former East Dulwich councillor - how can I help?

[James Barber]

Officers have said that as soon as they know they'll tell me.

I'm hopefully Thames Water will put something out explaining to residents what is going on - I'm an optimist!

[ED - NAGAIUTB]

James Barber Wrote:

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> The East Dulwich Police Sgt. has told me today:

>

> "Well the good news is that yesterday our

> pro-active unit arrested a LARGE group of people

> for buglary in a neighbouring area. We have

> already recovered a very large haul of property

> from the dulwich burglaries."

>

> Figers crossed we'll see a dramatic fall in

> attempts and actual burglaries.

Sadly not, there are several more burglary threads over the last couple of days. I think we can assume that not everyone who is burgled is a member here and puts a thread up.

Can you try and put pressure on for some patrols? It sounds like they are needed at night so I accept we might be on a hiding to nothing......

[Siduhe]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Officers have said that as soon as they know

> they'll tell me.

> I'm hopefully Thames Water will put something out

> explaining to residents what is going on - I'm an

> optimist!

Seems to be a few sets of TW works at the moment - emergency works on Wood Vale/Melford Road notified yesterday evening, starting today! Fingers crossed they will be done in a day or two as expected.

[Dulwich Born And Bred]

Any update on the upland road closure ?

[James Barber]

Hi polla2256,

A worried lady has contacted me. Two of those box lorries are owned by two seperate neighbours. Those lorries represent their livelihoods. They make a point of parking NOT outside people homes.

They are incurring a great deal of expense and hassle with idiots painting graffiti on these lorries. If anyone spots this happeneing please call 999.

Hope this helps.

Hi DulwichBorn&Bred,

No I've not and have chased.

[SebsC]

Hi James. Any news at all about how long the top of Upland Road is going to be closed. There has still been no news sent through to the residents affected by it and it has been closed now for a week. If you can give me the contact details for the person you spoke to, i am happy to contact them myself. Many thanks.

[fazer71]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Hi Fazer71,

> Many of the lower flying aircraft are related to

> London City airport which open in 1987 and grown

> rapidly.

> The colder weather means noise travels further and

> louder so they might also help explain why it's

> suddenly worse.

> Scotland had terrible storms a little earlier this

> week so also suspect a number of flights from had

> to fly in and out.

Hi James

FYI This site shows all the flights 99% flying over ED are landing at Heathrow

http://www.flightradar24.com/51.46,-0.17/13

The flight path has moved 10-20 miles south over ED in the last 18 months.

[James Barber]

Many thanks fazer71. I hadn't appreciated that.

[SebsC]

Hi James. Any news at all about how long the top of Upland Road is going to be closed. There has still been no news sent through to the residents affected by it and it has been closed now for a week. If you can give me the contact details for the person you spoke to, i am happy to contact them myself. Many thanks.

[James Barber]

I've chased but still don't have any news...yet.

[James Barber]

Hi SebsC,

The emergency Thames Water works at the southern end Upland Road:

"

The permit was originally raised to repair a leak on a 6in main in the carriageway, on excavating Thames Water discovered the leak was in fact from the 42in trunk main. This repair required a specialist clamp to be manufactured, once fitted the reinstatement of the area can begin. Because of the size and depth of reinstatement required Thames Water expect to have all works completed and the road reopened to traffic on 23rd Dec.

"

[James Barber]

Officers have kindly just told me:

"

Dear Councillor Barber

Thank you for your initial email of 6 December concerning the bollards at the junction of Adys Road and Nutbrook Street. I apologise for the delay in a response but I am awaiting certain information to provide a comprehensive response to your query.

In the last five months, we have undertaken eight individual bollard repairs at this location at a cost of ?650. Prior to this there was only one repair in March 2012 at a cost of ?105.

I am currently awaiting a response from our Road Safety team as to when the junction safety scheme (raised table and build outs) was installed, and whether a Stage 4 Safety Audit was undertaken after the scheme had been in operation for a certain time to evaluate the effectiveness and any associated problems.

There are potential alternatives to the bollard replacement but I would wish to check on their applicability with the Road Safety team before undertaking any permanent changes. Obviously, removing the bollard and allowing vehicles to over-run the footway would increase the potential hazard to pedestrians. Providing a greater turning area for vehicles exiting Nutbrook Street by moving back the kerbline would presumably negate the effect of the safety scheme, and could only be achieved at a significant cost. A further option is the replacement of the full height bollard with a bell type bollard.

I will respond further with our intended solution to the problem once I have received a response as outlined above.

In the meantime, please don't hesitate to contact me if you should require any further information.

"

KidHardy Wrote:

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> Hi James,

>

> Do you have any idea how much is being spent on

> reparing the bollard at the Nutbrook street/Adys

> rd junction? It seems to get knocked over and

> repaired about twice a month. I assume it was put

> there for a good reason but given the time and

> money spent repairing it so often, maybe its best

> left down?

>

> Dan

[worldwiser]

Since we seem to be on a traffic management tack...

I have an idea for the Consort Road/Nunhead Lane junction. Consort Road has no parking restrictions on either side near that junction and the resulting gap isn't sufficient for two cars to pass.

The result of this is that cars turning onto Consort Road from Nunhead Lane can't move when cars are queuing on Consort Road, and the queuing cars on Nunhead Lane can't move either. Total and pointless gridlock. I've been through here hundreds of times and find that you end up with a 10 minute wait that could easily be reduced to a minute or less. All the council would have to do is paint double yellows for approx 25-30m down one side of the beginning of Consort Road.

That's literally all it would take and there doesn't seem any good reason why it shouldn't be done. The entire length of Consort Road is unrestricted and always has plenty of parking spaces. How about it James? Can we get something done?

[James Barber]

Hi worldwiser,

I'm loath to take this problem up at this junction as it's very clearly not East Dulwich.

The junction forms the boundary between The Lane ward, Nunhead ward and Peckham Rye ward.

Most of the junction is in The Lane ward whose councillors are:

Nick Dolezal [email protected]

Mark Glover [email protected]

Rowenna Davis [email protected]

If you get stuck by all means come back to me.

[Penguin68]

as it's very clearly not East Dulwich.

It may be very clearly not East Dulwich Ward - but this is the East Dulwich Forum (East Dulwich being a somewhat nebulous area, including but not necessarily constrained to SE22) not the East Dulwich electoral ward forum.

The issue raised perhaps could have been raised in another thread - but it is an ED issue. However James has been helpful in pointing to ward councillors who may be more relevant than him in this case.

[KidHardy]

Thanks for your help James. Mere days after I enquired it had been hit again!

[James Barber]

Some local residents have put together a marvellous map of local inddependent shops. Please see attached. They're being printed today and will be distributed from Sunday. WELL DONE EMMA PALLANT and MADELIENE WORRALL.

[philosophie]

Oh, that is lovely. Going to print off... Well done you two!

[spider69]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Some local residents have put together a

> marvellous map of local inddependent shops. Please

> see attached. They're being printed today and will

> be distributed from Sunday. WELL DONE EMMA PALLANT

> and MADELIENE WORRALL.

Well done. Cannot see the indi dry cleaner who has been there long before these other indi shops came and is far more important and useful

Just asking

[david_carnell]

And the bollard is down again....

[James Barber]

Hi spider69,

I wasn't expecting it to be perfect but I'm sure future editions will have them.

Who can help Madeleine distribute the maps on Sunday. Email me with a phone number if you can help her distribute them on Sunday.

[worldwiser]

Cheers James for the contacts.. in my world East Dulwich is anywhere near home :-) Happy Christmas.

[edanna]

James Barber Wrote:

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> The East Dulwich Police Sgt. has told me today:

>

> "Well the good news is that yesterday our

> pro-active unit arrested a LARGE group of people

> for buglary in a neighbouring area. We have

> already recovered a very large haul of property

> from the dulwich burglaries."

>

> Figers crossed we'll see a dramatic fall in

> attempts and actual burglaries.

James, do you know if there is any way of viewing recovered property? There are things we lost in a burglary that I'd really like to be reunited with!

[James Barber]

Hi edanna,

The Met sometimes put on property viewing but usually the really valuable items they've recovered. I'll PM you.

[James Barber]

Please see attached map of local independent shops.

I helped in a tiny way but the hard work was done by two local residents in their spare time. Amazing effort to support their/our local shops.