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London has been unaffordable for any first time buyers who don't have rich families for the best part of a decade IMO. Never mind 600k- nowadays you won't find a place in London for less than what, 3-400k at the least.Who the fuck has 30 grand in the bank, for the deposit, let alone the 60 grand required for this apartment?
 
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London has been unaffordable for any first time buyers who don't have rich families for the best part of a decade IMO. Never mind 600k- nowadays you won't find a place in London for less than what, 3-400k at the least.Who the fuck has 30 grand in the bank, for the deposit, let alone the 60 grand required for this apartment?
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This is the result of marketing by developers, estate agents and banks.
Was reminiscing this afternoon about the time (1981) when I was on a £8k salary, and contemplating buying a wreck of a house (140 Mayall Road) for £14k.

I suppose a salary of £8,000 in 1981 was decent - but not obscenely high. At that time there was population flight from Lambeth and many properties could only be mortgaged with the GLC.

I blame the Tories for the present situation. Since the Docklands Development Corporation there has been a presumption that people in London have to live in glass modules with concrete base slabs. And the price must be sufficiently ludicrous to make it de rigueur.
 
CH1 said:
This is the result of marketing by developers, estate agents and banks.
Was reminiscing this afternoon about the time (1981) when I was on a £8k salary, and contemplating buying a wreck of a house (140 Mayall Road) for £14k.

I suppose a salary of £8,000 in 1981 was decent - but not obscenely high. At that time there was population flight from Lambeth and many properties could only be mortgaged with the GLC.

I blame the Tories for the present situation. Since the Docklands Development Corporation there has been a presumption that people in London have to live in glass modules with concrete base slabs. And the price must be sufficiently ludicrous to make it de rigueur.
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That's ridiculously well paid. The average gross earning per week, for a 25-29 year old in 1981 was £120.70 per week, meaning £6,276.40 * pa. For non-manual work this was £137.60, or £7,155. In effect, someone on £8k, was getting 5 weeks more money, per year, than an average non-manual worker.

You were obviously the harbinger of gentrification to Brixton. What job were you doing?

*From the Office of National Statistics.
 
ChrisSouth said:
You were obviously the harbinger of gentrification to Brixton. What job were you doing?
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Working as a customer sales engineer for a company called RS Components in City Road (telephone advice & analysing faulty product returns). RS still exist (much bigger and better) but Hezza moved them to a brand new warehouse/office complex in Corby in 1983. I was made redundant - not fancying life in Corby.

I was told the Duke of Edinburgh, at the official opening of the new site looked at a display of product and picked stuff up. "Made in Korea", he says, "Made in France, made in Germany - don't you sell ANYTHING made in Britain???"
 
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It'll be the exact same gates that will stop the public using the promised new thoroughfare. You can see that the private intercom is already installed.
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Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the gates remained there permanently, I know a lot on this site despise gated communities, but all I can say is that here in Brixton Square after nearly FIVE YEARS we have had NO BURGLARIES we’ve had a few bikes stolen because residents have met people tailgate them into the developement but that’s about it.
 
Mr Bim of Bar said:
Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the gates remained there permanently, I know a lot on this site despise gated communities, but all I can say is that here in Brixton Square after nearly FIVE YEARS we have had NO BURGLARIES we’ve had a few bikes stolen because residents have met people tailgate them into the developement but that’s about it.
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Cool. That's Brixton crime solved :thumbs:
 
Mr Bim of Bar said:
Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the gates remained there permanently, I know a lot on this site despise gated communities, but all I can say is that here in Brixton Square after nearly FIVE YEARS we have had NO BURGLARIES we’ve had a few bikes stolen because residents have met people tailgate them into the developement but that’s about it.
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They might not have any choice if Blackstone Private Equity and Telereal Trillium - UK's largest privately owned property company - have anything to do with it.

I notice down the leafier end of the road they are actually making some sort of show at structural repairs to the arches (beside Tesco Express, and on the other side of the viaduct behind the mini cab & barbershop).

All that grouting, pointing and brick replacement has to be paid for, as you can see
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There's repairs to the viaducts in Loughborough junction been going on over the past few months. Much of it seems to be removing buddliea plants and repairing the brickwork they have damaged. Amazingly tenacious that stuff; I've observed it resprouting already through the freshly pointed-up brickwork in a few places.
 
Mr Bim of Bar said:
Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the gates remained there permanently, I know a lot on this site despise gated communities, but all I can say is that here in Brixton Square after nearly FIVE YEARS we have had NO BURGLARIES we’ve had a few bikes stolen because residents have met people tailgate them into the developement but that’s about it.
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I've not been burgled for five years and I don't live behind gates. And I've still got my bike. So I win.
 
I’m up to 19 years in Brixton and never been burgled... putting gates up won’t make the issues go away, just look at places like South Africa, only time I’ve ever stayed in a gated community and we were burgled within 48 hours
 
shakespearegirl said:
I’m up to 19 years in Brixton and never been burgled... putting gates up won’t make the issues go away, just look at places like South Africa, only time I’ve ever stayed in a gated community and we were burgled within 48 hours
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Gates are part of an arms race, they are only effective if there are people worth burglaring without them. Once everyone has them it’s back to the start, and it’s worth figuring out how to break in through gates.

Buy a lock pick ? get a rope and rip the gate off with a car ?

Alex

Edit - Apparently this is a “technological escalation” not an arms race
 
Mr Bim of Bar said:
Wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest if the gates remained there permanently, I know a lot on this site despise gated communities, but all I can say is that here in Brixton Square after nearly FIVE YEARS we have had NO BURGLARIES we’ve had a few bikes stolen because residents have met people tailgate them into the developement but that’s about it.
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'Well I'm alright Jack'

Idiot :rolleyes:
 
So here's what the wall o'luxury on Coldharbour Lane looks like from Station Road.

Not a socially rented unit amongst them.

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ShiftyBagLady said:
Perhaps it's not all about you, or only about you.

Idiot.
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To be fair I don't find his attitude uncommon amongst many of the recent arrivals I've encountered (and as a DJ, I do encounter quite a few).

They're here for the trendy bars, Poppery and food grazeries, not the community.
 
editor said:
To be fair I don't find his attitude uncommon amongst many of the recent arrivals I've encountered (and as a DJ, I do encounter quite a few).

They're here for the trendy bars, Poppery and food grazeries, not the community.
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Yeah I know and it makes me want to slap their selfish smug little oblivious fucking faces.
 
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So here's what the wall o'luxury on Coldharbour Lane looks like from Station Road.

Not a socially rented unit amongst them.

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The wall of gentrification is with the "Edge" getting close to my big of ungentrified CHL near LJ.

Its starting to affect LJ. Shopkeeper I know in LJ bit of CHL has been been told by Landlord he wants to double the rent. He is contesting it. Apparently he is not the only one. With new developments built and in pipeline looks like some landlords think this is sign of LJ changing and they can push up rents.
 
Gramsci said:
The wall of gentrification is with the "Edge" getting close to my big of ungentrified CHL near LJ.

Its starting to affect LJ. Shopkeeper I know in LJ bit of CHL has been been told by Landlord he wants to double the rent. He is contesting it. Apparently he is not the only one. With new developments built and in pipeline looks like some landlords think this is sign of LJ changing and they can push up rents.
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It's inevitable. Once the strip outside the Barrier Block fell to cocktail bars, fuckwit hairdressers and cheese and wine bars the game was up for Coldharbour Lane. :(
 
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It's inevitable. Once the strip outside the Barrier Block fell to cocktail bars, fuckwit hairdressers and cheese and wine bars the game was up for Coldharbour Lane. :(
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What about the rest of Coldharbour Lane? Does that not count? It starts in Brixton, flows into Loughborough and spill out into Camberwell! There’s plenty of it’s soul still there.
 
I wonder what the difference is between, say, concierge systems on council blocks - Southwyck House, every block on the old and New Loughborough Estates, and the bloody gates on Brixton Square, Walton Lodge Laundry and the Lexadon flats above Brewdog?
 
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