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Unless you think that the tenant is in breach of their lease - and quiet and cooperative behaviour isn't a normal lease condition - although e.g. sub-letting or occupancy levels might be - then there is very little a landlord could do. Tenants are (quite properly) protected from the capricious actions of landlords. Action through the council's officers is far more likely to achieve results. A landlord cannot themselves determine 'anti-social' behaviour. If you believe that the lease is up for renewal you could write to the landlord explaining your problems, but if the landlord isn't having problems (the property is being treated well and the rent is being paid) I wouldn't hold your breathe.

In near to Peckham A Tree has been cut to half now a stump You do need to find out why this happened. Trees, particularly in parkland, will be removed if they are diseased/ damaged such that they pose a risk to park users. Equally tree management means that trees can be pollarded - which looks brutal but where certain trees (suitable for this treatment) will come back invigorated but with a much smaller spread of branches, which can often be necessary in streets/ where there are power lines etc. Removing trees is expensive, so councils will not normally do so without good reason. You say 'near to Peckham' - is this on public land? If not the removal may be nothing to do with the council. Sometimes a tree are removed where it can be shown, or believed, to be damaging buildings.

Oh, and this is all terribly off-topic - it's the trees in Sydenham Woods which are the issue for this thread...

Just for information - the Diocese has no rights over tree clearance in non Church graveyards at all. It's rights concern how land which has been consecrated (much of the cemeteries are not consecrated ground) may be re-used (either mounding up or disinterring) for further burials and regarding the disposal or re-use of grave markers, and over the creation of new paths within consecrated areas - that because it is use of previously consecrated ground for non burial (i.e. pathway) purposes. Tree preservation (or not) within municipal cemeteries is the purview of the local council. What Southwark council has done is to clear some areas where the graves are old, uncared for and in some cases inaccessible so that additional burials can be made - the numbers of new burials in the cemeteries are a clear indication of how welcome this in fact is. If you do visit these cemeteries (I live within 2 minutes walk of one of them) you will still find a huge and extended planting of trees still extant. The 'protesters' mistook church rules about trees in church cemeteries/ graveyards (on church land) as applying also to consecrated areas in municipal cemeteries. They don't.

It?s ?25 not ?35 ?25 for the part year (the scheme didn't start until well after April) - it was meant to be pro-rata for ?30 for a full year. Whether they stick to ?30 when they set the fee for next year is a moot point, of course! Don't hold your breathe on this would be my advise. If so few people are taking the scheme up, they'll probably want to up the fee to get their expected returns for next year, as their revenues will be nowhere near their costs of implementation this year, I'm guessing.

Of course Southwark are also cutting down every tree in the cemeteries they use that are owned by the Diocese of Southwark - who don't care, incidentally. That is simply put, a complete lie. The cemeteries are municipally owned - they contain consecrated areas which are part administered by the Diocese (because of the consecration) but they form NO PART of Church land. Neither is 'every' tree being cut down. Some scrub trees (and trees growing through graves) have been removed to allow full utilisation of the graveyards for interments - equally, numbers of new trees have been planted. And the the Diocese has considered applications from pressure groups and have dismissed them - that is not the same as saying they don't care, as they undertook due process. Southwark undertakes no work on graveyards associated with churches, which are owned by the Church. This is a revival of an old (and I would have hoped now exploded) set of tropes by a pressure group. Amended to say, apologies for my harshness if you are repeating something you have read/ heard elsewhere, rather than propagating this myth afresh (but it's still not true!).

If there are images of the event, it may be that the police might wish to see these, unredacted, to ensure that there wasn't a moving vehicle offence committed? Maybe that could be your approach?

Technically this is vile, but it's not blackmail (blackmail would be where the owner of the video images contacted the lorry driver/ firm offering to suppress the information for money). It's an attempt to gain value from an image which is owned by the individual (although in fact the OP's insurer would have more interest in paying for it as it is in their interest to off-set the cost of repair to the lorry's insurer (ensuring they are not also covering that!)). If there has been a traffic offence (as opposed to a civil offence) then there may also be an issue of not providing police with images of that offence - and it would certainly be worthwhile contacting the police to see if there has been such an offence. If the lorry has been in an accident where damage has been caused, the driver or owner company does have a duty to report this to their insurer (but probably not to the police where there was no personal injury). Vehicle damage is a civil issue. Doesn't stop this being quite sickening to read about. Particularly where the image owner has apparently been misrepresenting his position in the matter.

landlord increased the rent by ?30k Based on an earlier post which suggested the rent would now be ?43500 a year, an annual rental of only ?1350 (?30k less) seem derisory.

With lids they are really useful for (a) storing screws, thread, components etc. - You will need labels or (b) making up single servings for posh picnics etc. Handing those out with a meal/ course inside them rather than having lots of different serving dishes can be a boon. They don't have to be single-use in your household.

I was taking the clean plastic trays from my dishwasher when I had a thought that if all the restaurants in the local area would accept and reuse take away boxes it would have quite an impact on the volume of plastic waste in the area. In order to re-use them commercially they would have to be sterilised. Most local establishments won't have commercial sterilisers to achieve this (it's not just like washing plates, plastics can retain residues that ceramics don't). the costs of sorting, packing, transporting etc. these containers to a central sterilising unit will be higher than the costs of making and shipping new ones, I would guess.

If he does get 'life' on average he will serve 15 years before being eligible for parole, based on his behaviour and reports in prison. He will always then be 'on licence' and could be returned to prison if he breaches his parole terms. Judges can set higher minimum terms before he would become eligible for parole.

It's being sold with a free of tie lease - so it very much depends (a) how much longer the lease has to run and (b) what the rental is. The ?150k is not a freehold price, and the length of the lease on offer will be key to the valuation.

For thirty seconds Anything you can jog through in 30 seconds is not, and never has been, a Wood. It is a copse or thicket. Dog Kennel Hill has never been woodland (which does have a specific meaning), although I am sure there are now parts which are bosky. I am happy to stand corrected but I don't think you will find any references, in any old maps, to that area now being called Dog Kennel Hill ever having had the name 'Wood' attached to it, in whole or in part. You can, of course, call it what you want, but don't then write about it as if you were intending to preserve some ancient bit of nature. It's (in so far as it isn't accidental scrub) a recent, and very small, plantation - no less pleasant for all that, but not, in any meaningful way, a Wood.

I'm afraid that 'Dog Kennel Hill Woods' (pace the eponymous 'Friends' of the same) are a 'woke' construct - belonging to the same mind set as the notorious 'Wood' Friends that plagued us over Camberwell Old and New Cemeteries. People now believe that strapping 'Wood' to an area gives it a sort of legitimacy which the real place name doesn't - much as 'villages' have been invented all over London to supplant the few real villages already here. Estate agents invent villages, eco-warriors invent woods. In both cases they believe the words add a (spurious) legitimacy to their cases. It doesn't. But it's all part of the 21st Century fake news apparatus. Ignore the 'wood' element and focus on the real facts, would be my advice. I don't live that close (other end of ED), so have no dog in this fight.

There are many reasons why this food may have been thrown out - including possible contamination or the inclusion of the 'wrong' ingredients or mix. This is a high level of simple wastage - an uneconomic level if repeated, so I would suspect a good (understandable) reason for this. If it is a one off (and the bread was OK to eat) it is likely that the Bakery didn't have the necessary contacts to find a good home for it - which again suggests this may be an unusual event.

Exactly - it is the glacial pace of workmen in the UK employed by the State (at council or national level) which is the issue here. E.g. the closure of Crystal Palace Road for close to a month to achieve (I would guess when we see the finished job) a minimal change. Or the well-over-a-year to reimagine the Lewisham roundabout. When I travel abroad I can be held up by a mile long section of roadworks on the way down south, to find the whole thing complete a fortnight later on my return. In the UK we would be seeing 18 month warnings about delays.

A news report today suggested at 10% of High Street locations were currently empty/ closed. At the moment LL seems (generally) to be bucking this trend; it will be interesting to see if this continues past the CPZ implementation.

Just a thought, but is it possible, in the high winds we've been having, that the bin was simply tipped and blown away, with the contents falling out? I know that I've had the large bins (if not fairly full) overturned by the wind before now, and I've certainly seen the small kerb side and kitchen caddies blown about on collection days.

It would have been an act of kindness to have kept it safe. But for how long? - A day, two days, a week, a fortnight (they could have gone off on a holiday and forgotten the the scooter in the rush to prepare)? The shopkeeper wasn't to know. Once again - space in small shops is at a premium, a scooter cannot be kept in the aisles (for obvious reasons) and room behind the counter or in whatever limited storage they have is at a premium. 30 minutes is often long enough for something as large (and treasured?) as a scooter to be called back for - or did the OP have something else urgent to get done? No shopkeeper can manage such an open ended storage commitment. Very different for a small, valuable, item such as keys or a wallet, which can be stored conveniently. Perhaps if the OP had called the shop (if they couldn't get back in 30 minutes)? And given a firm time to collect?

TLAs are however far more frequent.

Admin has posted for the last couple of days that there is a problem with the e-mail system - maybe why you haven't received a PM?

My Veolia mole again - problems with some collections may be down to the removal of a (blue/ green bin) lorry from the circuit, and then its replacement (when there was found to be too much work) by an entirely new crew - just given a map of where to collect from. So they have no 'crew' knowledge of their routes and therefore aren't replacing bins correctly because (if they're using runners ahead of the lorry), they don't know where exactly they've been pulled out from. I found 3 blue bins in my drive on Tuesday, only one of which was mine! I think I re-homed them correctly. Normally crews are replaced piecemeal (except where an emergency crew is on) so route knowledge is passed on within a team. Hey ho!

The same Tessa Jowell who?s husband - a corrupt lawyer - was banged up for accepting bribes from Burlusconi. From Wiki:- He was accused of money-laundering and alleged tax fraud involving Silvio Berlusconi; he was convicted in first instance and on appeal, but the conviction was quashed by the Supreme Court of Cassation. (my emphasis). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Mills_(solicitor) Probably that statement made by the OP is thus actionable under English Law. His appeal was based on a statute of limitations defence, but certainly he was never accused of accepting bribes (indeed the question would suggest itself, 'bribed to do what'?) Anyway, it triggered me to vote for Tessa as choice one.

I suspect that it is important that a hospital's name should be clearly understandable and without confusion so that any call to the Fire Brigade will be correctly directed. If the name is too close to another then the appliances may be misdirected. The Brigade should be able to estimate what confusion levels, if any, sit in any of the names that might be chosen.