Clapham, Stockwell and Kennington news, rumour and general chat
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Looks like the article was based on testimony to the council recently, I might check out their website to see if they have more details later.
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That's not far from me. I suspect there is more than a little hype and exaggeration going on there.Just saw this on Twitter.
'Lawless' London high street where people are mugged as they leave pubs
Wardens have also had their body worn cameras ripped off and been threatened with violencewww.mylondon.news
Apparently violent and gun crime is really out of control around Clapham High Street.
Sensationalist bullshit.Just saw this on Twitter.
'Lawless' London high street where people are mugged as they leave pubs
Wardens have also had their body worn cameras ripped off and been threatened with violence
Apparently violent and gun crime is really out of control around Clapham High Street.
Clapham High st is no more dangerous than any 'popular' night out area.
cuppa tee
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thats quite bad if you believe evrything you read on twitter.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Wow! Archbishop Tenison's School closing. That schools been there 338 years ago
Tricky Skills
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PRIME piece of land. It's probably got all sorts of Church covenants protecting it.
Maybe if they'd invested some money in updating the building, the school may have been more attractive to parents and their children.
jimbarkanoodle
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You would have thought that with thousands of flats being thrown up in nearby Nine Elms there would be a demand for things like schools.
CH1
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Surely these sort of modern flats require one to chose between lifestyle and having children.
Wasn't there an acronym once - DINKIES?
cuppa tee
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...don't think them residents plan on hanging around to raise kids tbh.
...in other news i am hearing from the street of another prominent school closure.
unsubstantiated rumour but if true this one stinks to high hell and deeply shocking for peeps that know...
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
If it's the one located in Tulse Hill. Yes, I think it's true.
cuppa tee
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crikey anoher one then, it's looking like a trend, this one is in north brixton and has been in the news before.
i bet Tricky Skills remembers it.
Is it the secondary there?
There's been a falling birth rate, the LEA has been aware for some time that the drop in student numbers was coming.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Oh, really??? The girls school is quite popular!
I thought you meant City Heights, which has a bit of a sad history.
xsunnysuex
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It is.
madolesance
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Both are faith schools. No one has any faith any more.
CH1
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The Archbishop of Canterbury is always keen on social initiatives - such as food banks and credit unions run in churches.
So how about running an asylum seeker refuge in an unwanted school?
Oval must be one of the UK places least likely to object.
Meanwhile it would take the heat off the Bishop of Southwark, currently in a clerical cat-fight:
Seems they could have joined forces as both single sex schools.
When are they closing? ATS closes this summer, students decanted elsewhere.
cuppa tee
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i will miss some of the after school shenanigans from the ATS kids, one night they let off green smoke flares that engulfed the bottom end of brixton road, another time there was a duel in kennington park between two lads that was like something out of laurel and hardy.
cuppa tee
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apologies....the north brixton one looks like it might be a load of bollocks/ conspiracy theory.
xsunnysuex
Life is a horizontal fall.
Not sure. But soon.
Gramsci
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Article in Guardian about state school closures.
www.theguardian.com
Its happening across central London. Due to less children. Boroughs on edge of London are getting increase in children.
He says this is due to the "hollowing" out of London.
Central London is becoming unaffordable. The new shiny flats are not leading to increase in children for state schools.
Cycling through Nine Elms new developments near American Embassy and despite all the new flats it feels a dead zone.
Closing of central London schools is a sign of what central London has become. A playground for developers and the rich.
See it around the Tate Modern. Once that went up developers fell over themselves to build flats. I like the Tate Modern but I am increasingly disliking the area around it.
The Tate took a risk to set up the Tate Modern. Once it succeeded the developer moved in to cash out on it. Developers are a form of parasite.
Disappearing schools, families forced out – and we call this progress? | Aditya Chakrabortty
In inner London, a city without children is not some kind of dystopia but the new reality as communities are hollowed out, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
Its happening across central London. Due to less children. Boroughs on edge of London are getting increase in children.
He says this is due to the "hollowing" out of London.
Central London is becoming unaffordable. The new shiny flats are not leading to increase in children for state schools.
Cycling through Nine Elms new developments near American Embassy and despite all the new flats it feels a dead zone.
Closing of central London schools is a sign of what central London has become. A playground for developers and the rich.
See it around the Tate Modern. Once that went up developers fell over themselves to build flats. I like the Tate Modern but I am increasingly disliking the area around it.
The Tate took a risk to set up the Tate Modern. Once it succeeded the developer moved in to cash out on it. Developers are a form of parasite.
lang rabbie
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I suspect the only covenants would be if whoever sold/gave the land when the church moved to Oval in 1920s imposed any. I don't think the school site is part of the former garden of St Mark's vicarage.
So probably only subject to charitable restrictions that proceeds of sale may only be used for other church school building projects within the Diocese?
took a risk putting a museum and tourist attraction slap bang on the river opposite St Pauls/The City and between two major train stations? it wasn't exactly a backwater.
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