Pavements

The narrow pavements along Bermondsey Street would be a good target for this. And the problems is more the Council's 'street furniture' than shops or restaurants advertising their wares. Some of it is clearly useful, but much of it clearly isn't. The bollards in the pavement, rather than at the edge, and the signpoles without any signs on would be a good first cut at it...

and outside the Simon the Tanner as well

mind you this summer not really been nice enough for anyone to stand outside!!

I'm in favour of safer passage for pedestrians, but I can't help but sigh at the extra bureaucracy for small businesses - another form to fill-in, another fee to pay the council, another licence to display.

Council officers should regularly patrol streets to ensure pavements are clear and speak to businesses that aren't complying; I don't see how this new licence will aid to that process?

If businesses showed a bit of consideration and common sense it would never have got to licensing. The staff of the Kings Arms should all have an eye destroyed and told to start using the other one or they'll lose that too.

Would it be the highways agency or southwark council that could do something about the big outside obstruction from joes kitchen up on marshalsea road? For the past month, they've been putting tables, chairs and metal pole banner thing, further and further across the path, and now they've stuck a big chalkboard to block it completely.

Now the high street is clearing, it's the (big) side roads !

Bloggie wrote:

Would it be the highways agency or southwark council that could do something about the big outside obstruction from joes kitchen up on marshalsea road?

They got permission last year to put a screened seating area on the pavement when they are open.

http://planningonline.southwark.gov.uk/AcolNetCGI.exe?ACTION=UNWRAP&RIPNAME=Root.PgeResultDetail&TheSystemkey=9541531

James Hatts wrote:

The council has already issued notices to all the businesses on Stoney Street ordering them to clear the pavements for the Olympics.

I'd like to see that work James. I've had my car kicked on more that one occasion my drinkers from the Market Porter.
I usually try to access Park St by going via Southwark Bridge but there were ongoing road works about 178 months ago so the only access was past the crowds.
I always though that the M Porter tok the mick with their crowd barriers placed a yard or so into the road.

You try going past on a bike! They are a bad tempered set of drinkers.

Slightly off topic, but has there ever been any plan/discussion to pedestrianise Stoney Street etc. that anyone knows of?

Bloggie wrote:

Would it be the highways agency or southwark council that could do something about the big outside obstruction from joes kitchen up on marshalsea road? For the past month, they've been putting tables, chairs and metal pole banner thing, further and further across the path, and now they've stuck a big chalkboard to block it completely.
Now the high street is clearing, it's the (big) side roads !

oh dear, yet another planning thing that us locals do not get told about, unless we go searching after the fact. still, they are well over half the pavement area and you can't walk past without bumping into stuff.