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Jenny Eclair - urgh. Every time I see her hanging around generally trying to get noticed my blood boils. She's been living off her flukish Perrier Comedy Award for two decades writing crap books and dull columns as the self-appointed Duchess of Camberwell for too many years. Even her "look at me" house annoys me. Our other local female comedian Jo Brand sh*ts all over her any day. Not forgetting of course Sophie from Peep Show's Olivia Coleman (who regularly patronises SMBS in her kaftan garb).

At a guess I'd say there were 3 reasons for the increase in parked cars: 1. Mon-Sat There's probably 50% more active businesses on Lordship Lane than there were 3 years ago. Take someone like William Rose which employs 10 people during the week and 15 on a Saturday. Most of their employees have cars and obviously park them as near to their workplace as possible. 2. Increasing affluence of ED residents means more car owning households. 3. Increased popularity of LL means more cars especially on a Saturday from the affluent households living in surrounding suburbs (ie Herne Hill, Dulwich Village, Camberwell, Brixton). Now there's nothing we can do about the demographic shift and at the end of the day the increased number of car owning households is in line with the huge rise in ED homeowner's house values. But what a CPZ could do is dissuade those who could easily take a relatively short trip by public transport to either get to work or shop in LL but currently don't have the incentive to do so. I've never claimed that it's a fundamental right of mine to have a parking space outside my house, but is it so contentious to suggest that as one of numerous households with young children that we shouldn't have to spend 10 minutes pointlessly wasting petrol driving round and round the block just to get a space three streets away ?

Sorry - meant to say, based on the strength of feeling on this issue. What do we do next - take it up with the ward councillors or go to the council. Do we need to set up a petition ? Go door to door for physical signatures or is online viable ?

wow - astonished by the number of responses but heartening to see just how much of an issue it is for a lot of local dwellers. I would stress, this is not about a pro-car anti-car issue. For what it's worth I try as much to buy stuff from local shops (especially AJ Farmer) but lack of time and a limited budget means that I have to do a fortnightly shop at Sainsbury's. This is about redressing a balance - restoring a reasonable right of local residents to be able to park in their street as at the end of the day we're the ones paying the council taxes to maintain the upkeep of our neighborhood. Local traders like William Rose are making a fortune on Saturdays and a limited CPZ like this isn't going to hurt them in the slightest.

I've had enough of not being able to park within 3 streets of my own house. I live on the street with the butchers and am getting fed up of having to drive 3 times around the block to try and park remotely near my front door. The final straw was getting some road rage from some cock in a blacked-out SUV for blocking the road for 2 minutes so that I could unload my sainsbury's shopping (never mind that if his car wasn't so wide he could have easily got past). If a Zizzi's does end up at Bell's it's just going to get even worse from 8am to 11pm Monday to Saturday. Surely everyone who lives off Northcross and LL is having the same issues ? If I have to pay ?70 a year so be it, and maybe that will stop people driving when they could walk/cycle/take the bus. Am amazed that the council haven't homed in on this money making opportunity ? I don't want to endanger local trade so all I'm suggesting is parking restrictions at the worst time which is Saturday daytime. Is that such an extreme proposition ?

the cyclist was killed - local East Dulwich resident with children.

Anyone see the horrific accident on Dog Kennel Hill around 8am this morning ? They shut off the road and all three emergency services were involved. Looks like a timber lorry had crushed a cyclist under its front wheels - I rushed past the scene. It didn't look at all good. It took place around 50m before the turn into Sainsburys going up the hill so it's not the common lorry turning left type of accident.

why does it have to have a lick of paint ? I think it's quite charming and it makes a change from the gleaming facades and super bright organic cutlery shops springing up everywhere. Getting really pissed with the type of useless poxy new overpriced gift shops we're getting right now (Moxon's aside). East Dulwich becoming more and more like Northcote Road in Clapham every week. Next thing you know we'll be seeing White Stuff opening on Lordship Lane. Er. Oh.

The reason that tree on Melbourne Grove has No Dog Mess signs all over it is because it is outside the house of a family with a disabled child who is wheelchair bound. I imagine it's pretty unpleasant having faeces on a wheelchair so as you can imagine they're pretty active in trying to stop it.

Melbourne Grove is dog sh*t alley. I hate the way that every single tree has its little pile of turds adorning its base. I find myself having to gingerly watch my every step walking home in the darkness to avoid the smeared mess on the pavements. Think the whole thing is a weird chav's revenge class war kind of action..