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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - July 2013

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el-ahrairah said:
Nine Elms and Vauxhall Open Days
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New investment is taking place across Nine Elms and Vauxhall but what will it mean for you?
This two-day exhibition provides an opportunity to talk to those involved and to register for job training opportunities linked to the project.
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On: Thursday 11 July, 3pm to 8pm and Friday 12 July, 8am to 6pm
At: Battersea Power Station, 118 Kirtling Street (Gate 2), SW8 5BN
A free shuttle bus service will run from the forecourt of Market Towers, 1 Nine Elms Lane, from 5pm-7pm on Thursday and 11am-2pm on Friday
Find out more at www.nineelmslondon.com/opendays
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I have been reading bits about this. This site goes across Wandsworth and Lambeth. The affordable housing element has been watered down. Also the affordable housing element is to be mainly "offsite". See here

This Inside Housing article is interesting. All the PR in the nine elms website about creating new communities. A lot of it is being marketed to Far East investors:


Money like that is impossible for developers to ignore. Take the huge Nine Elms regeneration plan between Battersea Park and Lambeth Bridge. As the Financial Times reported yesterday, it’s a chance of a new South Bank a stone’s throw from some of most expensive property markets in London.
One developer, Ballymore Group, plans 2,000 homes by 2015 and is already selling in south-east Asia with 260 out of 314 properties it will only start building next month already pre-sold. Another, St George South London, feels the need to point out that Asian purchasers are often buying not just for investment reasons but in many cases to house their children who are studying in London. ‘There’s not a lot of liquidity in this part of the world but international money is prepared to invest in the area,’ managing director Mark Griffiths told the FT. ‘It’s not just south-east Asia. When you get to £3m-plus properties you’re looking at Russia and the Middle East.’
From the point of view of a developer, it’s all perfectly understandable. You market your ‘units’ where the money is and pre-selling them takes the risk out of building them. However, from the point of view of London and the country as a whole, it means that provision of new homes is even more inadequate to meet levels of domestic demand than the headline figures suggest and that house prices and rents will continue to increase beyond the means of local incomes. At Nine Elms, Lambeth is pushing for 40 per cent affordable housing and Wandsworth 15 per cent – but what about the rest? Should they also be worrying about the percentage of local buyers - or even how many of the homes will actually be occupied?
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Gramsci said:
I have been reading bits about this. This site goes across Wandsworth and Lambeth. The affordable housing element has been watered down. Also the affordable housing element is to be mainly "offsite". See here

This Inside Housing article is interesting. All the PR in the nine elms website about creating new communities. A lot of it is being marketed to Far East investors:
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Story in the Standard today about Old Street apartment blocks lying half empty.
 
leanderman said:
Story in the Standard today about Old Street apartment blocks lying half empty.
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Yes I read that one. The new flats on the roundabout.

Its not just a problem here. My Chinese friend says the Chinese government is trying to stop people buying up property as investment. She says that housing is very expensive where she is. There is a possible property bubble in China. So they have some of the problems in parts of China as London has.

Shenzhen Bigger population than London. Did not exist 30 years ago. First of the economic Zones where the (Chinese version of) free market capitalism was started as experiment. As she said her parents generation came from all over China to build the city. Why there are no old people in the city. Quite staggering achievement.

They do not have "gentrification" or "hipsters" but do have young generation who have grown up with this who are becoming dissatisfied with life in China now after seeing the West.
 
Anyone else had, or know of anyone who had, their homes broken into today? Camberwell end of Coldharbour.
Ours was :(
Nothing obvious taken fortunately. House down the road had the same thing happen.
 
All this talk of water play areas makes me smile. Thinking back to the park playgrounds of my youth.

Small square of cracked concrete
Dog shit
Broken glass
Couple of broken or tied up swings
Rusty slide

If you were REALLY lucky maybe a bone breaking seesaw or roundabout :cool:
 
Badgers said:
All this talk of water play areas makes me smile.<snip>
If you were REALLY lucky maybe a bone breaking seesaw or roundabout :cool:
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The local paddling pool in my area was huge, up to 3'6" deep, and the bottom of it was covered in algae because it was the water was more or less direct (without fish etc) from the nearest river. It wasn't supposed to be, but the base of it had cracked years ago and the watertable in that park was rather high.
 
While I think of it, Alice in the Walled Garden will be back this month - there are quite a few times each day to choose from and several days too. Might even be able to drag VP over there.
 
Badgers said:
All this talk of water play areas makes me smile. Thinking back to the park playgrounds of my youth.

Small square of cracked concrete
Dog shit
Broken glass
Couple of broken or tied up swings
Rusty slide

If you were REALLY lucky maybe a bone breaking seesaw or roundabout :cool:
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We used to dream of having a bit of cracked concrete! And broken glass would've been a welcome change from all the razor wire & rusty spikes. There was no dog shit cos we didn't have dogs back then, only plague ridden rats & venomous crack squirrels. :(
 
And do you remember those Witches Hats things.... kids must surely have died on those!

Best of all: waxing up the metal slide with candles and then watching the smaller kids go down at about a million miles an hour.....God I must have been a horrible child!!
 
Walked through the water feature in Rushcroft Square when in full squirt. Of course i got soaked, that was the point and it would have been good but for the chlorine or whatever it is they put in it. Way too strong! Had a shower when i got home and still reek of it. Will i do it again? Yeah, course i will, tempted each time i go past it whether on bike or foot be it full squirt, dribble or nothing showing but the chlorine, turn it down it's made my hair go grey.
 
Will the building work on Brixton Police Station ever finish? What the fuck are they building in there? I know they dug deep 15 meters from the side entrance on Canterbury Crescent.
 
colacubes said:
I've just seen on twitter that apparently Lambeth have banned Jeff the Chef and other jerk stalls from BBQing on the market :confused::facepalm:
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Hi,

We opperate the Woodbox pizza van, often opposite Jeff.
There's been trouble brewing for a while now and there has been a bit of an uneasy vibe lately . Lambeth Council have apparently been getting rather uptight due to numerous and ongoing complaints from some of the bricks and mortar shops along Station Rd about the amount of smoke Jeff & the others produce and it going into their shops, etc
I was talking with Jeff yesterday & what seems entirely unfair & out of order is that he came back from 2 weeks holiday and was only told then that he is now banned from using the BBQ and he's not allowed to put forward any solutions or suggestions, which is really not on.

(We also got told to move pitches by a mkt inspector on Friday due to a 'complaint' about the smoke from our chimney - the top of which is 3.4 metres - which is minimal and our oven even has a certificate from DEFRA to say it's in line with the smoke act).
 
That's a bit shit. I can see why they have to deal with it but Seems odd that they can't work towards a mutually convenient solution.
 
Brixton without drum bbqs? They won't rest until every sign of the Windrush generation is eradicated or sanitised into an ersatz theme park variation of 'vibrancy,' one that seems to involve serving orderly plates of smokeless McJerk from a reorganised NuBrixton food court market of of 'world cuisine,' alongside salad boxes and single estate olive selections.
 
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