CPR Dave

He's clearly riding two horses: Still the one where he said he would only put CPZs in where residents asked for them (when his own Goose Green residents also turned up to meetings with tempers running high with an overwhelming turnout) but also ; The new one where we have to put in CPZs regardless of resident consent for the sake of equity exclusively amongst residents of Southwark. I guess he's thinking his clever trick will be to make Goose Green an island of free parking that is swamped with cars from Dulwich Hill and Dulwich Village parking on our streets so that he has the last laugh when the 68% go begging to him on their knees asking for a CPZ here, and he can pretend he never reneged on his original promise.

Agreed Richard. Good work, thank you.

Good idea Richard. The more coordinated and momentous the opposition, the more chance it will have of succeeding. Might be worth getting in touch with One Dulwich too to see if they have any pointers and pitfalls to avoid.

Maldives and Mauritius are better fir winter sun.

I'm not surprised. They are a terrible eyesore. The state of the parklets near East Dulwich Station is appalling. It looks like a slum round there.

Julian I think you need to get some of those other petitions cancelled and have just the best one that everyone signs. You need to get 500+ signatories to have any impact so 4 petitions with 200 signatories each is hopeless.

I wouldn't make any such assumptions with this council.

It's such a bum argument. Where is the equality for people in Southwark paying for parking when, two hours a day aside, there is no charge at all for residents from outside the Borough. And no charge whatsoever if they just drive through polluting our streets, using our roads and they don't stop amd park. Theres no equity in that.

I just feel like they've been lying about this for years. They always intended to do it, with or without public support

Utter nonsense as it goes. Just like everything else Malumbu trolls on about on here. Would be better if they stuck to their own local forum where they live, although unfortunately there are no LTNs, CPZs, or 20 mph speed limits in Bromley.

I think this is a done deal tbh, It's a shame because it will push up house prices even more and squeeze poor people out of the area, further consolidating East Dulwich as an enclave for the rich upper classes. Hope for the sake of the people behind this policy that those kind of residents believe in the "equality" mission and keep on voting Labour.,

They used to publish an annual parking monitoring report. They seem to have stopped that in 2019, presumably because they were embarrassed about how much net profit they were milking from residents. This is the last published data showing the surplus made from parking charges in the five years to 2018/19: Financial Year: 2014/15 2015/16 2016/17 2017/18 2018/19 Surplus: £5,152,000 £6,015,000 £6,796,000 £6,113,000 £7,025,000 https://www.southwark.gov.uk/assets/attach/11828/Annual-Report-on-Parking-and-funding-2018-19-.pdf They said they were going to continue publishing parking data "in future Movement Plan Annual Monitoring Reports from 2019/20. This document will cover parking and funding data during the transition year" but I can't find those anywhere. In fact they haven't even been able to publish audited accounts since 2019/20. They have published three sets of unaudited annual accounts since then. https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/key-documents/statement-of-accounts

They are probably just trying to save the environment., 20mph creates more emissions than 30 mph and is killing people and their lungs,

None of that is relevant to allowing people to keep cars as long as they pay more tax for paving slabs and benches every 110m Malumbum. This policy is not about saving the planet or even lowering emissions. It's about allowing people to carry on driving cars but picking their pockets at the same time. Labour have abandoned their Green New Deal, they don't even pretend to care about "tree huggers" or the climate anymore. They just want to tax people they have decided are rich.

6m of double yellow lines to move one car back a bit. The person who complained about this hampering their private car park seems very selfish and not good at driving. https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s115518/Appendix 15 Crystal Palace Road.pdf

That's your claim, not theirs. Their claim is that this about social justice. Nothing to do with "the largest crisis humanity has ever faced" (obscene language by the way in context of certain appalling genocides, some of which the left like to wash over, of course). There's evidence on another thread that this only about making people people pay more money to use the roads for car storage.

might well do so next time out. By then there will a right/centrist labour government failing spectacularly in a recession and a labour council who've gone round picking the pockets of all their constituents thinking they could get away with anything in the middle of a cost of living crisis. Seems ripe pickings to me. Not sure the incumbents have thought that far ahead.

It's unbelievably slippery.

They won't worry about though because self defeating morons keep voting them back in!

"Change of CPZ approach and says it’s required as a matter of justice - non car owners should not subsidise use of public space by car owners etc." outrageous. Why can't they just be honest. The only part of the council budget that is in surplus is roads, paid for by car owners.

Modern major general, have the council told you what action they will take in response to your epetition on their website? It seems to me that is a crucial piece of the campaign and you need to get as many signatures as you can, preferably more than 500

This is moronic. If everyone has switched to compliant cars then it has by definition solved the problem it set out to - anything other than ultra low emissions. The only possible way it would solve "nothing" would be if its sole purpose was not to reduce emissions but instead to pick peoples pockets with a greenwashing stealth tax. And we know full well that Labour and the LTN / ULEZ lobby would never be so dishonest.

I really like this pub but it's a bit hit and miss at the weekends whether it will be open or not as they are regularly closed for weddings and they don't seem to warn in advance on their website. So I often end up somewhere else on Saturdays just to avoid the disappointment of not being allowed in!!

There's nothing at all logical about people stealing from shops. That's a very dangerous tweet from the cyclists. If this activist was in a regulated profession she would have lost her livelihood for stealing that poster. If she was in my company she would have been summarily dismissed for this. Her pass would have been cancelled before she even got to work the next day. In my business we just can't trust people who thieve stuff that doesn't belong to them and nor will our customers.

I agree with you Nigello, it should be a case of turn up and swim if there's space in the pool. People can work out themselves which times are busy and suit them best. That always worked in the past, apart from for the family swim where there would massive queues 45 minutes before it started and loads of disappointed kids at the end of the line.