legalalien

You could maybe get an idea of the likely relative use of different Charter entrances with some sort of map showing roughly where the students live? I walk past at around 3:30 once a week and have to say that most students seem to turn left out of the Charter ED gate and then (for quite a number) onto buses outside the station / up DKH - I don?t see that many going the other way towards EDG. Might be that my exact timing misses the first wave of leavers. Based on that suspect the catchment isn?t circular but is skewed eastward/ north eastward, with those to the west electing Charter North. Obviously this is anecdata and could be wrong. There do seem to be a fair number of primary aged children heading towards DVIS /Hamlet/ JKPS and the primary schools along EDG. Does anyone know if there?s a plan for some sort of green screen or planting along the EDG side of the sports pitches? This would seem to be a good thing to do in the short term?

I?m still watching and she?s just said that the council need to be very careful about fixating on LTNs as the only solution, given the wider network effects they can have in terms of traffic displacement - Croxted Road gets a mention (1:35 on the YouTube video). She?s actually calling out factors that make Dulwich a difficult LTN location. And now is advocating for a community kerbside zone, and the idea that a trade off for having a filtered street might be significantly reducing parking in the street. Has said that having some people as collateral damage is not OK. Going to keep watching. ETA now watched her talk to the end. Worth a watch.

Listening to overview and scrutiny meeting from Monday. Good to hear Cllr Burgess talking about both the need for credible data (including a proper calculation of net benefit of LTNs taking account of increased mileage and potentially increased congestion even if less traffic). She also mentions the importance of addressing air pollution for schools on main roads and not focussing entirely on side road issues. Earlier on she mentions a paper that she has circulated prior to the meeting but I don?t think it?s on the council website, which is a pity as I?d quite like to see it. She also speaks up about the problems of coloured crossings for people with guide dogs (and horses). Refreshing change to hear a cabinet member talking about pros and cons of things.

Looks as though the Bermondsey scheme is being made permanent even though the council acknowledge it?s created a real traffic problem on Tanner Street. Basically ? we know but we?re doing it anyway, we?ll then consider whether there is anything we can do to address it?. More Southwark ?night time economy? action, to the horror of some of the residents... I?m still predicting a late night bar enclave in Melbourne Grove. https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/ieDecisionDetails.aspx?Id=7590

I think the schools discuss through the Safe Routes to School forum http://dulwichsaferoutes.blogspot.com/p/safe-routes-to-school-background.html

Fair enough, will do. Just thought that canvassing based on LTNs or not was sort of in topic but appreciate there?s a grey area around that.

Electioneering in full swing in the Village ward. Spotted the LD candidate out canvassing today. Just received a Southwark Labour pamphlet. Doesn't mention their flagship policies, housing and transport, climate change or Southwark Stands Together at all. If Southwark Labour are genuinely proud of their housing / transport / green policies, why not mention them? Perhaps they are not very popular? Also talks about giving ?17.1 million to local businesses during the pandemic - was that not central government funding? Or maybe this was some extra funding from the council. Not sure.

Perhaps it will be one of these? https://farecity.org/2022/01/17/cleaner-air-market/

The other thing Tooley Street is quite big on is developing the nighttime economy. Given proximity to the station, might some sort of bar / nightclub enclave be a possibility? ETA on a related note, looks as though there?s going to be a ?Social Regeneration Charter? for Dulwich at some point in the near future - see https://www.southwark.gov.uk/regeneration/regeneration-that-works-for-all?chapter=10. Presumably delayed due to COVID. More about social regeneration charters at https://www.communitysouthwark.org/social-regeneration-charters. Something to keep an eye out for so it isn?t hijacked by in-the-know lobby groups, I suggest.

Maybe there was a car parked in it when the Conways team turned up?

I don't really understand that last comment. Lots of people enjoying coffees outside of cafes currently are car owners; I don't drive and taught my child to ride a bike on a quite road pre the changes; and plenty of people who don't own a car live on boundary roads and it doesn't feel very clean air for all. I don't think the Dulwich LTN is working primarily for the benefit of non-car owners, to put in another way (some other LTNs might be, who knows?) Am I missing something?

the new timings came in last Thursday I think? The signs about timing have changed. So I think the emergency access thing is now operational as well? I hate to say it but maybe another sign is needed re not parking to block the access.

...

I reckon that with some sort of artisan market it?s only a matter of time before the estate agents start calling it Dulwich?s ?East Village?. Let?s see.

Nothing at all as long as you don?t use an English heritage logo etc I don?t imagine. From a quick look you can pay between ?15 and ?150? https://www.gettingpersonal.co.uk/gifts/personalised-heritage-plaque.htm?&opti_ca=808818415&opti_ag=43572496964&opti_ad=379949837983&opti_key=kwd-301763109309&gclid=CjwKCAiAx8KQBhAGEiwAD3EiPwGsq5IkT6dAnSEmChgTZ3qBetqIc3JhwjDhgC7qoWfWGu4WeHBLVRoC0uUQAvD_BwE

Hiya if you use the search function, I think the details are on this thread /forum/read.php?30,2203263,2208755#msg-2208755 Hope that works/ helps

I believe you apply for them through English Heritage, they have criteria you need to meet and then they consider whether to award one or not see https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/blue-plaques/about-blue-plaques/

This document is on the agenda for the next Council Assembly meeting and although it is lengthy provides lots of interesting updates on a range of local issues https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/b50014035/Supplemental%20agenda%20no.2%20Wednesday%2023-Feb-2022%2019.00%20Council%20Assembly.pdf?T=9 For example - plans for external borrowing to fund house building programme. As I read it (para 106) the housing investment programme is currently under review, as with various new building safety requirements, green commitments and other things the forecast cost stands at ?2.5 billion over the next ten years which the council doesn?t have and it can?t afford to borrow that much. The costs of improving existing council stock and pursuing a green heat network strategy also seem to be much more expensive than originally budgeted for and being looked at (paragraphs 107 and 108). - description of various capital projects on the go and where they are at - Interesting note that opportunities are being explored to rationalise school buildings to rationalise running costs for schools, given oversupply of school spaces (interesting in light of the recent suggestion that the new Ivydale building would be removed, a proposal quickly removed when the local councillors objected,I do wonder whether it might be revived post local elections. One of the parents at Cobourg I spoke to recently said there was a widely held suspicion that the council were keen to close the school and sell / use the site - no idea if that?s true) - various line items about expenditure on School Streets, cycle hanger roll out, delays in road works outside Belham and pause of scheme at Cox?s Walk - a bid for capital to improve library IT infrastructure Lots of other things. There?s also a report on the Housing Revenue Account in this pdf document which outlines proposed increases in council rents for the 2022-23 year and associated charges if people are interested in that - around page 34-35. It gives an indication of average rents for anyone interested. Paragraph 19 gives an indication of the big hit that complying with new building / fire safety regs is going to have on Southwark?s finances - it has a lot of housing stock and quite a bit of it is high rise. All in all quite an interesting read and useful backdrop for assessing all candidates? promises when out canvassing, I think.

Determination of Objections to North Peckham Streetspace scheme. The EQIA and response in the report are an interesting read. https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=50027107 Schemes now said to take 3-4 years to bed in.

I grew up there, yes :)

Attach a hook to something (fence, wall, stake in the ground?) and to the bin and use a bungie cord? (I tried to think of something involving number 8 wire, but failed).

Well, given Southwark?s planning policy is not to have hot food takeaways within 400m of a school, they see it as a health policy issue but don?t, as far as I can tell, have powers to close down existing takeaway businesses, you can see why they might not leap to the defence of any hot food takeaway businesses in Melbourne Grove.

Now imagining the owners deciding whether or not to put up a ?lost snake? poster in the street. :) At least you probably don?t have mice!

Got it! Based on my brief discussion with the LD chap who came to the door, I got the impression that while the LDs are in favour of LTNs generally, the local candidates have been given some scope to oppose this particular one. I'm not exactly sure what that means at a practical level, so will be interested to hear the outcome of any One Dulwich interrogation. Completely agree that the questions need to be searching and quite granular, otherwise we'll just get platitudes/ ambiguous statements that try to appeal to as many people as possible.

I don't think that One Dulwich and the Conservative Party is, as you suggest, one and the same. Undoubtedly there is and will be some overlap. If you mean the Conservative Party, just say that? Given the LTNs are a conservative-initiated policy, it's a strange situation where you can vote Conservative locally and actually be voting against Team Gilligan at Conservative HQ. So maybe voting Conservative locally is actually an anti-Boris vote :) Still not sure who I am going to vote for. Accountability I see as an individual thing, and it's very hard to tell who is going to step up to the plate until you see them in office. In terms of traffic reduction objectives, I'm more focused on "do no harm" than whether a viable plan is presented. It's quite possible that Southwark council can't, on its own, do much to fix the problem.