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A friend just came round and told me forensics are looking at a house in Railton Road (Herne Hill side of Railron Methodist Chapel apparently)
Apologies for the source Woman dies in house fire as probe launched into horror blaze
The tragedy has taken a dark turn


 
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(Source: Facebook)

Condolences to the family and friends of The Late Mariama Kamara, a community nurse, who had lived at the Railton Road house in which she lost her life since 1994.

She had reportedly recently established a magazine to keep the local Sierra Leonean community keep in touch with Africa.

Anyone with information that could help the investigation into her death is being asked to call the major incident room on 020 8649 0424.
 
Good to see the people who use Brixton station stairs to smoke hard drugs and lie unconscious being challenged by Police last night when i was passing by. The conversation was going something like "look we know you've been smoking crack here, but can you not as children use these stairs to get up to the train platform", which is good policing (as long as they listen).
 
Good to see the people who use Brixton station stairs to smoke hard drugs and lie unconscious being challenged by Police last night when i was passing by. The conversation was going something like "look we know you've been smoking crack here, but can you not as children use these stairs to get up to the train platform", which is good policing (as long as they listen).
Seems a general policing tactic at the moment: "Ms Gray would you mind not publishing your report - it might harm our infantile Prime Minister."
 
Would seem that they live next door to a shelter and they are just fed up of people using their porch as a place to take drugs.
Nothing to do with kicks.
So he should report it to the relevant authorities rather than posting up identifiable movies of these poor, fucked up individuals all over the internet.
Can't say I'm surprised to see you offering support though.





 
Support?
No - Just offering a different point of view.

Some mental gymnastics displayed there Ed.
So what's your view? Are you all for people posting endless videos of fucked up addicts - some most likely with with mental health issues - for the amusement and titillation of internet viewers?
 
If it bothers the person that much (it would bother me too) then grow a backbone and tell them to jog on. The whole shame them on social media is a bit unnecessarily narcissistic. Clearly fishing for a bit of laugh out of others misery.
 
Pretty horrible Twitter account. Shaming on social media isn’t going to stop it and is quite nasty, needs to work with councillors/ the council to sort it out.
 
Quite depressing seeing the inside of this building. How it has been chopped up and how people are living. Check out this 8 bedroom block of apartments for sale on Rightmove
The house next door (292) had 17 people in it once. Got sold to a developer for £575,000 and turned into three flats around 2015.

Maybe the same might happen to 294 - but I doubt it, because the only way it could fetch the requisite £1.5 million auction reserve priced is based on a beds in sheds rental regime with no maintenance.
 
Surely no one will pay 1.5 million for that?
It's a licensed HMO so the value is pretty much purely based on rental return - unlike normal houses and flats which have an identifiable market value. At £1,500,000 it's still making a return roughly 50% higher than standard letting properties - so it is quite possible.
 
It's a licensed HMO so the value is pretty much purely based on rental return - unlike normal houses and flats which have an identifiable market value. At £1,500,000 it's still making a return roughly 50% higher than standard letting properties - so it is quite possible.
Agree with your reasoning - but please don't assume because Lambeth Housing place people in such a place that it is a registered HMO.
There was a lot of argy bargy with the pre-2015 owner on this, including a planning hearing in the ???much missed??? Phoenix House where the planning inspector did not accept the bedsit subdivisions.

Lambeth Planning - quite rightly - were trying to steer the owner towards larger better units (maisonette plus basement flat if memory serves)
The owner never produced HMO authorisation - but he did have letters from Lambeth Housing placing tenants in the bedsits.
 
Agree with your reasoning - but please don't assume because Lambeth Housing place people in such a place that it is a registered HMO.
There was a lot of argy bargy with the pre-2015 owner on this, including a planning hearing in the ???much missed??? Phoenix House where the planning inspector did not accept the bedsit subdivisions.

Lambeth Planning - quite rightly - were trying to steer the owner towards larger better units (maisonette plus basement flat if memory serves)
The owner never produced HMO authorisation - but he did have letters from Lambeth Housing placing tenants in the bedsits.

I have just read the file. You're right - it's not an HMO. It is eight self contained "flats". Not only do the 8 flats not have planning permission but they have been found to be unlawful:

Taking all of the above into account, the applicant has provided sufficiently clear and unambiguous evidence to demonstrate that, on the balance of probability, the property has been used as eight self-contained flats. However, as an enforcement notice is in force and the use of the building as 8 flats is in clear contravention of the requirements of the enforcement notice, the development subject of the LDC application is not immune from enforcement action and is unlawful. As such, in accordance with Section 191(4) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1990 (as amended), it is the duty of the Council to refuse this application
 
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