Dogkennelhillbilly

I love the idea that there's a shadowy cabal of Court Lane residents that is secretly controlling local and London government.

Shrieker Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I think that now is a good time for this space to > move away from being a stuffy old bowls green, and > should be set up as a bar and late night venue > with a decent license until 2 or 3am. This is what > young people want and need, and would be a good > addition to the area. > > No doubt lots of boring people would not like this > idea, so as an alternative, why not turn it into a > small car parks for people who drive to the area > to visit the common? Even I had to lol at this one. A more subtle hook would have probably reeled me in.

Was this actually a decision approved by Southwark? The article says it was TfL's plans.

You're denying there was any congestion before? It was all fake news? We can just sit back, do nothing and enjoy the free-flowing streets we all enjoyed before lockdown?

Christ, do we need yet another place for people to drink? Right opposite the kids playpark and a stone's throw from the Colicci concession that already sells booze? It's bad enough with dickheads wandering around the playpark with their bottles of beer and the widespread dumping of bottles, cans and related shite all over the place.

dougiefreeman Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > The extension of the ULEZ > will do far more to clean up the air. Let's pretend all vehicles from day 1 of the ULEZ run on unicorn farts. How's that going to fix the congestion?

mrwb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Crime, unemployment and associated economic crisis > what we need to deal with. Car usage will > naturally decline as people leave. What population level will "naturally" take us down to an acceptable level of congestion and pollution in London? How long will that take?

London congestion and pollution is not a road supply problem. The only solution is to reduce the usage of cars. There are too many of us living in London and too many people who want to drive for it to be any other way.

You're just proposing how it was before - which is how we end up with congestion for hours every day and rubbish air quality. Doing nothing is not an option.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought that might?ve been unpopular. Where do > you actually live? I don't know if what you wrote is unpopular, but it was certainly silly. I don't live on Court Lane (or near it).

The solution to car congestion is not to supply more roads. You could bulldoze all the houses on Court Lane and turn it into a dual carriageway - there would still be car congestion at either end.

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Can roads be redesignated into 'main' roads. > Would some of the problems disappear if court lane > was redesignated as a main road. > It is certainly wide enough and does not have the > bends and narrowness of East Dulwich Grove. > And would link two, presently cut-off areas. We could redesignate my back garden as a safari park but it won't mean there will be any tigers. In what sense are Dulwich Village and the top of Lordship Lane "cut off"? The whole problem is that they're heavily congested for many hours a day!

I've signed the petition and will be writing to councillors, MP, and the Estate. It is an outrage that the deadbeat pubco has allowed the pub to lie vacant and become an eyesore.

Melvyn Bragg and his art dealer brother Kelvin at sIon in West Dulwich. They were talking quite loudly about constructivist architecture and Nectar cards.

"People congregating in this manner create an obstacle for both cyclists and pedestrians." And weirdly it's only the Range Rover mob moaning about it. Loving the arguments here: not being able to drive from my house to the local shop is a breach of my human rights, but people should not be allowed to sit in the open air and listen to tweet music without a government licence. Brilliant!

"Personally average speed cameras would sort this out in a relatively short time" Not in London it wouldn't. Practically no-one is averaging 30mph+ over half a mile in ED. It's all nobbers accelerating up to 40 and zooming around corners, then stopping at the lights 200 feet down the road. None of them get to their destination quicker.

Cafes and restaurants don't have to apply the scheme. I can easily imagine they didn't know how to claim or didn't want to sign up for a scheme that involves a bunch of new paperwork and accounting and a promise by this totally inept government to get some money back in the future. They gave OP half his money back to get him to piss off. It doesn't show that they're engaged in some orchestrated scam to fiddle the tax man out of ?2.43 on OP's beans on toast. The OP is defamatory.

This is a weird thread. Unless councillors walk around with some sort of sandwich board, how would I recognise them? If I wanted to get hold of one, I'd email or phone them, or show up to a surgery or meeting.

Yes.

Karen Bardsley, closely examining the labels of vitamin bottles in the health shop opposite the Co-Op.

Well, that's encouraging!

I believe, Nigello, that that clothes bin is operated by Tvind, a bizarre Danish religious cult. However I haven't checked the label to see if the site has changed hands recently so perhaps I am wrong. But beware of Tvind, Gaia, Humana or anything with a Danish connection or website.

Every few months I sign back in to the forum and see it's the same 2-3 nobbers dominating conversation with their bonkers opinions, quixotic punctuation and chronic desire to make themselves the centre of attention. It's such a shame as it drags down the quality of the forum as a whole. Rye Lane is a bit of a dump. It's dirty (the plastic hair extensions blowing like tumbleweed outside the line of hair shops is particularly rough), with bad street furniture, and the buildings are for the most part grotty. However, it's got some useful shops, some nice coffee places etc, and good transport. The newly reopened Iceland is great- presumably.ably those who moaned at great length about the Lordship Lane Iceland closing will be heading there now. It seems like there's a cluster of buildings near the Nags Head (by the Afghan kitchen and the big fish shop) that are getting ready for redevelopment. If that's done well, it would change the whole street. Equally, TfL should imho knock down the crappy arcade that fronts Peckham Rye station and replace it with a plaza that could still have market stalls. Equally the shopping centre could be knocked down and rebuilt with far more retail and housing - if we don't get density on sites like that, then where are all these new homes going to be built? It's inevitable that fashionable and innovative start ups (cafes, arts, small businesses) are usually going to locate in low rent neighbourhoods - you don't try stuff out at Mayfair rents. It's also inevitable that when the majority of real property is controlled by the private sector, when a neighbourhood improves, rents will go up, and poorer people and less profitable businesses will end up leaving. I don't know what the answer there is - rent controls? Nationalising shopping centres? Deliberately leaving some areas to be shitty so they're cheap? Trying to make sure none of the areas of London are shitty?

Frank Furedi buying childproofing socket covers in Dulwich DIY.

"Note to youth ... when you start paying your own phone bills, your college accommodation and living expenses then tell us where society is going wrong" Note to oldies ... when you start paying your own heating costs, transport costs, living costs and care expenses then tell us where society is going wrong. Note to sick people ... when you start paying your own healthcare costs and living expenses then tell us where society is going wrong. ...etc etc.