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With respect Penguin and John and whomever else votes "traditional" meaning status quo, not all parishioners and not all churches need or want reused dead earth for temporary interment. There is probably a (possibly vast) majority of newly evolved and evolving thought from every type and age of modern forward thinking and concerned citizen / resident who would actually love to respect and remember their dead in a lush green space on benches under trees ( go wild in imaging paradise) This is not a fantasy this is a reality that a struggle is playing out as a power and political grab for the last commonly held open space that in 20 years will be seen as insane. No one but politicians and well heeled and well fed church "leaders" is actually voting for reused graves. Every single complex and hidden on line and tucked into TRA halls at noon on a Thursday, every single consultation ranks lined up dug graves dead last with versions of meadows and tree burials and re-wildings vastly more popular. Consultations are idiotic and they are not binding so after they are done and the results don't suit some traditional church leaders who sell parishioner votes for the power of a dug grave they are chucked. Make Southwark do a statistical survey. And make sure that climate change and water and soil and mental health and clean air and overcrowding and school children with nowhere to wander wild; make sure that everyone deeply gets that they could have deep wild AND plaques on trees and dedicated benches and plaques on stepping stones and stones in water features and bridges through wilderness with plaques and all those endless plaques in perpetuity could be sold and the money for everyone including funeral directors would be the same and more. The value of trees however you cost it is hundreds of millions to billions. Period. The. End. All you can quarrel about is how many zeros after the first 100 million. Truly amazing that people like yourselves actually engage in how big is climate change and but my feeling might be hurt if I don't go into a hole for a few years to rot down until I get tossed out for the next dead body. If you don't get the dystopian future of baking heat with no respite to which we are headed well you can have fun labelling me or explaining further our desperate need for ticky tacky plastic tiny rectangular graves

Someone who walks a small dog with diarrhoea must stand and watch as their dog leaves drippy piles directly in front of my door several times a year. CCTV? Certainly a neighbour. sad bad slightly mad

Well you guess wrong Sue. Don't read or post on the thread is my advice to you and I'll wager without knowing you don't have anyone you need to be able to look square in the eye in 20 years and say you did your best

To everyone drawn to this thread: we all die so what happens then deserves a public debate in the modern light of air pollution climate change in perpetuity grave reuse alternative burial public open space wilderness and the human condition habitat loss I hope I do not have to list eninfinitum If you choose to trivialise this conversation like Donald Trump at this exact moment in time you have the power But might does not make you right And economically there's the same money to be made for funerals in woodlands and meadows and ashes. Pomp and ceremony and fetting is what people want end game a place to visit can be a woodland. Every time you breath you you inhale the entirety of what came before there's nothing sacred about a rectangle of dead ground for 40 years and what happens after is as long as endless string So everyone off your high moral horses. This is a polluted overpopulated world. I will be someone's ancestor and I'd prefer not to be cursed This is the same as breaking the unions and zero hour contracts No one at all is winning with the council's plan this is pure power and the land is public open space so I have the right to an opinion and like the overwhelming majority of residents I want new ideas and fresh air thinking

https://www.london.gov.uk/about-us/london-assembly/london-assemblys-current-investigations/bus-services#acc-i-45312 Have a look at this if you want to input into a consultation

Part of the cemeteries under discussion here are consecrated. What Blanche and FOCC are discussing is consecrated ground. Your point is completely understood Penguin68.

I sent off xmas cards nicely stamped and addressed with "airmail" stickers writ large and plain. Reverse side tiny tiny my address just in case. Who does the letter (1 in 10 times) get sent to? ME

London Planes eat pollution and shed to with their bark. Make all streets one way reduce the car traffic to 1/2 the street. Other lanes is now free for pedestrians and cyclists and trees or even verge agriculture. Discuss without hurting my feelings. I cry very easily.

Buses have numbers and there's the license plate the route direction and time of day. Badly driven buses cause enormous damage and loss of life. There is a huge effort to get a reporting system onto buses which is being fought with enormous industrial and political clout

This police and community response in tandem is exactly how to close the net. This is a great forum

Certainly in large part because of this thread the leaves are being attended to by the ?15,000 putt putting machine blocking rush hour traffic on Barry Rd from 8am to 9 at least this morning with what effect on leaves under cars etc. All our social problems just accumulate like aforementioned leaves because we never do simple and we don't look for world solutions Go outside and sweep your leaves; in the gutter as well. Pay a 10 year old to sweep your leaves Leaves are black gold mulch. People pay real money for leaf mulch

Thanks Fitch and everyone. I knew you'd know!

Anyone have an opinion about all the trees taken down on Dawson Heights? I guess there are pretty much 2 reactions: Great! and Too Bad. I'm in the too bad why were they chopped group and you?

Could you give more information? I don't live on Friern but nearby. Mode of entry?

All of the above we have 2. You can cook on them (a bit)

The threat to Dog Kennel Hill is here: https://belairpark.org.uk

I have also been having problems, Thanks!

Maybe organising ties? http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Plastic-Cable-Tie-and-Organizer/67858/bn_445432/i.html

I agree that people using a bicycle are considered to be targets for abuse from simply overtaking and then cutting sharp left across their path to death with no consequences. And of course this thread subject. I agree it might have been a sick initiation

Zebedee Tring I've also sent my complaint to the council https://forms.southwark.gov.uk/ShowForm.asp?fm_fid=276

more photos if needed about "repair" to pavement

Me again with the attached photos of pavement work done 17 Nov. Is this the lowest quality work you have ever seen done in any country anywhere? They dumped tar. They buried 19th century paving stone and cut curbs. Hideous. How much did this vulgar mess cost?

I add to the good wishes of everyone else. I cycled exactly there all this week.

It takes one full minute? less ? 2 minutes? to clear the leaves in front of your house. Do it. And let your wraith pour down on me . They are cutting youth services ffs

FYI the building site at Goose Green end of Crystal Palace: the builders power hose the leaves from the site into the gutter further on. Strikes me as not only lazy but also passing the work and cost to Southwark. With the condition of the water sewers I wonder how many more leaves will end up clogging the public purse in so so many ways. This is not considerate building imho