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A mate's bike nicked from a back garden in St Matthew's Road last night.

Rather conspicuously bright orange.

Whyte Shoreditch (try not to hold the model name against it) .

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Feckers tried climbing in his bedroom window too.

Another one was nicked at the same time but the owner was given it and can't remember what it was 😆. Silver Specialized something or other ladies frame is my best guess.
 
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Rushy said:
It depends where you are in which LTN.

I would say that putting aside the Shakespeare Road issues the main Railton Road LTN is pretty good. In the vicinity of the Herne Place gate traffic and traffic noise has reduced very notably. Access remains very good for most residents with lots of options. I don't get the impression that Dulwich Road is notably busier either. Some of the Shakespeare concerns seem fair however - although I have not followed them in detail. Overall, that part of the LTN works for me.

The Saint Matthews one can be a pain in the arse for access because the sole access is off a busy red route which can mean the last section of your journey can take up to 20 minutes (more often 10) instead of less than a minute. This does not benefit anyone. Diverted traffic instead of going one side of the homes goes the other. And that is where the noise always came from, so no improvement there. And there can surely be no improvement in air cleanliness - I don't know but would not be surprised if it were slightly worse. Traffic on Saint Matthews Road itself has not been all that reduced because it was never the problem that campaigners like to pretend it was - but yes there are a handful less ratrunners. Much of the coming and going is parking for the "car free" town hall and that has not been impacted by the LTN (although it has been impacted temporarily by the Town Hall site not being fully operational). You could actually say that Lambeth have turned a residential street into their private carpark.
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You know what would be better would be just to block it off at one end, maybe at the White House, Brixton end. That way all local residents could access the whole road but it wouldn’t be a rat run. You would all have to enter/exit from one end though
 
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The Architects for Social Housing have thankfully briefly stopped being full-on conspiracy loons and have posted something interesting and useful about these buildings

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ASH Co-Housing: Design Option for the Brixton Housing Co-operative

This co-housing project is the fourth time in recent years that ASH has worked with housing co-operatives as a way to build the much-needed social housing that London councils and housing associati…
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that sounds really good.
Please help by going onto Lambeth council’s website page for this planning application and registering your opposition to its proposals. Since Lambeth council has in the past erased such objections from its website (for example, against the planning application for the redevelopment of Knight’s Walk), it would be a good idea, once you have done so, to make a screen-grab or other record of your objection, and keep it for future reference.
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And if anyone has the resources to help develop ASH’s proposals for this site, please get in contact at: info@architectsforsocialhousing.co.uk.
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How can we as a community support it?
 
Not a Vet said:
You know what would be better would be just to block it off at one end, maybe at the White House, Brixton end. That way all local residents could access the whole road but it wouldn’t be a rat run. You would all have to enter/exit from one end though
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Apparently that option was discussed with the consultees (which inclulded cycling pressure groups but no residents). I've heard it mentioned as an option by a local councilor too.

The effect for the first approx 175 addresses at that end of the road is to add a mile onto any return journey headed in the direction of Acre Lane, Brixton Road or Coldharbour Lane. All of that extra mile is straight through the middle and back down the other side of the St Matthews Estate (four passes for every return journey), which it is supposed to protect from pollution. Half of that mile is in the slow and clogged northbound traffic of Brixton Hill or Effra Road. Not to mention all the cars that will drive the length of St Matthews Road and back again to park as close as possible to the "car-free" Town Hall. There's no reciprocal saving for journeys in the other direction - it's all extra miles in the immediate vicinity of the St Matthews Triangle.

Walthamstow data suggests that LTNs don't appear to deliver a reduction of journeys by residents who live within an LTN (I think it was 1%). That does not seem all that surprising to me based on my own usage. So there is little reciprocal benefit there either.

Is that really a win?

APNR passage for most cars located in the triangle would sort that wherever the gate were placed.
(Accompanied by the council respecting the parking rules every which other residents and businesses of Brixton are forced to adhere to.)
 
Rushy said:
A mate's bike nicked from a back garden in St Matthew's Road last night.

Rather conspicuously bright orange.

Whyte Shoreditch (try not to hold the model name against it) .

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Feckers tried climbing in his bedroom window too.

Another one was nicked at the same time but the owner was given it and can't remember what it was 😆. Silver Specialized something or other ladies frame is my best guess.
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nice bike, FindThatBike might help your mate, it searches the net for bikes for sale. The police will come along if you identify it for sale, not sure that works in Brixton though, but that's the theory.
 
28 October 2020: Man detained after racial abuse in Windrush Square

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(Source: brixtonblog.com)

Allegedly spitting at 'a black' woman and making 'Hitler salutes'.

Happy Black History Month 2020.​
 
Read this article by Grace Blakeley. Writes on politics and economics. Mentions Brixton.

Its about the financialisation of housing/ property which started under Thatcher. Changing something that is necessary for all into a commodity/ asset to make money out of.

Bleak prospect that this governnment will help to prop up the housing sector to the detriment of the rest of the economy and the less well off.

Article debunks the myth that Thatcher unleashing the free market has led to a better system of housing.

Big winners are landlords/ property owners/ those with capital seeking to invest. Big losers are the manufacturing industry. Those subject to the ensuing gentrification in London

End of rent controls didn't help either.

For London she sees this Tory goverment trying to keep property prices up. So big corporate property owners/ investors in property ( ArchCo of Brixton Arches for example) and landlords big or small will do nicely. Whilst the future for those in private renting is insecure.

Effectively the economy in this country works for property investors. If you arent one tough luck.

And works for Banks.

QE plays big role in this. Helped to keep asset prices up.


The money flowing into London’s real estate is likely to accelerate the processes of gentrification that have transformed the nation’s capital over the past several decades (Yee and Dennett, 2020). Communities that have occupied a particular area of the capital for many decades may find it harder to afford increasing rents, forcing many families further out of London and disrupting cultural, social and political networks. Recent battles over landmarks like Brixton’s arches, Elephant and Castle’s shopping centre and Seven Sisters’ Latin Village show both the damage inflicted by gentrification on many communities and their fierce resistance to it (Corporate Watch, 2019; Evans, 2018; Yeung, 2020). Gentrification has had a particularly stark impact on black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) communities in the UK (Barrow, 2020). Disproportionately impacted by the economic downturn and the virus itself, BAME households are likely to suffer as a result of gentrification even as the crisis ebbs.
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Financialization, real estate and COVID-19 in the UK

Abstract. In the UK, financialization has transformed many areas of the economy, including the housing market. The deregulation of financial markets that t
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Gentrification in London is direct result of the financialisation of the economy since Thatcher.

Hondo propsed Tower is another example.
 
Has anyone lost their water supply? I'm in Barrington Rd and there's no water at all. Can't flush my toilet! 🙄
 
This bit of trendy art slapped on the wall of a private, ‘secret’ garden in a luxury development for the well-off somehow forges a link with Brixton’s character, says the developer.

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Tailored Living Solutions hire Bowie graffiti artist to add cool to their luxury 237 Brixton Hill development

We’ve received a gushing email from PR firm wearespider – ‘where brave brands belong’ – extolling the news that graffiti artist Jimmy C has been hired in to splash aro…
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