Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[Tron Cruise]

Here's some total fluff:

Why I can never escape Brixton’s evocative contrasts #hometowns

Finally learning how to ride a bike during lockdown helped Imogen Lepere experience her corner of south London afresh

www.independent.co.uk

No cliche left unturned: ‘old boys outside barber shops cracking jokes as dry as Jamaican sand and young professionals sipping flat whites; aunties wheeling shopping bags through the market’

 

[edcraw]

Hadn’t heard of Lost in Brixton, what is it? Looks like a bar no.

Also, can’t work out where it is?

 

[cuppa tee]

Hadn’t heard of Lost in Brixton, what is it? Looks like a bar no.

Also, can’t work out where it is?

I never went but think it’s the covered drinking/dining annex to the covered markets
you book a table, order food via app and the delights are brought to your table
think the entrance is off popes road...

Pergola Brixton | Drinks | Dancing | DJs

We’re the home of rooftop fun in the sun in Brixton. If you’re looking for DJs, drinks, dancing and pure summer vibes, you’re in the right place.

www.lostinbrixton.com

 

[alex_]

Hadn’t heard of Lost in Brixton, what is it? Looks like a bar no.

Also, can’t work out where it is?

next to the old toilets in the market

 

[edcraw]

next to the old toilets in the market

Ah, okay. Think I saw the entrance the other day but didn’t connect the two.

 

[friendofdorothy]

I never went but think it’s the covered drinking/dining annex to the covered markets
you book a table, order food via app and the delights are brought to your table
think the entrance is off popes road...

Pergola Brixton | Drinks | Dancing | DJs

We’re the home of rooftop fun in the sun in Brixton. If you’re looking for DJs, drinks, dancing and pure summer vibes, you’re in the right place.

www.lostinbrixton.com

Annex? is it on the roof of the granville arcade or am I reading that wrong?

 

[cuppa tee]

Annex? is it on the roof of the granville arcade or am I reading that wrong?

More or less, but I’m no expert, I’m not the target demograhic

edit.... Gramsci ?

 

[edcraw]

Looks like it might be this white thing on top of part of Granville arcade.

 

[David Clapson]

Is it in the bit which used to be artists' studios?

 

[editor]

Hadn’t heard of Lost in Brixton, what is it? Looks like a bar no.

Also, can’t work out where it is?

It's nu-Brixton, fake community shit

Lost In Brixton: noise complaints and doubts about the ‘community’ credentials of the Brixton Village rooftop terrace

A local resident has written to us to complain about the increased noise levels coming from the new ‘Lost In Brixton’ venue in Brixton Village, while there’s growing doubts about …

www.brixtonbuzz.com

In photos: A look around Lost In Brixton, Brixton Village

Opening in the summer of last year, Lost In Brixton is a new, on-trend rooftop terrace bolted above the avenues of Brixton Village and described as “a concrete jungle with drinks, food from t…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[Winot]

It’s above Flannels (is that still there?). The entrance is inside the market at the back where the loos are.

 

[cuppa tee]

It’s above Flannels (is that still there?). The entrance is inside the market at the back where the loos are.

...there was an entrance to that beach bollocks/Santa’s surf shack on popes road, isn’t that the same space ?

 

[teuchter]

You can see into it from the train if you go past at night.

 

[edcraw]

It's nu-Brixton, fake community shit

Lost In Brixton: noise complaints and doubts about the ‘community’ credentials of the Brixton Village rooftop terrace

A local resident has written to us to complain about the increased noise levels coming from the new ‘Lost In Brixton’ venue in Brixton Village, while there’s growing doubts about …

www.brixtonbuzz.com

In photos: A look around Lost In Brixton, Brixton Village

Opening in the summer of last year, Lost In Brixton is a new, on-trend rooftop terrace bolted above the avenues of Brixton Village and described as “a concrete jungle with drinks, food from t…

www.brixtonbuzz.com

Just cycled down Pope’s Rd and could hear music which seemed like it was coming from there. Seemed pretty loud for a Sunday evening.

 

[Gramsci]

They've made that classic mistake of making themselves unappealing to people who don't want to go there anyway.

How do work that out from my post?

 

[Gramsci]

I did live in Central Brixton for years. Gradually noise issues got worse.

Imo large areas of it are now seriously affected by noise that is not even inside a premises.

Im not talking about one off events. But what appear to be regular commercial events - in open air.

Outside Brixton Village now a regular sound system with bar and dancing in the courtyard. How the Council allowed this when its directly below residential flats is beyond me.

And this isn't about newcomers. These recent additions to Brixton are new.

 

[ash]

The old post office bakery is closed for refurbishment

 

[cuppa tee]

The old post office bakery is closed for refurbishment

any idea how long for ?

 

[ash]

any idea how long for ?

I think it was early Sept the 3rd maybe

 

[editor]

A one bed apartment for £300 a week. Ouch!

 

[Ryan2468]

I did live in Central Brixton for years. Gradually noise issues got worse.

Imo large areas of it are now seriously affected by noise that is not even inside a premises.

Im not talking about one off events. But what appear to be regular commercial events - in open air.

Outside Brixton Village now a regular sound system with bar and dancing in the courtyard. How the Council allowed this when its directly below residential flats is beyond me.

And this isn't about newcomers. These recent additions to Brixton are new.

Your point about the village resonated with me - seriously loud out at the front now as I noticed on Saturday night. Didn't it used to be just (quieter) food places on the front there? Now they have those wooden booths and things.

 

[BigMoaner]

A one bed apartment for £300 a week. Ouch!

not that much mroe expesnive than croydon where i am looking at

 

[editor]

not that much mroe expesnive than croydon where i am looking at

Fucking exploitative landlords. First against the wall

 

[pbsmooth]

That's basically standard for a London 1 bed in a half decent area

 

[pave]

Fucking exploitative landlords. First against the wall

We live in Brixton and also have a flat here which we let. I'd appreciate it if you could expand on why you think we should be shot. As an aside, I enjoy your photographs very much and am grateful for your efforts in running this forum.

 

[nick]

Welcome Pave (10th post in 10 months). Gird your loins, this is gonna be a rough ride (rightly or wrongly)

 

[jimbarkanoodle]

You haven't explained the situation fully, but if you own both the property you live in and the flat you rent out (including getting the tenants to pay off your mortgage on the one you let), dont expect too much sympathy on here. Unless there are particular mitigating circumstances.

 

[pave]

You haven't explained the situation fully, but if you own both the property you live in and the flat you rent out (including getting the tenants to pay off your mortgage on the one you let), dont expect too much sympathy on here. Unless there are particular mitigating circumstances.

Thank you for your reply. I wasn't really looking for sympathy. Rather I was seeking an explanation of why there is such vehement antipathy on this forum to private sector housing.

 

[Mr paulee]

I do laugh when Ed make such generalisations about landlords.

I am also a Brixton landlord.

Yeah I really am fucking evil.....

 

[ricbake]

There is a very real problems with private sector housing, particularly with ex local authority properties initially bought right to buy and now owned by commercial or semi commercial landlords who are riding on the crest of a cruel housing crisis that leaves some spending a huge proportion of their income on a roof over their heads. If they were being offered at Local Authority rents ie half the "Open Market" rent fair enough. But we have neighbours living in identical flats, some as council tenants and others as private tenants paying vastly different rates. I'm sure Mr paulee and pave are exemplary property owners offering an almost philanthropic service to everyone they house.