CPR Dave

I genuinely don't understand how people are still surprised that the Labour Party want to tax and spend. It's all they've ever done.

What sort of things do they sell there?

It looks like the Dulwich Society did object alongside a whole host of nimby boomers who are scared witless by progress and change. Also looks like there were no issues from Southwark in the preapplciation consultation so it seems it's come down entirely to the public objections.

The most insulting part of that for me was them telling the residents that if they insisted on a Councillor answering their complaints they'd have to come back when the relevant person came back from adoptive leave. No one else was prepared to look into it and come to the meeting to help them.

The people who live here, and the people who work here in our shops and cafes and pubs and restaurants. There are lots of very genuine caring people everywhere here.

Heh at the pavements as the first item. This must be a troll thread. The pavements are literally covered in dog shit, they get cleaned only once every three months, there is litter and detritus all over them, the have pot holes and cracked slabs and whole streets made of tarmac which sticks to your shoes in summer and cracks with frozen water in winter and mostly has tree roots growing through. The ones that are lucky enough to still have a public bin on them (barely any these days) are also covered in rubbish strewn all over by the foxes rats and pigeons that the council don't seem to do much about. The pavements are a hazard. If they are really one of the first positives for the council then we are truly screwed.

That review from Andy Hayler is exceptional. All he does is travel the world reviewing the very best restaurants. He's one of the finest restaurant critics there is and his praise is not easily won. To receive such an excellent review from him is wonderful. The team at Kokum must be very pleased with that and it is well deserved.

Do you have a link to that scrutiny session video please? I can't see it on the usual YouTube channel. Many thanks.

Every day I trust them less and less...

What Ford say is utterly irrelevant tbh. They haven't made a car in the UK for over 20 years and never will make one here again. In fact they sacked 20% of their work force here earlier this year and have plans to sack twice as many again in the next two years. They make their cars in Turkeyi and Spain so who cares what they say.

I'm so sorry to hear this. It all sounds grossly unfair. The local Councillors used to post on here to help with problems like this but none of them bother any more. You could try contacting them through here https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1 Also, I would post this in the main forum that gets more views and less unhelpful anti-car gibberish from people who live outside London.

There's another leak I saw this morning in Hindmans Road that will become quite large in the next day or so, ifbits not fixed. Presumably in the near future these leaks will just be used to water all of the mini parklets we will have graciously bestowed upon us.

I hope the "nearby school" gets on top of this very quickly. The local schools here have good reputations and it would be a shame if that were affected by something like this. We need good schools here for the future because soon we won't be allowed out by the council for more than 15 minutes.

Well, I guess they won in the end. They aren't even from East Dulwich.

It was either naive or stupid for One Dulwich to believe this meeting would be held in good faith. They should have just gone straight over the head of this guy. He comes across to me as a disingenuous timewaster.

Agree with Ella, and if this is true the parents of the perpetrators are likely to live locally and of they see this can help bring justice to the victims

Do these morons really think they can build houses in the middle of the f***ing roads???

ULEZ working well then.

Interesting though that he hasn't abandoned his plans to use the ULEZ (and all other traffic enforcement and CCTV cameras) to implement Pay per Mile driving charges. Given the appallingly duplicitous nature of most announcements by Labour on anything to do with privately owned cars I expect he will actually try to implement a zero ICE car policy inside the North / South circular by permitting them but charging people hugely exploitative amounts of money for driving in that zone. See Southwark Labour's charging policy for CPZ permits as an example of this sort of snakey behaviour.

It's the CO2 that is the issue. Nitrogen Oxides are similar in density to air and mix/dilute If this were actually the case then ULEZ, which discriminates against cars with lower CO2 emissions and higher NOx emissions, would be a total waste of time. Oh.

Good luck Luca and many thanks for your hard work and hospitality over the years It was a lovely cafe and store you built.

Would love to contribute but these costs seem high and it would be disappointing if, say, £10k was raised for the preliminary stage and the initial advice was then that the chances of the JR succeeding were hopeless. It would also be quite annoying if the advice was that there was a good prospect but to proceed further you then need to raise even more money. Have you shopped around for fee quotes? Can you not get a quote that is all in - i.e. includes the initial advice and the cost of the application and court proceedings? You could also look at a direct access barrister specialising in local government public law to cut the costs of the initial review. You need to get as much bang for your buck as possible to better your chances.

Dont be a divvy Chicken. The CPZs that you and your fellow councillors are proposing do nothing more to allow anyone else who wants to to occupy that space. You're still reserving it for cars. You're just making people pay for keeping their cars there some of the time. Pretending you are freeing up that space is either utterly disingenuous or just a bit dim.

That article reflects very badly on both Coty Hall and the scientists, from my perspective of it. The only saving grace for the academic institution is that it seems some scientists there are not prepared to be cowed by the Mayor's PR team. Good for them. I was also pretty shocked that the Mayor is prepared to rely on pad for research that is not peer reviewed. That isn't science in my book at least.

This just isn't true. The vast majority of London has streets with free parking on it 24 hours a day. 90 percent of the new extended ULEZ has no CPZ whatsoever. There are areas of central where you have to pay for parking sometimes, but even then at least 60% of the time, even in Zone 1 anyone and everyone can park for free on almost every single street.