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St Christopher's on Lordship Lane. Oxfam on Half Moon Lane (park on Stradella Rd). St Christopher's pop up on Croxted Rd..?

Never shook its image as an 80s "rah" apres ski retailer? Or is that just me?

1) OP's dilemma has nothing to do with Dulwich Estate 2) you don't get a parking fine for driving down a road that's closed to your type of traffic 3) if you want to know about Southwark's financial position you can look at their painfully detailed budget info online: https://www.southwark.gov.uk/council-and-democracy/key-documents/budget-book Or you can read this handy summary in the Southwark News: https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/southwark/budget-summary-key-points-from-southwark-councils-budget/ 4) if you can find a private company that will collect a 240 litre bin of garden waste for less than £1.54 a week, you should definitely sign up with them and not the council...

Good news: a new cafe in the same spot seems to be on the verge of opening as "Love Dulwich Food and Drink".

Smear it with spicy sauce? The fox may drink your whole pond after but it probably won't come back...

My God, haven't the locals suffered enough?

I don't know if the relationship between festivals and nightclubs is as friendly as you suggest. If someone's spending £100 on a festival ticket, that's £100 they're not spending in a nightclub or bar or restaurant or pub. They're competitors... ...and I don't know how much football these festivals really create. Other people would know better. I happened to come past Brockwell Park exactly at the moment one of those festivals let out and practically no-one was going to the Half Moon, Bullfinch, anywhere along Norwood Rd etc. They were all being corralled towards Ubers and buses and trains. Admittedly that's anecdotal.

Do you genuinely think that the local council is paying or making people post comments on Internet forums in support of council policies? The person that you're replying to created their account in 2012. If Southwark Council has been planning this for 12 years (or maybe they hacked the EDF servers!), then you have to acknowledge their project management skills.

Sounds like something Farmers would have. Check the airports websites - some of the London ones have new machines which means there is no liquid ban any more. Obvs you still need to check the other end too

Good news, rubberlovers! The shop has reopened as Dulwich Tyres & Car Services. 020 8299 6467. It seems very busy. I wouldn't believe your radio @zork... Please @Administrator could the title be changed to "Dulwich Tyres opens at old Melbourne Tyres location" or similar, when you have a moment?

There's Bicyclenation at 83 Norwood Rd (opposite Brockwell Park), Bon Velo at 27 Half Moon Lane, or the bike stand at North Cross Rd on the weekends (although that might just be quick repairs and not services, not sure!).

Because some of what's in the photos looks pretty trifling - like what always happens when you put a tent or object on grass in summer, the grass goes yellow and droopy. And then the rain and sun do their work and it's back to where it was quite quickly. But if the damage is still there in a month, then it needs remediation. Brockwell put up fences and security gates because the open events became unmanageable. Now it has fenced off events - same as Peckham Rye.

Brockwell Park has a massive music festival on this weekend. It hasn't stopped hosting events.

Let's see what it looks like in a month.

I mean, that's true, but it's also true that of you try to have a picnic on the football pitches after it's been wet, you'll get muddy...

I'm at the NIMBY end of the spectrum but tbf this is not really different to when football and clubs get cancelled for a few days because the park is too muddy.

A lot depends on wind strength and direction. I could hear the music from Brockwell Park clearly from Dulwich Park, but couldn't hear Peckham Rye Park at all from Dulwich Library. Pub in the Park didn't sell well last year, I think.

What do you base that on? Knowledge of the revenue and costs to the council? Or just dark suspicion?

...and it's nowhere near enough. We've had a decade plus of austerity and cutbacks. If renting the park brings in a decent chunk of money for elder care and social services and education and libraries and roads and parks, and doesn't degrade the parks and streets, I'm okay with it. Obviously if there was endless money or it didn't make a profit, you shouldn't bother. You may have a more fundamentalist view - and that's fair enough.

I don't know - you might be looking through rose-tinted glasses there. I never went to Pride but went to other events at Brockwell Park through the 80s and 90s and 00s on and off. It was a bit wild and there was litter and piss everywhere. It was often a bit sketchy in the evenings. Other people here will disagree with me but I am less concerned about the presence of the fences per se. I'm more concerned about the litter caused by poor management, the rehabilitation failures and whether the council gets paid a decent whack.

Can we have a reliable source for this claim beyond "some guy online said a Councillor said something"? There is all sorts of absolute toss made up about councillors and the council on this forum.

You're just a second-rate raven, a second-rate raven...

It's almost certainly this. Everybody calm down.

Yeah - I also didn't read cyclemonkey's comment as suggesting Gala critics like me and you were racist either. Or anti-Semitic. Or bigoted against left-handers or any other prejudice. There was no insult in their post. You've imagined that entirely.

That "news updates" link has 33 pages (!) of posts going back to 2014. Of those dozens and dozens of posts over a decade, 9 of them are about Gaza, all in recent months. Do you think something happened in the last few months that suddenly made Gaza a topic of real concern to her constituents (like @Suggsy) and UK foreign policy a hot topic in Parliament? 🤔 If you go through the topics more generally, you'd get the impression that Hayes is "mildly obsessed" with housing, early childhood education, knife crime, foster care, trains...exactly the kind of stuff that affects all of us in some way.