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Franco Manca for the more doughy Neapolitan style pizza. Mamma dough (honour oak, peckham or Brixton) for thinner roman pizza. I have tried 500 degrees and it's similar to FM, bit more variety of toppings but I prefer the dough very slighly at FM. Pizza Pickup is also pretty good and reasonable. Voodoo Rays is too trendy / expensive IMO.. Gowlett arms is also good and travels better than some of the other options.

It's a 30c bank holiday weekend in August. Who staying in London for that? Better to go somewhere on the sea if you can.

I recommend the Crown & Sceptre in SW2. Was in there last week, 2 pints of pretty decent Adnams beer and packet of crisps for ?6.10. Easily accessible from ED on P13. It used to be a spoons but is now a smaller chain. Best value pub in London I think?

Feel real bad for them, awful about the Chef! https://twitter.com/saucychip/with_replies

Good re queues. Thinking the liberals will do very well in these elections and probably in coming GE.

Let's wait and see. Ultimately this is a commercial dispute, we don't have full details of. Does seem very odd current owners own the freehold though. Presumably they'll be able take it back eventually.

Anyone got the poa? If could be bothered would check land registry to see original purchase price.

Yes it's all here: https://www.eigroupplc.com/en/media/press-releases/2019/Old-Spot-Pub-Company-opens-new-sites.html What a strange story this seems to be. Seems EI have debt mountain which is probably why they're doing it. https://www.standard.co.uk/business/ei-sells-348m-pubs-portfolio-to-cut-debt-mountain-a4036406.html

I would like to see the police enforce the mobile phone / texting driving rules more. Every day I walk / drive around and see drivers using their phones. To me it's unbelievably dangerous, can't they just wait until they're parked somewhere? I was walking on Townley road this morning and it looked to me like even a coach driver was on the phone, or at least looking down tapping in to something, shocking really.

My understanding is the police don't activily enforce it, so you won't be pulled over. It's still possible to get a camera ticket though. There seem to be 4 cameras is Islington: http://islingtontribune.com/article/police-too-slow-to-enforce-20mph-zones If you want to find out it Southwark submit an FOI request?

Cynic in me would say they hope spill over will cause rest of the area to then want a CPZ too. We'll see I guess.

So the CPZ is just going to be a small area around Melbourne grove and the station?

So when is the earliest these charges can now happen? Confused?

I would suggest incentivising people to move out of London, Give businessess tax breaks to locate to other parts of the country that are far less populated and ideally need to be regenerated anyway. That combined with current housing costs, and the already increasingly hostile tax environment, GLA up 8%, council tax 3%, CPZ, ULEZ and the rest should ensure London depopulates pretty effectively. Given all the new building going on that should also ensure London becomes an affordable place to live again. Like it was from the 40s to 1980s. Looking at TFL figures it seems it's happening already.

I keep walking past it, it's very odd, the window is open too. Can't the police or concil just impound it?

What about East Dulwich grove and village way too? It used to be possible to use champion hill to get to herne hill avoiding east Dulwich grove. Now east Dulwich grove is the alternative route for most going to Herne Hill I would think. There are 4 schools on the new route this traffic is taking. The new Charter campus, Alleyns and Alleyns junior, pre prep and Judith Kerr. Has no one thought of the children?

OK on Barry road side of Goodrich.

Spotted council workers out putting yellow stencils on to the pavement raising awareness of the issue. So they are doing something.

This applies to a lot of London. It's becoming an awful place to live. TFL and the boroughs just see us as cash machines. Just wait till the ULEZ extension. Crime is rising, with police stations closed, robbery and even murders especially with knives getting much worse. London will depopulate massively again like it did for long periods of the 20th century. It's going to get worse before it gets better.

Ampersand Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Genuinely encouraged by the altruistic responses > to this thread about concern for people on lower > incomes and their access to the green spaces in > the borough. I can?t afford to own a car so do pm > me about when you are available to pick me up and > give me a lift to my local park. Maybe Southwark council could use the parking fees to create an app to do just that? Southwark park ride-sharing app?

B+ Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I have mixed feelings on charging to park in our > beautiful Parks > Many people that use the car parks can easily > afford to pay ?2 per Hour and would not be put off > by these charges, but there are many who can?t pay > and some that simply would > not be prepared to pay. > > Public transport may not be an option for families > who have planed a picnic > and have bikes and pushchairs to transport and > then there are people who need > a car to bring an elderly or infirm person. > > So we end up with a park where the wealthy (who > need to bring a car) will still enjoy all the > pleasures of a day in the park, and the poor (who > need to bring a car) will be denied, in this is a > socialist borough! Yes, pretty much. These kinds of parking charges are highly regressive, as are the CPZ charges.

Just gets better and better. I suppose inevitable due to the CPZ which will obviously come in regardless. Also Southwark seemingly desperate for cash..

Council are desperate for cash I guess? All those 6 figure salaries need to be paid somehow?

sdrs Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I live on one of the roads onto which the traffic > has been displaced by this scheme and have two > school age children, I have serious concerns about > the impacts of this road closure and it is facile > to dismiss anyone who doesn?t support it as > espousing a mindless belief that the motor car is > king. The simple fact is that many more residents, > bus users and pedestrians (including > schoolchildren)will be harmed by the scheme than > will benefit from it. As someone put it in a > previous post, this no entry trial is ?nimbyism at > its finest? - one road which was already safer and > healthier than most being made virtually a > private road at the cost of many other roads and > most worryingly at the cost of air quality on a > major walking route to three local primary schools > (Dog Kennel Hill, Goose Green and Lyndhurst > School). When cars sit gridlocked like this, all > the way from Champion Hill to Denmark Hill, on a > weekday morning, how many people are breathing in > the fumes? How many staff and patients are now > delayed on their way to Kings College Hospital? Agree with this. Closing this road just displacing cars elsewhere and creating more pollution due to extra idling in traffic jams. What is the point of it? Southwark need to waste more money on something?

It must be the sub lease as James seems to own the freehold? Presumably once Enterprise lease expires they will take over again? Could be long time though. Very odd situation with the recent kitchen refurb etc