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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - December 2012

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Manter said:
The blue roti van on station road has been given its marching orders. She has been told her chairs and bins are an offence and she gets in the way of the Sunday market. She's been given 21 days to go. She has a petition on the side that everyone was signing... So please do if you go past. And any other ideas? She's been there for five years, she is properly lovely and sells great food!
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Disgraceful. The council-sponsored sanitisation of the town centre continues. Let's get rid of all these dreadful ethnic shops and get some shiny chain stores in :mad:
 
ajdown said:
Returning briefly to November's thread and the "gated properties" on New Park Road, I'm not necessarily "turning", just frustrated with the cost of buying property being so high as we're desperate to get out of this poxy rented one bedroom flat and into our own place that's more suitable sized for the future we have planned, but can't seem to be able to find enough to put a deposit together, as places are so expensive - and places like these new gated communities only make the average prices higher.

Don't get me wrong, Brixton is not somewhere I envisage us spending the rest of our lives - but the problem is more or less everywhere.
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I viewed a 2 bed flat just the other side of the Hill opposite Sainsburys today, £160k.. That isn't too bad for the area...
 
Sorry if I'm late to the (a bit lacklustre) party but are they really Brixtons Christmas lights?

They aren't very dramatic are they..
 
Kanda said:
I viewed a 2 bed flat just the other side of the Hill opposite Sainsburys today, £160k.. That isn't too bad for the area...
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That sounds really cheap for Brixton. My old downstairs neighbour in Loughborough Junction recently sold his teeny weeny 2 bedroom, or 1 bedroom and not a walk through corridor living room, for £270000 recently
 
It's Ex-LA. Victorian conversions are way overpriced and generally smaller. I know the estate and its really quite nice and well run. The g/f has just bought in Battersea, 100sq ft smaller and more than double the price!
 
Manter said:
The blue roti van on station road has been given its marching orders. She has been told her chairs and bins are an offence and she gets in the way of the Sunday market. She's been given 21 days to go. She has a petition on the side that everyone was signing... So please do if you go past. And any other ideas? She's been there for five years, she is properly lovely and sells great food!
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Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
I LOVE the roti's from there and the two women are so lovely. How could the chairs possibly be an offence? WTF. I'll be down there tomorrow to sign that petition.
 
I've just been at the roti van, she didn't mention it but she was very busy. Surely she could just move her chairs and tables, does she really have to move her entire van?

Is there some way we can bombard the market people, who runs that shit?
 
Kanda said:
I viewed a 2 bed flat just the other side of the Hill opposite Sainsburys today, £160k.. That isn't too bad for the area...
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That's a bargain. If had a deposit I'd seriously consider that. If it's the estate I think it is, it's pretty tidy too and 'human scale' architecture.
 
nagapie said:
I've just been at the roti van, she didn't mention it but she was very busy. Surely she could just move her chairs and tables, does she really have to move her entire van?

Is there some way we can bombard the market people, who runs that shit?
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Not sure- she was super busy today, so she was telling her story to the whole queue and we were taking it in turns to ask questions. So it was all a bit chaotic. There must be something we can do- those rotis are gorgeous, and the signs she puts up always make me smile....
 
I didn't even notice the lights. I did see the windmill and reindeer on Windrush square though.

Signed the petition. Didn't see how many names she had.
 
quimcunx said:
I didn't even notice the lights. I did see the windmill and reindeer on Windrush square though.

Signed the petition. Didn't see how many names she had.
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She had loads but on random lined paper when we were there... I saw seven our eight people sign while we were waiting....
 
Manter said:
The blue roti van on station road has been given its marching orders. She has been told her chairs and bins are an offence and she gets in the way of the Sunday market. She's been given 21 days to go. She has a petition on the side that everyone was signing... So please do if you go past. And any other ideas? She's been there for five years, she is properly lovely and sells great food!
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This deserves a tweet-worthy thread of its own for maximum impact. I hope you don't mind but I'll start a new one and quote your post.
 
Manter said:
Fucking hell, Brixton on a Saturday night is carnage! Am running away down the Victoria line....
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It's certainly changed in the last 5 years and is in serious danger of rapidly homogenising into Cla'am: the return,
 
editor said:
It's certainly changed in the last 5 years and is in serious danger of rapidly homogenising into Cla'am: the return,
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we were on our way to chinatown to visit a new bar (called Opium, v cool if you get the chance to go. Have the long island iced teapot) and got to the town centre at about 8. We were going to stop for a drink but everywhere was rammed, and it all felt a bit bad tempered- not the punters, they all seemed happy- but the bar staff in two places who had been lovely and happy when we were in earlier just seemed in siege mode! So we went straight to the tube, and it was just a rush of people coming out into Brixton- like a Monday morning but in the other direction.

Anyway, after lovely bar, we went to a party somewhere in East London and met a guy who has an art studio in the village above Federation Coffee (I think). He is about to be evicted because they need to do some structural stuff to the building, apparently. Have his card, I'll drop him a line and find out more.
 
Manter said:
we were on our way to chinatown to visit a new bar (called Opium, v cool if you get the chance to go. Have the long island iced teapot) and got to the town centre at about 8. We were going to stop for a drink but everywhere was rammed, and it all felt a bit bad tempered- not the punters, they all seemed happy- but the bar staff in two places who had been lovely and happy when we were in earlier just seemed in siege mode! So we went straight to the tube, and it was just a rush of people coming out into Brixton- like a Monday morning but in the other direction.

Anyway, after lovely bar, we went to a party somewhere in East London and met a guy who has an art studio in the village above Federation Coffee (I think). He is about to be evicted because they need to do some structural stuff to the building, apparently. Have his card, I'll drop him a line and find out more.
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Yes, I was hearing about the artists being evicted last night. I'll have a dig around for more info too.
 
picture of Christmas decorations in Market Row to cheer everyone up
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