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I don't know what dust men get paid nowadays. Now, my old man's a dustman, really, but it would be rude to ask him and anyway he retired well over a decade ago. So outlandish assumption, if you know better, please correct, let's say ?10/hour (?18,200/year - seems a lot). So at ?10/hour ... ?700,000 deficit, for clarity let's call it debt ... means we (because it was us) have paid for the equivalent of 70,000 hours of work. Or 2,000 working weeks. Or 38 and a half years. Full time. No holidays. Someone, should be in prison. Or did my terrible maths mean they should just get a ticking off.

James, you say North Cross Road is making a surplus - but East Street market ... is making a loss. Hence why the drastic changes proposed to boost revenue to NCR to subsidise East Street market and stabalise the ... ?700k ... deficit." Other than a dustcart to sweep up afterwards, and a bit of electricity, what are the costs to the council of running a street market? My mind boggles as to how that 'account' can be ?700k in the red. That's a lot of sweeping up. Or have I misunderstood?

civilservant Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > As Twirly points out, it's chicken and > egg - you don't shop there, they reduce their > stock in response, and so it goes. ------------------------------------------------------- People who go in early find they have loads of stuff. People who go in later are saying they have nothing left. So it would seems to be a stock control / management problem rather than a deliberate reduction in stock levels to account for fewer people shopping there. There's plenty of people shopping, just not buying as they can find neither chicken nor egg.

aprayerforowenmeany Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > James. The results of a question posted in this > forum can hardly be hardly be held up as > representative of the wider community. I see in > the news this morning that Waitrose plan to open > 37 more stores this year. Do you know more than > you are letting on? There are thousands of people > in the area who probably aren't even aware of this > forums existence. What about their opinion? ----------------------------------------------------------- I agree with what aprayerforowenmeany said.

In defense of the co-op, maybe the prices there are a bit higher because their ethical stance means they pay reasonable rates to their suppliers and try to avoid being thoroughly despicable in their buying practices.

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Waitrose/M&S is just the next step to turning ED > into a shite hole. I suppose it's predictable > that it's part of the progression, just look at > other areas that stepped through the same > sequence. --------------------------------------------------------- Yeah - such as Brixton, Lewisham and the Walworth Road - just looks what's happened to those places since M&S moved in.

I'd love to see the market open on Sundays, especially a farmer's market. The one over in Brixton, also on Sundays, is great and seems to do very well.

Please can we have a Poundland instead.

I hope it's true too. Save me going to Brixton.

Sounds like Fridays are a bit quiet for trading, but I don;t think that's an indication of what might hpeen on Sundays. Wouldn't there be a lot of people in the area on Sundays who aren't around on Friday, or any other day in the week, being at work etc?

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bonaome Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > For what it's worth, I'm not in a connecting > road > > (I'm 1 road removed), I'm pro extension and pro > > Sunday market trading. I'd also be pro > > pedestrianisation, were that to be a > > consideration. > > No Problem. When I cannot park in my road, I'll > park in your's. > > Will that sort the problem ??? It's already impossible to park in our road on Saturday DulwichFox. It's extremely difficult on a Friday. I'd guess if the market expands and more people have stalls on Sunday, it'll be very difficult or impossible to park in our road on a Sunday too. So I wouldn't bother trying to park in our road, really.

The survey doesn't ask where respondents live. Shame as it might otherwise have been used to gauge the feeling of those living on NCR and connecting streets regarding issues like parking and Sunday trading. There's also nothing to stop anyone form filling it in a million times - so anyone who feels very strongly, get clicking! For what it's worth, I'm not in a connecting road (I'm 1 road removed), I'm pro extension and pro Sunday market trading. I'd also be pro pedestrianisation, were that to be a consideration.

Yes. If you're trying to get Internet through a t-mobile USB dongle (or an Orange dongle), you're relying on the very same masts that are out/being reconfigured to share the t-mobile/Orange traffic. Thread.

Their admission criteria for 2011/12 are here.

Morning Peak (before 9.30am): ?1.20 - One bus to Peckham Rye ?2.10 - Overland from Peckham Rye to London Blackfriars Afternoon Peak (after 5.30pm but before 7.00pm) ?2.10 - Overland from London Blackfriars to Peckham Rye ?1.20 - One bus from Peckham Rye So you'd pay ?3.30 each way, ?6.60 daily charge, ?33 for a week. So you are better off with a ?25.80 travelcard. If you're going to cycle there and back at least twice per week (i.e. four single trips/two return journeys) you'd be better off PAYG than weekly card, but that's assuming you never use the bus/train at the weekend and never use the tube in the week etc. The daily peak time cap is ?7.20 - so you wouldn't get capped, and wouldn't want to be. It does mean that if you are on PAYG and you do take an extra tube or whatever, any extra travel is only going to cost you the extra 60p up to the cap price. Clear as mud? Hope helpful.

What about this?

We moved just over a year ago, from Brixton. Only 2 miles as the crow flies, but a whole world away. I'd echo all the points made above. It's lovely here (ED). It's got enough going on to make life easy and interesting and, well Londony, but without all the agro, grief and hassle. The Belenden Regeneration area (roughly the bit of Peckham that's south of Lyndhurst Grove and west of Rye Lane) is also very nice. The Village is absolutely lovely and if you're pregnant to a multi-millionaire you might want to look over there, but I think we'd find it a bit too quiet. Herne Hill is also very nice, though I think it's even more expensive than here. Nunhead - particularly the streets south east of the cemetary - is also very nice and very "popular" as the estate agents would describe it. True enough about primary schools though. If you're going to be here with a little one, it's surprising how soon you find yourself applying for school places and so even though I know school must seem a long long way off you'd be well advised to read up some of the forum threads on school places and have a think about it. Fushia isn't exaggerating, some of the schools offer out to no further than literally 300-400 meters away. Also worthy of a mention is the Horniman - nice kid friendly museum and gardens. There?s basically loads to do and it?s very friendly - we also know our neighbours and not just the immediate ones. All in all, I wouldn?t want to live anywhere else.

I work there very often. Thameslink from Denmark Hill to King's Cross, Metropolitan line from King's Cross all the way to Uxbridge. It's 20 mins to King's Cross (St Pancras) on the the train, and 50 min to 1 hr on the tube. All in with changes 1hr30 to 1hr45. If there's no through train at King's Cross, it's quicker to go to Baker Street on the first train and change.

He's great. All the way from pure beginner up to advanced. He has a YouTube channel here. Another good YouTube channel is RockOnGoodPeople. If you wanted DVDs I would recommend anything from LickLibrary. You can buy the DVDs off of their site, or from any of the music shops around Denmark St. They have everything from the very basics through to very advanced, covering technique and theory from all sorts of styles. YouTube generally is a good place if you're starting out. Think of a song you'd like to learn, go to YouTube and enter the search box with 'how to play' or 'guitar chords' etc. There's loads and loads on there. Good luck with it.

Puddleducks nursery is splendid. The kids are happy, safe and learn all about getting on with one another. They don't seem to do much Latin and algebra there, which doesn't suit all parents, but it seems to suit the kids, they have great time there.

Anyone who is reading this and who might be applying (again) next year may want to read the proposals for co-ordinated admissions for primary for Sept 2011 and onwards, and how Southwark plan to integrate with it, which can be found here. There's nothing to stop anyone accepting a primary place anywhere and then changing their mind. There couldn't be, as any attempt to do so would run aground the first time someone pitches up with a genuine, unforseeable change in circumstances. @misticnutmeg: There's obviously a lot of people with a lot of different circumstances in our community. Going through this application process, by and large what we want for our child, is for her to be schooled in a safe environment, where discrimination of all kinds is challenged, and where kids are valued for the people they are. I think most parents feel like that. Really, one of the main purposes of primary school education is learning to get along with all the different people you encounter in life. Including those rolling in dosh, and those not so well off. It's a very valuable lesson for our children; to not jump to conclusions about people based on their age, sex, sexuality, race, marital status, presence or otherwise of tattoos and whatever their postcode might be.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If they 'scrap ID cards' how are they going to > counter benefits fraud? A more practical proposal > would be to make ID cards voluntary (probably > through NI cards), but the entitlement and receipt > of taxpayer funding conditional on proof of > identity that's cross-checked nationally. It's the National Identity Register that I think the lib dems and civil rights folks have problems with, not the ID cards per se. The Liberals are proposing to repeal the ID cards act, a main aim of which is scrapping the NIR. Nobody wants people living off benefits to which they're not entitled, but in practice benefits ID fraud is a miniscule percentage of the total Social Security budget and in fact the smallest area of Social Security fraud. I think perhaps a better way to tackle social security fraud is through proper identification of social security claimants ? rather than blanket compulsory introduction of ID cards for all citizens, claimants or not. Conversely, the police have suggested ID Cards may create a huge underground lucrative criminal trade in fake IDs, estimated to be worth billions. At the end of the day, that which can be made by man can be faked by man. If you can forge a ?20 note, or fake a passport ... Meanwhile the Govt says it's going to cost ?5.5 billion to put the scheme in place. But the LSE says they're having a giraffe and expects the true cost to the Govt to be many times that, and that says nothing about the hidden and incidental costs of introducing, maintaining and administering it. I share @Simian's concerns and as far as I can see the Lib Dems are the only party that share them too. I don;t know what they would actually be able to do about them in the real world if elected, but at least they're starting from a position of concern with the werosion of civil liberties in the UK and a desire to try to redress the balance.

Obviously, I could be just being very naive, but all the evidence I can see points to the Liberal Democrats paying considerably more than just vote courting lip service to addressing the errosion of civil liberties in the UK. I believe they will repeal the ID cards act and scrap the National Identity Register (of course there are financial reasons for that as well as political reasons). You can see the civil liberties bill they have drafted here.

Southwark's website has a maps tab. The ideas great, unfortunately they didn't think it through when it comes to content and actual usability of the maps. For example, there's no labelling of the Council Wards or Parliamentary Constituencies, but if you know roughly the shape you're looking for you can then zoom in to see the details of the boundaries. http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/200212/egovernment/1370/interactive_maps

Spunds like it's up to you to use your judgement. See http://www.nspcc.org.uk/HelpAndAdvice/Parentsandcarers/HomeAlone/homealone_wda35965.html