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does anyone know the name of the djs that played the rockabilly tunes at the hand in hand last saturday (02.11.2013). they were superb, the whole night was great, cool tunes and styles all around.
 
Excuse me being off-topic but...
Particularly incensed about Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi claiming £5,822.27 for electricity and gas at his 2nd home.
Including electricity for his mobile phone. This same guy repeatedly goes on Newsnight, Daily Politics etc berating the idle poor and those who won't work
HE works very hard fiddling his accounts it would appear. Bastard.
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CH1 said:
Excuse me being off-topic but...
Particularly incensed about Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi claiming £5,822.27 for electricity and gas at his 2nd home.
Including electricity for his mobile phone. This same guy repeatedly goes on Newsnight, Daily Politics etc berating the idle poor and those who won't work
HE works very hard fiddling his accounts it would appear. Bastard.
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I remember the Press Association chief exec when I was there in the 1990s would claim back the £1 bus fare for travelling from the Victoria office to Parliament square to meet an MP.
 
CH1 said:
Excuse me being off-topic but...
Particularly incensed about Tory MP Nadhim Zahawi claiming £5,822.27 for electricity and gas at his 2nd home.
Including electricity for his mobile phone. This same guy repeatedly goes on Newsnight, Daily Politics etc berating the idle poor and those who won't work
HE works very hard fiddling his accounts it would appear. Bastard.
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To be fair, he would have claimed far less off us had the power bill not included the stables at his equestrian business.
 
leanderman said:
To be fair, he would have claimed far less off us had the power bill not included the stables at his equestrian business.
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If they hadn't socially cleansed the Stockwell Park Estate we could have sent him for training in how to "jump" an electricity meter! He is obviously cutting down on standing charges by sharing all his supplies on one meter, but left out the final step. If YouGov ever ask me I will tell them you can never trust bosses to get the technical details right.
 
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If they hadn't socially cleansed the Stockwell Park Estate we could have sent him for training in how to "jump" an electricity meter! He is obviously cutting down on standing charges by sharing all his supplies on one meter, but left out the final step. If YouGov ever ask me I will tell them you can never trust bosses to get the technical details right.
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His claim that he did not know the stables were on the same bill as his mansion is not credible and in any case this is no defence.

Despite his £17million fortune he wanted to wring every last penny out of us.
 
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http://therestartproject.org/events/

There is a restart party at St. Matthews estate today for people who have anything electronic they'd like to learn how to fix or get help with, from slow laptops to borked espresso machines. Might even have the sort of people who would be interested in hackspace type stuff Crispy
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This is what happened:
 

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His claim that he did not know the stables were on the same bill as his mansion is not credible and in any case this is no defence.

Despite his £17million fortune he wanted to wring every last penny out of us.
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That's the mind set you need to get £17 million quid. I'll never be rich, as soon as I got a lump of money I'd stop working until I'd spent it all.
 
Wasn't that one going to be either student accommodation or a budget hotel? Can't quite remember which but there was a froth on here about it, of course.
 
The fact that those buildings have been left empty for so long is a real disgrace. There's loads of similar empty properties around Brixton.
 
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It's an interesting looking building alright. Be good to see something done with it as long as the frontage etc is kept.
 
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The fact that those buildings have been left empty for so long is a real disgrace. There's loads of simiilar empty properties around Brixton.
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If it is empty - and the boarded-up windows suggest so - it really is a disgrace.

Compulsory purchase.
 
Full set of drawings available in that 2011 planning application: http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...iveTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=LILUHDBO0GL00 (11/00969/FUL)

There's an entrance on Electric Avenue, on the East corner. It leads directly onto a staircase to the 1st floor, which is otherwise staff rooms, storage and chillers for iceland. A corridor runs along the back (with no connection to the staff area) to a staircase in the NE corner of the building that goes all the way up. There's another staircase in the SE corner, but it's cut off from ground floor by the Iceland goods lift and staff entrance.

This tricky access arrangement is what makes it unattractive to develop, IMO. With only one staircase in the corner, you can't split the building up into useful flats. There's not enough fire escape provision either. Any redevelopment would have to include Iceland, so that a proper entrance can be made, and the SE staircase reinstated.
 
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Full set of drawings available in that 2011 planning application: http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/onli...iveTab=externalDocuments&keyVal=LILUHDBO0GL00 (11/00969/FUL)

There's an entrance on Electric Avenue, on the East corner. It leads directly onto a staircase to the 1st floor, which is otherwise staff rooms, storage and chillers for iceland. A corridor runs along the back (with no connection to the staff area) to a staircase in the NE corner of the building that goes all the way up. There's another staircase in the SE corner, but it's cut off from ground floor by the Iceland goods lift and staff entrance.

This tricky access arrangement is what makes it unattractive to develop, IMO. With only one staircase in the corner, you can't split the building up into useful flats. There's not enough fire escape provision either. Any redevelopment would have to include Iceland, so that a proper entrance can be made, and the SE staircase reinstated.
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Great analysis. What a waste.
 
leanderman said:
Are there any circumstances in which action could now be taken to (make Iceland) correct the mistake?
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No legal powers, no. If you want to screw up access to your own property so that you can't use it efficiently, that's your business.

There's a previous application (by a different person, looks like the property changed hands) from 2010 which included a new staircase extension within the lightwell, to service 3 flats on each floor. Refused: "The proposed development by reason of the proposed mix of units would be circumventing against providing affordable housing on the site. As such, the application would be contrary to policies 15 and 16 of the UDP". I imagine they'd get away with it these days.
 
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No legal powers, no. If you want to screw up access to your own property so that you can't use it efficiently, that's your business.

There's a previous application (by a different person, looks like the property changed hands) from 2010 which included a new staircase extension within the lightwell, to service 3 flats on each floor. Refused: "The proposed development by reason of the proposed mix of units would be circumventing against providing affordable housing on the site. As such, the application would be contrary to policies 15 and 16 of the UDP". I imagine they'd get away with it these days.
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Perhaps better to have agreed it in the first place, if the alternative was 3 more years of the building rotting.
 
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