CPR Dave

Thanks for posting that Earl. Some of the (monthly!) expenditure is shocking. E.g. GREATER LONDON AUTHORITY £808,078.00 GLA CROSSRAIL BUSINESS RATE SUPPLEMENT What benefit do we get from spending £800k a month on Crossrail FFS??? Also £2.6m on Freedom Passes - EDIT - THIS SEEMS TO BE ANNUAL NOT MONTHLY These are things the Mayor came up with. He should pay them out of his budget, not charge our council for them. DELETED.

Earl I don't think your maths is correct. My local school is open for 204 days a year. If the schools are all the same, then its 26,000 PCNs / 24 Schools = 1083 PCNs per school. That works out at 5.3 PCNs per school per day.

I'm in favour of school streets. I wished they worked though. 26,000 driving through the school streets and receiving penalty notices suggests that something has gone terribly wrong.

We left ours in our fown front garden on 5th Jan, not blocking anyone. The council workers moved it from there onto the street on bin day. They then collected it the next day. The council make a profit by composting or chipping our gifted tree and selling that on.

Their menu says coffee is £5.30 and tea is £4.50 https://vietflavours.com/menu/ Tea for two at £7 instead of 2 x £4.50 seems fair?

Just a note of caution for you Nigello - trees planted too close to houses can cause terrible problems with subsidence.

Some poor person's car was buried under it last year! I think I'd have just abandoned that if it was mine and started again with a new vehicle.

"Elon Musk has ripped the cloak of deceit off one of Britain’s most disgusting scandals" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/07/elon-musk-has-ripped-cloak-of-deceit-off-britain-scandal/

I saw this pair outside Leyland on New Year's Day.

To me it looks like those are purposely designed to catch people out.

They are money grubbing though. If they actually wanted to stop the mischief (polluting cars killing children at school pick up) they would make the signs so big and obvious no one could miss them. The warnings would be as obtrusive and obvious as those appalling pictures they print on cigarette packets these days. If they just wanted to catch people out to grub money they would make the signs as small and discrete as they could legally get away with to catch out as many people as possible. Which option do you think they went with?

They'll look fine when they grow back in the spring. The trees that should be removed are the female gingko biloba trees that are randomly dotted about the area. These produce hundreds of fruit that contain the putrid smelling butyric acid (the same chemical that is found in vomit and rancid butter). The smell of these tress is absolutely vile and it lingers for months on end every year. There's one at the North Cross Road end of Ulverscroft road and it's huge and stinky. I think they should be considered a public health hazard and should all be cut down.

I think it should be free and they should pay £1 for every one on target. Proceeds to go towards a Xmas bonus for the street cleaners.

Crystal Palace Road and Crawthew Grove too. And Goose Green is full of it.

What a nasty little man

What does this mean? I think you should explain if people are donating money.

For anyone else looking to get rid of a broken TV...

London is lawless. The amount of brazen shoplifting that goes on is appalling. The police do nothing about it we just pay the cost in our own shopping bills. Gun crime is also very problematic after the recent early release of some very bad people. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/gun-crime-london-ladbroke-grove-shootings-chris-kaba-kensington-chelsea-gangs-b1196552.html

Meat Liquor. Everyone can look at me as they go past when I'm in there.

Gilles Crescent seems to be the source of a huge number of problems in this area. thye all have massive drives with double garages and numerous cars. I think the council should gate off the East Dulwich Grove end of their road too and tell them to go f*** themselves.

Looks like this? https://www.mylondon.news/news/south-london-news/peckham-rye-lane-stabbing-sees-30526737

Good to see you on here James. Would love it if you made a come back as our local councillor! You were the best!

It's really not a very good letter. It doesn't say anything at all about the services they provide that people actually pay for in droves that commercially justify keeping it open. It might as well have said " you're only useful for providing free banking to old people and you should stay open no matter how much that costs you." When the Post Office read that they will probably fast track its closure. This is the problem when you have politicians with no commercial acumen. They argue that businesses should do stuff that sends them insolvent. Edited to add: On reflection I would not be surprised at all if they've already been tipped off that this post office will stay open and this letter is just a soft touch but cynical signal that our local politicians fought so hard to keep it open.

It's weird. They've been there a few days parking in the disabled bays with their engine idling. Some of them shop8ng at Tesco and coming back.

That's very disappointing. That sign should be listed and have squatters rights. It's iconic. The Malibu one.