Comments on: Did Major Tom leave the needles in Lucas Gardens?

By: Mumu

Mumu — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 13:34:10 +0000

I dont think that Ken (or for that matter our GLA member Valerie Shawcross) will have any problems winning around here — his support is inner city.

The election will be won or lost in places like Croydon, Bexley, Bromley, Barnet etc in outer London.

By: newroad

newroad — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:10:54 +0000

Go Boris.

We need more conservative sense back in Gov’t. They aren’t the mean social conservatives anymore and we need better financial management

By: D-MAN

D-MAN — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:54:54 +0000

I’m underwhelmed by the liberal democrats around here. I don’t see how moving the town hall and closing the kids museum really helps.

On that note, the mayoral election is on Thursday. Normally I vote Green Party to be awkward, but I’ll probably vote for Ken this time. If he wins it’ll be worth it just to wind-up up the conservatives and other parochial right-wingers.

By: newroad

newroad — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 07:39:40 +0000

John not to take away from your enthusiasm, and I wish you well, but here is my bet. Councillors put on a good show as always. But nothing will happen. They have little power. CC are for show. It will be overridden or approved on appeal. Local councillors will claim it is the Lib Dems and they are powerless. That’s the whole game for another few years. Do nothing, blame Lib Dems, hope to get back in power. Trouble is it leaves Camberwell twisting in the wind. CC are all about show of power but they have none. our councillors do nothing but play the lib dem blame game never admitting they were the ones in power when all the problems round here started and ripened. Bet i’m not the only one on here who has been excited by local councillors only to find out all the hope for change never happens. You’ll join our club soon enough.

By: florian

florian — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 06:52:52 +0000

some of the most hideous does too.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:50:01 +0000

All the best examples of civic architecture and social housing in Southwark exist in

Camberwell,Dulwich,Peckham and Nunhead — which collectively formed Camberwell Borough Council…

Funny that

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:24:02 +0000

John @66

Ahhh! — The Sunray Estate

Yet more architectural evidence of the kind of progressive thinking that the magnificent but now sadly defunct Camberwell Borough Council were well known for…

I’ve will keep saying it again and again until I’m probably dead -

There is definetely a strong case in many a London Borough to perhaps split the current administrations into a north and south seperate entity…

These administrations are far too large and cumbersome — we need to get back to smaller more manageable concerns…which respond quickly and instigate prompt action regarding pressing matters which the local people are concerned with.

By: John

John — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 21:13:40 +0000

To the Camberwell Community Council planning meeting last week with several others to object to a planning application; of wider interest was the proposal to make the Sunray Estate a conservation area. Inspired by the Garden City concept the houses were built for soldiers coming home from World War 1 but some have been altered in ways that beggar belief. Hope it comes to fruition.

Nice to see democracy in action and our councillors taking their responsibilities seriously.

By: eusebiovic

eusebiovic — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 07:55:14 +0000

Dulwich Hamlet finished the season in 7th place — missing out on the play-offs by 3 points

Although in their last home match they beat Tooting and Mitcham 4–1

Hopefully they can make promotion or at the very least finally sneak into play-offs next season

I see Millwall just about saved themselves on Saturday, a solid 3–0 against Belinda Carlisle, ensuring they avoid relegation to League 2 (Division 4)

Peter must be pleased…

By: Dagmar

Dagmar — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:59:03 +0000

Good on them for visiting their ‘wolf in London. On days like tomorrow, which will be hot and sunny, one could think oneself in Cranford. Today the church bells mingled with the police sirens and one could have imagined our well to be that of Tunbridge.

Take them to see the new Camberwell Grove railway bridge, single-file, traffic-light arrangement solution provision. It indeed looks like Checkpoint Charlie. We could hand out leaflets there to the queues of cars waiting days and days to go through. The leaflets could contain useful local information, or just some puff, along the lines of “Welcome to Free Derry”.

Take them to the 99p shop. At the moment they are selling six toy cars in different flavours, orange, mint, blueberry, etc., in a sort of wall hanging to celebrate personal freedom of motor car. The cars are no-logo vehicles (rather than the usual sneaky Mercedes copies), mid-engined and have chrome interiors throughout. What is best is the four bullet points at the top of the packaging, which say:

New edition
power
Beneficial
Pleased

For some reason “power” does not have a capital “p”. The whole ensemble is called “THUNDER FABRICATE”.

Then there is the art gallery art. There are a load of 15cm diameter glass balls on the floor of the South London Gallery in the new show. The thinnest and most brilliant art world people in London gathered there on Wednesday evening to launch them. The back door of the main exhibition room with its wheelchair ramp may yet prove a jolly set of goalposts!