Dogkennelhillbilly

There's going to be a dog grooming shop in West Dulwich next to mummies-just-dropped-kids-off-at-private-school favourite La Gastronomia. I've forgotten what the name of the poodle palace will be.

Apostolic Nuncio to Great Britain (Papal ambassador, if you prefer) Claudio Gugerotti enthusiastically endorsing Georgian wine in Dulwich Wines.

What kind of "absolute carnage", specifically? There are a lot of strikes on at the moment...

For the record: - if anyone wants to ban private car use by anyone except blue badge holders, I'm in favour - if anyone wants to fine the owners of bikes l3ft obstructing pavements (which is also an offence under ancient law), or just crush the fing things, I'm in favour

Not really. It's easy enough to have bike sharing without bike companies or users dumping them over the pavements. The adverse net effects of car usage in London cannot be solved by everyone buying different cars. That's a myth spread by the car industry to sell newer, bigger, shinier products. The "personal freedom" of car usage has never come with personal accountability for the negative externalities of car usage: the air pollution, noise pollution, and road violence is simply dumped on everyone in society. Private car usage is still massively subsidised - just look at the moaning about car owners being asked to pay their car on public streets! There is no alternative to reducing the amount of private car use in London and prioritising those who really need cars and whose needs can't be met by more sensible alternatives.

You might want both, but you can't have both. There's a limited amount of street space and a lot of people wanting to park there. You can have free parking, but you'll moan about not getting a spot because too many people (you included) want to park for free on your street. You can reduce demand and increase availability by charging for parking, but then it's not free any more.

0.37 x 5 days = £1.85 a week £1.85 x 52 weeks of year = £96.20 I pay £130.00 a year (went up this year from £125.00) I also pay: Road Tax Car Insurance Petrol - all time high still visitor permits for trades people and family/friends ... are there more parking spaces on my road? ... This council now wants to spend vast amounts of money to consult 1) there are 7 days in a week and 365 days in a year. You buy an annual pass, you don't get to exclude any days. 2) There's no such thing as road tax. Tax, insurance, petrol - none of that is for parking. You're paying nothing to park on the street at the moment. 3) there is a limited amount of space on your street, which is in one of the world's biggest cities with millions of cars in it. You want this parking to be free AND available to you whenever you want it. That's impossible. When you give something valuable away for free, lots of people want it. You can have one or the other, but not both. 4) yeah, agreed the council should consult less and just do stuff.

£130 annual charge mentioned above divided by the number of days in the year. HTH.

Without a CPZ, motorists pay zero to park their private vehicles on council streets. This one is...37p a day.

Surprisingly versatile actor Rula Lenska, enthusing about khachipuri at Kartuli (the Georgian restaurant on Lordship Lane).

What proportion of drunk drivers, scooter riders, and cyclists respectively do you think are arrested?

Maybe yes, maybe no, but misunderstanding where we are now won't help us get to where we want to go in the future.

Dockless scooters and bikes work off GPS, they have geofenced "go-slow" zones where the speed is automatically capped at about 8mph, the parking zones are all programmed in and (in theory), if you leave one randomly lying around, the app is supposed to dock you credit for not leaving it in a designated parking spot. Again, you are treating bikes and scooters as the same. They are not. There is no licensing regime or special trial for bike usage. There is no requirement in Southwark to leave bikes of any description in any particular place.

I'm not saying there is nothing to lock them to. I am saying that lazy users don't lock them to anything. The old Lime bikes would not the rider complete the rental without attaching a cable lock into the frame. The new bikes can be left anywhere - and so people do.

You've got totally the wrong end of the stick here. Bikes are bikes regardless of who owns them. You don't need a permit or agreement with the council to rent or use them in Southwark. The reason we have never had major problems with bikes blocking pavements in the past was because people locked them to things which by their nature don't tend to be right in the middle of pavements. Southwark isn't luring bike rental companies into a trap because they have neither the secrecy nor the legal power to close the trap.

Dockless bikes should - like Lime/Uber's old bikes - have an integral cable lock, and users should have to lock them to something in order to terminate the ride. This would bring them back in line with privately owned bikes, which never get "abandoned" in the middle of SODDING PAVEMENTS Yeah but predictable when you radically increase the usage of scooters. The more interesting question is whether they're replacing car journeys (good), relieving capacity on public transport at peaks (good), inducing new journeys (maybe bad), or just cannibalizing public transport ridership (bad).

It's pointless posting on here about it. Email your councillor and/or the highways team at Southwark and/or Co-Op

It's too cheap! It's too expensive! It's too plain there! Now it's too colourful! The road is too quiet! No, it's too busy!

Moan moan moan

Which recent road closures? Peace and Riot premises are beautiful, and their back garden is lovely, but it's a rough time to open a business - esp a cafe or bar around there.

Southwark should reduce the affordable housing requirement and increase the density. Right now that lot is housing 0 people, which is no good to anyone. More widely: landlords shouldn't be allowed to keep properties derelict or vacant for years.

Yet you seem to have managed to argue about it with someone who does speak Greek and tell them what to do...

Talks in riddles WHY not say what mean ... just give up with members like this If you're responding to me lol

I think there's a drop off point for PECAN/Southwark Foodbank in the modern atrium/cafe entrance of Christ Church at the top of Barry Rd. https://maps.app.goo.gl/5EBkR34Kb2Gcbsj49 You can also drop off at the Co-Op supermarket or at Oru shared workspace/cafe https://southwark.foodbank.org.uk/give-help/donate-food/ Good for you, Sue

lol - healthy competition between a massive transnational corporation and two family-owned, single location shops. You spoon https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/09127609/persons-with-significant-control