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My politics is certainly left of Councillor McAsh - but amazingly this hasn't caused any issues with either how my brain functions or my ability to count cars, see traffic and smell pollution. It also isn't a cure for my asthma. I also have not been impacted negatively by my left-wing/ green politics, causing an inability to recognise change or analyse data or critically (using this term in the way peer reviewing uses 'critically') review published research. So quite why Councillor McAsh cannot understand that the Tory Policy of HTN closed roads impacts the residential roads that house much of Labour's base voters and that the consequential increase in idling traffic actually contributes to more pollution both in terms of noise and air quality defies any logic.

When I walk to Herne Hill Station - almost all push bikes are from the back of a Range Rover or other Chelsea tractor parked on Village or Half Moon. The last bit is on the bike.....

Thanks Legal - seems they have made a right old mess of it.

Wow - Rockets - I have just read that Twitter thread - so is Southwark saying that their are 'neighbourhoods' who deserve clean air and then Lordship Lane, Grove Vale, Croxted Road and East Dulwich Grove are not 'neighbourhoods' so we can just suffer pollution, inequality and more traffic? What is all this Village business??? I am a City dweller - My parents lived in a Village - shudder....

George is great and I completely agree with him - so much money tied up in increasing profit from digging out fossil fuels, building cars, shooting birds and building military weapons that the planet will continue to be polluted and de-wilded. The accumulation of wealth is intrinsically linked to environmental disasters. His article very much reflects Medact thinking. This is my major argument against LTNs - funded by a Tory Government who continue to build roads and take investment away from public transport - LTNs have become THE focus of Labour Councils - what a fantastic policy from central government to 1. Blame personal and individual choices for pollution 2. Divert the arguments from the real causes of pollution 3. Allow the continued dismantling of public transport because 'LTNs and cycling' are promoted as THE answer to traffic pollution in London. Silly Labour - out manoeuvred by Boris.

Stabbing I believe. I have no other details.

Yes - trespassing on private property and vandalising signs - I expect Southwark Councillors and neighbours in other roads to condemn this intrusion on privacy, very scary for some of our elderly residents and young children.

Yes the mapping paper is great - some of the authors members of Medact as am I.

Very relevant as it highlights that smaller interventions are not joined-up. For example LTNs in isolation with no extra infrastructure of increased PTAL and improved pedistrian and cycling access on ribbon roads just create HTNs and quiet roads for the few in leafy streets. The paper indicates that health professional groups are very much ignored by central government when deciding policy that impacts health. The GSTT funded intervention/research is an example of when health professionals are involved and it is an impressive report compared to the biased and unscientific report churned out by our Council. Health professionals are organised at voluntary level in Medact for example, but central Government refuse to allow us to influence Government or local Government policy - but cycling groups and town planners are involved. LCC has more influence on policy that impacts health than respiratory health professionals and experts - it is very relevant to the Dulwich/ED LTNs that were advised by former councillors, Sustrans and LCC - not a respiratory expert in sight.

An excellent research article. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17579139211058303

Yes well...peed off with Southwark's gaslighting report. Every time I read that an ex-councillor has parachuted into a planning job with a former private property company that has links with Southwark Council it makes me wonder...

Quite a few Goose Green and Village residents are experts in or use statistical analysis and data science, they are very well aware of the holes in this piece of work. Consequences from improperly collected data include the inability to answer research questions accurately, the inability to repeat and validate a study, distorted findings resulting in wasted resources, misleading other researchers to pursue fruitless avenues of investigation and importantly for this report - compromising decisions for public policy.

Appendix 12 Impact on Urban Health (IoUH) Streetspace Scheme Monitoring Report October 2021 of the GSST funded project is worth reading. This scheme is well organised has great data and appears to be a far more rigorous and well thought out scheme and report, with data analysed and reported accurately. The Dulwich scheme in contrast is poorly planned, badly delivered and with questionable data (very hard to see the actual collected data) and with biased analysis. Maybe the difference between an organisation dedicated to showing real health outcomes and an organisation dedicated to promoting individual careers and political 'health'

LTNs or HTNs as I like to call them - increase kms driven - making journeys longer. In ED and DV it does not contribute to a drop in traffic miles -it increases and pushes traffic onto already polluted roads.

Data that shows the negative impact will never be released voluntarily- FOI's are delayed with 'Covid-19' as the excuse. They are hoping we just go away - but the traffic outside our doors, polluting our children and our schools, the delayed buses and the impact on carers, the elderly and residents with mobility issues remains. So - we won't stop telling Southwark and we will not go away.

The 'data' that 'shows' side-streets have increased traffic over 5 years, is not due to more traffic - it was actually a change in how traffic was counted and introduced about 5 years ago, so it looked like a sudden change. A FOI uncovered this and I put this information up eons ago. In fact it was boundary roads and main roads that had the increase in traffic far more than compared to so called side roads. Certain authors and organisations continue to use this 'increase' that is just a different counting exercise for much of the flawed data. I have read GMs note - they blame 'closed roads' and lack of customer parking very high up in their reasons. Same as the locksmith - every business has a poster campaigning against closed roads - these are all very long standing businesses and I imagine they do know how and what impacts a business. They also know that some residents of MG will not be unhappy to see them all close so the rd is purely a residential rd - with maybe one coffee shop.

Nope that was Boris - he also fooled a load of Northern MPs as well. Yes it is quite ludicrous to imagine closing roads reduces traffic, when in fact it just funnels traffic onto other residential roads and makes journey times longer, increasing idling and polluting traffic. What is also ludicrous is that Southwark were taken on this 'evaporating' ride of fantasy. I'll be promised herds of unicorns by my Council representatives I leafleted and campaigned for back when I thought the Labour Party represented me and other ED residents - more fool me.

As of September 2021 there is 1,704 fewer fully qualified full-time GPs compared to 2015.The average number of patients each GP is responsible for has increased by around 300 ? or 15% - since 2015. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/14/it-is-with-a-heavy-heart-that-i-leave-why-the-unrelieved-pressure-is-pushing-gps-to-quit Many health professionals have left the NHS in the last 5 years, Covid-19 was the last straw from many. All my friends are thinking of leaving/ retiring early - that is 120 years of very senior, very expert minds leaving because the pressures are too much. I left 5 years ago and took a 50% pay cut - so I now have to work into my seventies, but rather that than the constant stress and long hours with the threat of clinical staffing cuts and no sign of anything getting better.

All BT told me was "I can see an online chat advisor had said there is an active Area issue on the 14/11" and "the external cabinet to be looked at on Thursday 18/11 between 13:00 - 18:00 " but no idea where it is or even if it is now repaired - but my broadband currently works.

Their standard fibre packages use the same parts of the Openreach network, so I imagine BT going down does impact Plusnet?

Tessa Jowell on ED Grove so far ok...some admin issues, but advance practice nurses and pharmacist excellent, doctors variable.

Where are you now?

I made an official complaint about my BT Halo and was told there were active issues for the last 5 days (but I suspect it has been more like a month) - an engineer was also going to fiddle around at a junction box today. It definitely is not fine.

TFL buses are going to be cut...18% buses and 9% tube. But's that's ok because HTN's cure all. Boris has fooled Labour Councils and 'greenwashed'. Quiet street for the chattering classes, so Boris doesn't care. Silly, silly Southwark Council.

As far as I can see DA just use Southwark Council data, but are far more skilled at using a calculator. They also have an understanding that when using data to prove change, one cannot use data from different times of the year and different years as a 'baseline'. They have also highlighted the EqAsI that shows protected groups, the elderly and the BAME community are negatively impacted by the current HTN Southwark policy. If the LibDems do stand candidates that are going to stop the High Traffic Neighbourhood policy I'm quite happy to tear up my Labour Party Membership card and vote for them in the local elections in May.