Dogkennelhillbilly

The heat is really getting to some people... "It's quite simple: James McAsh was born as Jaime Maccas in Cuba, served in Che Guevara's militia, spent 5 years in East Berlin perfecting his knowledge of English, bought Shergar from the IRA, traded it to Kim Jong Il in exchange for biological weapons training in Wuhan, perfected the COVID virus, brought it to London and used it as the pretext for CPZs! The answer has been staring at us in the face all along!"

I think you should stand in local council elections. You've got very strong opinions and a lot of time on your hands. Being a councillor would be a great way for you to work for the community and channel your frustration into productive action. There'd be no technically incorrect references to seasons on your watch.

The tenant's business has already failed. If the landlord doesn't accept it, they can have a vacant property, stand in the queue of creditors, and get paid little or nothing. It's a gamble that the restructuring will work and the tenant will start paying rent again. Commercial properties are often hard to let. 🤷

If I correctly paste this url in, you can see exactly what Tesco plc is proposing to do with the site: https://planning.southwark.gov.uk/online-applications/files/82A133E84D9AF5351A8B38889C17E72D/pdf/25_AP_1353-PROPOSED_ELEVATION_1-4061617.pdf

OP is wrapped in such hyperbole that it takes a couple of reads to extract the key point, which is exactly what you say it is. Obviously if the tickets were issued before the signs went up then they should be reversed. If OP is really concerned about it then they should also email the parking enforcement team to ask them to cancel those tickets themselves instead of waiting for the drivers to challenge them.

It is true that the Council must give due consideration to WDAG's submissions. But once you do, it's quickly obvious that they're bollocks.

A furoretta?

Not enough to keep Foxtons open, apparently!

Ahh, that's too bad. The SLP was always on sale in Sainsbury's and always available in libraries. They did some really detailed local crime reporting and local government reporting that other outlets wouldn't focus on.

KENT POLICE ...IS INVESTIGATING !!!

I much prefer Romeo Jones to >spit< Gail's, but I'm struggling to blame this on the LTN when nothing outside Romeo Jones has changed, the LTN came in 5 (!!!) years ago, and Gail's has queues out the door most days. It also is directly opposite Rocca (which serves coffee and has seating), next door to Porters (which serves coffee and has seating), a few doors along from Real Greek (which serves coffee and has seating), and diagonally across from Gail's (which serves coffee and sells baked goods and has seating). I'll be sorry to see Romeo Jones go (not least because I have a stack of stamped loyalty cards). I don't want to criticise small business owners because it's a tough old racket, but DVillage never really seemed to find its niche either as a proper deli (like La Gastronomia or The Sicilian in West Dulwich) or as a coffee shop (which is difficult when you have Megan's and Redemption right next to you, and Au Ciel around the corner).

DVillage, the deli and cafe in Dulwich Village, has permanently closed.

I've now read the Telegraph article. The journalist Kate Wills @katewills stole the closing "jazz [jizz] and [spit] roast" gag from David Peckham. If the Telegraph's geriatric readers got the joke they'd choke on their kippers. As someone who walks right past Belair House at weird hours (because I am weird), the sex parties are a lot less bothersome than other events Belair House puts on: for example, the club nights when the promoters illegally block parking on Gallery Rd in front of Belair House, when bouncers are posted on the front gates blocking access to a public park, and when the pavement and verges are strewn with flyers and booze bottles. Ms Waterhouse and Heaven Circle: you're welcome back any time. There's a bunch of antisocial fuckers plagueing Belair House - but it's not the sex parties...

I'm disgusted and outraged...at the Telegraph. I'd much rather have sex parties happening around the corner than have some of the Telegraph's oligarch owners infesting the neighbourhood. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/may/14/foreign-states-limited-to-15-stake-in-uk-newspapers-amid-telegraph-uncertainty

The lido is operated by Fusion Lifestyle. Complain to them. https://www.fusion-lifestyle.com/our-complaints-policy/

Just bumping this because it's a question that comes up every so often, and Southwark Council actually has a list of textile recycling bin locations: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/waste-and-recycling/reduce-your-waste-0/reuse

Some of them are Dulwich Estate, some of them are Southwark Council and I think a handful are the responsibility of the owner of the asjacent property. Dulwich Estate has always been very responsive in replying if you send them an email with a photo of the ones you're talking about.

It was really nice to see a lot of people there making good use of the space. 👏👏👏

I don't mind people reading the Telegraph so long as they do it in the privacy of their own home and not in public where children might see them

Southwark Council upgrades the public realm in Dulwich: this is disgusting favouritism for the rich! It's disgraceful!!! Southwark Council upgrades the public realm in Peckham: this is disgusting social cleansing! It's disgraceful!!! #SouthwarkDerangementSyndrome is real By the way, aficionados of prostitution and drugs will be happy to hear they remain a problem in the streets south of King's Cross station, just as they were when I lived there prior to gentrification. (To be clear: they weren't a problem because of my presence). I'm sure that will be a great relief to some of our friends on here that are scared knocking down a derelict building will turn Peckham into Royal Tunbridge Wells overnight.

I thought it has stairs on that direction and a ramp in the other. My memory might be failing me - I'm usually undercaffeinated when I use that entrance of that station...

Yes, they can't use the station. Same as East Dulwich (into London), West Dulwich and North Dulwich...and dozens if not hundreds of tube stations. No, it's not against the law because existing stuff was grandfathered in or got waivers. New and upgraded stations have to be accessible.

Whose priorities? Peckham Rye station is operated by Southern Railway. Southwark Council doesn’t own or operate the station, and it can't force Southern or anyone else to install lifts at the station. I'd love there to be lifts at Peckham Rye. It would be very expensive.

No mow May has been great in past years - so many daisies and other flowers instead of sterile green grass. I think Dulwich Estate has been doing it recently 👏 👏

Don't know what you mean. £1.6m for six contemporary townhouses seems pretty cheap to me. Wait, each?!?!?!