodal point which will determine admissions was the key point of debate. Unfortunately there were a notable number of people who showed a disregard for a cohesive, respectful discussion, shouting over each other and ignoring the appeals from the discussion chair to respect the procees amd fair debate. There was also a disproportionate number of vocal attendees from Lyndhurst Primary who were heavily pushing for the nodal point (which will determine the majority of admissions) to be retained in its illustrative position at the extreme north east portion of the entire hospital site. The irony is at the moment the school does not own any of the hospital site and it still awaits the Dept of Education and NHS agreeing a land transfer deal. Only when this process is complete, will the school understand which portion of the wider hospital site will be allocated to them. So the current nodal point is entirely indicative but as it has now been shown on a plan, emotions are rising as the implications become clear. This is a huge site There is an online survey available here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C696GWC The first question is: 1. Do you believe there is a need for a new secondary school, in the East Dulwich area, serving pupils aged 11 to 18? Many people align themselves with areas in London but the boundaries are often difficult to define so out of interest, this is Google's interpretation of East Dulwich: At the event, in Heber a map was presented showing the location of homes of those who had signed to express an interest in sending their children to the school at the outset of the consultation. The points clearly showed a strong support for the school to the area south and east of the Dulwich Hospital site, i.e. 'the East Dulwich area'. So if you do live in 'the East Dulwich area' where this school claims to be serving and have any intention of sending your children to this Charter School in the future, I would urge you to get online and register your opinion on the position of the nodal point. Otherwise the loudest voices informing the consultation will come from those who live outside of 'the East Dulwich area' through clearly orchestrated opinions of those from Lyndhurst Primary. This may seem petty but when it comes to schools choices, if you find yourself in a catchment hole due to the arbitrary positioning of a nodal point, then your kids may end up having to attend and travel to a school far from home, which is in no-ones interest. The Dulwich hospital site is huge, more than 300m wide which is larger than some entire local primary school catchments! The position of the nodal point will therefore potentially have notable impact of which areas locally have access to this school. From my perspective, if the school is to genuinely represent the local community, as they claim is their desire, then the nodal point should be in the middle of their plot, when it is finally known. Anything else is skewed in favour of one portion of the community and will always be deemed unfair by those who end up being excluded due to the selection of an arbitrary point on a map.