Abe_froeman

Perhaps the council should lobby TFL to improve the lrodship lane / EDG junction to improve the experience for cyclists then!

That's the same logic that was applied to justify the argument in favour of putting a barrier up in Melbourne Grove!

Surely those are all good arguments for improving the junction at lordship lane too then?

Five seconds is five seconds longer for the buses to wait! Didn't TFL even pay for that junciton?

Isn't capacity a bit of a red herring? The new Townley Road / East Dulwich Grove junction got approval and that not only reduces capacity by virtue of the diagonal pedestrian crossing, but will soon also have priority traffic lights for cyclists.

A real life example: we have a neighbour with a dropped curb and two cars. That means they take up two spaces on the road at all times. Sometimes they park a car outside my house but I can't park in front of theirs under your rules. How is that fair?

If that is the case shouldn't all residents decide who parks in front of their house, dropped curb or no?

I think the cherry tree do live music / open mic on Mondays now

I can't really believe it's within the 'authority' of members of the public to deicde whether or not a parking viloation is being committed on a public road.

Presumably it's the buses travelling down EDG that TFL are concerned about.

Southwark love gouging their residents for cash.

None of that makes any sense.

The foxes have probably had enough of all the gentrification.

Kel I think there are similarities between the two. A lot of people petitioned against changes in Melbourne Grove and the council ignored them. A lot of people demanded affordable housing (the policy is national, mandated by a general election) and the council seem to be ignoring it. Both schemes will also have the side effect of helping the rich get richer.

I suspect that the owners of a lot of large vehicles like this parked round here actually live in them.

That sort of parking won't happen much more when we get our famed 10 metres of coble yellows at every junction. If t=here are squaling brakes thatn the drivers of those vehicles are also at fault for not driving at an appropriate speed for the conditions.

Yes Southwark has had its pants pulled down! The outcome is likely to be that house prices in the area are nudged up again by the sale of 10 luxury flats with more wealthy people moving in while stocks of affordable housing remain critically low. It's good for those with a vested interest (as with the ?40,000 being spent on Melbourne Grove to improve the experience for those with buggies), not so good for, say, poorly paid nurses hoping to live somewhere near King's college hospital.

First mate, is this the apprtment you saw advertised? http://www.rightmove.co.uk/new-homes-for-sale/property-55148335.html It does look very smart but doesn't bear much resemblance to the lay out of the offices in the more recent planning application drawings. The council and the developer seem to be proceeding on the basis of the 2014 planning permission though for the change of use form offices to aprtments on the first and saecond floors. The council recently approved the ecohomes assesment for those apartments so they clearly aren't interested in whether or not this develpoment met the affordable homes rules. http://planbuild.southwark.gov.uk/documents/?casereference=16/AP/1806&system=DC

The Indian restaurant on grove vale that closed temporarily to become 'grill bites' seems to have rebranded as Millenium Tandoori recently. You lose some curry houses, you win some curry houses eh?

If a greengrocer was what people wanted the old one wouldn't have gone out of business.

And the reason they're bottled locally is because its much lighter and therfore cheaper, to ship just the wine in a huge container than it is to put into bottles and ship those too.

Because they would rather spend the money making it easier for people with buggies to walk around the tress in Melbourne Grove.

Heh, reminds me of Frank Zappa: "We could jam in Jah's Garage His mama was screaming, "TURN IT DOWN!" We was playing the same old song In the afternoon and sometimes we would Play it all night long It was all we knew, and easy too So we wouldn't get it wrong Even if you played it on a saxophone"

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The postcode is se22 but the community council and parliamentary boundaries it falls within both have Peckham in their name!