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So from the Dec 21 document it looked like there was a budget shortfall, even based on the lowest tender, that requires more money from the DfE. Hopefully this has been resolved and they're going to crack on soon.

Has this project run out of money ? It's looking like it'll never be finished and a bit like before when one of the wings was demolished and the rubble left to create a wasteland for years, this'll go the same way and the building will become more and more dilapidated. Shame as the outside space would be useful for the school but it's not looking like they'll get their hands on it anytime soon.

Might help /viewtopic.php?t=2081285

The environment agency produce a monthly report that very comprehensive on water levels across the country. TLDR- we were still pretty short as at the end of September. Might be better next month. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1111117/Water_Situation_Report_for_England_September_2022.pdf

James - another accident on EDG this afternoon. Not sure what happened exactly but walked past a car (BMW ?) that was opposite JAGS heading towards the junction with Red Post Hill, completely upside down on its roof. Looks like it hit a tree a speed as a nearby tree was looking quite damaged. Police in attendance and no other vehicles that I could see involved. East Dulwich Grove is becoming increasingly dangerous - this is two serious incidents in the space of 6 weeks, What action are councillors taking ?

What's the most niche form of exercise you've witnessed in our local parks ? I saw two guys practising fencing in Brockwell yesterday.

James - there was a serious car crash on East Dulwich Grove on Sunday (28th) morning, so serious that it required the fire service cut open one of the vehicles to remove the driver and the to road to be closed for several hours. In addition to the two cars involved I saw damage to two others that were parked nearby. I've no idea of the cause but I live fairly close by and I did hear a loud bang so imagine speed was involved. One of the cars ended up on the pavement which could have seriously injured or worse any pedestrians that had been there at the time. As a person that frequently cycles and walks along this road I am often concerned about the speed that a small minority of car drivers travel, in spite of the raised platforms that are present. Are you aware of any plans to look at schemes to force traffic to travel more slowly and/or penalise those that don't ?

Not yet but I'm guessing that based on his review and the high proportion of Guardian readers in the area getting a table might start to prove a little tricky.

https://communityfibre.co.uk/ Here's one I found by typing "Community Fibre Broadband" into Google.

Thanks, no I'm not using a broker.. Perhaps I should. I normally just use the price comparison sites and direct line.

OK I know this comes up repeatedly but just had my Buildings (only, not contents) Insurance Renewal through and I have max no claims discount and yet it's increased by 30%. Meerkat is giving me about three slightly cheaper options. Any obvious reason for the premium increases which I assume are general in nature and not specific to me ? I'm with Aviva.

Maybe less so in shops but bear in mind that the some of the older generation will feel excluded from a cashless society. Pete Paphides wrote a thread on Twitter this week about how his father was unable to pay to park his car because the parking meter required you to pay via an App. His father was on his way to a memorial service and couldn't pay. He sadly died shortly after and PP has been left with explaining to the debt collection agency that the person they fined won't be paying.

Here - 31/1 to 6/2 Week 04.xlsx Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Does anyone know when the council will be updating > their monitoring dashboard for data recorded after > January - there has definitely been an upward > trend in all the monitoring and I suspect the true > impact of the LTNs will be seen in the next batch > of data? > > It was interesting the council posted this on > their dashboard > (https://www.southwark.gov.uk/transport-and-roads/ > improving-our-streets/live-projects/streetspace/tr > affic-data-analysis): > > Volumes of traffic in December 2021 were likely > decreased by both Christmas and the emergence of > the Omicron variant.

In my experience, pre-covid, unless you turned up when it opened there were never that many cars there that you had to wait any length of time, including weekends. Went today and just drove straight into a slot. They just wanted to look at a proof of address. Open daily from 8:30 but 8:30 to 9:30 is supposed to be van's only but the guy said that they wouldn't turn you away.

It looks like Southwark have dropped the pre-booking process for going to the Devon Street recycling centre. It seems that now you only have to pre-book if you have a van. Anyone been recently that can confirm this ? https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/recycling/recycling-centres/reuse-and-recycling-centre

Just a suggestion but perhaps the posters on this thread should start thinking what you'll do with your time once this thread is no more as the EDF is gracefully laid to rest. /forum/read.php?12,2274784

Went to see Jerusalem last night. Very, very good and Mark Rylance is outstanding.

Croxted Road garden centre usually has a good selection of tomato plants at this time of year.

I typed the words "marks and spencer plastic recycling" into a search engine and this was the top result. https://corporate.marksandspencer.com/plastic-recycling-scheme Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sue Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > ed_pete Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > M&S on Lordship Lane has a box for recycling > > > different types of plastic. Attached is a > > > not-too-good photo of what they accept. > > > > > > > Several of the pictures have M&S on them. Does > > that mean they only take their own wrappers? > > > I went in today and asked one of the assistants. > She didn't know. She asked another one. She didn't > know either 😂 > > I think although it's further away I'll stick to > the Sainsbury's recycling bins. Also I'm less > tempted to go and investigate their food (I came > away from M&S with Florentines. I feel a bit sick > now 😂)

M&S on Lordship Lane has a box for recycling different types of plastic. Attached is a not-too-good photo of what they accept.

I guess I'm kinda sad remembering these old posts but what's even sadder is the nothing has been done in 13+ years. /forum/read.php?5,363511 /forum/read.php?5,364704,page=1

Paine and Hunger - not a great name for a business :) A company specialising in Medieval Torture perhaps ?

Would another way to interpret the 2019 figures be that the Jan to Sep increase is due to the closure of Champion Hill. However, the road users have slowly adapted to this and changed their means of travel so what we're really seeing here is traffic evaporation.

Rockets - are you pro-LTN or just not pro this particular LTN ? Your hyperbole undermines your credibility: "My personal theory is that they are making things up as they go along, " "The mistake the council made was creating the new EDG Central monitoring as it was clear it was nothing more than a trojan horse to help maintain the Melbourne Grove closer at the behest of the residents and numerous pro-LTN lobby groups based there." "Some of us think the LTN monitoring information is being manipulated by the council"

Although it's really easy to just dismiss the September 2019 measurements as the position of the East Dulwich Grove Central ATC wasn't in the same place as the current one is, it's worth looking at the *actual* positions as included in the data published by Tracsis. The decimal Easting and Northing of the 2019 ATC is (51.4589803,-0.0796602) and the current ATC is (51.4589830,-0.0794940). My calculations could be wrong but I think this works out a difference of less than 50 cm on the Northing and about 14.5 metres on the Easting. So you have ask the question whether or not you consider 14.5 metres is significant or not.