Brixton news, rumours and general chat

[Rushy]

The fines income has to be ring fenced for transport schemes - it’s not allowed to be spent on anything else.

Do you know what the ringfenced fund is called?

It would be interesting to know whether they actually do ring fence it. For instance, the council acknowledges that all income generated from Brockwell park has to be spend on Brockwell park (due to the ownership structure and the fact that the council are only trustees). But the income is paid direct into council funds. Their argument is that the amount they spend on the park is greater than the amount they raise; but there is no specific accounting.

The problem with this approach is that the park or fine income simply replaces historic spending, rather than being incremental to it. But in that way, it does fund other services which cannot raise their own income instead of going where it was intended.

 

[edcraw]

Close up of the controversial benches. Like for correct way round - angry face if you think they're the wrong way round.

 

[BusLanes]

That looks fine?

 

[nagapie]

Close up of the controversial benches. Like for correct way round - angry face if you think they're the wrong way round.

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Honestly I don't really care which way they face and that looks okay to me but I suppose people were expecting them to be facing the pedestrianised area.

Also I am happy if the cash is for multiple sights raised from ring fenced money from ltn fines, as I stated repeatedly, my concerns are for prioritising essential services where money is taken from a wider pot.

 

[edcraw]

Honestly I don't really care which way they face and that looks okay to me but I suppose people were expecting them to be facing the pedestrianised area.

What pedestrianised area?

 

[nagapie]

What pedestrianised area?

Is there not a pedestrianised area? I haven't followed the plans but assumed that they were making a little pedestrianised shopping area.
Which is why the benches facing the shops seemed strange to me.

 

[Jimbeau]

The signs on the planters say it’s a project in collaboration with Father Nature. That’s the same social enterprise that has done all the other LTN parklets locally. I’d be surprised if they’re going be left as they are in the hope random folk rock up with parsnips.

 

[edcraw]

Is there not a pedestrianised area? I haven't followed the plans but assumed that they were making a little pedestrianised shopping area.
Which is why the benches facing the shops seemed strange to me.

Okay, youre comment makes sense now. They've just made it one way and removed parking. Can't imagine the outrage if they pedestrianised it!

Your comments do highlight who a lot of inaccuracies get past around for these sort of changes.

 

[nagapie]

Okay, youre comment makes sense now. They've just made it one way and removed parking. Can't imagine the outrage if they pedestrianised it!

Your comments do highlight who a lot of inaccuracies get past around for these sort of changes.

I would not have objected to pedestrianising it. My objections have always been and remain very specific.

 

[RoyReed]

FFS, there's a whole forum for LTNs. Please take your bickering there.

 

[pbsmooth]

Benches look good. I definitely wouldn't want them facing the road...

 

[thebackrow]

FFS, there's a whole forum for LTNs. Please take your bickering there.

Very valid point. Rushy and nagapie I've replied over there

Brixton Liveable Neighbourhood and LTN schemes - improvements for pedestrians and cyclists

Oh what a surprise!! They're also against cycle lanes & parking controls... Are they actually local residents ?

www.urban75.net

edcraw The Elm Park improvements are within the Tulse Hill LTN. The road is quiet enough for this work because through traffic has been removed. And the scheme was consulted on and announced as part of the Tulse Hill LTN project. Tulse Hill Low Traffic Neighbourhood. It's absolutely LTN related.

 

[edcraw]

Would just like to point out that the Elm Park improvements aren't an LTN or LTN related so think it was fine and appropriate to post here.

 

[RoyReed]

Would just like to point out that the Elm Park improvements aren't an LTN or LTN related so think it was fine and appropriate to post here.

The 'discussion' went well beyond the original post about the new Elm Park street modifications (which was indeed an appropriate post).

 

[Rushy]

I'm just disappointed that no one appears to have raised the option of having the benches positioned at 90 degrees to the road and shops. Surely that would be the correct orientation ...

 

[Rushy]

Is this blue plaque on 15 Effra Road fairly new or have I just never noticed it?

 

[GarveyLives]

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Is this blue plaque on 15 Effra Road fairly new or have I just never noticed it?

It was unveiled nearly three and a half months ago on 8 August 2024.

 

[nagapie]

Apparently an organisation called Father Nature are doing the planting and maintenance on Elm Park, after two years Lambeth Parks will take over.
They will complete the planting on Thursday and didn't mean to confuse people with their sign.

 

[Jimbeau]

Apparently an organisation called Father Nature are doing the planting and maintenance on Elm Park, after two years Lambeth Parks will take over.
They will complete the planting on Thursday and didn't mean to confuse people with their sign.

Indeed. I mentioned them a few posts back. They’ve done several schemes now - Railton, Atlantic, Shakespeare, St Matthew’s, etc. as well as a few local schools and the new lavender maze in Max Roach park. From what I’ve seen, their work is bearing up pretty well.

I live off Elm Park and we had leaflets through the door for the consultation 18 months ago, and two more in advance of the works happening this summer. My impression was that Lambeth were actually pretty good on engaging neighbours with this project.

 

[happyshopper]

Just been for another blood test at Kings.
Couldn't have it yesterday because Swiftqueue could not accommodate doing a test 12 hours after my medication.

At St. Thomas’s on Monday I arrived a couple of minutes early and was seen exactly on time. I hardly had time to sit down.

 

[nagapie]

It is actually annoying that there's no walk in option. My son often attends appointments where we don't know if we're going to be sent for bloods as it happens in the appointment.

TBF to staff, I explained this and they took us straight through. But did say we have to book next time; we didn't know the system had changed.

 

[Rushy]

It is actually annoying that there's no walk in option. My son often attends appointments where we don't know if we're going to be sent for bloods as it happens in the appointment.

TBF to staff, I explained this and they took us straight through. But did say we have to book next time; we didn't know the system had changed.

Pretty sure that there is still a walk in option. You just register on the machine when you get there. I think I waited 15 mins last time.

 

[nagapie]

Pretty sure that there is still a walk in option. You just register on the machine when you get there. I think I waited 15 mins last time.

My son is an ex prem who has medical PTSD from a number of medical interventions in his first years of life, we don't wait because his anxiety increases and it can reach a level where doing bloods is impossible. Luckily the staff know us and understand this

 

[Tulster218]

The Council's spending £180,000 for five new trees on Brixton Station Road. Expensive trees!



Details here Decision - Revitalising Brixton Rec Quarter – Street Trees and Sustainable urban Drainage System (SuDS) | Lambeth Council

 

[editor]

The Council's spending £180,000 for five new trees on Brixton Station Road. Expensive trees!

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Details here Decision - Revitalising Brixton Rec Quarter – Street Trees and Sustainable urban Drainage System (SuDS) | Lambeth Council

Things always get very expensive when they're located in a 'quarter.'

 

[Mr paulee]

The Council's spending £180,000 for five new trees on Brixton Station Road. Expensive trees!

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Details here Decision - Revitalising Brixton Rec Quarter – Street Trees and Sustainable urban Drainage System (SuDS) | Lambeth Council

be ruined within weeks.

 

[editor]

M&S was insanely busy yesterday. Makeover looks nice though.

In photos: big crowds flock to Brixton’s Marks and Spencer store after seven month closure

After seven months of extensive refurbishment, Marks and Spencer made a highly anticipated return to Brixton yesterday, reopening their doors to eager shoppers.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[teuchter]

M&S seem to have built an entire fake viaduct wall (including the arch vaults) - somewhere behind & above this must be the real railway viaduct. It would be interesting to see what the space in between looks like.