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So people have to queue to get in the Albert because of the new restrictions on numbers. And when they get inside they say, "WTF? It's not even slightly busy!" Brixton is being destroyed.
 
So people have to queue to get in the Albert now because of a newly enforced maximum 'capacity.' And this is what 'full' looks like: :(

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It's shite. Even the garden felt half empty, and it causes hassle if someone needs to go out to get baccy, walk someone to the bus, whatever. Plus the security are very random, last night first was told it was full, then that I could come in but not my (much more sober) male friend.
 
DietCokeGirl said:
It's shite. Even the garden felt half empty, and it causes hassle if someone needs to go out to get baccy, walk someone to the bus, whatever. Plus the security are very random, last night first was told it was full, then that I could come in but not my (much more sober) male friend.
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The queuing's a pain but not nearly as dire as the flooded gent's toilets. Three days now.
 
wurlycurly said:
The queuing's a pain but not nearly as dire as the flooded gent's toilets. Three days now.
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The toilets are a disgrace. But then they've always been that way - in fact they were even worse a decade ago when a canoe was the advised means of visiting.

They closed the mens' loo completely last night so everyone had to share the ladies. That would normally spark chaos but given the ridiculous new restrictions on customer numbers the queues weren't too bad.
 
Petition here: Guinness Chief Executive Catriona Simons: Don't Evict Marian and her children. Stop Social Cleansing Brixton.

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Marian and her two children, aged 8 and 4, are 3 of the last remaining tenants in the loughborough park estate in Brixton. Guinness want to evict them in order to finish demolishing and 'regenerating' the estate.

Guinness is a housing association but it rented out flats 'temporarily' on Assured Shorthold Tenancy (AST) contracts and now after more than 8 years they are simply telling those people to leave. ASTs like Marian do not have the same legal rights to rehousing as social tenants. If she is evicted Marian will probably be forced to leave her job, and her children will have to move schools, because they cannot afford a private flat in Brixton.

They need affordable social housing to enable them to stay in their community. Marian is a migrant from Nigeria with 'no recourse to public funds' such as housing benefit, so she must pay her full rent out of her low wages from the hospital where she works. This is the social cleansing of one of the many low paid workers who do such valuable work in London but who cannot afford to live here anymore.

We call on Guinness to rehouse Marian and all the other AST tenants and stop the evictions now.
 
Gramsci said:
I read this piece in Brixton Buzz about Soho House putting in a planning application for the premises where the Phoenix Cafe is.

I have put this objection in tonight. You can still do online comments.


I've heard that Soho House are opening a Chicken Shop on Brighton Terrace and some sort of 'speakeasy'. Not sure where but maybe the old Substation South for the latter? Don't have any more details tho.
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last bit by Angellic. Not got the hang of this quoting thing yet!
 
Brixton Sports and Social club causing painful level of noise nuisance for hours on corner of Coldharbour and Moorland.
Anyone know what sort of music licence they have what which allows 10ft banks of speakers blasting sound at their neighbours' windows? Not even as though there is anyone in their garden to enjoy music!
 
chrisscottd1 said:
Brixton Sports and Social club causing painful level of noise nuisance for hours on corner of Coldharbour and Moorland.
Anyone know what sort of music licence they have what which allows 10ft banks of speakers blasting sound at their neighbours' windows? Not even as though there is anyone in their garden to enjoy music!
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Could hear it up my way.

Highly unlikely they have music license for this level of sound outside. They have set up sound system outside at the back of the building.

You need to put in a noise complaint here specifying where, when and what is the problem.

Complaints are kept confidential. Not sure but the noise team number should work on weekends.

Also worth emailing Coldharbour ward Cllrs asking what exactly is going on at the building. Its still Council owned as far as I know.
 
Gramsci said:
Could hear it up my way.

Highly unlikely they have music license for this level of sound outside. They have set up sound system outside at the back of the building.

You need to put in a noise complaint here specifying where, when and what is the problem.

Complaints are kept confidential. Not sure but the noise team number should work on weekends.

Also worth emailing Coldharbour ward Cllrs asking what exactly is going on at the building. Its still Council owned as far as I know.
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It's deafeningly loud but I'm never going to complain. After all, they were here before me and they've always had the occasional mega loud event. Be nice if the shouty bloke wound it in a bit and just let the music play a bit more though.
 
editor said:
It's deafeningly loud but I'm never going to complain. After all, they were here before me and they've always had the occasional mega loud event. Be nice if the shouty bloke wound it in a bit and just let the music play a bit more though.
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Its starting to be a regular thing. And as chrisscottd1 says there was hardly anyone there. Dont understand what it was happening for.
 
Thought would flag this up.
The Mayor has announced plans for an Ultra Low Emission Zone, which will ban the most polluting lorries, buses and cars. But this will not cover a lot of Lambeth, including Brixton. While air quality is forecast to improve gradually over the next ten years, it is not acceptable that parts of Brixton look destined to remain polluted for years. Recently-published figures from Kings College London[3] show that in Lambeth alone almost 200 people died in 2010 as a result of exposure to nitrogen dioxide. Sign our petition calling for the Ultra Low Emission Zone to be expanded to include all of Lambeth to improve air quality for people living and working in the area.
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Gramsci said:
Thought would flag this up.

The Mayor has announced plans for an Ultra Low Emission Zone, which will ban the most polluting lorries, buses and cars. But this will not cover a lot of Lambeth, including Brixton. While air quality is forecast to improve gradually over the next ten years, it is not acceptable that parts of Brixton look destined to remain polluted for years. Recently-published figures from Kings College London[3] show that in Lambeth alone almost 200 people died in 2010 as a result of exposure to nitrogen dioxide. Sign our petition calling for the Ultra Low Emission Zone to be expanded to include all of Lambeth to improve air quality for people living and working in the area.
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Not to take away support from the petition but wont we benefit from the low emission zone as it stands? I remember reading somewhere that most of the pollution in Brixton was due to the buses and as most of the buses that pass through Brixton (and Lambeth generally) are routes that head on in to central London they will be low emission anyway.
 
Anyone know where I can get a telescopic festival flag pole by Thursday? Amazon etc can't get one to me until Friday.... Brixton or further afield
 
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