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if behind the scenes, insider, first to know and even make it happen is the real you? become a friend of stopkillingcyclists on Facebook

http://www.peckhamvision.org This is what is happening right now on the ground politically on Rye lane and at Peckham Rye Station. So if you'd like to put your money where your virtual mouth is...

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The last farm house where the last farmers son died in the 1920's (????) was just ripped down with no planning objections to build ? flats: north end of Court Lane

I just heard Cameron on Radio 4 talk about ripping up regulation. To add to stories, in the early 2000's there was talk of "digging" into / under Dawson Heights on the Dunstan's side to build a school! It is endlessly exhausting that "government" has no firm moral compass that all victories to save green land exhaust volunteers and are in danger as soon as the volunteers grow old and look away rus in urbe, phr. [? The creation of an illusion of the countryside in a city; an urban building, garden, prospect, etc., which suggests the countryside. Also attrib.?] Pronunciation: Brit. /ˌruːs ɪn ˈəːbeɪ/, /ˌruːs ɪn ˈʊəbeɪ/, U.S. /ˌrus ɪn ˈərbi/, /ˌrus ɪn ˈərbeɪ/ Etymology: < classical Latin rūs in urbe country in city (Martial 12. 57. 18) < rūs country (see rural adj.) + in in prep.2 + urbe, ablative of urbs city (see urban adj.). The creation of an illusion of the countryside in a city; an urban building, garden, prospect, etc., which suggests the countryside. Also attrib. 1728 J. Oldmixon Bouhours' Arts Logick & Rhetorick iii. 284 He [sc. Tasso] never went out of the Woods in his Aminta: But we shall see presently 'twas Rus in Urbe. 1795 tr. C. P. Moritz Trav. Eng. 68 In Grosvenor-square..there is a little circular wood, intended, no doubt, to give one the idea of rus in urbe. 1841 Thackeray in Fraser's Mag. 24 393/2 A very handsome country place..a first-rate rus in urbe, as the great auctioneer called it when he hammered it down. 1873 A. J. Munby Diary 21 May in D. Hudson Munby (1972) 330 P. A. Taylor is going to sell this charming rus in urbe; ample widespreading old country house, with timbered lawns, and acres of garden. 1939 ?N. Blake? Smiler with Knife ii. 33 This..is a remarkably non-committal room. Not so much rus in urbe as surburbia in rure. 1968 Times 15 Oct. 7/1 It is a natural progression of the rus in urbe feeling of fashion this autumn. 2000 A. Sayle Barcelona Plates 132 Katherine though had not chosen the house for its rus in urbe charms but rather for its proximity to the Law Courts. Derivatives rus-in-ˈurbe-ish adj. 1759 T. Gray Let. 24 July in Corr. (1971) II. 631, I am now settled in my new territories commanding Bedford gardens, and all the fields as far as Highgate and Hampstead..so rus-in-urbe-ish, that I believe I shall stay here. 1793 E. D. Clarke Tour S. Eng. iii. 144 There is, to use an expression of Gray's, something so rus-in-urbe-ish in the whole of it [sc. the Crescent], that I would chuse a house in that edifice, when compared with one in the Circus. 1850 Southey's Common-place Bk. 3rd ser. 86/2 Gray's rus-in-urbe-ish situation near the Museum. 1936 London Topographical Rec. 17 63 The rus-in-urbe-ish character of Bloomsbury.

araucaria Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > "The key point is that by itself without external > intervention, Peckham has been creating from > within a whole set of enterprises right across the > cultural and creative industries and across four > linked sites in the town center. They are thriving > while left alone, but heavy handed regeneration > will kill them off. It is likely to be a fiasco > and will kill the golden goose that has made > Peckham such a hot spot in the first place." > > http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-michael-petry/p > eckham-in-peril_b_4643580.html I completely agree/ I find it very disturbing that an elected political class is so uninterested in celebrating the work of Peckham Vision/ the people living and working in Peckham and so interested in securing their own next jobs with the developers they're giving the green light There's a ring of high rise blocks that will circle Peckham on the north being planned. The height of these blocks will completely change view lines from existing buildings and they'll change forever the real villages Peckham and Nunhead were.

A knife was used to steal a phone and wallet and all cards and id on Saturday at about 5pm on the estate just north of Sainsbury's. Three teenagers surrounded a grown man. Strategy to prevent this?

Anyone make the commute from SE22/ 15 thereabouts to Lydd thereabouts: Tuesday/ Wednesday or Friday who wants to carpool and share costs? Don't know if you don't ask! So I'm asking, thanks

They came to me on Upland Wednesday at 7pmish

are squatters also in the just emptied industrial space on Crystal Palace RD at Goose Green next to the Leisure Center?

The officer in charge of the Metropolitan Police's Operation Safeway has agreed to meet Stop Killing Cyclists, the week after next. What issues re policing and cycling in London would you like to see raised? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03pjfj3?p_f_added=urn%3Abbc%3Aradio%3Aprogramme%3Ab03pjfj3

London Tonight (ITV) did a special feature tonight (just after 6pm) on the re-issued guidance from the Ministry for Transport (Cycling Minister Robert Goodwill) on Pavement Cycling that was given to Stop Killing Cyclists following representations to the Minister for Transport Lady Kramer. The Ecologist have also taken up the story: http://www.theecologist.org/blogs_and_comments/commentators/2237338/metropolitan_police_stop_persecuting_cyclists.html

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5 volunteers needed from Southwark. A deputation is scheduled to Southwark Council pressing for better cycling facilities on the evening of 22nd January, on behalf of Stop Killing Cyclists. The theme of the meeting is active lives for older people and so will be pointing out the need for safer cycling infrastructure needed for older people. Very few pensioners cycling in London - yet in other cities like Tokyo loads of pensioners cycle, due to fact it is easier to cycle on sore joints than it is to walk and the safe infrastructure allows them to do so. You would not have to talk, 6 people are needed to part of a group

if anyone wants to get involved Southwark Living Streets might be of interest: Two things ? 1. January Meeting, 2. Bits and Pieces 1. January Meeting. Please come along to our monthly meeting this Thursday 16th January. The meeting starts at 7pm. PLEASE NOTE NEW VENUE. We are meeting at the Royal Oak PH, 44 Tabard St London SE1 4JU. The agenda for the meeting is as follows: 1. Welcome, introductions and apologies. 2. Minutes of November meeting; matters arising. 3. Southwark Plan ? focus on High Streets 4. May 2014 Local Elections. 5. SE1 Safe Roads/Borough Babies ? Borough High Street Crossings Campaign. 6. Camberwell Update. 7. Cycling Infrastructure ? update on Central London Grid, Quietways and proposed north-south Superhighway. 8. February meeting AGM and finances. 9. Venue for future meetings. 10. Any other issues people would like to raise. 2. Bits & Pieces. Hope these are of interest. a. Short film (5 minutes) on the changes to streets in New York over the past 5 years from Streetfilms. http://www.fastcoexist.com/3024382/a-video-history-of-new-york-citys-bike-lanes-from-deadly-days-to-today b. Film (10 mins) on the history of Open Streets across the world c. TED talk on Walkability ? fabulous talk by Jeff Speck on Walkability in the US d. Consultation event ? High Streets in Southwark. The planning policy team are holding an event on Saturday 18th Jan at the ASDA on the Old Kent Road. This is how they are billing it: On Saturday 18 January we are holding a community conversation about local high streets. High streets and town centres will be a specific focus of the New Southwark Plan, and we'd really like to hear you views on what's great, and not so great, about our high streets. The event will be held in Asda on the Old Kent Road on Saturday 18 January. Please come along at any time between 10am and 3pm. Officers will be on hand to discuss issues around Old Kent Road (or other high streets) and there is a short survey.

Cycling is allowed on the pavement but it has to meet very well defined legal guidelines : very young, very old, very controlled with clear deference to pedestrian welfare. This was confirmed within this last week and I'll post that confirmation: from the meeting with the Minister for Transport Susan Kramer: I have just received a letter from Robert Goodwill, who is the Tory "Minister" for cycling, following my meeting with Susan Kramer, the ib Dem LMinister for Transport. Whilst the letter covers only a few of the cycling safety issues I raised with Susan, it does cover my request for ministerial clarification on the guidance for implementation of the fixed penalty fines for pavement cycling. This follows my being told by Operation Safeway police that they had been instructed by their senior officers to ignore the guidance and to implement the letter of the law instead. The GOOD news is the minister re-endorsed the original guidance by the Minister who introduced the fines, Paul Boateng which was : "'The introduction of the fixed penalty is not aimed at responsible cyclists who sometimes feel obliged to use the pavement out of fear of the traffic, and who show consideration to other pavement users when doing so. Chief police officers, who are responsible for enforcement, acknowledge that many cyclists, particularly children and young people, are afraid to cycle in the road... sensitivity and careful use of police discretion is required " This was one of the issues the Vauxhall Cross Demo was addressing. He also gives a potential positive to our suggestion that the DoT should be monitoriing what local councils are doing on cycling, so that the data can be examined and compared and badly performing councils identified and held to account. I have attached the letter as a file. Yes We Can! thanks Donnachadh

check out the Facebook group: Stop Killing Cyclists It started after the spate of killings and has 1500 + members

http://www.london24.com/news/protest_group_stop_killing_cyclists_turn_tables_on_tfl_with_provocative_poster_campaign_1_3193260 Stop Killing Cyclists and thinking there's some excuse

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retention_basin http://www.susdrain.org http://www.intechopen.com/download/get/type/pdfs/id/10998 I dispare t the lack of political imagination, will, intellect, foresight, leadership based on integrated/ analysed knowledge and so forth. We could, almost, have "it all" but we hire in politicians who crave control and who groom contractors for their own benefit

It's the dynamic of how people talk depending on who's in the room. The conversation on a major highway and the people talking are car drivers and HGV drivers is identical to the conversation on a city street where the people talking are car drivers and cyclists. HGV to car driver: you t**t. Car driver to cyclist: You T**t. Just an observation.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/video/great-escape-car-smashes-lorry-121900903.html?vp=1 This is not so much about the Yahoo story about a car driver who almost took out the M25 recently and the quick thinking HGV Driver who saved Xmas for a lot of people and himself from a lawsuit? This is about the comments about how people drive that follow the story.

Selectively, most important first, start to insulate the rooms if you're going to stay there. Same for the windows if they're not double glazed. Divide the house up by say 5 years and do 1/5 of the house a year. Include the floors. You'll end up with a great house. Insulation is just slabs on walls and repainting. Grants you qualify for? And what everyone else said as well

http://lcc.org.uk/articles/cyclehoop-brings-dutch-style-secure-residential-cycle-parking-to-six-london-boroughs I think they are still offering bike hangers