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After 20 years of planning deadlock and developer dodginess, this eyesore sight on Josephine Avenue is about to be turned into (private) flats.

Work starts tomorrow, allegedly

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se5 said:
It was 15 years ago today...

Brixton Cycles have just tweeted a link to a film of Car Free Day 2000 when Coldharbour Lane was shut for the day



Lovely film that brings back happy memories of the day and an insight into how Coldharbour used to be...
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Very nice film.

Was that the first car-free day? Were there others?

I recently found a photo of a banner I made for Clifton Mansions for car-free day, but I can’t for the life of me remember what year it was. Hopefully somebody less addled than I can remember.

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Casaubon said:
Very nice film.

Was that the first car-free day? Were there others?

I recently found a photo of a banner I made for Clifton Mansions for car-free day, but I can’t for the life of me remember what year it was. Hopefully somebody less addled than I can remember.

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I think 2000 was the first one

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And another in 2001

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Road block, Brixton car Free Day 2001
 
Casaubon said:
It's 2000 I'm thinking of - I remember the black Elvis from your pic.
I remember it as a really great day.
It'd be great to see this happening a lot more in Brixton (and elsewhere), but I suspect that these days all the joy and fun would be displaced by the needs of our corporate masters.
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It would probably be branded as an Adidas Car Free Day.
 
editor said:
It would probably be branded as an Adidas Car Free Day.
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Car Free Day is actually something that Lambeth does every year very well - this year's event takes place on Saturday on Estreham Road, SW16 (near Streatham Common Station) - Car Free Day | Lambeth Council - as well as showing an alternative way of doing things without cars they also use the day to monitor the impact of possible road closures on surrounding traffic levels, disruption etc - 2001 car free day led to the redevelopment of Windrush Square and rerouting of traffic straught up Brixton Hill rather than round St Matthews Road as before.

As I understand it this year's event is designed to show how the area could be improved if Estreham Road was shut to motor traffic as the TfL cycling quietway route goes through the area.
 
se5 said:
Car Free Day is actually something that Lambeth does every year very well - this year's event takes place on Saturday on Estreham Road, SW16 (near Streatham Common Station) - Car Free Day | Lambeth Council - as well as showing an alternative way of doing things without cars they also use the day to monitor the impact of possible road closures on surrounding traffic levels, disruption etc - 2001 car free day led to the redevelopment of Windrush Square and rerouting of traffic straught up Brixton Hill rather than round St Matthews Road as before.

As I understand it this year's event is designed to show how the area could be improved if Estreham Road was shut to motor traffic as the TfL cycling quietway route goes through the area.
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I kind of liked it more when it made a grand statement.
 
This post by myself from last night was out of order. Got slightly abusive and that’s not how I like to conduct myself. While there was a message in there that I still hold very strongly to (re balance, facts etc), it was delivered in a wholly inappropriate way. End of a *very* bad day. For the record – apologies to editor, and everybody else who might have thought it was a bit over the top (it was).

There’s healthy debate which I strongly believe in and that just didn't do the job.

Cheers everybody

discobastard said:
Just in case the ignore function doesn't allow me to quote a poster that has put me on forced ignore because they disagreed with some stuff I said (that involved no personal abuse whatsoever).

Re: Estate agents Haart spam Brixton with illegal signposting campaign

A half decent journalist's narrative might have gone along the following lines:
  • Haart have been sponsoring community events to the tune of £x
  • But they have been putting up what I and some others consider to be obtrusive signs
  • These signs can be poorly fixed and some people think they are genuinely dangerous - here are some examples of people who have hurt their arms on them
  • And the council doesn't approve them - I know that for a fact even though it was a co-sponsored event - and the council have confirmed that even though it was a co-sponsored event that they gave no permission
  • And the event was in N-size font rather than the Haart logo which was in N-size font
  • And 'some people'/'weather events' were so upset that they wilfully vandalised them - you can read about that on this very forum <link>
  • The event organisers have said X - good or bad - the money or goods or advertising they received was only/as much as/an amazing £X, which meant they were able to do fuck all/deliver x/deliver a great event (or maybe just a bouncy castle)
  • But how dare they leave them up three weeks after the event the lazy bastards?
  • And another thing - estate agents do tend to be pretty shoddy with their signs in general, although the focus of this article is actually estate agent signs advertising a community event
  • Is the sponsorship of these events really a fair exchange of value? What do people think about community events being given £X with this being the price they pay?
With some facts it may have provoked a decent discussion, but everybody has been denied that in return for some boggle-eyed rant. And the lack of comments about what has been published both on this board and on the Buzz site seems to reflect that.

For the record, I'm not even saying that they should be allowed to do that. Estate agent signs piss me off too, and if people come out against them then that's great. But that is a piss-poor, badly-researched, fact-dodging article.
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Rushy said:
Fair enough. Strongly stated but didn't stand out as particularly outrageous or abusive to me.
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Not outrageous but on reflection, and for clarity, the bits about 'half decent journalist' and 'piss poor article' were out of order. Just don't fit in with my view of what healthy debate is, whatever any other party chooses to say. Cheers.

eta: have deleted the original messages but leaving previous message here with quote as to support the point.
 
I guess there's a bit of a fine line between blogging and journalism and they are often treated as interchangeable disciplines.
 
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This weekend is your last chance to visit Loughborough Farm’s community cafe and market shop at the Platform, just opposite their farm at 2 Ridgeway Road (SW9 7AH).

For the past two weeks, the local community farm project has been selling homemade salads and sandwiches made using farm produce, as well as cakes, coffees and herbal teas. In the evenings (from Thursday – Saturday) locals have also been able to stop by and enjoy a locally brewed craft beer (or several).
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Visit Loughborough Junction’s Farm Shop this weekend with local food, cocktails & our charity Brixton beer
 
Rushy said:
I guess there's a bit of a fine line between blogging and journalism and they are often treated as interchangeable disciplines.
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Because, effectively, they are interchangeable disciplines, even down to the sad fact of not getting paid for what you write.
There's no difference between the content of the opinion piece leanderman posted up in post #594 from the Standard, and most blogging and reportage about Brixton by Brixtonites ("nu" and old). The only real difference is that one relies on the publishing of a physical artefact in order to be distributed, while the other relies on electronic means. The rest of it (circulation, advertising) is reputational, and to do with having an "established" brand.
 
Gramsci said:
There is a whole series of them.

I found them annoying. Worst kind of New Labour hectoring of people.
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Those that give a shit about their elderly neighbours already engage with them, in my experience. The irony here is that we have a local authority preaching what are community values, while dismantling/planning to dismantle entire communities across the borough. They've already done it to your community, and the other "Short Life" communities. This is the usual (as you say) New Labour hectoring, with the added bone in the throat that we're most of us well aware of the degree to which Lambeth as a commissioner of services for elderly people, has minimised the volume of services it commissions. This is another attempt to hive off responsibility onto others - which wouldn't be so bad if the council were honest about what they were doing.
 
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