CPR Dave

It's more scummy price gouging of local people from the mean council that we pay to serve us.

Those residents will just leave if you attack them so. I think the childless singletons on the council have no idea what it's like living round here trying to provide your child with a rounded upbringing. The families will just move further out though where they can own a car (however cheap and old - another point of attack from the council and the Mayor) and access services and facilities which this Borough puts out of reach of normal people. It's already happened elsewhere in Southwark. Shiny new flats are purpose built for renty overseas landlords replacing estates built for families, causing closures of schools and dentists and GP surgeries and local shops. And none of those landlords ever buy a parking permit.

I've been to Hisar recently and it was very poor. Way below the standards it used to meet.

[quote]The residents parking system was not introduced in order to reduce local car ownership but to reduce outsiders coming in and parking[/unquote] This was an obvious lie that 68% of respondents at the tine saw through. The CPZs were introduced here primarily as a stealth tax that could be increased at will year on year and secondarily as a Marxist plot to banish private car ownership. The other comparable is having a garden. The council don't like people owning their own private gardens so introduced the garden waste stealth tax too.

I think there are loads more children here now than there were even 5 years ago. Some new houses have been built on the site of various old pre fab bungalows. There's been lots of infill housing built around Friern and Barry Roads. Lots of new houses going up where the Audi garage used to be. About 15 new flats went up in the space above the old House of Tippler. And there're been various other new apartment buildings like the Old Police Station and the Tribeca and the block on Ferris Road. Many new houses all over tbf.

Yes, sorry about that. Weirdly this appeared at the top of my list of posts. Maybe I'd accidentally reversed the date order.

Wonder what Peter Walker makes of that.

One of the cyclists will be along in a moment to tell you that there is no war on motorists and Southwark have never said they want to end private car ownership in the Borough.

If people knew how to drive they would realise that you are allowed into the yellow box to turn right. You could probably get four or five cars out beyond the white line before the first car overshot the turn. All of them could keep going right after the light has turned red if they are beyond the white line before it changes. That would speed the traffic flows and make a big difference there. People don't know how to drive though.

...or the rats.

Yes, they definitely aren't teenage terrapins any more. Been there a long time.

It will be great for the families and good for lordship Lane to have a business with a rent covenant as strong as the previous tenant. I took hope Monkatsu is not affected. I've nit tried the sushi there either but last time I was in there a fishmonger from Moxons was inside eating the sushi so the fish must surely be top notch.

It's going to be absolute carnage. All the traffic that comes down Crystal Palace Road to avoid the logjam on Lordship Lane is going to find itself completely screwed. No right turn on East Dulwich Road, no option to go straight jn and the section down to the roundabout is going to be even more grid locked than usual. Once people are inside the West Peckham CPZ area they will be trapped having to head back to Nigel Road to get out if they don't want a fine. They needed to change some of them there restrictions to eas pressure. This scheme is as gormless as all the others the council have come up with recently.

Make sure to get some photos of the newly iconic East Dulwich Poundland Locals. Extra points if you can catch someone coming out with their shopping in a Waitrose bag for life.

That is absolutley scandalous.

The 5.49 one he is on the wrong side of the road as well as going through a red light. If he's doing that with his children in the box at the front then he should be prosecuted for child abuse and have his kids taken into care.

Can see it now - East Dulwich people shopping in M and S but carrying their groceries home in their Poundland bag for life.

Won't that review be carried out by Rachel Aldred then?

Actually Malumbu parents didn't care less about strangers being encouraged to turn up at schools in 1973. In 2023 we don't want weirdos coming along to our schools to impose their views on our children uninvited. It's you that needs to get with the times.

Dog Kennel Hill, You might have had a point if the OP and the flyer attached were an invite only to teachers. But it is there to specifically encourage people who are not teachers to attend a picket. And the list of picket lines includes schools which managed to stay open the last time there were strikes. So it looks like an invitation for non-teacher strangers to attend schools that are going to be open at the same time parents trying to drop children off, which looks very shoddy to me. Very low rent indeed. I note that the OP hasn't been back to address any of this either.

Does Peckham Plex pay its staff the London Living wage?

The OP is inviting all and sundry. Not teachers.

Yes I think they are.

Even the timing seems targeted at parents and children. It looks very shoddy to me.

Are these schools all going to be completely closed? I think it would be utterly appalling to picket primary schools that are open to educate young children. Can you give any assurance that your picket lines won't be intimidating young children trying to attend any of these schools that will open on Thursday?