alex_b

Found the thread: Since that time The Gowlett closed and then reopened with a refurbishment and I believe under new owners.

We live on Adys (just round the corner). The area is safe and we’re happy for our child to walk around by themselves. There are occasional phone snatchings outside East Dulwich Station but I don’t think it’s massively different from most of London. The Gowlett is pretty tame, there are tables outside so there will be some noise of course. We have friends on Gowlett and they’ve never complained about the noise. I seem to recall that a couple moved in to the road and made life pretty difficult for The Gowlett for a while over noise, if you hunt around you should find the thread. I guess it’s whether you’re looking at a house straight across the road from the pub or further down the street but overall it’s a nice area, convenient for transport and the schools are decent. Good luck.

I know someone who regularly stays at The Victoria on Bellenden Road and is very positive about it. I haven’t stayed there myself though.

The normal position for road signs in the UK is the left hand side of the road, so as an attentive driver that is where you should be looking. However the signs on Amott (and Adys and Ondine) are on both sides of the road. Their position on Amott are just on the Adys side of the Keston Road junction. As there are 3m double yellows on that junction there is at least 6m clear in front of the sign on the left hand side of the road even if the right hand sign was obscured by a high sided vehicle when you drove down the road.

Andrew and Arnold are very good. They have UK based techies and are proactive in managing OpenReach as the copper supplier.

It’s helpful they’ve given explicit guidance on ridge raises and mansard extensions. When we did our loft we were told by loft conversion companies that these were completely banned and it took me a long time to persuade them to apply for planning permission to do our conversion that way. The application sailed through planning permission so it’s nice that’s now going to be in official guidance.

Not allowing children in pubs after 7 or 7:30pm is hardly unusual and could well be a condition of their licence. Why would you suggest that means the owners “hate families”?

I think the team at FitFor (used to be ESPH) by the cinema on Lordship Lane are really good. I busted my knee earlier this year and they got me back running.

I was told the work had stopped because of the bird nesting season.

We had one that projected stars and played lullabies. It was a soft toy bee with a hard plastic back. I know we used it but can’t recall how effective it was. What was brilliant was the Lulla sleep doll which has a heart beat sound. That was a critical sleep aid for the first couple of years.

We use Electroverse, which lets you charge across most of the networks. As Octopus Energy customers it’s also added directly to our energy bill which is handy. I tend to use the char.gy lamppost chargers as there are more of those around our house. Source has a really aggressive idling charge given they are slow chargers - kicking in after 10 mins rather than after 24hrs with chargy - I tend to leave our car to charge overnight once a week on a schedule to take advantage of chargy’s overnight rate. That wouldn’t work with Source. When I need a faster charger to fill up before a long trip the ones at Tessa Jowell are handy but more expensive than the slow onstreet ones. Remember to register your licence plate when you arrive to avoid a parking fine.

Ours (Adys Rd) was activated almost immediately after installation. We have been tracking slightly above our old unmetered rates.

My understanding is that for last year there was an oversupply of school spaces and that even The Belham (which had been massively oversubscribed in the past) wasn’t completely full. I’d call them about mid year entry, in our son’s year group there always seem to be a couple of kids joining each year and a few leaving to move away. Once your 5 year old is in all schools give priority to siblings so your 3-year old will be fine For nurseries our son’s friends at the Belham seem to have mostly been at The Villa or Little Jungle. For public transport I think it’s better to be near Peckham Rye than East Dulwich because there are far more lines. There are loads of roads that would get you into The Belham and be 10 mins walk from the station, anything North of Amott and West of Copplestone is probably ok.

If you don’t speed you can’t get fined. Why is enforcing the law for motorists considered unjust?

Anyone know if it’s still burning/burning again? The smell seems to have become worse over night.

I was just about to start a thread about this. It smells like burning plastic around Goose Green this morning.

For halls you have the Copplestone Centre, the community centre in Nunhead and the centre in Dulwich park. The only one with a hall and bar that I can think of is the Liberal Club in Peckham but that’s very large (The Belham hold their school discos there). The Nunhead centre is at least next to the pub, which might work depending on the age of the kids. I seem to recall that the centre at Dulwich park were fine with people bringing alcohol in.

I’ve run past there over the last few days. The space between the end of the current double yellow lines and the start of the dropped curb is not a full car length. At the moment there is a transit van parked there that overhangs both the driveway and the double yellows. I expect this severely limits visibility for someone trying to exit the driveway for that block of flats. I expect the 6m of double yellows is to cover the existing small space plus the driveway (which currently has white hazard lines instead). The proposal isn’t as ridiculous as it first seems.

Edit: misread post.

There is now a blue advance warning sign on Nutbrook St ahead of the junction with Adys Rd. I don’t know if others have been recently installed on routes in to the restriction.

Left hand sign is back up

The sign has a red outline “prohibition” circle with a car and a motorcycle in it, plus timing information. I believe the village has a solid blue “mandatory instruction” circle showing only busses are permitted. Different signs for different purposes. I don’t understand this mindset from some posters that council staff are thinking “we’re going to claim to put in place a scheme make it less likely that school children are run over but secretly we want people to ignore our signs and drive through anyway so we can fine them instead”! They could have implemented a full closure like outside Bellenden Road Primary School (at the end of Nutbrook) and then we’d have a forum full of “why can’t we have camera controls” like we do about the closures in Dulwich Village!

Road seems a bit quieter, not too much craziness in the morning that I’ve noticed. Some people doing awkward turns or long reverses at the signs. A fair number of people driving straight through. Unfortunately the Adys/Nutbrook bollard still gets taken out within days of being repaired.

There was a definite problem of vans, cars and occasionally old taxis being ‘stored’ on Adys and Nutbrook. Povided they were taxed they could sit there for months at a time as the council had no power to move them. Parking is a little better now but it was never horrendous. I don’t see how extending hours would improve anything.

That wasn’t what I said. I said close the rat run especially for commercial traffic, HGVs and coaches. You could still retain access without having residential roads with three schools on them being subject to dangerous traffic. The fact the bollard at the corner of Nutbrook and Adys gets knocked over on a weekly basis shows that vehicles are using these streets that cannot safely navigate them without driving across pavements.