Dogkennelhillbilly

Glad we all agree that road space for parking is a scarce resource and that the council giving it away for free is madness.

Seems like the council has listened, and has hacked back the scope of the proposed CPZ, and is now sending the smaller scheme to a formal consultation. Some truly North Korean turnout from our comrades on Druce Rd!

More #southwarkderangementsyndrome : you disapprove of something, therefore it must be the council’s fault and it gets shoehorned into a totally irrelevant discussion. FWIW the Hunts Slip Road works are a Dulwich Estate project. Shouldn’t an anti-Marxist like you be more supportive of private landlord like the Estate? https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/whats-happening/the-dulwich-estate-improves-road-safety-for-vulnerable-users https://www.thedulwichestate.org.uk/whats-happening/hunts-slip-road-and-section-of-college-road-vehicle-access-closure-notice

PECAN is the food bank for which the church on Barry Rd (Christ Church East Dulwich) collects shelf stable food donations in its foyer. PECAN works across the whole of Southwark. You can also donate money to PECAN through its website if you want. They collect money as well as food because they need to rent storage space, employ a handful of staff, pay for food to be picked up and delivered, keep the lights on…and buy fresh fruit and veg in bulk. https://www.pecan.org.uk/donate/

None of the other bike/scooter spaces are specific to one company, although I think the car share spaces are allocated to particular companies. It seems fair enough if that if they or anyone else want space to park their vehicles on public roads then they should pay for it. After all, as our friend @raptortruckman69 says, there's only a limited amount of road space...

Is that the 82 foot tower above the school... almost a decade ago... and outside Dulwich Village? Or has there been another one since then?

The networks don't accept there's a not spot. What applications and refusals in Dulwich Village are we talking about specifically? The only one mentioned so far was last year - and the reasons for binning it seem pretty reasonable.

You're frustrated by it - that doesn't mean everyone else is. I don't think bickering with private phone companies to improve service for the residents of leafy Dulwich Village (oh no! My garden is so big I'm too far from a mast!) is a good use of councillors' limited time. Better they stick to things directly relevant to Southwark's remit, like social care, libraries, parks, youth activities and persecuting a neo-Stalinist War on Motorists.™

That is fantastic news! Congratulations to the workers for bravely sticking up for their rights and congratulations to the United Voices of the World union! 👏👏👏👏👏👏 Paying the London Living Wage is only fair. We can't end up with London being so unaffordable that the people who keep it running can't live here!

...is contradicted by the operators' own coverage maps.

Fair to say that fragments of years old blog posts by some councillor about road closures don't loom as large in the public consciousness as they do in the minds of some people on here.

That's the nature of human conversation though, isn't it? It meanders. If you meet friends at a coffee shop or pub, you don't only speak the same exact topic from the moment you walk in to the moment you leave...

Gambado would be a good use. The one in Beckenham was rammed until it closed during COVID. Presumablt there aren't many other businesses that can use a space that large while preserving the features, and I doubt the council has money for anything not-for-profit.

Another conspiracy theory... 🤔

You've compared "offences in relation to which arrests were made" to "offences". Those are two totally different things. Sorry - just reread this. Presumably you got to 17 by adding the "8 x sexual offences" to "9 x violence with injury" offences...? The Met alleges a total of 69 sexual and violent offences in relation to which arrests were made (37 x assault on an emergency worker, 8 x sexual offences, 9 x violence with injury, 15 x other violence). And that wasn't for the whole 3 days, but only Monday 26 Aug 2024 up to 2300. https://news.met.police.uk/news/notting-hill-carnival-update-at-23-00hrs-on-monday-26-august-487306

The Met Police numbers are for offences in relation to which people were arrested on Monday at or somehow in connection with Carnival. It's not a number of how many offences were investigated, reported or actually took place. Crime statistics are legendarily difficult to compare due to the different ways they are recorded and calculated. But in any case it seems fair to say the Met has been a bit bloody busy over the long weekend...

You and I might be glued to the East Dulwich Forum and the Met Twitter feed, but the vast majority of Londoners and Dulwichites live in blissful ignorance! As for what the Met and media have been focusing on over the last couple of days, see here: https://news.met.police.uk/news/notting-hill-carnival-update-at-23-00hrs-on-monday-26-august-487306

Did OP get a ticket for parking on zigzags or a ticket for staying too long or some other offence?

Fair enough!

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Youth library users' needs are different from those of adults. 12-18s are too big for the kids library. In the summer term in particular, the reference library is stuffed with kids trying trying to do homework and study for exams. Regular library users may have noticed there's been a consultation for youth users on this topic over the summer.

Yeah no - you're not going to get a graphologist and chemist responding to every bit of racist graffiti. Aren't we still about 10,000 front line police officers short?

Remembered where I'd seen another bit. This is the phone box outside Alleyns on East Dulwich Grove. Not talking about the big swoopy thing in black marker - zoom into the edges, starting with top left corner: "Shit hole area Dulwich is gone shit holy shit fuck shitty government..." Evidently the scrawls at DHFC were offensive and intimidating and the person who did them can't be allowed to continue this bullshit. But all this seems like loopy behaviour by an individual rather than some kind of organised political extremism.

DHFC can't leave graffiti in situ in the vague hope that the Met is gonna stop by with the spectrum chromatography machine to analyse the pen ink. Nothing would ever get cleaned up. A photo is fine. Most of those masked rioters were picked up because there was other footage with them unmasked and they were recognised by local cops, or because someone reported them, or because they were arrested later in the day. It's not fancy software that's digitally stripping off the face masks from the video. Those guys - and the alleged graffiti person whoever they may be - aren't exactly master criminals. Besides, it's only been a day since the appeal went out, and just because we don't know of any developments, it doesn't mean there haven't been any... They can but for individual bits of graffiti it's going to be a lot quicker and cheaper for the council to send around a technician with some solvents and paint than it is to have lawyers spend weeks imposing notices on landlord and recovering costs. As for the "Dulwich bum bum shithole" black marker graffiti on the bus stops, i think I've rubbed it off with hand sanitiser while waiting for a bus. I have to walk all over Dulwich and I've seen it all over, it is quite distinctive once you spot them. The cap is a kids' cap, which is why it doesn't fit the person's adult-sized. Gonna speculate that it wasn't bought by or for them... https://klckids.com/paris-tokyo-london-baskili-sapka

If you're talking about the later part of the article, then yes, Alleyns is a separate school. First the JAGS head raised concerns about the culture of Dulwich College students (boys); then the former Alleyns student did the same thing from the students' perspective. Kids move among the 3 schools, play sports, know each other socially... There was a strong denialist counterreaction from some Dulwich College parents (mostly mums, interestingly), and then Dulwich College tried to brush it off, and leant on COVID laws to stop a protest outside the gates. The initial hushup failed, and they then promised to do a review and publish a strategic plan...which might never have seen the light of day (I stopped watching the issue). So I suppose ultimately brushing the whole thing under the carpet worked https://www.theguardian.com/education/2021/mar/26/dulwich-college-head-warns-pupils-over-culture-protest