Dogkennelhillbilly

Then if you want to be pissy about it, OP is off topic because it's about a junction in Dulwich Village. Anyway...the sign says the restrictions apply Monday to Friday. It doesn't make exceptions for bank holidays or mention weekends. It is what it is, unfortunately.

Yeah but what happens if I need to drive across a pavement because I'm in a rush or just a bit too busy texting? Why should I be punished by a static object like a bollard? I think the bollards should be removed. Also, people should stop moaning if I occasionally brush up against their cars when I'm driving. So what if you lost a wing mirror or a bumper? People keep jumping to the conclusion that I'm a shitty inattentive driver, but it's not my fault, it's all the bloody EU safety features these days.

It's complete bollocks. Look in the app. There's a bay next to the bookshop, a bay on Turney/Aysgarth, a bay on Burbage/Dulwich Village, a bay at the bottom of College Rd, a bay at the bottom of Court Lane...and in any case the app lets you terminate the rental by one of the other bike racks. Honestly, first you lot complain there's too much bike parking and then you complain there's not enough!

There are parking spots on the same side of Half Moon Lane and on Eynella Rd, which is the nearest side street.

Thank you for the insight into what they do, @Pugwash. I didn't know the hospice cafe was open to the public - I should stop by sometime.

Oh absolutely Rockets, gosh, OP's very suggestion that reckless driving had anything to do with a car ending up on its roof was so offensive I had to object to it. Obviously cars end up flipped over in the middle of the road for all sorts of reasons: blancmange incidents, wrinkles in the space-time continuum, spontaneous art installations, who knows? We have literally no idea what caused it - just as in fact you have no idea that it wasn't Sister Mary Josephine suffering a sneezing attack while dropping off neonatal feline milk.

You don't think that as much as it could have been careless or dangerous driving it could also have been caused by a driver having to take evasive action to avoid a pedestrian walking into the road whilst staring at their phone?

No. "Observations". https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6720ae033758e4604742a838/prison-safety-policy-framework.pdf

This is just typical of the anti-car rhetoric that pervades on here. We have no way of knowing that the accident was caused by a nun that was delivering warm milk to orphaned kittens suffered a medical incident after a child (probably a vegetarian one!!!) stepped into the road. 🤷‍♂️

Has OneDulwich guy published the data for these claims?

🚨Conspiracy theory🚨

You don't think that children are vulnerable road users? https://www.gov.uk/guidance/the-highway-code/road-users-requiring-extra-care-204-to-225

I went in here the other day. The fruit is all really good - ripe and fresh. They also sell good bread (and croissants and pastries) from a independent bakery, the name of which I've forgotten. 🤦 The prices (which are marked) are not cheap but they are fair imo. Comparable to the specialist fruit shop on Lordship Lane (Brothers?) for really good quality. It's similar prices to Simply Fresh - but Simply Fresh's fruit and veg is very poor. Beaten about and tasteless. Sainsbury's is certainly cheaper. IMVHO they're a good addition to the Dulwich Village "retail offer".

No, not at all. I have no idea who @Chick is or who they're making abusive comments about, and vice versa. But I think it's unfair when Internet trolls launch personal abuse against identifiable people while hiding behind a fake name. It happens a lot on this forum. The trolls can dish it out but they can't take it...

What's your real name, @Chick? You seem pretty happy to throw abuse at identifiable people online so presumably you'd be happy to cop the same?

It means people are pursuing culture wars by making stuff up based on their passionately held prejudices and acting as if it's a fact. See the OP and this as examples: https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/365902-bloody-sydenham-hill/#findComment-1717782

I'm surprised there's such hate for the Wood House. I don't particularly like the interior decor but it's good a big garden with a bunch of covered and uncovered seating. I'm not surprised the culture warriors have showed up with their usual "facts".

Crystal Palace has never been so insulted

Let's hope Planet Aid's current workers aren't forced to make "voluntary" contributions to the cult, then. "Patrick Goteka was working for a charity in Zimbabwe when, in 2006, his employer offered him a big break - the chance to transfer to the US. Goteka, who would be working as a manager in the recycled clothes business, knew the move would mean sacrifices - separating him from his wife and three children. But he says he didn't bank on also having to join a cult-like organisation - the Teachers Group - and surrender a chunk of his monthly salary when he took on his new role." https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36940384 https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-36953455

The one at The Plough is operated by a cult. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/behind-the-bins-former-planet-aid-employees-describe-cult-like-experience/66461/ https://nonprofitquarterly.org/planet-aid-and-the-clothing-bin-wars/

Having encountered his own factual error and the insight of genuine experts in this field, Rockets pivots to a rant about the persecution he faces.

It doesn't. You are confusing (unsurprisingly) data from the Crime Survey of England & Wales with data about recorded crime. And at the risk of repeating a statement by people that know what the fuck they're on about in this arena: "Police recorded crime does not tend to be a good indicator of general trends in crime". https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/bulletins/crimeinenglandandwales/yearendingmarch2025

They can't have been very close friends if closing off one end of the street was enough to put you off seeing them...

A single street is never, ever going to have enough data of any sort to draw sensible conclusions about crime trends. It is a totally futile exercise to try to do so, in any direction. And it is not true that "crime stats [rely] on people actually reporting crime". This is basic stuff for anyone with a passing knowledge of criminology.

Not correct. There are two principal sources of crime data in E&W: crime recorded by police and the Crime Survey for England & Wales, which does not rely solely on reported crime. Please see the note above from the ONS on the limited utility of recorded crime data, especially in shallow pools.