former East Dulwich councillor - how can I help?

[paddykelly]

Dear James

I was wondering if you could help with a right of access permission through council property. Currently there exists a path through Camberwell Cemetery from Brenchley Gardens to Honor Oak Park station. However, it is only open during the limited hours that the cemetery is open (in Winter this is closed at 4.30pm). The alternative is to take a 30minute round trip walk or wait for the extremely unreliable P12. It is a 5 minute walk through the cemetery and recreation grounds and would be extremely useful, especially with the ELL now available at Honor Oak Park.

Many thanks

Paddy

[Andy Simmons]

Hello Scootagal,

the Lordship Lane and Dulwich Common estate is in College ward.

Major works have been carried out on the estate over recent years, with one or two blocks lagging slightly behind the others.

Council leaseholders are subject to bills for major works (windows, roofs, lifts etc) as well as service charges for cleaning, grounds maintenance etc.

I have already asked for details of future major works on the estates in College ward, so happy to feed this through to you for the Lordship Lane and Dulwich Common estate when it arrives.

Andy Simmons

[Andy Simmons]

Apologies - mail signature didn't seem to work this time.

Andy Simmons

Labour Councillor for College Ward

[email protected]

[James Barber]

Hi Nero,

When the works were progressing I queries whether the sinusoidal humps met the correct standards. They didn't all feel right when cyclnig over them.

Council officers checked and they didn't all meet the correct standards and quite a few are beign re done at the contractors expense. Hopefully this time correctly.

[James Barber]

Hi PaddyKelly,

I'm afraid that's a little outside East Dulwich.

Southwark closes it parks at sun down and walking through would be quick.

Several options come to my mind. Cycle. Ask for the park to have a lit path. Such lighting would be a major project to ensure it is safe. This is in Peckham Rye ward.

You should talk to Southwark Living Streets about what can be done from their experience. And yes, it would certianly make that station and ELL more accessible.

Their contact details can be found at: http://southwarklivingstreets.org.uk/

[gavster]

Councillor Barber,

I?m glad you?re so pleased with the primary admissions process in Southwark ? the secondary school admissions process is a shambles.

We're are on the waiting to get into the Charter School next year. We have been told that around 20 people have been offered places but have not replied to accept/decline their offers.

Southwark is doing nothing to chase these people up.

At least one of those 20 has a place at a private school but has not bothered to reply to Charter to turn down their place. So it cannot be offered to anybody else.

Other councils (eg Camden) are phoning up parents to ask why they have not replied to offers. Why does Southwark not do this?

I?ve just had somebody from the council knock on my door to tell me how to recycle (paper goes in the blue bag marked paper - no sh*t sherlock). That person would be much better employed knocking on the doors of the people who have not replied to school offers.

By not chasing people up, Southwark is wasting huge amounts of resources ? not to mention the stress caused to families across the borough. While we wait for a place at Charter (our nearest school), we?ve had to accept places at our second-choice school ? and in doing so, we?re denying somebody else places at that school. And so it goes on.

But, hey, that's ?great leadership shown by Cllr Nick Stanton?

[Scootagal]

Thanks to all the responses I've had from my post on this forum - it has been HUGELY helpful from councillors from both Lib Dems and Labour and all the general responses as well!

Just trying to make the mortgage work and perhaps I might be an official ED-er soon! :)

[TJMP]

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[James Barber]

Hi gavster,

I've contacted council officers to ask for an explanation.

Clearly very stressful time for you and your family.

I'm assured that Southwark do chase secondary admissions up and that includes The Charter School.

BUT every state secondary school in the borough is either an Academy or Foundation school and with that status they are their own admissions authorities. So Southwark can only work by influencing these schools which they attempt to do.

[James Barber]

Request made asking me to find out the level of 4th preferences in East Dulwich ward.

Council Admissions Officers has reported the following allocations for East Dulwich ward residents:

Preference Children

1st 112 84.2%

2nd 13 9.8%

3rd 2 1.5%

4th 1 0.75% (Goose Green Primary School)

Manual allocation 5 3.75%

Total 113

So for East Dulwich 96.2% of applications received one of the choices they made.

I'm hopeful that those 5 will shake out into a school they actually wanted and again if I can help them in any way please if you're one of those families get in touch.

NB. Another 13 late applications have been submitted for the SE22 area which includes East Dulwich ward, bits of Peckham Rye/College/Villages wards with offers being sent out after 21 May but before the end of May.

[James Barber]

Hi Scoottagal,

All decent homes works for Lordship Lane estate have been completed during the last 3/4 years. With the block you stated in a PM/email being completed a year ago and just out of defects period. So it would seem unlikely huge bills in the near future.

However, putting some money into your own savings to allow for future major works would seem a wide precaution.

Any future works will come via the Stock condition Surveys which I understand as being completed but not collated.

[dc]

James Barber Wrote:

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> Hi dc,

> From memory that was 59 offences per 1,000 thousand population.

No - it was just 59 notifiable offences pure and simple. In March 2010. In East Dulwich ward.

[James Barber]

Road resufacing.

Pellats Road between Lordship Lane and Cyrena Road will be resurfaced starting Friday 4 June and ending Monday 7 June.

Landells Road between Lordship Lane and Goodrich Road will be resurfaced starting 7 June for two days.

Upland Road between Lordship Lane and Mount Adon Park will be resurfaced later this year.

[plimsoul]

hi

2 questions please:

when is the small empty block of flats on the corner of ivanhoe and bromar going to be dealt with? they have been empty a couple of years now and although the hoarding around them has been moved to help visibility for cars turning it is still really dangerous. i know that the plans were drawn up a while back but no movement.

also, what is being done traffic calming measures wise around that same junction. again a couple of years back when the council came knocking at the door they said that this would be looked into. in the 5 minutes on my doorstep they also witnessed to almost crashes. loads of children use that route to get to DKH primary and drivers just steam down ivanhoe road/can't see when turning from bromar.

it would be great to know, thanks.

[Jeremy]

Hi plimsoul, I've asked James about these flats before, but I think it's hard for him to get an answer because it's not his ward.

I have asked Katherine Pitt (Community Council Development Officer) about it, and she forwarded the query onto Tracey Downie and Shola Alao (Housing Management). Shola says that their "plan is to dispose of the site", which sounds rather vague. She cc'd Claudette Morris (the Officer of Projects), but she did not provide any more details.

Nobody likes having a derelict building on their doorstep, but more importantly, the land - a decent sized plot - is a council asset which is not being put to use.

[plimsoul]

hi

thanks for the quick reply, i was not aware that plans were to dispose of the site, i don't really care i just want something done! to be honest i'm more concerned about the road traffic speed/blind spots around bromar/avondale/ivanhoe: the way that the streets are used as a rat run from peckham and back with bad visibility on a busy route to school.

i look forward to hearing what the outcome is, in the mean time is there anyone i could contact or email to flag this up?

cheers.

[adey]

james

not sure if i'm adding this post in the right place, apologies if not.

congratulations on re-election.

just writing to complain i'm afraid about rubbish collection truck stopping outside my house on tintagel crescent (lordship lane end) at 0450 every thursday morning! not sure if they're collecting rubbish from the back of the restaurant on grove vale but doesn't seem reasonable.

thanks

adey

[ianr]

James, have you seen this thread, and another one I mention in it, about characters dipping into waste/recycling bins at odd hours? http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,467780

I think it would be useful for someone to get an authoritative statement from the council as to whether any checking goes on and if so, what the protocol is in what circumstances it happens.

That would then leave the way clear to reporting any other sightings, with car numbers etc, direct to the police.

[James Barber]

Hi adey,

Veolia, Southwark Council waste and recycling contractor, don't allow vehicles of off their depot before 6am.

So this is most likely to be related to a business premise.

Could you please email me your home and describe the type of problems and how it affects you and your household.

My email is [email protected]

We can then work with officers and the business to get a more reasonable collection regime.

(PS. thanks for the congratulations)

Hi ianr,

I did check some weeks ago with officers about people in yellow his vis waiste coats checking rubbish in the middle of the night. Categorically told not council officers. I then referred the matter to our local East Dulwich Police Safer Neighbourhood Team. IF you have more isntances please report it to them.

[ianr]

Many thanks James. Apologies if I missed an earlier one. I'll copy your remark to the relevant threads.

[James Barber]

I've been asked for more detailed stats around non East Dulwich ward Primary Schools details of 4th choices. Admissions officers have agreed to provide details stats.

Hopefully they'll come through next week.

[ed_pete]

James can you tell me who is responsible for the maintenance of traffic signal in the borough ? Is it TFL or Southwark ? I have complained to TFL about the traffic signal that filters the traffic right from the Old Kent Rd to Trafalger Avenue on more than one occassion and still nothing has been done. There are supposed to be two lights but one was damaged a while back and has never been repaired/replaced. The other is in a very poor state - the red light doesn't work and the green filter arrow has no shroud and the green glass has slipped so it shows the white light when its supposed to on green. I use this junction regularly as a cyclist but frankly the state of lights is dangerous for all road users.

TIA

[James Barber]

TfL for those lights as on red route.

Southwark Council as with other london councils use TfL to install and maintain traffic lights peilcian corssing on borough roads. They are rubbish at it but from memory don't charge us for this.

[northlondoner]

James Barber Wrote:

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> TfL for those lights as on red route.

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> Southwark Council as with other london councils

> use TfL to install and maintain traffic lights

> peilcian corssing on borough roads. They are

> rubbish at it but from memory don't charge us for

> this.

And speaking or rubbish, JB,there is once again plenty of it strewn around Hindmans Rd courtesy of the foxes' buffet left out by the council's fly-tipping bin men, who can;t resist leaving their bin bags out on the street corner overnight.

Lovely image just now. Delightful little cherub 5/6 years old wheeling her scooter throught the fetid detritus ( my, its hot today). Good picture opportunity for the Evening Standard or the like, come to think of it.

Steeling myself to go and pick it up myself. Is this what's meant by the Big Society being proposed by Clameron?

If so, it stinks. Literally.

[James Barber]

Hi northlondoner,

I'm sorry to hear a bag of rubbish has been shredded, most likely by foxes, again.

If a blue bag then left by street cleaners as and when they fill them. I have asked and will repeat the question can we have such blue bags rounded up after the street cleaners shift end. So avoiding nighttime fox issues.

Shame they have any litter to fill bags with. It great that Southwark has some of the cleanest streets in London. But what a waste of our collective taxes to pay people to pick up thoughtlessly dropped litter.