Dogkennelhillbilly

...a fake claim based on a real number made by a tiny group of obsessives who confuse banging away endlessly on here with real life.

Southwark is like the UK in miniature: there are Dulwich Village mansions with 5 cars parked in front, but there are also people living in abject poverty across much of the borough. People generally should be careful not to extrapolate their own experience too widely. The idea that Southwark is bathing in an ocean of Council Tax from new builds is just wrong. It's taken years to redevelop the Heygate Estate - and those were the years of austerity. Southwark's finances are all freely available - check them out for yourself, and see how much money has been cut. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/fairer-future/fairer-greener-safer-southwark-s-council-delivery-plan?chapter=2

The Peckham Coal Line proposals (which frankly I had forgotten the details of, and never knew the council had made any contribution toward) were an interesting idea worth exploring at the time. A £10k contribution to a feasibility study that was mostly paid by private donations is pretty good value. Obviously those struck by #southwarkderangementsyndrome will say this thing the council did 8 years ago is literally the end of Western civilisation. https://www.peckhamcoalline.org/blog/feasibility-study-1-year-on

tbf - those were not council projects, were they?

Then let's not gossip about it online.

That is the most banal, predictable observation possible on this subject. If the council were run like a business, it wouldn't bothering to provide services that don't make a profit for its owners, like aged care or pre-school childcare or social services to try to keep kids out of abusive situations. Those ungrateful sods never put their hands in their pocket for anything. It wouldn't bother having environmental officers to stop take aways dumping their rubbish on the street. It wouldn't piss around maintaining parks or fixing street lights. It wouldn't fund firefighters or police. If the council were a business, it would probably be much more interested in developing an app for getting gig "contractors" to deliver laughing gas in disposable plastic hookahs tax free to children so it can seek venture capital funding from Saudi Arabia and dodge VAT, or something. But the council isn't a business, and shouldn't be run like one, and we should be grateful for that. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-tax/a-guide-to-your-council-tax?chapter=2

Amazing talent to be able to do structural surveys by looking at an estate agent's photos!

I'm sorry to hear that. Good luck in chasing them down. What kind of car was it?

OMG!

Support the local cafes that still exist! Otherwise we will end up with nothing but twee chains owned by private equity firms and multinational coffee shops.

Hold on, though - isn't that a proposal for something that would come in by 2026 from a government that isn't buying green bananas?

It's not always easy, but we have to try to not allow supermarket inconveniences affect our happiness. Worse things happen at sea.

That doesn't sound like the end of the world.

I do not think the comment was made about the (putative?) robber.

Rye Lane or Electric Avenue. I successfully bodged a repair with a battery off ebay in the past...and broke another phone trying to repeat the trick.

Jesus wept. How does anyone expect the council to get anything done if they want a public consultation on what kind of surface goes under the street drinkers' benches? Councillors are voted in to get on with stuff, not fanny about with every curtain twitcher's ill-informed opinion. There was a mistake, it's been fixed already.

I don't think the council (Lambeth, I think...?) would have anything to do with it.

"Local business owner Fran Ayre who runs Ayres Bakery told MailOnline that it was 'typical council' and that the constant disruption could affect her business which has been going for more than 60 years." come off it, pal! This is one little corner of the open space being redone. BFD

That's gently encouraging - the applicant (or at least someone with the same name in the same part of the country and the same industry) seems to be a director of Wickham Bistro Ltd, which in turn seems to operate a nice looking cafe in Bromley. https://www.wickhambistro.com/

My office had something similar (can't remember brand) 10 years ago and the repair guy was constantly there. To be fair, maybe they've improved since then.

It's sad to see an independent affordable cafe shut down. I hope something similar opens up in its place. Plough Cafe and Johnnie's still do good caff food, as does the cafe inside Christ Church East Dulwich at 363 Barry Rd (Monday 10am to 2pm, Tuesday & Thursday 9am to 4pm, Wednesday & Friday 9am to 3pm).

If you neither register the car nor display the badge, how is anyone supposed to know?

1) it's not the council that is cutting the tree down. It's the company owned by the flats in the block behind. 2) the tree is riddled with fungus - there is a arboriculture report that shows this. People don't spend thousands to cut trees down for no reason. 3) it's not a matter for Southwark Council because Tulse Hill is in Lambeth... Go to the post on the "Herne Hill Forum" on Facebook (not the real forum)

A lot of these gambling shops are open 24 hours a day - extremely depressing. Gambling firms don't make money from the people who might bet on the Grand National or whatever. They make a massive slice of their profit from a tiny number of compulsive gamblers. It's very depressing

There was a concern about toys containing small magnets a couple of years ago, wasn't there? Kids were swallowing them accidentally...?