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Brixton news, rumours and general chat - May 2013

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leanderman said:
Not seen that loon yet. But more struck by how the revamp has, among other changes, led to a poshing-up of the playground.

Lots of preposterously-accented parents this morning with even more preposterously-named children: one was definitely called Nugget (sister to Beatrix).
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that playground is ace for kids - loads of great stuff in there
 
Frumious B. said:
How annoying. Maybe you should appeal it. A lot of people win on appeal, the wardens make lots of 'mistakes'. Once I appealed and was in the wrong but the council didn't present their evidence in time, so I won. :)

I assume you have a resident's permit? I was thinking about selling my visitor permits to whoever wants them. It seems to be legal. They're £5 per day. so I thought it might be helpful to some of the market traders - two of them told me they can't get repairs done any more because the contractors won't come to Brixton because of the parking.
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Well done ...we are going to give it a go ..waiting to see the picture that was taken but have to wait 5 days for the council to put it up on their site. Yes we do have a resident's permit ...we do not use the car on a day to day basis.....I'm going to try and find out the reason why the resstrictions were put in place.
 
Greebo said:
That twat was practising his lack of riding skill in the green bit at the back of this estate (bordering the park) yesterday - using paths which often have small children, dog walkers (with their dogs off leash), elderly people, and disabled people on them. Inconsiderate fuckwit isn't in it.:mad:
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string piano wire across it next time shortly before he rides past. problem solved.
 
el-ahrairah said:
string piano wire across it next time shortly before he rides past. problem solved.
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A bit difficult with one side along that path between the mounds and the flats having nothing near enough to tie the wire to. :mad:
 
Apparently the pre-World Cup/Olympic "cleanup" of Rio's favelas - getting rid of the drug gangs etc - has created a problem of gentrification with rising rents making them unaffordable for the communities that give them their character.
 
Brixton was featured on a BBC London News TV piece about rising house prices and gentrification. One of the long term market traders said how he felt that his stall's future was in doubt ("we're dinosaurs here") while a posh yummy mummy in the Villaaage purred that she found the change "supercool."

It'll probably be repeated on the BBC news tonight.
 
TruXta said:
Mean or median?
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No idea but I'm sure you can work it out.
A spring surge — in which the young competed with foreign investors for the relatively few flats and houses for sale — pushed the average asking price of a newly-built property in Greater London to £542,266, up 6.8 per cent in a month and 10.3 per cent in a year, according to new figures.

Experts said it was the latest ominous sign of a property bubble in the capital, as the average asking price of all homes on the market across London also smashed the £500,000 barrier for the first time.
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http://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...st-of-new-london-home-hit-542000-8623823.html
 
fortyplus said:
yrs truly was interviewed for that piece, I said something about the disastrous impact on residential rents, how we try to create jobs but then the people we can afford to pay can't afford to live here. obviously found its way to the cutting-room floor.
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You should have used the word 'supercool' a bit more.
 
fortyplus said:
yrs truly was interviewed for that piece, I said something about the disastrous impact on residential rents, how we try to create jobs but then the people we can afford to pay can't afford to live here. obviously found its way to the cutting-room floor.
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That's probably beyond the concept of your average jobbing BBC journalist. There used to be a time when people from Brixton worked where I do; now it's Peckham, Norbury, Anerley or Croydon.
 
TruXta said:
Sounds like the mean, but there's no way of telling really from that info. Ah well, at the end of the day it's still fucking crazy. Note that this is only for new-builds tho.
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No. The figure for all properties has also gone through £500,000 (£508k v £542k for new-build only)
 
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