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As one of thousands raising a family on one of the already dangerously polluted main roads in Dulwich which is now taking intolerable levels of displaced traffic from the road closures (plus further wildly excessive 5 hour a day restrictions in the Village) and deeply worried by the health impacts of the pollution from this on children, I?m not after advice from anyone. I want the council to take responsibility for the pollution the schemes are causing outside people?s homes and schools and shops and reverse the Dulwich ETOs as a matter of urgency in light of the Ella Kissi-Debrah verdict. They are causing harmful levels of displacement onto densely residential roads, including East Dulwich Grove which is covered in schools (where over 3000 kids are educated and where the main pupil entrance to Charter ED will be next year once building works are complete). Enough. Lewisham Council can now be held legally accountable for its failure to avert Ella?s death. Wake up call for Southwark. If th? 3000 locals whose epetition was ignored were to crowdfund a legal challenge to the ETOs now, the council would be in trouble .

Good question - and why are they in operation 5 hours a day instead of 30-60 mins at beginning and end of the school day, like Hillsboro Rd school street round the corner? Completely disproportionate to have Townley closed 8-10 and 3-6pm on top of multiple 24/7 closures of non school streets like Court Lane, Calton Ave, Derwent, Elsie, Melbourne South, etc.(which I believe Townley, Turney and Gallery Rd 5 hr daily restrictions from 8-10 anf 3-6 were brought in as ??mitigation?? for but they?ve only worsened the displacement and pollution on Lordship Lane, Grove Vale, East Dulwich Grove, Croxted to the west)

All the more reason to remind him I would have thought! To pollard in late spring is a practice he should be keen to stop to. Pursuing it, in the face of such public disapprobation, in a Climate Emergency and in lockdown, is a terrible look for the trees department.

I suggest writing directly by email to Southwark?s new chief arboricultural officer, Julian Fowgies [email protected] There are trees being pollarded all over south Camberwell too. This is not right, it is not acceptable and the more of us bring it to his attention, the more likely the Council is to take notice. Not only is it nesting season, pollarding will also rob us all of the canopy cover we need in early summer for cooling and to mitigate against pollution. This late spring is a terrible practice, the Council should pollard only between November and March.

Goose Green Mutual Aid will now be collecting donations for the @Pecan121a food bank at @oru_space at 22 Lordship Lane, SE22 8HN every Monday, 12:00 - 15:00. You can download the latest shopping list here: https://f96f0a63-befd-4519-bb74-a1d071b0a6f3.filesusr.com/ugd/05771b_f5c53868add24a729d97c4e3086711de.doc?dn=April%202020%20COVID-19%20Update.doc

Getting local chemists to start delivering regular/vital medication to the elderly / vulnerable / self isolating who might otherwise run out or expose themselves to the virus to collect from a pharmacy .

Getting local chemists to start delivering regular/vital medication to the elderly / vulnerable / self isolating who may otherwise run out or expose themselves to the virus to collect it from a pharmacy .

Setting up a local food delivery service for the elderly, especially important as they will soon be advised or required to spend up to four months in quarantine. Leafleting households to make them aware of the service and making it as easy to use as possible for the elderly, who do not have access to or confidence using the internet.

ALL Football League and Scottish League together with Istmian League games have been cancelled.

It is completely irresponsible of the Club to be promoting the match in the current situation. I hope fans who say they don?t care whether they infect themselves by attending will stop to consider whether they would really want to pass the virus on to others in the community who may be more vulnerable than themselves, in local shops, pubs and stations. The most community-minded thing the club could do would be to cancel the match.

Last section of article attached (South London Press, 29/3/19). Main body of article attached to my previous post. Feedback on the trial can be given via the Council?s online questionnaire: https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/champion-hill-no-entry-trial-monitoring-form/consultation/intro/

I?m afraid I couldn?t work out how to post the whole article legibly so am attaching the first column and I?ll attach the rest separately. It appeared in Friday?s edition of the South London Press (29th March).

In reality, all the Champion Hill road closure is doing is driving up air pollution on other residential roads and around our schools, stations and hospitals. The traffic hasn?t dematerialised, it has simply been displaced onto other roads, inhabited and used as a walking route by many more people than Champion Hill. Th? trial is causing tailbacks of up to 600m at morning peak times (yesterday all the way from Kings hospital to past the primary school on Dog Kennel Hill) with engines idling. Bus passengers are abandoning packed buses on Grove Lane to get to work, hospital or the station on time because their buses aren?t moving. This is completely unacceptable. I believe the scheme was first mooted in 2015 and rejected by TfL on the basis that it was likely to cause unacceptable delays to buses and cause tailbacks of up to 250m at a junction adjoining a primary school (Dog Kennel Hill School). The trial flies in the face of TfL?s modelling and of our understanding of how air pollution affects children living and going to school on busy roads.

It goes without saying that cars should not be used for short trips and when an alternative is possible. But Talfourdite makes important points about the impact of piecemeal road closures on other roads, roads which are in many cases also residential and walking/bus routes used by the whole community. Schemes like the Champion Hill closure rest on a spurious distinction between ??residential?? and ??main?? roads and on the very questionable premise that air pollution on main roads doesn?t matter. The effects of air pollution on children living on or near main roads and using them to walk to school are well understood. The main roads taking the displaced traffic from Champion Hill - Dog Kennel Hill, Grove Lane and Champion Park - together constitute a major pedestrian route to 3 local primary schools, 2 train stations, numerous bus stops, 2 major hospitals and a Foetal Medicine centre. The main Pupil entrance to Dog Kennel Hill School is on Dog Kennel Hill. Two of these roads are also densely residential. Are some residents more deserving of clean air than others? I don?t think so. Nor do I want children - mine or anyone else?s - breathing in the fumes from idling, gridlocked traffic when walking or taking the bus to school.

In hope of getting this thread back on topic, here is a letter that was published in Southwark News about the Champion Hill trial and the congestion it is causing in East Dulwich: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/comment/letters-to-the-editor-14-02-2019/

spider69 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Passiflora Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Interesting letter posted in the SLP today from > > somebody who lives in Ruskin Park House, > Champion > > Hill. > > > Can anyone post this letter on the forum Here?s the article from Southwark News: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/comment/letters-to-the-editor-14-02-2019/ I will try to post the South London Press one too as a photo - I found it on the SLP app. Nonsense about ?lengthy consultation? - only residents of Champion Hill and a few small roads off it were leafleted. When residents of Grove Lane and Camberwell Grove and other roads omitted from the leafleting complained, they were told it wasn?t a proper consultation anyway, just an ?informal? one, and that the Council could proceed with the trial regardless because an Experimental Traffic Order doesn?t require consultation. There is an online questionnaire that can be completed now on the trial that they have kept very quiet - again, residents weren?t notified but here?s a link to it: https://consultations.southwark.gov.uk/environment-leisure/champion-hill-no-entry-trial-monitoring-form/consultation/intro/

In hope of getting this thread back on topic, here is a letter that was published in Southwark News about the Champion Hill trial and the congestion it is causing in East Dulwich: https://www.southwarknews.co.uk/comment/letters-to-the-editor-14-02-2019/

Th? problem is that the roads such schemes displace traffic onto, such as Dog Kennel Hill and Grove Lane, are also residential. Furthermore, these roads, together with Champion Park, take significantly more pedestrians than Champion Hill does. Far from being made more pleasant for walking, the trial closure of Champion Hill has made them unpleasant, unhealthy and unsafe. We are talking about a major pedestrian route to three local primary schools (Lyndhurst, Dog Kennel Hill and Goose Green). Closing single streets to make the roads we all use to get to school and work dangerously congested and polluted is neither equitable nor rational.

If anyone has a photo of the serious accident that occurred on Wednesday morning at the junction of Champion Hill/Grove Lane/Grove Hill Rd, please could they post or DM to me.

Does anyone have a photo of the serious accident that occurred on Wednesday morning at the junction of Champion Hill/Grove Lane/Grove Hill Rd that they could post or DM me?

Are you implying that residents of A-roads should expect serious road accidents as a matter of course? I?m really shocked by your comments, with their implied disregard for the residents of these roads. We live on an A toad so should be content with sky high pollution and a soaring accident rate? This scheme rests on a spurious distinction between ??main?? and ??residential?? roads. Grove Lane and Dog Kennel Hil are both! As are so many in London. If you?re not bothered about residents, what about the pupils of the 3 primary schools who use this particular A-road to walk to school or the thousands of pedestrians who use it to walk to local bus stops, stations and hospitals in morning rush hour? One of the two accidents that occurred this week - as if by coincidence on the very stretch of road currently taking most of the displaced traffic from Champion Hill - was at the the junction adjoining Dog Kennel Hill School. The congestion resulting from the Champion Hill closure is causing pollution and road rage of a kind I have never seen in 22 years of living on Grove Lane - leading drivers to perform ill-judged and dangerous driving manoeuvres, including on Champion Park where the accident occurred this morning. Here, motorists are overtaking where they shouldn?t and performing U-turns once they come around the bend and see the traffic not moving. However this morning?s accident was not in any way responsible for the delays. The photo I posted was taken at 8am by which time as you can see it was completely out of the path of any traffic. The photo of the buses queuing on Grove Lane was taken at 8.25am. The delays are caused by the trial closure of Champion Hill to Denmark Hill. I have never before this trial seen bus passengers jumping off 40/176/185 buses en masse on Grove Lane (at Champion Grove stop) and running to Denmark Hill because they know they?re not going to make it to the station in time otherwise.

Yes. It was here (see photo, taken shortly after) on the corner of Grove Lane and Champion Park, I heard it involved a motorbike and an ambulance. Yesterday?s serious accident on the Grove Hill Rd/Grove Lane/Champion Hill junction, by DKH School, involved two cars (one of which was a write-off) and an ambulance.

5 Buses queueing on Grove Lane at 8.30 this morning to get round the corner onto Champion Park and Denmark Hill. A lot of commuters were getting off a stop early (Champion Grove stop) and running the rest of the way to the station.

This morning at 8.30 am the traffic was jammed solid down south Grove Lane up to the Champion Hill junction and at about 9.30 there was a very bad accident ( two cars badly damaged and an ambulance) at the junction of Grove Lane and Champion Hill. The accident was surely caused by the traffic congestion etc.

Champion Hill access to Denmark Hill has been blocked off since Monday 4th Feb as the no entry barrier was installed at the intersection of Champion Hill with itself a week ahead of the official start date (which was given as 11th Feb).