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I'm not so convinced about the pandemic/ Brexit rationale that the council are pointing to as the primary cause of the oversupply. A big chunk of it is in the north of the borough in the areas where the council have sold off/ decanted estates, replaced them with high value private investment properties, and effectively forced less well off local families out of the area, to be replaced by student accommodation, empty investment properties, Air B&B etc - meaning less need for local schools and schools closing as a result. Then in other parts of the borough (slightly more well off areas?), building new, shiny academy schools which are more attractive to parents (and cheaper to run in terms of things like building maintenance, heating costs etc) putting existing schools in old Victorian buildings with possibly slightly less-well-heeled parents at a disadvantage, causing their rolls to drop, resulting in less government funding triggering less funding for them to provide bells and whistles - less attractive to parents... big debt etc. - a spiral downwards. I guess that's market forces at work, and we do have a conservative government after all. I wonder whether we're moving from children in ED having to travel to school slightly further afield due to a bulge in the primary population, to children from slightly further afield travelling to ED and children from ED travelling to DV's state and independent schools (let's hope their parents aren't driving them there :) ). Not sure whether that's a good or a bad thing overall tbh.

For those interested in such things: New list of cabinet portfolios and cabinet members here: https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/b50014517/Supplemental%20agenda%20no.%202%20Tabled%20items%20Saturday%2021-May-2022%2011.00%20Council%20Assembly.pdf?T=9 Constitution of overview and scrutiny committee and various commissions that sit under it here https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/g7383/Printed%20minutes%20Saturday%2021-May-2022%2011.30%20Overview%20Scrutiny%20Committee.pdf?T=1 Dulwich wise, Cllr Newens now chairing the Environment and Community Engagement Commission. Of possible interest to local businesses, Cllr Ochere has moved from cabinet and is chairing the Education and Local Economy Commission (he was quite an effective chair of one of the previous commissions and given the primary school oversupply / financial issues this will be an important one. Cllr Hamvas, who I think opposed the Ivydale single site proposal by Southwark is also on that commission so should be interesting.) New Goose Green councillor Portia Mwangangye is the deputy cabinet minister for young people. Up to date list of councillors (with new pics) at https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?FN=WARD&VW=LIST&PIC=0 The new mayor is Sunil Chopra.

Will be quite an interesting process actually. Is currently a registered charity and looks like its charitable objects relate to activities carried out by the nuns in the U.K. https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-search/-/charity-details/230756/what-who-how-where They?ll want to use / dispose of the assets in an appropriate way before the charity is wound up (assuming they are winding up). Hard to know exactly what they could use the trust assets for without seeing the underlying trust deed/ scheme. alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Faith schools? Look at NI. > Wouldn?t it be great if the nuns decided to give > the land to Southwark council for the building of > the many many many homes that are needed.

The various consultation documents are on the website http://www.stfrancescacabrini.co.uk/covid-19. There?s a statement that neither Southwark Council or the Southwark RC Archdiocese owns the land, there are trustees who presumably hold it in trust for the missionary order of nuns.

Indeed, there was an article about it in Southwark News yesterday https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/honor-oaks-st-francesca-cabrini-primary-school-could-close-after-nuns-announce-plans-to-move-to-africa/ Alarmingly it suggests that parents were told that as many as 17 Southwark schools could face closure. There?s some background on the oversupply of primary school places in this earlier thread. /forum/read.php?5,2231610,2251037#msg-2251037. The worst problems of oversupply / risk of closure seem to be in other parts of the borough, but certainly worth keeping an eye on the schools that they are looking to downsize. sweetgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > FYI, It seems St Francesca Cabrini is at risk of > closing down??

of course you're right, we can but dream :) KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don?t really expect my fave cuisines to somehow > all magically and coincidentally occur on my high > st, I?m used to (and don?t mind) heading to > Lewisham to pick-up Sri Lankan or Camberwell for > alt. Chinese. > We?re lucky to have these options even in the same > or adjacent boroughs, let alone on a single street > of our choosing !!

Maybe we could create a new business model where we all petition for a new restaurant! I'm not so keen on "stand alone" Korean so would need to be slightly more pan Asian to get my vote. Sichuan - yes, although am still recovering from a malaysian chinese university friend taking me to an authentic Sichuan restaurant and insisting I order the hot and sour soup. Love Sri Lankan, and Moroccan would be good. Don't know much about other north African food.

If I read this correctly it's that 25% of trips are less than a mile and around 14% of that 25% are cars / vans, so around 3.5% of trips are by cars travelling less than a mile (not a question of comparing 14% with 25%?). I actually find it surprising that only 25% of "trips" are less than a mile. I wonder what the definition of "trip" is and whether some "very short" trips haven't been counted as trips. Hard to know Rockets Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Mark Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I'm afraid it is: > > > > In 2020, 25% of trips were under 1 mile, and > 71% > > under 5 miles. > > Source: National Travel Survey 2020 > > > https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national- > > > > travel-survey-2020/national-travel-survey-2020#:~: > > > > text=Journey%20lengths,-Chart%203%3A%20Mode&text=I > > > > n%202020%2C%2025%25%20of%20trips,and%2068%25%20und > > > er%205%20miles. > > But a trip is not a car journey. Look at the chart > on the link you sent - it shows 81% of trips under > a mile were walked. About 14% are cars/vans and I > would love to know how they categorise the use of > vans - how do they categorise a delivery van doing > multiple stops for example? > > 14% is still too high but nowhere near the 25% he > claimed and he claimed this for cars - it's very > misleading and he should know better in his role.

Has anyone been to Walters? Is it any good?

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Don't know whether this has already been flagged > somewhere on this thread. But this looks like a > good local campaign, aimed at reducing the number > of people driving to schools: > https://sustainableschoolr.wixsite.com/sustainable > schoolrun That does look like the start of a good campaign, will have a further read. Not sure that allowing councils to be able to introduce CPZs more easily should really be a focus (unless it?s restricted to areas around schools there is potential for misuse of powers), I?d rather see more no stopping zones and school streets. If schools (state or private) want to have no catchment policies (which tbh I?m not in favour of) then they should have to contribute to the cost of an appropriate school transport solution. The primaries are certainly more of an issue than the secondaries, as the site suggests.

Good to know that I?m not alone in identifying the potential for a ?redistribution? conclusion. Given I?m in favour of road user pricing, ideally based on in-car technology, I?ll keep my fingers crossed that we can track actual car movements/journeys sooner rather than later, as the info gathered would be really useful for these discussions. (Lengthy discussions on privacy and the surveillance state to be had, no doubt)

That sounds as though there has been a significant transfer of traffic from local roads to the SRN, which is what those in favour want to happen and which those against, and on main roads aren?t in favour of in circumstances where the outcome is to overwhelm the SRN roads? Intuitively it feels as though there should be a combined figure covering local roads and TfL roads. But I?m not quite sure how that would work. Unless you can take a snapshot of ALL the traffic in the area at various set points in time and then compare with previous set points in time, surely any reductions / increases that you measure only show for certain that traffic at particular points has increased / decreased but can?t tell you what the overall reduction is, as traffic may have diverted from/ to non- measured routes? I?m not explaining very well, but for eg you can say a reduction of 21000 vehicles on certain routes (and even then could be some double counting I suspect as presumably one vehicle could disappear from say three counts depending on its route- or is that adjusted for?), but there?s no way of knowing whether the 21000 cars have popped up on other roads that aren?t being measured?

I love Vietnamese. I also really like the Korean/ Japanese place in Kennington - https://www.kumarestaurant.co.uk/. If they could open a second restaurant in LL (or someone would open something similar), I'd be a frequent customer!

I am hoping someone will open a takeaway noodle bar.

You know, heartblock, it's amazing how much I agree with you given that politically there are (I suspect) probably quite a lot of things we disagree on. Inspired by the earlier iteration of this thread, I purchased a book called The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/0141039167 Am about a third of the way through. It's really interesting - would recommend. Quite old now, from 2013. Have put this more recent article from the same author on my "to read" list https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/

I?d describe Megan?s as ?OK?, have really only been in for breakfast a few times due to convenient location. The service was a bit slow. But it seems to be doing something right as they seem to be consistently quite busy- I think it?s the dog and child friendliness plus free WiFi. I do wish they wouldn?t have quite so many lights blaring at night though - it does look nice but screams ?waste of energy? every time I see them. Their power bill must be astronomic!

Dulwich Village FC is different from Dulwich Hamlet. Its website is at https://www.dulwichvillagefc.co.uk/, looks as though trials for next season?s teams are in June and you need to register for them. They are linked to a separate coaching operation called Football Magic which runs weekly sessions, holiday sessions etc - see https://www.footballmagiccoaching.co.uk/. They run a lot of teams. My son played there for a number of years and it was pretty well run - but that was a few years ago and I don?t have up to date info. They definitely have girls teams. The Dulwich hamlet site is https://dulwichhamletjuniorfc.co.uk/ - looks like fewer teams. Girls United is a local girls club worth a look https://www.girlsunitedfa.org/london-club#londonclub-sessions

Well I?ve learned something new. Always thought that dugongs and manatees were the same thing but in different locations. Both Sirenians apparently but different tails and teeth. Went down an internet wormhole and was astonished to find out how important marine viruses are to the planetary ecosystem. Two hours I won?t get back but always good to learn something new. Back on topic, someone mentioned to me recently that DPL no longer runs the minibus service to the school that they used to operate. As I suspect DPL is a much bigger contributor to traffic than, for example, DC (their lower school is bigger and they have a lot of children coming from Clapham/ Balham / Wandsworth and those cars end up on the South circular or Croxted Road) I?d be interested to know why that was the case. The service was well used and the foundation school coaches aren?t as convenient for DPL pupils. Does anyone know why the service was cancelled?

It?s democracy at work. People can vote how they want for whatever reasons they want. The main thing is that people vote. I?m not happy with the outcome in my ward, but am prepared to give loser?s consent. I would like a bit more transparency/ accountability though and I hope that the LDs remaining in council step up and do a good job of being in opposition. Similarly Labour councillors who are not in cabinet. I view that as meaning keeping on top of detail and asking probing questions - not just giving speeches about the things that they disagree with. If there are any LD party people out there, maybe you could set up an email address for people to send suggested questions to? FWIW I really liked Richard Wingfield as a candidate even though I didn?t vote for him - maybe the LDs could consider him for the LD candidacy at the next GE if he is interested. I?ll say it again - it would be great if the promised Engaging Communities programme could happen and we could have some ward meetings. Public meetings in person rather than meetings with selected RAs and lobby groups is important in reuniting the community, I think. I?d like to think we could manage that without it turning into fight club.

I think we?re supposed to have some community co design process. In the interests of bringing the community together, I really hope the council lets us all start with a blank piece of paper and not something they?ve already decided on. I?d also suggest NOT calling it Dulwich Square, it?s a name with too much ill- feeling attached to it. As a temporary measure I think staining the planters black would be a good start.

The breakdown is on twitter https://twitter.com/margynewens/status/1522421747454205952/photo/1

No one really knows why anyone else voted the way that they did. But Labour certainly campaigned on an anti- Tory platform rather than a pro-Labour one - at least in the campaign literature I received - so presumably they themselves saw the potential in anti-Tory votes. It maybe makes it a bit harder for them to claim a clear mandate for some of their more controversial policies - but that doesn?t really matter given they?re in charge for four more years and no one can stop them, I guess!

Interesting that the Greens apparently came close in Nunhead and Queens Road. https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/news/southwark-elections-2022-labour-tightens-its-grip-on-the-council-with-convincing-win/ Let?s see whether the ?vote nationally and get rid of Boris? strategy works - I?m not convinced, but if it does work at least there will be something for me to celebrate!

But we can?t get rid of this government until the next general election and I don?t want to wait another four years to send my message to local councillors. And what if I still don?t like central government then - do I wait another four years? What about we have a system where we vote for local councillors and then have the option to give an indicative vote on central government? That sounds good to me. diable rouge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Rockets Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > So many people I have spoke. To seem to have > been seduced by the narrative that local elections > are about national issues (driven in the main by > Labour) > > No one is being seduced. Lots of people are > hacked-off with this current Gov, we need to > prioritise, there's no point having nicey-nicey > local Gov if the country is going to pot. It's > naive in the extreme to think that if the Tories > do well in the local elections, Johnson and his > cabal won't grandstand about it and say it's a > vindication of their policies. Get rid of this > Gov, then sort out local issues...

But in an existing Labour stronghold what does that achieve - does it actually send that message? I remain of the view that the local elections are the ONLY way to send a message to those in charge of local government about what you think. There are other opportunities (opinion polls, general elections) to speak to central government. By all means give up your voice on local government if you want to - it is of course your right - but that does have consequences in terms of local government accountability. (i.e. there isn't any). NewWave Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > bels123 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I can't divorce local from national politics - > too > > much personal pain from finding out what Boris > and > > others in government were doing whilst at the > same > > time I was questioning whether I could visit / > hug > > my terminally ill father. > > > > A strong message needs to be sent to the > > Conservatives. > > Exactly this...My vote is less about local > politics and more a vote against Boris and his > cronies and their complete disregard for everyone > but themselves.