Brixton news, rumour and general chat - June 2015

[Greebo]

Need to hire a mobile toilet for our street party on July 4. <snip> (And you can roll out your loo gags too)

Surely you can flush one out using google or the local phone directory? *gets coat*

Best of luck tracking a supplier down at a busy time of year.

 

[leanderman]

Surely you can flush one out using google or the local phone directory? *gets coat*

Best of luck tracking a supplier down at a busy time of year.

Ha! Quotes have been pricey so far. £400 apparently.

 

[Greebo]

Ha! Quotes have been pricey so far. £400 apparently.

I've heard that where there's muck there's brass, but that's taking the piss to a profiteering extent.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I am going to pretend that question was honestly meant.

When you have a newborn you often desperately want to get some physical activity because you feel bluergh but you can't because of the newborn. These classes are designed around prams etc so suddenly you can get out there and do something

You are also very often lonely and isolated, these classes help you make friends in a similar situation- or even just get out of the house and talk to someone

I know a lot of people who went to this sort of session, or baby yoga in the lido, baby Pilates in the rec, baby salsa in streatham- all easy to mock but very positive for lots of new mums.

You have to admit that the mental image of an infant being told to do 10 chin-ups by some lycra'd gimboid is a bit disturbing!

 

[brixtonblade]

Ha! Quotes have been pricey so far. £400 apparently.

If it's not a daft question, as it's a street party why can't people just nip home?

 

[trabuquera]

Ha! Quotes have been pricey so far. £400 apparently.

No other suppliers in the pipeline?
[sorry]

 

[Twattor]

If it's not a daft question, as it's a street party why can't people just nip home?

what about us interlopers who just turn up to listen to their music, drink their beer, eat their jerk chicken and enjoy their sunshine. It is quite a march to the elm park tavern every time you need a leak.

 

[leanderman]

If it's not a daft question, as it's a street party why can't people just nip home?

Good point. Answers:

1) Long road!

2) Six bands, sound technicians, entertainers, beer tent, food stalls, bike clinic, city farm etc!

3) It's a party very much open to everyone - rather than a street one - not least because the £4k budget is wasted on one road.

 

[leanderman]

what about us interlopers who just turn up to listen to their music, drink their beer, eat their jerk chicken and enjoy their sunshine. It is quite a march to the elm park tavern every time you need a leak.

Exactly this.

And you are very welcome on July 4

 

[brixtonblade]

Good point. Answers:

1) Long road!

2) Six bands, sound technicians, entertainers, beer tent, food stalls, bike clinic, city farm etc!

3) It's a party very much open to everyone - rather than a street one - not least because the £4k budget is wasted on one road.

I'm taking that as an invite.... see you there!

 

[kikiscrumbles]

Need to hire a mobile toilet for our street party on July 4.

Anyone know of an affordable supplier?

(And you can roll out your loo gags too)

Loo Reed? *sorry* *gets coat*

 

[se5]

Parents may be interested in the Lambeth early action partnership event in Myatts Fields Park tomorrow with face painting, food, games and other activities.
LEAP seems to be a 10 year initiative to improve the lives of local children http://www.leaplambeth.org.uk/

 

[leanderman]

I'm taking that as an invite.... see you there!

Excellent. All welcome. Should know what the bands, and beers, are soon.

 

[David Clapson]

Private Eye has been investigating Helen Hayes MP, hinting at conflicts of interest regarding the Network Rail plan to kill the shops on Brixton Station Road. Is all the info below already known to the campaigners?

TESSA JOWELL’S successor as Labour MP for the diverse south London constituency of Dulwich and West Norwood has many advantages. Bright and articulate, if not wildly charismatic, youngish, female, neither union hack nor think-tank wonk, Helen Hayes has those valuable attributes for a Labour star of the future: “experience of the real world” and “understands business”.

When she was a 23-year-old fresh out of Balliol College, Oxford, Hayes set up her own “urban consultancy” which helped struggling high street shops stay afloat with heritage grants while the fad for out-of-town shopping centres was in full swing. Urban Practitioners specialised in the arts of “public consultation” and the legal box-ticking councils and developers must do to ensure their visions pass muster.

A delicate tightrope between local politics and planning consultancy
Now 40, her career has given her an intimate knowledge of the tensions surrounding housing that have beset all inner London boroughs as “regeneration” has seen swingeing reductions in social and “affordable” housing. Walking a delicate tightrope between local politics and planning consultancy, she has generally avoided being caught with two hats on. Hayes was elected as a Labour councillor in the London borough of Southwark in 2010. The following year, Urban Practitioners merged with established architects Allies & Morrison (A&M), making her a senior partner in an organisation with a hefty amount of business in the borough. For example, A&M were the architects behind Oakmayne’s spiked glass monolith, Eileen House, which at the planning stage went through a number of revisions, with the final scheme lacking any social rented housing at all.

The scheme was subsequently “called in” by the coalition’s local government supremo Eric Pickles, but Southwark’s Labour leader Peter John (Eyes passim) continued to endorse it, despite his own planning committee having rejected the application. Hayes kept schtum. She also kicked up zero fuss while her Labour group hatched plans for now-notorious social cleansing (sorry, vitally needed regeneration) schemes such as the Heygate Estate (Eyes passim) from where social housing tenants were “decanted” – ie evicted – to make way for luxury flats.

Railed against plans by Network Rail to evict shop owners
Documents leaked in error in 2013 revealed that Southwark had sold the Heygate, once Europe’s biggest housing estate, to property developer Lend Lease for a mere £50m, despite an independent valuation of £990m. Lend Lease client A&M is one of the architecture firms to benefit from the deal. This curious contrast between word and deed is nowhere more stark than in neighbouring Lambeth, in which most of Hayes’s new seat lies. In February she railed against plans by Network Rail to evict shop owners from the Brixton Arches, home to a thriving market and dozens of small businesses. Network Rail had behaved “in the worst way possible”, Hayes opined: “Network Rail are a public body, not a private developer.”

It was surely, then, a different Helen Hayes whose firm, A&M, drew up the planning framework for Lambeth council that recommended the Brixton Arches be “improved” with the help of Network Rail.

Hayes insists she has no conflict of interest. On her website she states that after becoming a councillor in 2010 she took the noble decision to “not work in a professional capacity on anything in the broad vicinity of the area I represent”. She tells the Eye that she resigned her senior partnership with A&M on 31 March this year, and never worked on any projects in Southwark or Brixton while a partner: “I had no involvement in the preparation of the Brixton SPD [supplementary planning document]… [which] refers to the physical improvement of the arches and makes no reference to the eviction of existing businesses or any increase in the rent for existing businesses, which are the issues which form the focus of the current campaign. There is no conflict of interest.”

So that, as they say, is all right then. With expert knowledge of property and planning in London and yet such a keen eye for conflicts of interest, Ms Hayes is surely one to watch.

http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1394/hp-sauce

 

[Pickman's model]

Private Eye has been investigating Helen Hayes MP, hinting at conflicts of interest regarding the Network Rail plan to kill the shops on Brixton Station Road. Is all the info below already known to the campaigners?



http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1394/hp-sauce

it will be known to any of the campaigners who buy the periodical. or rather those that read it.

 

[CH1]

Private Eye has been investigating Helen Hayes MP, hinting at conflicts of interest regarding the Network Rail plan to kill the shops on Brixton Station Road. Is all the info below already known to the campaigners?
http://www.private-eye.co.uk/issue-1394/hp-sauce

There's another intriguing bit on page 7 of that issue. Not linkable, but briefly it points out the inconsistency of Lambeth Council's 1990s Chief Executive Heather Rabbatts resigning from FIFA's anti discrimination task force on 1st June "making a stand against corruption" when Rabbatts own husband was the promoter of Qatar's 2022 bid through his company Vero Communications.

 

[CH1]

Seems to be quite a serious accident involving a scooter on Coldharbour Lane between Shakespeare Rd & Moorlands Rd.
There's been an ambulance in attendance for about 20 minutes now, loads of police and loads of people.

Not enough to stop the traffic though.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Seems to be quite a serious accident involving a scooter on Coldharbour Lane between Shakespeare Rd & Moorlands Rd.
There's been an ambulance in attendance for about 20 minutes now, loads of police and loads of people.

Not enough to stop the traffic though.

I got "clipped" today by a wing mirror of a truck that was behind me and the driver cut inside at the lights because he was in a hurry or was he just being a murderous cunt of a motorist that had a manslaughter moment? The passenger apologised and no doubt saved my life because he alerted the driver.
I did not come up the left hand side, he overtook me and nearly killed me.

The A23 is fucking dangerous.
The first thing that needs to change is the motorist mindset.

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

I'm going to step off the Board for a bit.
I'm not unwell, look at some truth;
https://www.strava.com/athletes/8507955?utm_source=top-nav
If you want to take a moment digest that; then stop calling me a drunk.

There was a moment when you all felt better. Can you remember?
When posters were playing ego games about human rights?
That you might have joined in for a laugh.
But you got away without a ban.
Let's be honest about things, you thought you could bully people like me via PM.
When it was all "just me."
I'm not ok with any of that and all of needs to change.
I'm no longer obliged by unspoken restraints, I can now speak freely. I was
never obliged anyway.

Just answer the obvious question.

 

[brixtonblade]

I'm going to step off the Board for a bit.
I'm not unwell, look at some truth;
https://www.strava.com/athletes/8507955?utm_source=top-nav

Nice stats.

Didn't really follow the rest of the post but hope you'll be back soon.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I got "clipped" today by a wing mirror of a truck that was behind me and the driver cut inside at the lights because he was in a hurry or was he just being a murderous cunt of a motorist that had a manslaughter moment? The passenger apologised and no doubt saved my life because he alerted the driver.
I did not come up the left hand side, he overtook me and nearly killed me.

The A23 is fucking dangerous.
The first thing that needs to change is the motorist mindset.

Was saying that 40 years ago, but little has changed,and there are many more cars on the road now too.

 

[DietCokeGirl]

Just been for a swim in the rec, for the first time in about 5 years, I was struck by how lucky we are to have this facility on our doorstep. For all it's imperfections, how nice it is to have a pool that's well used by a cross section of the community of all ages and abilities, right within walking distance.

 

[Peanut Monkey]

Seems to be quite a serious accident involving a scooter on Coldharbour Lane between Shakespeare Rd & Moorlands Rd.
There's been an ambulance in attendance for about 20 minutes now, loads of police and loads of people.

Not enough to stop the traffic though.

Don't suppose you know how the motorcyclist is? When I looked out it didn't look good and being a biker myself it's always horrible to see a another rider in a bad way.

 

[David Clapson]

What is this @LambethRR shit on Twitter? 'Live content curated by top Lambeth influencers'. Fuck off.

 

[CH1]

Don't suppose you know how the motorcyclist is? When I looked out it didn't look good and being a biker myself it's always horrible to see a another rider in a bad way.

I'm afraid I don't. I only knew something happened when the ambulance arrived - because of the flashing lights.
I don't know how it happened, or whether the motorcyclist is pulling through. It doesn't seem to have been picked up by any news service or by MPS.

 

[Waladli]

Seems to be quite a serious accident involving a scooter on Coldharbour Lane between Shakespeare Rd & Moorlands Rd.
There's been an ambulance in attendance for about 20 minutes now, loads of police and loads of people.

Not enough to stop the traffic though.

There was a scooter racing loudly up and down around CHL, Moorlands Road, Loughborough Park last night around 9:30 pm. Wouldn't be surprised if it was the same one..

 

[CH1]

What is this @LambethRR shit on Twitter? 'Live content curated by top Lambeth influencers'. Fuck off.

Not defending it - but is does only seem to be a Twitter search engine.
I can understand your nausea at the pompous nu-urban political description though.

 

[CH1]

There was a scooter racing loudly up and down around CHL, Moorlands Road, Loughborough Park last night around 9:30 pm. Wouldn't be surprised if it was the same one..

Possibly - I notice there seemed to be a lot of people involved in discussions with the police in the aftermath. Could be why I suppose.
Maybe it might be worth contacting the local Coldharbour police - if it's possible to get through. They might know what happened.

 

[Gramsci]

Saw these naked cyclists this afternoon in Brixton. Not sure what it was about. Got some applause at the lights.

 

[brixtonblade]

Wow - really want to hear the story behind that one