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The problem with it is that once you see the alternating smiley & sad faces along the top , it loses all its austere brutal beauty, and you can't ever unsee them again.
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You'd look gaunt and hungry too if you had to cycle round London all day every day for minimum wage.
Ol Nick
beer in Brixton
Or for breakfast.
editor
hiraethified
I fear the worst for this strip:
From left to right:
1. Food & Wine
2. Future unknown
3. Gentrification strip begins with the ludicrously unaffordable Shoreditch hipster Blue Tit hair salon
4. Future unknown
5. Old Gresham Cafe looking primed and ready for hefty prices rises in new reincarnation
6. Shrub & Shutter - totally unaffordable poshboy/hipster hangout
7.Blue Peacock - expensive salon (but cheap compared to its probably unwanted new neighbour)
8. Morleys
From left to right:
1. Food & Wine
2. Future unknown
3. Gentrification strip begins with the ludicrously unaffordable Shoreditch hipster Blue Tit hair salon
4. Future unknown
5. Old Gresham Cafe looking primed and ready for hefty prices rises in new reincarnation
6. Shrub & Shutter - totally unaffordable poshboy/hipster hangout
7.Blue Peacock - expensive salon (but cheap compared to its probably unwanted new neighbour)
8. Morleys
LadyV
Well-Known Member
I think number 5 is heading to be some sort of asian cuisine, no doubt served on tapas like small plates, which will then not fit on to the very small tables they seem to have installed. Also the kitchen area looks enormous, hardly any room for anything else.
And there's definitely something going on at number 2 as I keep on seeing people in and out of there.
Sadly I doubt there is anything that can be done now to halt the changes that are happening along there and if I'm honest I'm quite conflicted over how I feel about it, on one hand I like the fact that I don't get aggro from the group of men that used to hang out near the bookmakers and I do feel safer walking along there than I did before the new places opened but on the other hand, I don't think that expensive hipster hairdressers and cocktail bars are the best option either because they are prepared to pay more which then means the neighbouring landlords put up their rents and then the problem gets worse.
I just don't know if a happy medium can be found any more, with rents rising so much, a business that was truly affordable by the local population just wouldn't be able to survive and it's unlikely landlords would ever reduce their rents, because then in their minds they would be losing out. All in all it kinda sucks and as much as we may not like it, we may have to accept that that stretch and many others like it are going to change and probably not in a way we like
They need the small tables to make the small plates look bigger so you don't realise you're being ripped off.
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Sounds like a brothel. Can we get a steer on whether this would be APPROVED or UNAPPROVED on that stretch?
LadyV
Well-Known Member
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
And if they are serving the community and giving affordable shags in one of the poorest wards in London. Or if it's more of a high class set up. We need to know before making a judgement.Depends on how much they're charging I guess!
editor
hiraethified
Unsurprisingly, Lambeth are recommending this social housing-free, gated private development goes ahead:
8688 Gresham Road London SW9 7NP
Three private blocks proposed for Coldharbour Lane/Gresham Road – up to 8 storeys high with gated access
8688 Gresham Road London SW9 7NP
Three private blocks proposed for Coldharbour Lane/Gresham Road – up to 8 storeys high with gated access
editor
hiraethified
Always space for another supermarket in nu Brixton!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The committee date is 12th April. Of the few public comments 4 support and 1 oppose. Apparently only one official consultee - and Lambeth not saying who it was or what they said. I am sure I did comment up thread that the publicity for this application was negligible.Unsurprisingly, Lambeth are recommending this social housing-free, gated private development goes ahead:
8688 Gresham Road London SW9 7NP
Three private blocks proposed for Coldharbour Lane/Gresham Road – up to 8 storeys high with gated access
Could be quite a hairy meeting:
http://moderngov.lambeth.gov.uk/ieListDocuments.aspx?
CId=600&MId=9393&Ver=4
Also on the agenda: Thrayle House and the Canterbury Hotel site (extra flats presumably) plus several South Bank area items.
As it's at the Karibu, maybe worth popping in?
organicpanda
cat herder extraodinaire
beginning to know how these people feelUnsurprisingly, Lambeth are recommending this social housing-free, gated private development goes ahead:
8688 Gresham Road London SW9 7NP
Three private blocks proposed for Coldharbour Lane/Gresham Road – up to 8 storeys high with gated access
http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/media/images/83256000/jpg/_83256215_hi026847615.jpg (can't do the dark arts)
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The Tarmac tribox development was approved as predicted.
The only dissenting voice was Cllr Diana Morris, who used to be chair of planning before Clair Wilcox took over the role.
Diana Morris said something like "I just don't think this development is right. It does not fit in at all with the terrace of shops at the front, and it seems to be squeezing just too much into the site." She did of course vote to approve so it was 8:0 in favour. Presumably councillors no longer feel able to make a token voting objection - as some lawyer somewhere would argue this is not "a planning matter"
She could of course have added that it was yet another central Birxton employment site going to residential - but the developers here are making a huge deal about a potential 130 jobs being created in the ground floor units (and the arches - which they deem wiil be put into use by Network Rail, who are not actually party to the scheme).
By the way there is a condition on the scheme that the new private road to service the flats will be gated - until 50% of the railway arches are occupied, at which time it will become an public right of way.
The only dissenting voice was Cllr Diana Morris, who used to be chair of planning before Clair Wilcox took over the role.
Diana Morris said something like "I just don't think this development is right. It does not fit in at all with the terrace of shops at the front, and it seems to be squeezing just too much into the site." She did of course vote to approve so it was 8:0 in favour. Presumably councillors no longer feel able to make a token voting objection - as some lawyer somewhere would argue this is not "a planning matter"
She could of course have added that it was yet another central Birxton employment site going to residential - but the developers here are making a huge deal about a potential 130 jobs being created in the ground floor units (and the arches - which they deem wiil be put into use by Network Rail, who are not actually party to the scheme).
By the way there is a condition on the scheme that the new private road to service the flats will be gated - until 50% of the railway arches are occupied, at which time it will become an public right of way.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
There is that. However the Barratts development next door got a move on when they realised the council was not going to let them have the office space as residential.
I would expect the bit which will not "come together" will be the railway arches. And there is absolutely nothing Lambeth can do to force Network Rail to develop them - any more than Lambeth can stop Network Rail from gentrifying the more commercially attractive arches in central Brixton (assuming they wanted to that is).
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I have just become aware that the car parking business which shares the Coldharbour car wash site is in the middle of an appeal against council refusal to allow them to erect a parking meter.
Officially time has expired for anyone wanting to give a view to the planning inspector - but the council have basically so far adopted a stone-walling approach viz. the applicant has not provided enough information to assure the Lambeth Planning department that there will be no adverse trafiic or environmental effects.
What intrigues me is the site ownership. We had traced this to a property firm based in Stanmore & Soho a couple of years ago.
I wonder if they have then sub-leased part of the site to Broadboards Ltd of 329-339 Putney Bridge Road - who want the parking meter. They also appear to be the same company that erected the massive advertising hoarding several years ago with no planning permission.
The appeal can be found here https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ViewCase.aspx?caseid=3145871
The original application (which I missed completely) is here 15/04979/FUL | Installation of a parking ticket machine and provision of 10 parking spaces. | Site Of 321 To 331 Coldharbour Lane London SW9 8RX
editor's image when the advertising hoardings were going up seems to reflect the way the control of the site still is.
Officially time has expired for anyone wanting to give a view to the planning inspector - but the council have basically so far adopted a stone-walling approach viz. the applicant has not provided enough information to assure the Lambeth Planning department that there will be no adverse trafiic or environmental effects.
What intrigues me is the site ownership. We had traced this to a property firm based in Stanmore & Soho a couple of years ago.
I wonder if they have then sub-leased part of the site to Broadboards Ltd of 329-339 Putney Bridge Road - who want the parking meter. They also appear to be the same company that erected the massive advertising hoarding several years ago with no planning permission.
The appeal can be found here https://acp.planninginspectorate.gov.uk/ViewCase.aspx?caseid=3145871
The original application (which I missed completely) is here 15/04979/FUL | Installation of a parking ticket machine and provision of 10 parking spaces. | Site Of 321 To 331 Coldharbour Lane London SW9 8RX
editor's image when the advertising hoardings were going up seems to reflect the way the control of the site still is.
editor
hiraethified
It's still a mess. I wish they'd just extend the park across this eyesore.I have just become aware that the car parking business which shares the Coldharbour car wash site is in the middle of an appeal against council refusal to allow them to erect a parking meter.
Officially time has expired for anyone wanting to give a view to the planning inspector - but the council have basically so far adopted a stone-walling approach viz. the applicant has not provided enough information to assure the Lambeth Planning department that there will be no adverse trafiic or environmental effects.
What intrigues me is the site ownership. We had traced this to a property firm based in Stanmore & Soho a couple of years ago.
I wonder if they have then sub-leased part of the site to Broadboards Ltd of 329-339 Putney Bridge Road - who want the parking meter. They also appear to be the same company that erected the massive advertising hoarding several years ago with no planning permission.
The appeal can be found here Planning Inspectorate
The original application (which I missed completely) is here 15/04979/FUL | Installation of a parking ticket machine and provision of 10 parking spaces. | Site Of 321 To 331 Coldharbour Lane London SW9 8RX
editor's image when the advertising hoardings were going up seems to reflect the way the control of the site still is.
Given the massive increase in population density going on in the area, I'd say it's pretty much needed.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
In an ideal world I think that the two existing green spaces should be extended to make one larger park between Somerleyton Road and Moorland Road.
I rather suspect that at some point there wll be an application for a 100% private block of flats - which the council will probably approve, as the land may still be technically designated for housing (after all it had been acquired by Ujima Housing only 10 years ago).
Your question is in a sense irrelevant- in the long term. This is just another proposal to make money out of a meantime use.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I thought you might welcome some extra space for the oppressed motorists of London to park up in whilst doing trade with the local businesses that apparently depend on them 
These suggestions for the expansion of state controlled green space are surely dangerous and could be the thin end of the wedge that would end up with Brixton's public spaces and highways being optimised for pedestrians and cyclists!
These suggestions for the expansion of state controlled green space are surely dangerous and could be the thin end of the wedge that would end up with Brixton's public spaces and highways being optimised for pedestrians and cyclists!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Whatever gave you the impression that I wanted the council to not manage the environment? My usual complaint is that in the pick and mix of local government Lambeth sometimes makes terrible mistakes (Loughborough Road, Libraries cuts) and sometimes simply won't use their powers (Loughborough House, 316 Coldharbour Lane).I thought you might welcome some extra space for the oppressed motorists of London to park up in whilst doing trade with the local businesses that apparently depend on them
These suggestions for the expansion of state controlled green space are surely dangerous and could be the thin end of the wedge that would end up with Brixton's public spaces and highways being optimised for pedestrians and cyclists!
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
The sales details are here: http://completelyretail.co.uk/media...harbour_Lane_London_SW9_London_brochure_2.pdf
Looks like Rosa's cafe has fallen through. Not clear whether the building is still owned by the same company. The brochure states this is a short term let.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Nice new (wooden) shop front going on. I asked one of the builders if it had changed hands, and this polite bouncy young entrepreneurial type popped out from inside. He was "working for these people" (the sign above, which says "City Heritage" - the same owners as proposed the Rosa's Thai Cafe development). He said they were aiming for a shop now as they had problems with planning permission on the restaurant.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Anyone interested in an HMO being auctioned on 7th June?
Eight bedsits - rent between £650 and £1500 pm, seems to be favoured with a contract with Lambeth Housing. Total yield £76,560 p.a.
Guide price for the whole house £1,350,000.
Purchase price about 10 years ago was £425,000 so should be about £400,000 cgt to be claimed, unless it turns out the landlord has been using it as his residence (with no tenants) these last 10 years and no-one noticed.
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Eight bedsits - rent between £650 and £1500 pm, seems to be favoured with a contract with Lambeth Housing. Total yield £76,560 p.a.
Guide price for the whole house £1,350,000.
Purchase price about 10 years ago was £425,000 so should be about £400,000 cgt to be claimed, unless it turns out the landlord has been using it as his residence (with no tenants) these last 10 years and no-one noticed.
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