Nutmeg

The DMC on Crystal Palace Road is an absolute shambles (to put it politely), you phone at 8am on the dot, hang on for 50 mins then when you finally get through are told all appt slots are gone for that day and no advance booking, repeat the process for any number of days. Then if you do eventually secure a phone call appt its a lottery whether you can actually take the call while at work especially as they never phone at allotted time. Patient care seems to be a low priority. Its beyond frustrating.

Revenue generation is at the heart of Southwark Council?s proposals for a CPZ in East Dulwich. The proposed area covers a significant number of streets that do not have a parking problem and the promise of economic benefits to the high street is simply not true. The document that the Council has provided online to support their proposal called ?Walking and Cycling: the economic benefits? uses case studies from major cities ? San Francisco, Dublin, Los Angeles etc and therefore not a like for like comparison for a local high street like Lordship Lane. The Association of Town & City Management carried out a study in 2014 called ?In-Town Parking: What Works?? and in the summary it states: ?town centres capable of maximising accessibility via alternative methods to the car can attract, rather than lose, spend. However, this does depend on the dynamics and character of each particular centre with large regional towns/cities and historic centres likely to need to limit cars but mid-sized and small convenience centres relying on spend from motorists?. Our local high street will not benefit from a CPZ in the way a city town centre would, in fact the opposite is true. Of course locals can walk in but it?s people who live further out who will be deterred. Local businesses, with good reason, are overwhelmingly against the CPZ and need our support to save our vibrant high street.

yes of course there are but why is it that the people who feel there are so many more pressing things to worry about are the very ones who choose to waste their time commenting on these things!

I was surprised to find threads on aircraft noise as its never bothered me before (after 9 years in ED) but I was woken up this morning by a low flying aircraft at 6.15 and then there was a succession of them so I thought I'd see if anyone else noticed a particular problem this morning?