DadOf4

Although this doesnt fill me with much hope http://www.southwark.gov.uk/info/100011/transport_and_streets/2055/electric_cars

I'm thinking the same - would love any advice. Our current closest charging point is about 1/2 mile away, so not really practical. We dont have off street parking so an additional charging point would be the only thing that would make it practical for us

waking this thread up I seem to remember that there were some additions to this junction for cycle safety that were to be put in once TFL granted approval. Do I remember that right. My view of the 200k spent on this junction: its made it a more pleasant pedestrian experience, and could have increased safety on that front (although those coaches mounting the pavement every day may counter that) As far as cyclist safety (which was one of the big drivers and heavily debated) - nada. I still regularly see traffic turning into the path of cyclists coming from Greendale direction.

has anybody got any info or heard any rumours about how the redevelopment is going or planned opening ? Walking past recently, it looks like theyre a long way from finishing #MissingFridayNightDogWalk

I tend to agree with BNG - The fact that there was zero notice of this work and that the pavements were OK by ED standards leaves me to believe that this was a rush job for some reason

My 11 yr old son has a knee injury, he's been for some (private) physio and theyve said he now needs to see a speciist Theyve written to his doctor (FHR) and outlined the problem, asked for him to be referred and suggested that he sees a specilaist at Kings (they even suggested in the letter which clinic at Kings he needed to go to) Two aspects to this post: 1)can anybody advise me whether Forst Hill Road will just process that requesust for a referal, or do we need to actuallt go and see a doctor in order for them to process it ? 2) Second aspect to this post is to share that the only reason that I have had to post this is becuase the staff at FHR didnt knoe the answer, which amazed me. They told me, "we should process it, but if you want to make sure, you need to see a doctor". I said "but I dont want to take up an appointment if you're just going to do it anyway". The answer to that was "do you want an appointment or not?" The soonest apointment they can offer is 3 weeks away and I fear that making an appointment may actually put the referal process on hold (and, as youd guess, the FHR staff didnt know whether that was the case or not) what a mess

alice Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > why not spend that cash on free bulk waste > collection which has just been stopped post of the year

edhistory Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Another junk thread like "Save Southwark Woods". > > Let's evict the old folk from the alms houses. > > And stop visiting the art gallery. > > Let's boycott everything else the Charity does - > the things not mentioned by Loz. > > Should be in the Lounge as it has nothing to do > with East Dulwich. > > John K Oh- the "they do loads of good" argument of the ?9.66M that they made in revnue in 2015 (mainly from local rents) , ?8.2M (86%) of it was given to the 3 very wealthy private schools. The scraps were divvied up between the almshouses, chapel and 2 state schools (note: not the picture gallery) I agree that ED is not "in the Dulwich estate" - but if anybody here usees any sports facilities or shops on their patch - you're indirectly funding these schools. I find that hard to swallow

I've just signed this. This story makes my blood boil. The Dulwich estate has two primary functions: (1) to educate "12 poor scholars? (2) to conserve and protect the heritage of this area If you want background on how well they?re doing on (1) read this previous thread http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,1396133,page=1 I guess this news on rent increases confirms how much they really care about (2)

VOXPOP Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Anyone know if dogs are welcome?! I would also like to know this (the Friday "dog walk" being a metaphor that my Mrs hasn't quite cottoned on to)

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Good luck with BT Infinity.. Tractorlad.. I've > been with them for a few months after previously > being with > BT broadband since day one... > > My infinity is Crap with a capital 'C'. > > Internet Explorer hangs. Opera is unusable. > Chrome also hangs.. When I search all the entries > just have the spinning dots for 30 secodns or so. > Watching Youtube videos just do not respond.. > cannot scroll in any browser. Just no longer > responds after switching to Infinity. > > My secondary email accounts constantly crash and > repeatedly request passwords to be entered. > > Linking to other pages on websites just hang.. > > DulwichFox There are 1001 reasons why you may be expereincing these issues - that may be nothing to do with your broadband. Do a speedtest - see what it is. If the speed looks reasonable, call an IT guy to come and look at your machine

se22cat Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I thought Virgin Media customers measured their > speed in carrier pigeons per hour? but they will refund you for the days that the pigeon doesnt work

can anybody use them ?

was there any drumming in sainsburys ?

Amy - I feel for both you and the cyclist. Sometimes accidents are just that: an accident. Well done you for openly sharing your thoughts. Hopefully he will make full recovery and you can both put this behind you

Been away so missed this thread. I have two points. 1. To the original poster: FFS - you live near a football ground. 2. James Barber at it AGAIN. Trying to find "problems" to fix.... >"This thread has shown this original resident and the other two than have contacted me that they're not being listened to reasonably" No, theyre probably not. Short of instructing the players not to score goals, how on gods earth can a football club be quiet during a game? These people who have contacted JB, will soon turn into "significant numbers of people" in his view. He'll take up this cause with all of his passion (just remember CPZ, Melbourne Grove, Townley Road junction,etc,etc)

>DadOf4, maybe you and I should offer our help ! yes - I'm half temped I run an IT business that has a very significant cusotmer service element. I employ very highly qualified IT people (analogy = doctors) but I wouldn't dream of getting those highly trained people to try and run cusotmer service. I have a cusotmer service manager to do that - he spends his life trying to improve the cusotmer experience and our processes that support that. Where approrpiate, he brings in other skills - none of them are our core IT skiils - they are process skills @alice The fact that the very last thing I do when booking an appointment at FHR is give my name, leads me to beleive that having access to my records is completly irrelevant. Also - on your point that 30% of people would be excluded - hmmmmm - I dont know the figures but I bet theres nowhere near 30% of people without internet access. And, the whole point here, is that efficiencies with the 70 (or whatever) % would mean that the others arent waiting for 30-40 minutes on the phone

NHS crisis/funding ? ageing population ? too many people going to Doctors for trivial things ? Yes, maybe these are all factors. However, from personal experience and based on speaking to some GP's I know - I think that there is a massive range in the "customer service" & efficiency at different doctors surgeries. And IMO this is down purely to how well the administrative side of their business is run (yes, they are businesses) A typical GP surgery has many 1000's of "customers" - customers who, in the 21st century expect to be able to transact quickly, and get service when they want. Some surgeries do that well. Some don?t. With those many 1000's of customers, somewhere like FHR has a handful of Doctors (highly skiiled professionals, but cusotmer service amateurs) and admin staff, struggling to keep their heads above water and probably with no experience in improving processes, etc Lets think about one of those processes FHR has decided to "play" the government targets by differentiating between emergency and non-emergency appointments. The only way to access an emergency appointment is to phone at 8am and get in a queue with everybody else. For the ?hardworking families? that this government like to talk about, this is a really inaccessible system: both me and my wife are either at (or travelling to) work at that time. Their phones are manned by a small number of receptionists, so wait times are completely unacceptable This process is not fit for purpose So, how to fix: 1. Online services I believe FHR have an online booking system (and I believe that some of these systems can even do repeat presecriptions and other interactions) However, when I asked about it at the surgery they scratched their heads and eventually gave me a form to complete (which of course, I lost) They need to heavily promote (or ?near mandate?) the use of this system and make it easily accessible. It should become the default way of getting an appointment. Every online booking is a admin person freed up to deal with other things. I would hope that it would also allow people to do more thorough searches for available appointments and notifications of appointments becoming available 2. Use an out-sourced booking service for phone bookings The ?is it an emergency? question is the only value that a receptionist currently adds to the booking process. Other than that, it?s a simple time slot booking service. And lets face it, the receptionists at FHR are not medical professionals and don?t really add much value I don?t know what percentage of their inbound calls this would take away ? but again I would expect it to be significant. Again , freeing up staff for dealing with more complex enquiries and also meaning that people are not on hold for 30 minutes I?m sure tha theres lots of other areas, but the point is that these guys need to think more like a customer service environment and maybe consider getting in some outside help

it would be interesting to disucss what ED would be like now if had developed the way that the OP hoped

I've actually got the gprahical map of that hanging on my wall - you can buy them at the piture framers on Grove Vale What always amazes me is that Camberwell/Denmark Hill are THE most affluent areas on the map. Makes me look at the Maudsley Hospital buildings in a different way

Its obvously concerning and schools should have a 100% zero tolorence of weapons (or violence generally) But, calm down dears: In the 5 years, I was a school (1980's) in a small country town at a reasonable state school, we had 3 knife incodents and a shooting (ok - it was only a 2.2 air rifle). The difference: there was no hysteria inducing media coverage and people wanting to build bomb-proof shelters for their kids. I, myself, got hauled in front of the headmaster for throwing bangers (the REALLY big ones that I'd got on the french exchange trip) - I think that earnt me a detention and a letter to my parents. Last night I had my mother on the phone asking if little DadOf4 was OK - she'd heard about this in Radio 5 ! My point: lets keep this in perspective. Isolated incident in a really good school. Yes, shocking due to its proximity to us, but isolated all the same no, I'm not condoning (or saying we should be tolerant of) in any way before people start

Yes, I couldn't quite believe it when I saw this last night at about 9pm (attached photo) There must have been over twenty guys and a whole load of plant & machinery. Plus townley/Calton were both closed WTF ?

Is it something I'm missing, or does that report mention nothing about the fact the the junction is now worse for cyclists coming from Greendale ? I cant see any corrective action in thst document that would fix this problem

Was dropping the kids off at swimming last night (about 7pm) and thought I'd stand and watch how the junction "performs" in the evening. I was horrified . Nearly every cyclist coming from Greendale towards Townley was turned across by a car (coming from Townley, turning right) Yes, this used to happen some before , but IMO, the new road markings are making this worse. I know that there was a desire to ban the RH turn from Townley - which would fix this, but I don't think that was ever practical when all aspects were considered At the time many said (me included) - just make it clearer that Greendale is actually a road, maybe improve lighting or re-phase the lights. None of those things have happened. Southwark have spent 250k on making a junction: a) much less safe for cyclists (based on my 10 minute sample) b) that causes worse traffic congestion c) that has buses mounting the pavements every day what a total and utter f*&k up

what ward are you in ? - is your issue ward specific ?