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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - July 2017

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Tropi said:
They haven't approved that yet. Well, I mean, it's still for up for consultation. I know that the go ahead have probably been decided under the table, like what happened to the Libraries, but I will object anyway.
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The planning application has multiple deadlines for "consultation" but the committee date is 1st August.

Somewhat unfortunately Historic England say in their response to the council that they have no objection, and do not require to be further consulted on this application.

I think it looks pretty naff - but really Brixton is now being fragged into line with Kensington and places like that, where unless streetscape is A1** a developer can get away with most things set back 10 metres from the actual street frontage.

The view from Platform 1 of the railway station will go from Ancient to Modern in one foul swoop!
 
709 trading days.....that's 10635 trading hours (9am - 12am)....and they are claiming 54% of that time (5757hrs) has been invested in the community.

Interesting...
 
Nanker Phelge said:
709 trading days.....that's 10635 trading hours (9am - 12am)....and they are claiming 54% of that time (5757hrs) has been invested in the community.

Interesting...
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Similar logic to syphoning off the Housing Revenue Account to pay for Your Nu Town Hall - as some housing officials will be using the Town Hall, and paid by it.

One could say every voter in Coldharbour Ward has had an hour of community time invested in them by Pop Brixton. But as we all know this would be hype.
 
Nanker Phelge said:
709 trading days.....that's 10635 trading hours (9am - 12am)....and they are claiming 54% of that time (5757hrs) has been invested in the community.

Interesting...
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More to the point, what the hell does "invested in the community" actually mean anyway? Planting community flower beds? Meals on wheels for the elderly?
 
CH1 said:
Similar logic to syphoning off the Housing Revenue Account to pay for Your Nu Town Hall - as some housing officials will be using the Town Hall, and paid by it.

One could say every voter in Coldharbour Ward has had an hour of community time invested in them by Pop Brixton. But as we all know this would be hype.
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A lot of the so-called 'community' time there can just be one Pop Brixton business helping another Pop Brixton business. Whoppee-do. Real community stuff.
 
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Thank you for my week long ban for obliquely referencing you whilst being on a mutual ignore. A violation clear to me now.

Except, the mutual ignore was to last one month as it stated in your private message to me. One month elapsed on 6 April 2017, three and a half months ago. Long before my heinous crime.

Unless, of course, it counts as a breach on a technicality, by dint of the mutual ignore not having been rescinded on time. But then, no doubt your week long ban will be beginning soon for this post (one in which you directly quote me):

Citydash is coming to Brixton

I've taken the liberty of reporting the post for you.
 
SpamMisery said:
Thank you for my week long ban for obliquely referencing you whilst being on a mutual ignore. A violation clear to me now.

Except, the mutual ignore was to last one month as it stated in your private message to me. One month elapsed on 6 April 2017, three and a half months ago. Long before my heinous crime.

Unless, of course, it counts as a breach on a technicality, by dint of the mutual ignore not having been rescinded on time. But then, no doubt your week long ban will be beginning soon for this post (one in which you directly quote me):

Citydash is coming to Brixton

I've taken the liberty of reporting the post for you.
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I've taken the liberty of rebanning you for being a disruptive dick again.
 
I thought I'd repost this seeing as it's behind the FT's paywall. The estate agent confirms that many of the incomers are young professionals with flats bought with the assistance of mummy and daddy.

In the early 1980s, Brixton’s Railton Road was known by locals as the “frontline”. “You’d avoid it as a kid,” says Mel, a grocer in the south London district’s covered market. These days, a section called Poet’s Corner — a cluster of Victorian streets named after Milton, Chaucer, Spenser et al — is a property hotspot. Flats sell for more than £500,000 and a well turned-out house can cost three times that.

Local agent Pedder is selling a smart five-bedroom home on Mayall Road for £1.49m, for example. Your neighbours would include actor Mark Rylance who, aptly, lives on Shakespeare Road.

Property prices have increased wildly. In the past five years, the cost of homes in Brixton has risen 76 per cent, according to Savills research. And they’re still going up, rising 3.5 per cent in the past year while prices in prime central London have dropped about 7 per cent.

Locals have complained about being priced out of the market, but with many family homes still costing less than £1m, prices are still lower than some other parts of London.

“I remember scraping around trying to get people to move here 15 years ago,” says Shane Mercieca, managing director of local agents Keating Estates. “People then were focused on Clapham, only settling on Brixton if their budgets didn’t stretch.”

Not so now. The majority of Mercieca’s buyers are in their late twenties and early thirties. “A lot of our market is supported by parental help,” he says.

Keating Estates is selling a stylish two-bedroom flat on Lambert Road for £625,000. It might require a small subsidy from the Bank of Mum and Dad, but at less than 30 minutes from Bank, its appeal to younger City types is clear.

“The family market is growing too,” says Mercieca. On Mervan Road, his agency is selling a four-bedroom terraced house for £1.42m.

Yet the arrival of wealthy, young, predominantly white professionals — who are bringing with them a wave of posh cafés and craft ale pubs — has caused concern among some older locals.

Brixton has been a centre of black culture in Britain since 1948, when the Empire Windrush ship brought Caribbean migrants to the UK, mostly ex-servicemen seeking work. Known as the “Windrush generation”, many were originally housed in the Clapham South’s deep-level air-raid shelter, and ended up settling in nearby Brixton. In the “frontline” days, unemployment and anger over police discrimination towards young black men erupted in the 1981 riots — a three-day battle with authorities. Riots broke out again in 1995 and 2011 during similar periods of economic and social instability.

“We’ve seen a lot of hardship,” says Mel, whose parents moved over from the West Indies, “but we built a strong community. We used to get together in Windrush Square all the time to hang out, eat, listen to music, but now that’s rare. So many people have gone.”

“The high street is becoming more homogenised,” says Tom Shakhli, who helped start the Brixton Pound café on Atlantic Road in 2009. The café acts as a community hub and is home to the local currency — the Brixton pound — which can be exchanged for sterling and used in about 200 local businesses, promoting spending within the local economy. The paper notes have featured Lenford Kwesi Garrison, co-founder of the Black Cultural Archives, and David Bowie, who was born in the area.

Obvious corporate chains aside, there is also the creeping influence of smaller enterprises that look independent but aren’t, or at least aren’t any more. Sourdough pizza company Franco Manca first opened in Brixton’s covered market in 2008, and is still there. Yet in 2015 the company was bought by Fulham Shore, whose chairman David Page is the former chief executive at PizzaExpress, and there are now almost 40 branches of the restaurant, ranging from Brighton to Westfield shopping centre in Stratford.

Popular boozer the Effra Social has a mirror ball, a small stage and a painting of Winston Churchill over the fireplace — it used to be home to the local Conservative Club. It certainly looks like a one-off but is owned by Antic, a chain that runs 44 bars across London, many decorated in a scruffy, idiosyncratic style that belies their owner’s expanding business model.

Antic also owns Dogstar on Coldharbour Lane. A few doors down from the pub, the economist-turned-chef Shrimoyee Chakraborty opened her second Calcutta Street kitchen in June. “It’s only been 10 days and numbers here are already better than our Fitzrovia restaurant,” she says. “I love the arty, independent, cultural vibe in Brixton. I also knew I needed to move in now before Pop Brixton [a temporary hub for pop-up bars, food stalls and shops] closes in 2018, and those places want to move.”

While Brixton Pound’s Shakhli welcomes the new businesses, he has a word of warning. “People move here for the atmosphere, but unless you preserve that it becomes a parody.”
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Here's a thoroughly depressing read.

Unsurprisingly, development sites in Brixton attract significant interest from developers. For example, last year Allsop’s Residential Development team saw stiff competition for a vacant D1 health clinic on Railton Road. The property was marketed and sold with the benefit of outline planning consent for five, three-storey town houses. During the course of marketing, more than 300 parties registered interest. Unconditional offers in excess of £1,750,000 were invited, resulting in 16 detailed offers and a successful sale, highlighting the investment appeal of such sites.

Other notable sales that Allsop has handled in Brixton include the sale of 34 Acre Lane – a commercial property extending to approximately 530 sq m (5,700 sq ft). Prior to the sale by the Residential Auction team, a pre-application was submitted for the conversion of the building to provide seven self-contained flats and the retention of part ground floor retail. Whilst the property provided potential for conversion to residential, a guide price of £1,250,000 was set to generate interest, even without planning consent in place. And, generate interest it did – within two weeks of being on the market Allsop had arranged 40 viewings. Ten offers in excess of the guide price were received prior to the auction, but the lot was still offered in the auction room and sold under the hammer for £2,510,000 in early 2016. With at least ten bidders in the room and such a strong price achieved, this sale demonstrates the appetite for development opportunities in SW2.
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Area Focus: The buzz about Brixton - Allsop
 
technical said:
Just been past the Grand Union/Hope & Anchor on Acre Lane. Grand Union signs look like someone's tried to remove them and there is what looks like a freshly painted Hope & Anchor above the door. Has it changed back?
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Their website is currently reporting:

"Due to unforeseen circumstances the pub is currently closed until further notice and we are unable to take calls. Should you require assistance, please email us at hopeandanchor@youngs.co.uk and we'll respond to you as soon as we can"
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Hope the beer garden returns soon. Plenty of mates that I drank there with fifteen years ago would fancy a a visit for old times sake.

On a trivial note - I suspect it will be a bloody nightmare to try and get the black paint of the faience tiles. I'm fairly sure that the original name in 1930s Youngs style tiles was retained behind that false fascia containing the mechanism for the Grand Union blinds?
 
lang rabbie said:
Their website is currently reporting:

"Due to unforeseen circumstances the pub is currently closed until further notice and we are unable to take calls. Should you require assistance, please email us at hopeandanchor@youngs.co.uk and we'll respond to you as soon as we can"
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Hope the beer garden returns soon. Plenty of mates that I drank there with fifteen years ago would fancy a a visit for old times sake.

On a trivial note - I suspect it will be a bloody nightmare to try and get the black paint of the faience tiles. I'm fairly sure that the original name in 1930s Youngs style tiles was retained behind that false fascia containing the mechanism for the Grand Union blinds?
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What kind of "unforeseen circumstances" closes a recently refurbished pub until further notice? :confused:
 
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