Dulwich news, what's on and local information

Southwark runs about five miles inland from the river. Borough, London Bridge, Bermondsey and Rotherhithe are at the top, Walworth and Elephant behind them, then Camberwell and Peckham, then Nunhead, Herne Hill, East Dulwich and Dulwich Village on the higher ground at the southern end. The borough’s name belongs to the riverside strip, and hardly anyone in Dulwich uses it about themselves.

Dulwich Today covers the whole of it. Southwark Council decides the planning applications, the licences, the parking zones and the bin rounds from one end to the other, and it publishes the evidence for those decisions where almost nobody reads it. We read it and write down what it says, with a link to the document every time.

Around the site

• House prices: the middle SE21 sale was £1,370,000 and the middle SE5 sale £445,000, from 2,535 Land Registry sales.
• Trains to London: six stations, no Underground, and £1,788 to £2,100 a year depending on which side of Dulwich you live.
• Roadworks and parking: what is dug up now, the £1.20 College Road toll, and the controlled parking hours street by street.
• Things to do: eleven places that cost nothing, and what the rest charge.
• Planning: the borough built 1,004 homes last year against a target of 2,355.

Every fact is linked to the source it came from.