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Spangles30 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > well, that message from TFL is a vast improvement > from previous messages. Everyone with a vested > interest should contact them! I think you are right, they have had at least 3 or 4 letters/Emails so far, if they recieve a few more (hopefully a lot more) they may take some real notice.

I recieved this from TFL this morning: Our Ref: 686476/1 AJ Date: 11 June 2008 Dear Mr ******** Thank you for your email. We continually monitor the bus network to see if any changes can be made to improve the level of service offered to passengers. The suggestions we receive from passengers are an important part of this process. You offer a very good suggestion to extend the 63 service. Our Network Planners were very interested in your ideas and have assured me your comments will kept on file for serious consideration when the service is next reviewed. Thank you for taking the time to write to us. If I can be of any further help, please feel free to contact me. Yours sincerely Ashlie Jackson Customer Services

The first thing that struck me when I saw the size of the block on DKH was the fact that it would block out the natural light to the houses next to them and the view from their gardens. If you have a look on Google maps at DKH, you will see at least the first two houses are in the shadow of the block.

Quote, "It was late - like 2 or 3 am. Kicking out time in the Bishop basically." Maybe too many beers!!!

Ebbrell79 You said "One of them took my phone on the sly". If that is so, how do you know one of them took it and that you did not just drop it? spc

If the 63 went over the hill, down past Honor Oak train station, it could terminate at the bottom of the hill, on Brockley Rise (other routes terminate/wait there) and then turn around and head back toward Kings Cross. The 363 could just be left to go on the Crystal Palace. Although they would have to sort out the parking on Honor Oak Park as you come down the hill, just before the station, as the small hop on and off buses sometimes get stuck there.

It's my understanding it's a private road and therefore the public have no right of way, Dulwich Estates charges people for the privalige of using it. I believe if they did not charge, after a few years of drivers using it unrestricted, it would lose it private status and become a public right of way. I've not used the road for years (since they started charging again). If the road is that bad why do people still use it? A word of warning! If you have an accident on College road your insurance company will not pay out, as it is private property. This happened to a friend of my some years ago (another reason I don't use it).

A friend's son was robbed of his bike and phone, by two older boys a couple of weeks ago, the police were very good. One of the two muggers was arrested within three days and is awaiting his day in court on remand. The system does work sometimes (but maybe not enough).

Hi Luca9853, I lived in Wingfield St (just off Maxted Rd) for 35 years, it was a great place to grow up, the area went down hill a little in the 90's. It's been on the up though over the last few years since I moved out of the area, not that I think that there is a connection between the two! I think it's more to do with the money spent on the area by Southwark Council, under the Bellenden Regenaration. I would say the only problem with Maxted road is the traffic (it's part of a cut through) and the parking or lack of it. Not that it would stop me living there, you have to put up with minor inconveniences when in live in an inner city area.

Why done you not report what you saw to the Police and the Council and let them look into it.

There is no such thing as normal, ED is made up of all sorts of people, and that's what makes it a great place to live (that and the parks and convenience for central London). The only thing wrong with ED from where i'm sitting, are the people who think they are better than the rest of us. Who seem more interested in what everyone else is doing and looking down their noses at them, than getting on with their own lives.

Allfornun, Once again I think you are missing my point, I AM NOT OPPOSED TO A SCHOOL being built on the plot. Just because I made a negative comment. But it has to be suitable for the size and location. I may be wrong about the size of Hollydale Rd, but not about Peckham Rye and the traffic. I never said this school or any other school was going to destroy the fabric of society, I said ANYTHING built on the old school will have an inpact on my life, (I didn't even say a negative inpact, if it's a pub or shop etc it could be positive) but I do believe it will be negative even if only small, but we need a new school and it has to go somewhere. This thread is about the inpact people felt the new school would have on Piermont Green, I was only commenting on that and responding to your post. As I said before I think the school will have little or no direct inpact on the green, but I do believe it will have an inpact on the area, positive for the families needing school places and negative for people living near the school due to noise and congestion (but if people cannot put up with a little extra noise and congestion the shouldn't live in a city). Although my main concern is for the safety of the pupils and their education if the wrong size and design of school is built.

I've not measured the roads but I would say peckham rye is narrower in places. if there are cars parked opposite each other there is only room for one car to pass, where on Hollydale, two car can pass each other, even if it is a tight. There has been at least one death and several serious injuries directly out the old school and that was sometime ago before the rise in congestion (and that was with under 400 pupils, few of whom were dropped off by car). It is also a much busier road, which many drivers speed along and is used by HGVs and buses. If the main exit for the pupils is in Friern Rd and not Peckham Rye and there are less than the planned 950 pupils (more like 450) it may be posible to mitigate the risk. I live in the flats on the other side of Friern Rd so anything built on the old school will have an inpact on my life, but that said I'm not opposed to a school in principle (we need a new school and it has to go somewhere), it just has to be right for the site. Not just for the safety of the pupils, but for their education. It should be the Education Authority that decides the size and design of any school, not a private company who are only in it to make money. Harris say they need 950 pupils to make the school viable, that's not to provide a good education, but for them to make money.

Allfornun St Thomas the Apostle College is on a quiet side road that has room for cars to park on both sides of the road and still allow traffic in both directions. Peckham Rye is a busy main road, where one car parked outside the old school causes congestion (not that I am too bothered about the congestion itself). There are two speed cameras outside the old school because of the accidents that happened when the less than 400 girls came out (what will it be like when there are 950 boys). There are more cars on the road today than back then and more kids of all ages being driven to school. I for one am not opposed to a new school for the area, but it needs to be in the right location, on a plot of land big enough for the amount of children that will be going there. I also don't think anyone has to worry about Pirmont Green, that's miles too far little Johnny to walk. Having witnessed the so called parking of some people dropping their kids off at other local school, I'm sure they will be parking on the "No parking" zig zags outside the gate.

I'm glad to hear that everyone is already making plans for NYE, I normally leave it to the last minute, but always land up doing something great. Although this year i'm working NYE night, so i'll not be drinking and having fun, but I'll be thinking of you at the CPT, The EDT, The Sun and Doves or anywhere else you may find yourself, whether you are wearing black tie, fancy dress or not a lot. Here's hoping it's your best NY ever. I won't be envying your hangovers Jan 1st!!!

macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Agent Zig-Zag > > ? Another quote: > > > 'Chapman's deception messages have survived only > in fragments. MI5 was careful to destroy the > traffic, aware of the potential repercussions if > the inhabitants of south London realised they were > being sacrificed to protect the centre of the > City.' > > I've not read this one yet, but, if this is a > representative quote, I would treat this book's > accuracy with caution. > > No history book published since 1990 should be > saying this as Volume 5 of of "British > Intelligence In The Second World War: Strategic > Deception" edited by Michael Howard was published > in that year. Specifically, Chapter 8 "Crossbow: > The Flying Bombs June-December 1944" covers the > subject in detail, quotes from the official > documents, and in the "References" at the end of > the chapter lists large numbers of extant official > files on the subject. > > Actual transcripts of the individual signals may > have been destroyed in the postwar bonfire, but > the records were not. macroban, Your post would have been very interesting to my dad if he was still alive (he was a Chapman) and believed Hitler had it in for him and all Chapmans. As a child during the war he was bombed out more than once (Cator St, Shenley Rd and Therapia Rd) and several other Chapmans (Aunts and uncles) were also bombed out of Peckham and ED.

I believe the reason the Tetra Paks have to be recycled seperately to normal paper is because they tend to be lined with a plastic coating, which will prevent the rest of the paper in the bins being recycled.

I do live next to the site and like any honest person I would prefer not to have to put up with the noise and disruption caused by the building work that would be needed to build the school (or flat etc), but something needs to be done with the site one way or an other. I remember the hasle caused in the past when the school was open and then it was only a girls school!!! Having said that I know a school has to go next to someone, if it has to be me so be it. But I am opposed to the site being use for a school mainly because of the busy road outside, and site being too small. In the past there were several accidents involve pupils of the school and I believe one was fatal (hence the two speed cameras). When the school was first built there were no cars, since it has closed the traffic has only got waste. Harris have said they would ban children being taken to school by car, as if is going to work! the site is too small for the near 1000 boys the school is for, can you imagaine 1000 boys coming out of the school on to Peckham Rye all at once. Let have a school in ED but lets make sure it is on the right size site in the right location and run by someone who is not in it for the money.