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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - Aug 2015

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CH1 said:
On a lighter note, I spotted 2 Brixton councillors at the Proms tonight.

Cllrs Atkins and Dyer were standing in the Royal Albert Hall arena along with other plebs like myself. The main piece was Shostakovich's 15th Symphony.

Sadly the closest Lambeth councillors get to socialism these days is a Soviet symphony @ £5 per ticket courtesy of the BBC.
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I'm soooooo tempted to say "enjoy Shostakovich's 15th at the Proms?" to Mary Atkins (one of my ward councillors) next time I see her, now. :D
 
ViolentPanda said:
I'm soooooo tempted to say "enjoy Shostakovich's 15th at the Proms?" to Mary Atkins (one of my ward councillors) next time I see her, now. :D
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Let's check her commitment. It's Shostakovich's 10th on Sunday - very heavy duty stuff. I'll have my eyes peeled!
 
CH1 said:
Let's check her commitment. It's Shostakovich's 10th on Sunday - very heavy duty stuff. I'll have my eyes peeled!
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If I remember rightly, that's the one with the movement alleged either to evoke Stalin or the devil. Or Jeremy Corbyn these days I suppose.
 
I've just received a parking ticket for having stayed in Lidl on acre lane for more than ten minutes while doing my shopping last Saturday. Does anyone know what this is about? Have they changed their rules?
 
Smick said:
I've just received a parking ticket for having stayed in Lidl on acre lane for more than ten minutes while doing my shopping last Saturday. Does anyone know what this is about? Have they changed their rules?
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Ninety minutes limit but you have to give your reg. no. at the check out. The cashier should have asked you if you used the car park.
 
Yes, yesterday I noticed a banner sign up as you drive in, and the cashier asked me as I was paying if I had a car in the car park (I didn't) as they need the reg no....

bad luck
 
Jangleballix said:
Ninety minutes limit but you have to give your reg. no. at the check out. The cashier should have asked you if you used the car park.
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How can they give you a parking ticket? It isn't a road - so how do they have access to DVLC or whatever it is to give out a ticket?

I write as a dedicated non-driver inconvenienced by Lidl staff repeatedly asking me for my car registration number whenever I check out with my measly £7 worth of items.
 
CH1 said:
How can they give you a parking ticket? It isn't a road - so how do they have access to DVLC or whatever it is to give out a ticket?

I write as a dedicated non-driver inconvenienced by Lidl staff repeatedly asking me for my car registration number whenever I check out with my measly £7 worth of items.
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Private land I assume. Ticketing has a dubious legal basis.
 
Smick said:
I've just received a parking ticket for having stayed in Lidl on acre lane for more than ten minutes while doing my shopping last Saturday. Does anyone know what this is about? Have they changed their rules?
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If you send them your receipt, they will probably cancel it.
 
Ms T said:
If you send them your receipt, they will probably cancel it.
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Exactly.

It's even worth challenging street parking fines sometimes.

In one case, where I was in the wrong, but objected to the punishment (clamping), Southwark decided not to attend the tribunal and I got a full refund.
 
TBF I sympathise with the likes of Lidl in Clapham Junction, where many people would park the car at its car park for the entire day and fuck off elsewhere. I knew one bloke who'd dump the car there and jump on a train to attend football games. But like others have said, if you still have the ticket or even if you don't and write a letter telling them you did buy from them at the time, they're likely to cancel it.
 
I've had to send an email to the parking crowd telling them that I was actually shopping. I don't have the receipt, it was £17 worth of groceries, I wasn't expecting to return anything. I've got the transaction on my internet banking ledger though. I'm a very loyal customer but this has pissed me off.
 
Smick said:
I've had to send an email to the parking crowd telling them that I was actually shopping. I don't have the receipt, it was £17 worth of groceries, I wasn't expecting to return anything. I've got the transaction on my internet banking ledger though. I'm a very loyal customer but this has pissed me off.
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Tweet them complaining. I find this can be very effective.
 
CH1 said:
How can they give you a parking ticket? It isn't a road - so how do they have access to DVLC or whatever it is to give out a ticket?

I write as a dedicated non-driver inconvenienced by Lidl staff repeatedly asking me for my car registration number whenever I check out with my measly £7 worth of items.
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They've probably sold the car park on to another company, who then lease the rights for customer parking back to the supermarket. They use number-plate recognition and paid access to the DVLA database to charge for those using the space for longer than reasonably necessary. As long as you've got a receipt you're generally OK.

I have a vague recollection of customers in a halfords car park all being stung recently after a car crash blocked the exit and they all passed the 90 mins allowed with a receipt. It might even have been Brixton, but I'm not sure.
 
Smick said:
I've had to send an email to the parking crowd telling them that I was actually shopping. I don't have the receipt, it was £17 worth of groceries, I wasn't expecting to return anything. I've got the transaction on my internet banking ledger though. I'm a very loyal customer but this has pissed me off.
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I did that (when They made the car park 60 mins only) and they cancelled it straight away. They're not in the business of losing genuine customers.
 
Was out late in middle of Brixton last night - way past my usual bedtime. I was horrified at that HUGE amounts of rubbish everywhere, all the bins were full to overflowing - Windrush sq was like paddling though pool of food wrappers and cans. Is it like this everynight or just weekends? Disgusting!
 
friendofdorothy said:
Was out late in middle of Brixton last night - way past my usual bedtime. I was horrified at that HUGE amounts of rubbish everywhere, all the bins were full to overflowing - Windrush sq was like paddling though pool of food wrappers and cans. Is it like this everynight or just weekends? Disgusting!
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There was rubbish everywhere on Saturday morning.

I walked past a guy on Effra rd who, on finishing a large carton of milk, casually tossed it into the estate garden
 
Depressingly, I think the war on littering has been lost (at least in Brixton). It is now seen as being entirely acceptable. I don't know how the balance can be tipped back.
 
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I don't understand why some people think it's ok to drop litter. The walk up to mine looks like a dump every now and then. I suspect that's more to do with foxes and bin bags but you regularly see people chucking wrappers without the slightest embarrassment
 
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