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Another recommendation for Andy - he came at short notice to put up some shelves and pictures for us, along with offering some sound advice on how to sort another problem we had. He was extremely friendly, experienced and seemed a very kind and honest person. He cleaned up behind him and his rates were very reasonable, I can't recommend him enough. Andy - 07564 194363

Hi, I have sent you a PM on this.

I think Sadiq is incredibly weak. I saw him being interviewed at his office over housing, where he distanced himself from his campaign websites pledges with laughable indifference. He?s spent most of his time approving a blimp, policing online hate crime and censoring London Underground ?beach fit images? rather than running the city. Totally unqualified to run a business, let alone a city like London.

Thanks James. I?m on the list and nothing seems to be happening with this at all. On the CPZ issue, this is an ongoing issue where we live, and all other CPZ zones which don?t have building exemptions.

Jamesmcash, I?ve been enormously impressed in how you?ve engaged with real problems for local residents and topics. I really would love you to push the electric charging in the area,it is so poor and air quality is such a huge issue in and around the city and south circular in particular. There is almost no charging and with terraced housing no easy way to embrace this technology. I would also ask if you could please revise the CPZ rules to exempt building trades, as the changes implemented add thousands to home improvements by forcing residents to block bays for tradespeople and skips for days at a time. This is so regressive and really damages the chances of improving and enlarging the housing stock and supporting local tradespeople.

Dun, with the increasing awareness of pollution I would be very surprised to see anyone taking a car to the local shops for a very short journey, so I don?t think the minimal impact on your very local car use would be a big consideration in warranting this scheme, versus the big impact from cars that to draw big detours around this closed link. Don?t get me wrong, I can completely see how it would be very nice to be in an almost car free area, yet still owning a car so you can drive when you want, but I really don?t think doing this everywhere is a scalesble solution for the realistic traffic needs of London. It is so frustrating that electric car charging and free parking are not being advertised and scaled up as I feel this is just a much better longer term solution for the pollution problems. The council still seem to favour traffic calming (Speed bumps etc) which slow cars down to a low gear and massively increase emissions.

Couldn?t see it in the last one. Looks totally nuts to me

Interesting to see a new Gypsy policy!

Isn?t this just confirming that the local residents do well, whilst Adys road for example gets a considerable increase in traffic volumes? I also wonder, from your perspective how much the additional journey time to not be able to do a short connection adds to your journey, and the resultant emissions on an annual basis. I just can?t see how the ?main? roads can cope with all the volume of traffic if all these roads shut. We know emissions are at their worst when cars move slowly.

I really wish we had a serious reformer intersted in taking over the council. I don?t think I even know who our councillors are or how Southwark is even run. Does anyone know the local council election turnout rates in Southwark? It would have made a much bigger difference to our immediate lives to have got into this debate long before we thought about the merits and representation Within the European institutions.

that's really interesting and the first time I have ever heard anyone talk about cost. Although I find it very hard to believe that the crew (Around 10) and equipment could be mobilised to our 200m street for 4 days for GBP 17,000 4x50m costs of GBP 1,800 plus GBP 10,000). How old (ish) are these numbers?

Southwark introduced a CPZ in our area, based on a very low turn out rate for example. these are very localised zones, with no exemptions. so simple things like doing a refurbishment have now become impossibly expensive as you have to block bays for skips and trades making this unbelievably and prohibitively expensive. None of this has been thought through by the council and can only be damaging for the future of the neighbourhoods which can now only be improved by the very wealthy. also, this discourages trades from being in the area, driving up costs and reducing employment opportunities. this situation is already a nationwide problem.

I think the council does a very poor job of publishing its plans so that we can have any idea what they are spending and what their plans are. The should spend a lot more time investing in transparency and have a 5 year plan to do this. instead I feel that is all very ad-hoc and arbitrary.

hi Dogfennelhill, love the name! I'm just not sure that public roads being treated as private roads is a very good policy to start with. I would also like to see the costs of these initiatives. I suspect that there is in fact a huge expense in installing road bumps and these types of 'trials', when viewed in the eyes of an average Southwark resident. I really don't think the scheme has been anywhere good enough at demonstrating that it is a quantifiable experiment or what the considered implications were, let alone what would constitute a successful trial. I think it would be a very good idea to agree standards of these schemes and run them in association with a university, or other independent agency and made available to all residents. That would allow us to learn what makes good trials and look at constants in terms of cost and impact. I also wholeheartedly think that spending resources doing spot checking on emissions (just look at some of the tailpipes of cars driving around), advertising pollution problems, installing displays on emissions and putting in A LOT MORE charging stations would be infinitely better in their environmental returns to Southwark residents. I also think these charging stations would be lucrative for a cash strapped council. Possible we they could be powered, at least in part, but solar panels funded via the council. Now that would be progressive and inspirational.

I'm just not sure that public roads being treated as private roads is a very good policy to start with. I would also like to see the costs of these initiatives. I suspect that there is in fact a huge expense in installing road bumps and these types of 'trials', when viewed in the eyes of an average Southwark resident. I really don't think the scheme has been anywhere good enough at demonstrating that it is a quantifiable experiment or what the considered implications were, let alone what would constitute a successful trial. I think it would be a very good idea to agree standards of these schemes and run them in association with a university, or other independent agency and made available to all residents. That would allow us to learn what makes good trials and look at constants in terms of cost and impact. I also wholeheartedly think that spending resources doing spot checking on emissions (just look at some of the tailpipes of cars driving around), advertising pollution problems, installing displays on emissions and putting in A LOT MORE charging stations would be infinitely better in their environmental returns to Southwark residents. I also think these charging stations would be lucrative for a cash strapped council. Possible we they could be powered, at least in part, but solar panels funded via the council. Now that would be progressive and inspirational.