Brixton news, rumours and general chat - May 2013

[Manter]

Yes, I was talking to a local community officer last night when I passed - apparently the site was bought by a developer looking to build a block of flats. I suppose if a great building from the late 19th Century is standing in the way of the march of profit and progress, petrol and a match sorts it.

Appalling..... there's a building near my office that was listed and costing developers a lot of money as they had to protect the facade and build behind it- so it 'accidentally' fell over. Poetic justice was that the planning guys made them reinstate it as it was from the wreckage- including getting replacement details made where they were too damaged- that cost them a *lot* more money and time

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

thanks, don't think I've ever tried that, neither do I think I will.

 

[TruXta]

thanks, don't think I've ever tried that, neither do I think I will.

It's nothing special.

 

[fortyplus]

There's another fucking massive queue at the Ferndale Road post office, complete with the usual one or two oddballs being weird.

I really miss the old Coldharbour Lane post office, but hey! This is progress, right?

I went in to the Ferndale Road postoffice the other day, (having overlooked renewing tax on the motor), cleared out half the afternoon in readiness for the inevitable wait. Turned up, and by the time I'd walked all the way through the maze the cashier was waiting for me. However, that is the first time in twenty-five years of living in Brixton.

 

[Rushy]

All this talk of post offices and no Onket?

 

[gaijingirl]

I went to the Streatham Hill PO for the first time ever today. There was no queue. NO QUEUE! I'm not sure I've ever not queued at a PO before? Then I went to the bank and it took an hour.

 

[Greebo]

I went to the Streatham Hill PO for the first time ever today. There was no queue. NO QUEUE! I'm not sure I've ever not queued at a PO before? Then I went to the bank and it took an hour.

That's karmic balance for you.

 

[Gramsci]

I have just recently started using Twitter. I use Diaspora which I have linked to my Twitter. But not many people I know use Diaspora. Even though I think it works well.

Anyway get email alert. "Brixton Village" are following me.


@Brixton_Village
Brixton Village is home to the most vibrant restaurant scene in London. New food, pop up projects and fashion shops have created a trendy London hangout.
London · http://t.co/VinFanhlnT

 

[editor]

There's some noisy twat on a motorbike doing what sounds like a thousand miles an hour around the estate.

 

[editor]

I have just recently started using Twitter. I use Diaspora which I have linked to my Twitter. But not many people I know use Diaspora. Even though I think it works well.

Anyway get email alert. "Brixton Village" are following me.


@Brixton_Village
Brixton Village is home to the most vibrant restaurant scene in London. New food, pop up projects and fashion shops have created a trendy London hangout.
London · http://t.co/VinFanhlnT

They've got 'vibrant' 'pop-up' and 'trendy' but they missed out 'edgy' for the full set.

 

[Frumious B.]

"Brixton Village" are following me.

Eeek, the whole village? With pitchforks? Have you been grave-robbing again?

 

[Gramsci]

They've got 'vibrant' 'pop-up' and 'trendy' but they missed out 'edgy' for the full set.

Just checked there Twitter. Edgy is no where to be seen now. Not good marketing angle now. Instead its:

BRIXTON VILLAGE ‏@Brixton_Village 16 May
New food, pop up projects and fashion shops have created a trendy London hangout! #BrixtonVillage

 

[Frumious B.]

FFS, only Americans say 'trendy', it's not been trendy to say trendy here for 40 years.

 

[twistedAM]

They've got 'vibrant' 'pop-up' and 'trendy' but they missed out 'edgy' for the full set.

I loathe the term pop-up.
There's even a pop-up bar opened in Gipsy Hill; someone on Facebook added "yeah with pop-up prices"

 

[editor]

I loathe the term pop-up.
There's even a pop-up bar opened in Gipsy Hill; someone on Facebook added "yeah with pop-up prices"

It's like the word "temporary" just isn't cool enough. It's another ghastly hipster import.

 

[Rushy]

It's like the word "temporary" just isn't cool enough. It's another ghastly hipster import.

I like the term "pop-up". As with so many things, it's just been overused, gets adopted for duller corporate uses and the meaning gets blurred as the term gets applied to things which aren't really "pop-up". "Temporary" is a bit dull and phonetically cumbersome.

 

[Rushy]

Jay Rayner coming up on R4 after 12pm news on the sustainability of shopping locally. Might be interesting...

 

[editor]

I didn't think I particularly liked banana and chocolate waffles until I tried the one in Kaff today. It was fucking lush.

 

[el-ahrairah]

Invitation to Future Brixton feedback event

Did you share your views on the draft Brixton SPD?
We'd like to thank everyone who took the time to comment and invite you to our feedback event. Please come along to find out how your comments have helped shape the final document.

• On Wednesday 29 May 2013, from 6pm to 7.30pm
• At Lambeth Town Hall, Room 8
• Hosted by Cllr Pete Robbins, Cabinet Member for Housing and Regeneration

This will be an informal drop-in event and council officers will also be there to discuss how the supplementary planning document (or SPD) has been produced.

The Brixton Supplementary Planning Document will be considered by the Council's Cabinet on Monday 10 June and all documents will be published on the council's website on Monday 3 June.

The consultation closed on 15 March after 600 people had submitted questionnaires and written responses.
Find out more about Future Brixton >>

 

[editor]

I heard the big peal of thunder. But where's the rain?!

 

[editor]

Jay Rayner coming up on R4 after 12pm news on the sustainability of shopping locally. Might be interesting...

I didn't listen to it. Was it worth listening to and if so, what did he say?

 

[pissflaps]

jay rayner and lemmy. Never seen 'em in the same room together.

 

[Kanda]

I heard the big peal of thunder. But where's the rain?!

Top of the Hill, for about 5 mins.

 

[editor]

Top of the Hill, for about 5 mins.

There's some mean crowds on the horizon, but nothing here yet.

 

[Kanda]

It's sunny again now...

 

[colacubes]

It might have skirted round you. Sunny here now but it chucked it down briefly.

 

[wemakeyousoundb]

The long standing big squat in Oval apparently has to be vacated by tuesday.
Over 100 people living there at the moment.

 

[Rushy]

I didn't listen to it. Was it worth listening to and if so, what did he say?

I missed the first bit. He was later talking about farmers markets being misconstrued as being a sustainable model whereas they are really a premium shopping experience.

 

[Rushy]

There's some mean crowds on the horizon, but nothing here yet.

Angry protestors?

 

[twistedAM]

I like the term "pop-up". As with so many things, it's just been overused, gets adopted for duller corporate uses and the meaning gets blurred as the term gets applied to things which aren't really "pop-up". "Temporary" is a bit dull and phonetically cumbersome.

They're usually corporate... instigated by (here's another shitty buzzword) startups.