Dogkennelhillbilly

Is what true? That the student units part of this development that hasn't yet been built is going to fall vacant because there's such a collapse in the number of students in London that they can't rent the units out, and then the Labour government is going to appropriate them to house them asylum seekers? Is that what you're asking is true?

There it is...if you dog whistle long enough, eventually someone will bark.

The Lib Dems are against tightening visa requirements to live in the UK and against shrinking the university sector, and also (at least in Dulwich) against housing being built if it means that foreign students live in it. 🤷

None of that makes any sense. Rumour and vibes-based governance... Meanwhile, thanks in part to the NIMBY tendencies of certain councillors, 23 London council areas saw 0 (zero) new housing units under construction in Q1 2024. Pitiful. About 724,000 (net) people moved to the UK in 2024, a sizeable chunk of them to London. The already high demand for housing is increasing, and the supply isn't changing at all. Rent prices (and therefore taxpayer funds paid to private landlords through Housing Benefit) are going up...and new housing units are objected to because they're "visible" and because a fear that rich foreign students will live there.

The EDT and BBC dilemmas feel like they could be solved by raising them politely with the managers, and the managers being sensible in response. No need for us all to have slanging matches online and calling each other names. We're all each other's neighbours...

We want a pedestrianised Lordship Lane, with street drinking and an Iceland.

Some of the replies to you have been unnecessarily rude. It's not unreasonable for wheelchair users and everyone else to expect to have access to the footpath. But instead of criticising the council for not already knowing about the problem and casting pre-emptive aspersions on their responsiveness...maybe you should actually take the step of letting the Council know about your concern? When I had a similar-ish complaint, the Highways team responded very quickly.

Just seen a post online about Janda Diner, the Malaysian restaurant on Rye Lane. They're offering an "invisible rice" side dish for £3.50. Whoever orders it gets absolutely nothing - because the money is donated to PECAN, a food bank that serves people in need in Southwark. It's a witty and much-needed way to raise money for PECAN's important work. Mr Bao did something similar last year, I understand. Well done, Janda Diner! https://www.jandalondon.uk/ www.pecan.org.uk

It seems to vary. It's working fine for me today from the Maldives, but when I was in Honolulu last Christmas I couldn't get in at all.

Maybe you can get around there and sniff some of the bin juice residue, tell us if it smells more like Southwark or Lambeth or maybe Lewisham.

If the implication of the police and NCA is that these are do-nothing, cash-rich sham businesses whose purpose is to launder money, then why do they consume so much energy and can't pay the bills? 🤔 And if this crime is so prevalent and obvious, why aren't there any actual prosecutions to point to? There's heavy reliance on "supposed", "suspected" and "may be" in that BBC article that's entirely unquestioning of the police and NCA information fed to them. Makes you wonder if the police and NCA are over-egging the pudding a little bit. Makes you wonder if some vague stuff you read online last week is a really good basis to go around claiming that our neighbours in East Dulwich are criminals.

I'm really enjoying this episode of CSI: Dulwich.

The barbers do have clients - I'm one of them! The BBC article is bobbins giving coverage to the failing NCA. The only specific example of an actual barber shop owner convicted of an offence is Hewa Rahimpur...who, err, didnt actually own a barber at the time. He owned and ran a sweet shop: https://news.sky.com/story/hewa-rahimpur-gang-leader-who-smuggled-up-to-10-000-migrants-across-channel-jailed-12986202 This is the second time recently when a local small business has been accused on here of money laundering on zero evidence. And yet half of East Bloody Dulwich spends their lives working for the biggest money launderers in the world - the law firms, accountancies, wealth managers, property developers and estate agents of London...

All the parents looking after their kids instead of skiving from their meaningless desk jobs might mean it's quieter on here. Still, at least it gives free rein to the bad-tempered, long-winded pensioners that begin their posts "having resided in Dulwich for a not inconsiderable number of decades, may I be so bold as to suggest..." 😉

Hard to see what would make a lorry tip in the midden of the road like that, but I refuse to slag anyone off until the full facts are known.

"Vegetarians won't miss out as there will also be a radish & egg mayo milk bun on offer too." It's a meat shop so I suppose don't expect too much.

If you're a fundraising intermediary, reporting promptly and accurately on how you've raised and spent funds seems quite important.

There's still a massive shortage of student housing in London regardless of short term fluctuations - just look at how expensive it is now and what a barrier it is to mobility! What are people worried about anyway? That there will be so few students in London that a private landlord has to cut rents and makes lower profits? Oh no! 😂

Apparently something only counts as housing if People Like Us live in it!

Yeah - the restaurant next to the station is successful, that's the big difference! Don't think there is much passing trade strolling down the South Circular at night that pops in for a seafood boil spontaneously. Evidently they have built a rep that makes people search them out, even if they haven't yet persuaded you to pop by and patronise them.

Sounds like Southwark needs to build some social housing and the Dulwich Society needs to stop objecting because new housing is "visible". But if people were really concerned about housing costs, they'd be in favour of increasing the supply of housing to a growing population. "In favour of development so long as it's low volume social housing paid for by the private sector" is really just austerity NIMBYism with a mask on.

Always something to moan about on the EDF! ☀️☀️☀️

Why? It's not like that's the only type of housing needed.

Dulwich Society says: "In the 1980s Southwark Council incurred further considerable expenditure on 'Belair', particularly in repainting the exterior. Unfortunately, in the 1990s Southwark Council closed up the building, pleading lack of funds, and in its boarded-up and vandalised state it became an eyesore. Happily, in 1997 the Council leased out the building and after impressive and extensive restoration by the new owner, Gary Cady, it opened as a restaurant, with the second floor converted into a private flat." And yet the Hot N Juicy seafood place across the South Circular is busy all the time, in the same location where the sad Indian restaurant that used to be there faltered. Not sure if "passing trade" is that important to specialty restaurants.

https://www.dulwichsociety.com/local-history/who-lived-in-a-house-like-this-belair More detail from the Dulwich Society, which objected to construction of Belair House on the grounds it was overly dense and out of keeping with the local area.