Useful Local information

[Penguin68]

The old Forum used to have a link (board) giving access to useful local information - such as Local Councillors' contacts and other similar information - I suspect that the data on it (some of which was out-of-date) might have been something that was saved during the hand-over. The information can of course, generally, be googled for, but it was useful to have it on one place. It would be good if something similar could be created (although clearly that is not an easy task). Maybe some of the information could be sourced from e.g. The Dulwich Society.

Just a thought - but I am really cognisant of your efforts and the continued success of what was, in effect, a virtually seamless migration onto a generally user friendly platform.

[Joe]

You can find a copy of the old 'Local Info' page here. Obviously not up to date - the list of Councillors is very old.

Adding extra content like this to the forum is on my TODO list. It will be beneficial for people living in and moving to the area. Another potential benefit is improving the forum's search engine optimisation (SEO), so people searching for something like 'East Dulwich transport links' or 'Southwark Council Services' would find an article on this website.

Some ideas I had (feel free to suggest more)

• General introduction to East Dulwich, e.g. history, local parks
  
• Southwark Council services (council tax payment, parking info, libraries etc)
  
• Transport links in East Dulwich (info about train services, buses)
  
• Local pubs
  

[Penguin68]

In addition information about parking (costs, restrictions, timing, particular in Parks such as Dulwich and Belair) would be of value. And possibly links to sites offering travel information - such as real-time train times from local stations (inc. Honor Oak park and Forest Hill which are of value to those in the east of 'our' area). Indeed links to 'live' sites might mean that some of the updating chore is outsourced. As more people access the EDF from mobiles that becomes, perhaps, a real and immediate value.

A Link to this site (when they bother to put in the Councillor information!) would be of value, and would mean councillor information wasn't up to you to update

https://communitysouthwark.org/dulwich/#:~:text=Councillors%20represent%20their%20areas%2C%20or%20wards%2C%20to%20the,councillors.%20All%20seats%20are%20occupied%20by%20labour%20candidates.

[OutOfFocus]

This link is useful

https://www.writetothem.com/

Put your postcode in and it gives your councillor, MP and London Assembly members