Noticeboard on Northcross Road

[NewWave]

@Jellybeanz In response you know nothing about me

I will not list all the charities I support (with regular donations)

I simply feel there are ample inexpensive opportunities for small buisnesses to advertise their services.

 

[Jellybeanz]

On 24/01/2025 at 09:52, Sue said:

"The community" is all of us.

Are you volunteering to take this task on?

I would happily take the task on but sadly the council will keep the responsibility, which I'm fairly sure means within months of them actually putting any useful information up on the boards it will not be kept up to date and will eventually get vandalised and fall out of use.

Wonder when it will actually have anything at all posted as it was mended last year after around 2 years of me (and James Barber supporting) to ask Charlie Smith and other councillors to have it repaired.

13 hours ago, NewWave said:

@Jellybeanz In response you know nothing about me

I will not list all the charities I support (with regular donations)

I simply feel there are ample inexpensive opportunities for small buisnesses to advertise their services.

 

I'm not disputing that BUT this would also be a very useful place for small businesses to advertise and the last time it was actually in use it had a mix of councillors' contact details (I'm guessing would be in line with you supporting community info being posted there) but also info about give and take sales and also a few small business ads, a whole range really... and now I believe the plan is only to have community group and not for profit group info.

That's my argument really, that we are a mixed area and anything we can do to support local small businesses would also be a good idea.

Anyway I sadly don't have high hopes for this (Northcross Rd) board to be maintained properly or regularly by the local councillors - Monica at Health Matters did her best when it was last in use but even then it had very old info on it aside from local councillors details.

Hope I'm proven wrong.

[Pugwash]

Local councillors,  over the many years that the boards have been installed, have rarely updated them. Details of councillors surgeries were posted by party supporters.

 

 

[Sue]

On 25/01/2025 at 22:59, NewWave said:

@Jellybeanz In response you know nothing about me

I will not list all the charities I support (with regular donations)

I simply feel there are ample inexpensive opportunities for small buisnesses to advertise their services.

 

Jellybeanz  has edited their long post which included their negative assumptions about you.

Luckily for them, nobody had actually quoted some of Jellybeanz' posts on here in their own posts, and they have edited more than one of them, so they have disappeared for ever.

[CPR Dave]

Allowing small local businesses to use them would be the best way to ensure they are maintained and kept current. 

[Sue]

On 27/01/2025 at 10:31, CPR Dave said:

Allowing small local businesses to use them would be the best way to ensure they are maintained and kept current. 

They were never intended for commercial use.

If they were to be used by small businesses, who would decide which of the many such businesses round here could use them? And what would be the criteria?

And would those businesses then have precedence over the  non profit organisations who wanted to use them?

What has East Dulwich become, if that is the case?

ETA: There has been a great deal of editing on this thread, and removal of whole posts, or large parts of them.

Plus  in at least one case, the editing  seems to have  resulted in a  question being asked of one person being answered by another person as if the question had been directed at them.

This is all making things very confusing. If you can't stand by what you have posted, maybe think twice before posting it in the first place?

I could understand this happening occasionally, but there have been several incidents recently, and it seems a bit pointless trying to have a discussion on what is supposed to be a forum if people just go back and remove the posts which other people are responding to, with no explanation?

Edited January 28 by Sue

[CPR Dave]

 

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They were never intended for commercial use.

Agreed, but they also weren't intended to be abandoned and left to rot which is what has happened. Time to try something else.

[Sue]

1 hour ago, CPR Dave said:

 

Agreed, but they also weren't intended to be abandoned and left to rot which is what has happened. Time to try something else.

Certainly it is necessary to put in place a very much better system of "ownership" and upkeep, if they are to be used for information about local non profit organisations.

What do you mean by "try something else"? If for local businesses, that has already been discussed above. 

Quite apart from anything else, it would seem very odd to have commercial enterprises' adverts locked up behind glass in wooden frames!

Edited January 28 by Sue