Office/workshop use would comply with the previous employment policy for this site - and avoid adding to the already existing problems of an entertainment zone gone mad.
Abso-fucking-lutely!
I might be wrong but I though the loading bay was unaffected and it was the redundant warehouse that was being changed.
Why do you think a plain building emblazoned with the corporate logo MEAT looks fantastic? And why do you think Brixton needs yet another multi-million chain restaurant?
Forget the logo - that's just a neon light, but to build those sorts of corbelled arches is something few bricklayers these days have skills to do. Really good design and will be great if they can find the skilled labour to do it justice.
Why does every space have to be turned over to multi-million chains to make even more profit for themselves? What's wrong with a bit of quiet 'dead' space anyway?
Doesn't that depend on who's paying for it? Whoever owns it is liable for business rates on it, and if they aren't using it then it makes sense to get rid of it to avoid the ongoing cost.
That's quite different to the question I asked though.
Not in the context of this discussion.
You're twisting the discussion into quite strange shapes here so I'll leave it. Do you even know who owns the current land?
Nope, but does it matter? I'd expect Argos or one of their holding companies. Who cares? It is currently a pretty unattractive, disused lump clad in aluminium. There are better things that could be done with it. Bringing it into use can't be a bad thing.
Has anyone, anywhere even brought up 'customer type' in this discussion?
Your objection seemed to be based on proximity to residential.
That doesn't seem right. The statutory expiry date is 13 weeks after validation by which time the planning dept are legally obliged to give a decision. As they can never hit that deadline, they "encourage" applicants to enter into a planning performance agreements whereby the applicant pays a hefty fee and agree a much later target date on the proviso they get a dedicated case officer to walk them through to a consent. The application itself doesn't expire - at that date it should be approved or refused, unless the applicant withdraws.
I don't know why I even bother going to these are the developers invariably start altering the design after the "consultation' has finished.
Well that is (kind of) the point of these events. Get feelers for what kinds of stink might get kicked up and pre-empt them in the planning application.
The alterations invariably involve extra units/floors being squeezed in. Pisses me off.
I wouldn't bet on that. Vibrant hub incoming!
For folks living across the street, a 5 or 6 storey block appearing there is probably not going to feel like an improvement.
Many alarm bells ringing for this one. I couldn't find anything in Lambeth's planning database for the address,
