Huge billboard goes up on Coldharbour Lane without planning permission and car wash shenanigans

[Frumious B.]

Maybe they'll replace the missing panel with a flashing neon sign.

 

[editor]

There's one bloke banging away at the billboard with what appears to be very few tools. while his mate ambles around. If he is trying to nick it he's going to take an awful long time.

 

[skyscraper101]

Perhaps you could setup some stop motion photography and we can all watch the results tomorrow. It'll be like a low rent Queen concert video.

 

[editor]

Perhaps you could setup some stop motion photography and we can all watch the results tomorrow. It'll be like a low rent Queen concert video.

At the rate this fella's going it'll be a long, long movie. His mate has settled down in a chair, which is nice.

 

[Yelkcub]

At the rate this fella's going it'll be a long, long movie. His mate has settled down in a chair, which is nice.

It's the lot who were at The Angel doing living art, is it?

 

[editor]

It's the lot who were at The Angel doing living art, is it?

I did wonder if it was a performance piece, but there's no Edwardian dandies and fops prancing about.

 

[editor]

Another little square on the top of the opposite side has just been taken out.
It sure seems an odd way to take down a billboard.

 

[editor]

In a priceless development, a cop van went by just as a big flappy bit of metal came crashing down on to the pavement, so now they've all come out for a look.

 

[editor]

Bang bang.


Bang bang crash!

'Ello, what's that?


'ello, 'ello, 'ello.

 

[laptop]

They want the sheets of metal to build a dope-farming cabinet?

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This is better than ....

 

[FridgeMagnet]

You should pop out to see which bits they've removed. It's frustrating looking at it from this side.

 

[shygirl]

Hurry up, give us more!

 

[editor]

Hurry up, give us more!

Well, the cops have left and they're still here, but they haven't started banging yet.

 

[Manter]

I am now mildly obsessed with this billboard....

 

[Manter]

This is better than ....

Listening to your neighbours have sex?

 

[editor]

They're still here but there's no more banging going on.

 

[Ted Striker]

Maybe it's a live action edition of Catchphrase? Is there a guy dressed in a huge yellow boxy outfit playing out an everyday common saying in the foreground?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Look at the low-light performance of that OM-D though. You should get Olympus to sponsor billboard-related photography activities.

 

[editor]

I've no idea what was going on, but I imagine it might be easy for someone to exploit the semi-legal nature of the billboard and the confusion surrounding who owns the land.

Are the materials in billboards actually worth anything?

 

[leanderman]

No wonder Lambeth got into such a mess over Rushcroft road when they can allow such a long-running farce in a prime spot

 

[editor]

Here's how it looks today in its semi-pulled down state. Looking good as always.

 

[colacubes]

That looks, err, lovely.

 

[lizzieloo]

Is it aluminium?

 

[Manter]

oooh, the semi-derelict detailing really adds something

 

[editor]

oooh, the semi-derelict detailing really adds something

We now - finally - have the art installation outside the block that was promised by the council some five years ago.

 

[Pickman's model]

it looks like something they spent five minutes over and is therefore bound for turner prize stardom.

it is a searing indictment of today's culture of ephemera expressed in a collage of torn music flyposters.

 

[editor]

I wonder if the bloke will sneak back in tonight and finish off the job. I hope so.

 

[Frumious B.]

Is it aluminium?

If it is it's worth 50p per kilo as scrap. Not much of a payday for what was taken last night. If it's low grade steel it's even less. Two guys with a newish van must have something other than scrap value in mind. But what? Could it be that the council have finally got their act together and made the owners take it down?

 

[skyscraper101]

It's obviously kosher or the cops would've been stopped it I'd have thought.