CPR Dave

I'm so sorry to hear this. It all sounds grossly unfair. The local Councillors used to post on here to help with problems like this but none of them bother any more. You could try contacting them through here https://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/mgMemberIndex.aspx?bcr=1 Also, I would post this in the main forum that gets more views and less unhelpful anti-car gibberish from people who live outside London.

There's another leak I saw this morning in Hindmans Road that will become quite large in the next day or so, ifbits not fixed. Presumably in the near future these leaks will just be used to water all of the mini parklets we will have graciously bestowed upon us.

I hope the "nearby school" gets on top of this very quickly. The local schools here have good reputations and it would be a shame if that were affected by something like this. We need good schools here for the future because soon we won't be allowed out by the council for more than 15 minutes.

Well, I guess they won in the end. They aren't even from East Dulwich.

It was either naive or stupid for One Dulwich to believe this meeting would be held in good faith. They should have just gone straight over the head of this guy. He comes across to me as a disingenuous timewaster.

Agree with Ella, and if this is true the parents of the perpetrators are likely to live locally and of they see this can help bring justice to the victims

Do these morons really think they can build houses in the middle of the f***ing roads???

ULEZ working well then.

Interesting though that he hasn't abandoned his plans to use the ULEZ (and all other traffic enforcement and CCTV cameras) to implement Pay per Mile driving charges. Given the appallingly duplicitous nature of most announcements by Labour on anything to do with privately owned cars I expect he will actually try to implement a zero ICE car policy inside the North / South circular by permitting them but charging people hugely exploitative amounts of money for driving in that zone. See Southwark Labour's charging policy for CPZ permits as an example of this sort of snakey behaviour.

It's the CO2 that is the issue. Nitrogen Oxides are similar in density to air and mix/dilute If this were actually the case then ULEZ, which discriminates against cars with lower CO2 emissions and higher NOx emissions, would be a total waste of time. Oh.

Good luck Luca and many thanks for your hard work and hospitality over the years It was a lovely cafe and store you built.

Would love to contribute but these costs seem high and it would be disappointing if, say, £10k was raised for the preliminary stage and the initial advice was then that the chances of the JR succeeding were hopeless. It would also be quite annoying if the advice was that there was a good prospect but to proceed further you then need to raise even more money. Have you shopped around for fee quotes? Can you not get a quote that is all in - i.e. includes the initial advice and the cost of the application and court proceedings? You could also look at a direct access barrister specialising in local government public law to cut the costs of the initial review. You need to get as much bang for your buck as possible to better your chances.

Dont be a divvy Chicken. The CPZs that you and your fellow councillors are proposing do nothing more to allow anyone else who wants to to occupy that space. You're still reserving it for cars. You're just making people pay for keeping their cars there some of the time. Pretending you are freeing up that space is either utterly disingenuous or just a bit dim.

That article reflects very badly on both Coty Hall and the scientists, from my perspective of it. The only saving grace for the academic institution is that it seems some scientists there are not prepared to be cowed by the Mayor's PR team. Good for them. I was also pretty shocked that the Mayor is prepared to rely on pad for research that is not peer reviewed. That isn't science in my book at least.

This just isn't true. The vast majority of London has streets with free parking on it 24 hours a day. 90 percent of the new extended ULEZ has no CPZ whatsoever. There are areas of central where you have to pay for parking sometimes, but even then at least 60% of the time, even in Zone 1 anyone and everyone can park for free on almost every single street.

Excellent post 1st Mate.

I don't think it will have zero impact on car ownership. There are a number of people at the bottom of the ladder who are struggling to get by and being charged another £300 + a year to keep the car that keeps them in world will be the tipping poiiþ. Thetmy il leave. That's the great shame of this new Labour politics. It hits the poorest hardest and benefits the richest the most, same as LTNs and same as ULEZ.

Very revealing that they mention all day CPZs. No doubt that's what the outcome of these sham consultations will be then. I suppose that was inevitable because the Council can't really enforce 2 hour parking zones. It costs too much money when they don't actually catch that many people and ticket them. So they just don't enforce them at all at the moment. An all day zone is much more cost efficient to police and would pay for 48 new traffic wardens.

Loved this shop. Glad to hear of the resurrection

You could not be more wrong Angelina. Politics these days seems to be full of ignorant people who refuse to acknowledge other people's views and then are flabbergasted when those people don't come round to their bone-headed point of view. The same thing happened with Brexit, which should have been a huge moment of learning for the self-proclaimed righteous. You can't go round just telling people they are wrong so shut up. It doesn't work. I'm surprised someone who thinks their enlightened views should supersede other, less clever, people's doesn't already know this. It's been a basic facet of education for many hundreds of years. It's such a simple concept that there is an elementary text on it taught to 4 and 5 year olds in key stage 1: https://read.gov/aesop/143.html

So cyclists can do whatever they want because other people sometimes do bad things too. Cyclists don't need to own their bad behaviour until everyone else is perfect. Imagine if we applied cyclist logic to all aspects of human interaction. No wonder so many people dislike cyclists.

They've mugged him off completely though.

You're happy paying their parking fines then.

And thus is how a Labour frontbencher deals with their own parking costs. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12354701/Labour-frontbencher-Abena-Oppong-Asare-faces-calls-resign-billed-TAXPAYERS-55-parking-fine.html

It's social cleansing, with a facade of greenwashing.