Another one bites the dust: The Queen

[Mrs Magpie]

Eh? There's only one such deli in Brixton market and it's a struggling one that's already changed hands at that.

That's really totally unfair and also untrue. It changed hands because the original owner's mother was dying and she needed to go back home to be with her Mum who has since died.

 

[editor]

Arrgh! Have you seen the fucking monstrosity they're building on the site of the Queen?

Say goodbye to glorious Victorian architecture that perfectly reflected and complemented the vernacular style and say hello to what looks like a grounded, oversozed white yacht made of plastic and wood.

It's not even even finished yet and it looks like a rude, loud, braying addition to the area.

No doubt many executive apartments await filling inside this ghastly construction (which us unlikely to last even half as long as the original building), but how do developers get away with building such crap?

 

[Cowley]

Yeah it's a f*cking eyesore...truly horrible. If you thought the outside was horrible..look at it inside......425K this will set you back. Daylight robbery......

 

[editor]

It's tiny!

 

[Cowley]

It's tiny!

tiny is the new LARGE according to those estate agents!

 

[Mr Retro]

Arrgh! Have you seen the fucking monstrosity they're building on the site of the Queen?

Say goodbye to glorious Victorian architecture that perfectly reflected and complemented the vernacular style and say hello to what looks like a grounded, oversozed white yacht made of plastic and wood.

I'm still wondering how they got away with pulling that down.

I know it was shit when the pub closed but I remember discussing what a fantastic flat the part of the old building on the corner would make. Or what a nice little garden the old beer garden would make.

I was naive enough to think they would fit the flats around the old builing rather than fucking raze it and start all over.

 

[gabi]

The sign on the outside says its going to be restaurant/residential, guess they might build a bar into it or something?

 

[Mr Retro]

The sign on the outside says its going to be restaurant/residential, guess they might build a bar into it or something?

Makes it even more strange that they pulled the old building down. 425k for a flat above a pub?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

This is what it used to look like: http://www.urban75.org/vista/brixton9.html

The sign on the outside says its going to be restaurant/residential, guess they might build a bar into it or something?

I can't imagine any bar being able to function with a load of luxury flats above it. The same with the Loughborough Hotel at the end of my road which has been closed for about two years and turned into flats. The flats are all now occupied and the ground fllor remains as a bar/restaurant, but what kind of business could survive there with people's bedrooms and living rooms a few feet above?

 

[Badgers]

Which one would that be then?

 

[Giles]

I've seen several of these situations where they make flats out of an old pub/hotel whatever, but the planning permish says that the ground floor will still be a pub/restaurant.

I can't see how this will ever work. Apart from the issue of noise, most pubs have at least one "live in" staff who traditionally lived upstairs in an "owners flat". Often there were rooms up there for live-in barmen/barmaids.

Without that, and given the noise limitations, it seems to me that what will happen is that they may well offer the ground floor to be leased as a pub, but no-one will take it for the reasons I gave, and then maybe, they will after a suitable amount of time has passed by, ask the council for a change of use into a shop or something.

The Warrior / Junction is "supposed" to be re-opening as a bar.

There is a big pub near me in NW London that is going to be developed upstairs as flats, with the ground floor as a pub still, but i can't see it happening.

Hopefully the f***ers who are about to start this one (the pub was "Biddy Mulligans" on Kilburn High Road) will get screwed by a fall-off in property prices.

Giles..