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Brixton news, rumour and general chat - January 2015

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passivejoe said:
Surely their designing of the application to omit the previous mistakes is a good thing? Having looked at the current and proposed front elevations, I can't see what's there is to oppose. Or have I missed something?
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Changing to A3 , as central Brixton residents have realised over the years, can often lead to problems.

If the restaurant does not work out it could end up as another bar. As that would fit into the planning classification. Opening hours could be changed to late nights etc. Its happened at other places and then you get told its your fault for living in central Brixton. I think Connaught Mansions residents are right to oppose any further changes to A3 on their stretch on CHL.

I can understand why residents of Connaught Mansions are opposing this. As CH1 says in this case they were here first.

I am going to oppose it on basis that its yet a further loss of retail. There is enough on that stretch of street.
 
Trying to think what I would like to see in that space. You know, realistically, given the rent's probably a bloody premium. Is Joy still empty, too? What would it be nice to see in those spaces?
 
DietCokeGirl said:
After neon-gate, Brixton Blog are now running a story about this planning application - http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...ils.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=NGMCP2BO0GI00 plans to turn old Granada Cab office into restaurant, apparently to become a Thai chain I've not heard of before called Rosa's.
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I know someone at Connaught Mansions and they all objected.

I have put these comments in:

I object to this as a local resident of Brixton. It is further loss of retail in Brixton. Retail should be protected as its an important part of Brixton. Brixton already has lots of restaurants and bars. Its imo saturated and a halt called to further changes to A3 from retail. This is to protect Brixton character as a shopping area. Brixton Village is now mainly eateries and restarants. So is Market Row.

Coldharbour lane should be protected from encroachment of yet more restaurants and bars. Change to A3 could lead to problems in the future. Whilst the applicant states this will be a restaurent run by a specific Thai restaurant chain this may change in the future. Once it becomes A3 it could at some point end up as a bar. This has happened at other places. Even if planning set conditions licensing may give late license etc. This would lead to more noise and disturbance for local resients. As it is a restaurant will lead to more disturbance for residents. Brixton is not just a entertainment and shopping area an important part of it is its residential community. This is often forgotten.
 
DietCokeGirl said:
Trying to think what I would like to see in that space. You know, realistically, given the rent's probably a bloody premium. Is Joy still empty, too? What would it be nice to see in those spaces?
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I think the old Joy shop is going to be party of the new Premier Inn
 
Mr Retro said:
I find in restaurants when you are unhappy the best time to complain is there and then. It's hard for them to make it right now when you are complaining anonymously on a message board. I also don't think it's fair on the restaurant.
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Sometimes you don't know until you've left. As I said it wasn't that the meal didn't taste nice, it did. I was thinking about it as I left in a hurry to go to another appointment that it wasn't what it said on the menu. I'm actually a very good, polite complainer and I think we need to do more of this to drive food standards higher!
 
leanderman said:
Pretty sure Joy as the entrance has been the plan for 18 months or so.
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From the most recent approved ammendment to the scheme. Most of the Joy unit remains as retail. The hotel entrance is really quite small.

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Red = Hotel
Blue = Retail
Green = Existing service bay & fire escape for the old Woolworths units
 
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I unexpectedly ended up in the Bar Which Must Not Be Named tonight drinking with the guy who will almost certainly be the new owner.

It's still the place that comes closest to the Brixton I moved into 20 years ago and it still - almost certainly - has the most mixed crowd of any bar in town.

There was a middle aged white guy MCing over ska and reggae tunes who sounded more Jamaican than many people I know who were born there, and he went down a storm. I liked that.

Oh and it was good to see a couple of Dulwich Hamlet scarves in there too ;)
 
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Summary of the first part of the Council meeting (theme - increasing Lambeth's wealth) last night:
The council need to have 5 and 10 year plans instead of lurching from one pilot scheme to another.

More communication and cooperation between young people (and others looking for work), educators, training providers and employers, so that placements are there when needed, and people have a chance of getting ready in time to take up the work.

More needs to be done to encourage and nurture local businesses, including considering them for things like the cleaning contracts.

London Living Wage to be brought in as the standard minimum to be paid to anyone working for Lambeth or for any of their contractors. Zero hours contracts to be got rid of.

More fruit and veg needs to be grown locally, even if it's edible bus stops (or maybe lettuces on the roof of the new Town Hall).

Most of the cooperative council's claimed victories and achievements have bugger all to do with it (so said Tim Briggs, but not in those exact words). The same councillor apologised after some hefty prompting for getting his figures wrong misinterpreted at the previous meeting.

Comments about Matthew Bennet reminding Tim Briggs of a young goodlooking but not v upright citizen (whose name escapes me).

Councillor Gentry seems to think that people don't take what work is available and that jobseekers should be *encouraged* to commute to work by public transport. Predictably, he also opined that local businesses were overburdened, that business rates should be waived, and other sweeteners (including heavier promotion of apprenticeships) given.

Social entrepreneurs if given the right support (including free/cheap pop up space for sessions of training or work) may well be able to provide a lot of long term sustainable employment in the area, without costing the council a lot. Coments that Lambeth has plenty of buildings standing empty, which could be used at least for a few hours a day. ie. the Duck Egg cafe came to an arrangement about daytime use of the bar opposite their original premises after the rent went up.

Repeated comments that work should be made more local and/or brought back in house - to save money and keep things efficient.
 
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Gramsci said:
Changing to A3 , as central Brixton residents have realised over the years, can often lead to problems.

If the restaurant does not work out it could end up as another bar. As that would fit into the planning classification. Opening hours could be changed to late nights etc. Its happened at other places and then you get told its your fault for living in central Brixton. I think Connaught Mansions residents are right to oppose any further changes to A3 on their stretch on CHL.

I can understand why residents of Connaught Mansions are opposing this. As CH1 says in this case they were here first.

I am going to oppose it on basis that its yet a further loss of retail. There is enough on that stretch of street.
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OK, fair enough. I can see the progression from restaurant to late bar would be unwanted by local residents.
 
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