What can the council do to make things easier during COVID-19?

[first mate]

Tackle your local councillor.

[snoopy17]

are libraries opening next week?

[tradingfiddle]

Hi James

Please can you confirm when work to install signage and markings for the East Dulwich CPZ will resume as we currently have some roads completed and others not.

Please can you also confirm when the East Dulwich CPZ will be implemented as parking and traffic levels are increasing.

Thanks

jamesmcash Wrote:

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> Dear all,

>

> My understanding is that the East Dulwich CPZ will

> be delayed. The Peckham West CPZ is already in

> motion so will go ahead but with an extended

> warning period so that no one received a penalty

> until it is possible to move cars. This is on top

> of the general restriction of parking enforcement

> down to just serious contraventions (unsafe

> parking etc, which needs to be dealt with even

> during a crisis).

>

> Best wishes

> James

[jamesmcash]

Hi all,

Agree about the toilets - I will push for them to reopen asap.

Re CPZs, the Peckham West one is now in operation. Peckhamgatecrasher - if you have been fined and were not given adequate notice that it would come into effect I may be able to get your fine written off. Drop me an email with details.

Tradingfiddle - work on the East Dulwich CPZ has recommenced but I don't have a date for when it will go live yet.

Best wishes

James

[AllisonAdler]

Thank you, James!

[goldilocks]

Thanks James - would re -echo comments about the toilets in Dulwich park. Toilets have been open in motorway service stations throughout, the royal parks are trialling opening too.

We need the facilities re opening but with plenty of soap - people need to carry hand sanitiser to use preferably before and after. Closing the toilets indefinitely is not the answer though - people are using the bushes, it is horrible and needs urgently addressing by providing access to public toilets.

[Earl Aelfheah]

James - will there be any temporary widening of pavements to make it possible to social distance? Walking in the road in order to pass someone, is becoming increasingly dangerous.

[Rockets]

The government has just said, during the daily briefing, that councils have been instructed that public facilities (including toilets) should be open.

James, any update?

[AllisonAdler]

An absolutely huge and heartfelt thanks to James and the Council for Dulwich Park loos being reopened!

[Froglander]

Pick up of food waste bins and brown garden refuse bins is being missed. Is anyone else having this problem.

[siousxiesue]

AllisonAdler Wrote:

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> An absolutely huge and heartfelt thanks to James

> and the Council for Dulwich Park loos being

> reopened!

Brilliant news!

[BrandNewGuy]

Froglander Wrote:

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> Pick up of food waste bins and brown garden refuse

> bins is being missed. Is anyone else having this

> problem.

Yes! I daren't open my food waste bin, which hasn't been emptied for a couple of months. I don't have space for composting, so unfortunately all my kitchen peelings etc go into the general rubbish.

[Froglander]

jamesmcash Wrote:

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> Hi all,

>

> Agree about the toilets - I will push for them to

> reopen asap.

>

> Re CPZs, the Peckham West one is now in operation.

> Peckhamgatecrasher - if you have been fined and

> were not given adequate notice that it would come

> into effect I may be able to get your fine written

> off. Drop me an email with details.

>

> Tradingfiddle - work on the East Dulwich CPZ has

> recommenced but I don't have a date for when it

> will go live yet.

>

> Best wishes

> James

Hello, can you please investigate the non pickup of food and garden waste please? Considering Southwark is now charging an annual fee for the garden refuse bins, an explanation would be most welcome.

[Pugwash]

We have weekly collections for our refuse including the food waste - they do not always come the same time but anytime on Tuesdays.

[Penguin68]

My collection also works well, although a new crew once did miss kerbside caddies put on garden walls (wasn't looking up). Luckily I spotted that and he did then pick the the caddies. Apart from that I've seen no problems in Underhill. If your caddy isn't at the front of the property on the pavement (or on another bin) it may be missed.

[Froglander]

See the other thread I?ve posted on where others have reported non collection.

[jamesmcash]

Hi all

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the sunshine!

Park toilets

As noted above, I pushed for the parks toilets to be reopened and they have been. Hurray! Get in touch if there's any further issues.

Pavement widening

It is possible that this can be considered in the next tranche of traffic measures. Please make sure they are logged on the commonplace map.

That said, I cannot promise anything. We are constrained by lack of funding. And we want to make sure all measures are carefully considered for potential negative effects.

Food waste collections

Thanks for raising this. Please make sure you report these missed collections on this form https://www.southwark.gov.uk/bins-and-recycling/general-household-waste/report-a-missed-collection

The Waste Management team are normally very good at rectifying any mistakes. But if there continue to be any issues please let me know by email, specifying your address.

Best wishes,

James

[rjsmall]

jamesmcash Wrote:

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> Pavement widening

> It is possible that this can be considered in the

> next tranche of traffic measures. Please make sure

> they are logged on the commonplace map.

>

> That said, I cannot promise anything. We are

> constrained by lack of funding. And we want to

> make sure all measures are carefully considered

> for potential negative effects.

So the council can find the money to go against pretty strong public opinion in order to close roads and alter traffic flows at the Dulwich Village intersection (a couple of years after re-doing it) yet you want to use the excuse that there is a lack of money and even more laughably that you want to make sure all measures are carefully considered.

The situation is starting to feel like a practical joke.

[first mate]

Just think CPZ...money!

[Rockets]

The plastic barriers Lambeth have put up around Loughborough Junction don't look like they cost much at all and seem to have been repurposed from somewhere else. Why isn't Southwark able to do the same around East Dulwich - it seems our council has been so focused on fast-tracking their road closures through that they have neglected any actual Covid assistance measures for the majority of residents.

It is ludicrous they have done nothing to assist social distancing on Lordship Lane.

[Jakido]

It would appear that no schemes are being put forward for aiding social distancing / widening pavements / increased bike racks / reducing traffic flows on the lordship lane:

http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHome.aspx?IId=50023147&Opt=0

[wonderwoman]

I've reported this on commonspace already, it's been a problem even before the C19 pandemic. The bushes outside the block between Christchurch and the corner Florist on Barry Road/Lordship Lane is overgrown. This narrows the pavement making it difficult for people to walk without going into the road. During school run its particularly busy. It makes it v difficult to socially distance safely. Can something be done about this quickly? Getting so fed up I may take a machete to it myself!

[Earl Aelfheah]

Jakido Wrote:

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> It would appear that no schemes are being put

> forward for aiding social distancing / widening

> pavements / increased bike racks / reducing

> traffic flows on the lordship lane:

>

> http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgIssueHistoryHo

> me.aspx?IId=50023147&Opt=0

Yep, the main shopping street in the area and the council has absolutely nothing to help people social distance, or make it easier for businesses to reopen. It's actually pretty negligent.

[Earl Aelfheah]

They should have put plastic barriers up in order to widen the pavements, months ago.

[Earl Aelfheah]

Here is what Wandsworth have been doing to help businesses and to create space for people. Compare and contrast with Lordship Lane: