Letters

Please send your letters by:
POST: Unit A302, Tower Bridge Business Complex, Clement's Road, London, SE16 4DG
EMAIL: letters@southwarknews.org
FAX: 020 7237 1578
All letters should include a street address.

WE'RE BEING ASKED TO USE SLOP BUCKETS
06 Jul 11 - I HAVE written previously criticising overbearing councils’ bin collection policies, but now we are being forced to use slop buckets similar to inmates in Her Majesty’s prisons...

WHY TWELVE DAYS FOR THREE DAY JOBS?
15 May 09 - I SENT an email to Southwark Environment on Saturday, April 18, informing them that on Wednesday two workmen from CONWAY had put barriers around the cul-de-sac opposite my house. ..

BOSS SENT DATA!
15 May 09 - ALAIN BRISTOW'S (TfL) letter on May 7 accuses me of publishing inaccurate data about the number of pedestrian crossings where time has been taken off the 'Green Man Phase' or where pedestrians have to wait longer between cycles. ..

TELL US WHAT YOU WANT FOR SE15
15 May 09 - I AM delighted to see the Peckham and Nunhead Area Action Plan being covered in such detail ("Peckham's future", p8, May 7). ..

BLUE PLAQUE SCHEME IS HERITAGE OUR WAY
15 May 09 - I WOULD like to set a few things straight for Graham Taylor regarding his letter, (Blue Plaque rules need to change, April 30). ..

FR NICK DESERVES IT
15 May 09 - GRAHAM TAYLOR makes some interesting points about the process for awarding Blue Plaques and it is good to know that the criteria are to be reviewed in the light of his comments. ..

WE MUST SEE OFF TENANT BODY CUTS
15 May 09 - SOUTHWARK HOUSING management want to shrink-fit the Resident Involvement service into playing a more politicised role, with grave consequences for 150-plus Tenants’ & Residents’ Associations. ..

SOUTH LONDON LINE CLOSURE A DISGRACE
15 May 09 - THE SECRET deal between the Labour Government and London's Tory Mayor to close the South London Line, which runs between Victoria and London Bridge via Battersea Park, Wandsworth Rd, Clapham High Street, Denmark Hill, Peckham Rye, Queens Rd Peckham and South Bermondsey, is a disgrace...

BLUE TOILET NEED
15 May 09 - NOW THAT the Lib Dems have opened their office in the Blue, will they allow shoppers to access their toilet facilities?..

WORRYING INCREASE IN VIOLENT CRIME
08 May 09 - AS LABOUR Group Spokesperson for Community Safety I thought I might comment on your recent article on crime figures for Southwark...

FIGURES ON CROSSING TIMINGS ARE WRONG
08 May 09 - IN RESPONSE to Val Shawcross' letter, 'Cutting the times for pedestrians to cross, 23 April', I would like to clarify that the numbers that she has commented on are pan-London, from signal timing reviews that took place in 15 boroughs. ..

MAKE BARRY ALBIN DYER A MARQUIS
07 May 09 - IN REGARD to your article last week on the Facebook campaign for an honour for Barry Albin-Dyer:..

OUR NEIGHBOURHOODS LIKE A RACE TRACK
01 May 09 - WHEN ARE the council or police going to monitor the speeds through Snowsfields, SE1? This area has become nothing less than a race track...

SIX WEEK DELAY TO DEAL WITH FLOODING
01 May 09 - I WOULD like to say well done to Ms Connelly for highlighting the presence of asbestos in our homes (Residents’ asbestos fears, News, April 23)...

TENTH ALBIN MEMORIAL DAY ON DECEMBER 2
01 May 09 - I thought I would take this opportunity of reminding you all that our annual Memorial Garden Service will be taking place on Wednesday, December 2, which is the first Wednesday in the month...

WE DON'T NEED YET ANOTHER POLICE FORCE
01 May 09 - 'INDEPENDANT VOICE of the borough’? More like parroting the council line...

WE DON'T NEED YET ANOTHER POLICE FORCE
01 May 09 - ‘INDEPENDENT VOICE of the borough’? More like parroting the council line...

JACK JONES
01 May 09 - I WAS saddened to hear of the death of our great Southwark stalwart Jack Jones, trade unionist, international brigadier, pensioners' leader...

LOOKING FOR DANCES
01 May 09 - I AM looking for descendants of the Dance family, who moved to Camberwell from Trowbridge in 1909 onwards. ..

WHEN WILL CROSSING BE MADE SAFE?
01 May 09 - ALMOST month has now passed since a 23-year-old woman was tragically knocked down and badly injured at Penrose Street/Walworth Road junction, following repeated warnings from local residents about safety issues at the crossing. ..