Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter

[LadyV]

2 bedroom flat in Fiveways....... yours for £800k
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-41494560.html
developers dream

WTF? £800K? Are they smoking crack or something? I get the development opportunities and all but seriously?

 

[CH1]

WTF? £800K? Are they smoking crack or something? I get the development opportunities and all but seriously?

That sort of place was fetching £450,000 on Coldharbour Lane (Loughborough Conservation area section) last year.
But the one in the ad has privacy and development potential - and I don't think is in a conservation area - which means building extensions etc would be much easier to sort out. If there was scope to add a further 2 bedrooms for example I suppose could add up to £800,000.

Suggest we ask Rushy or leanderman - they know about these sort of issues. I just extrapolate or "suck it and see".

 

[teuchter]

It appears there's another flat in the basement level which would make extensions etc rather less easy to sort out. I was trying to work out if that other flat is included in which case the price would make more sense. However, the description, written badly as is the Haart way, is not very clear. If I'd paid them to advertise this for me I'd be asking for my money back.

 

[teuchter]

Improvements to the 35 bus - frequency increased from every 30 mins to every 20 mins on weeknights, and on Friday/Saturday nights increased from every 12 mins to every 7-8 mins.

From Saturday 30 April, there will be changes to bus route 35, which runs between Shoreditch and Clapham Junction. This is to meet increasing customer demand.
The changes will be as follows:
• Bus route 35 will now run 24 hours a day. This means that bus route N35 will no longer run
• On weeknights, buses will now run every 20 minutes between Shoreditch and Clapham Junction
• On Friday and Saturday nights, buses will run every 7-8 minutes between Shoreditch and Brixton and every 15 minutes between Brixton and Clapham Junction

 

[LadyV]

Improvements to the 35 bus - frequency increased from every 30 mins to every 20 mins on weeknights, and on Friday/Saturday nights increased from every 12 mins to every 7-8 mins.

Now that is good news, the 35 is especially handy when you've caught a cheap late night flight back to Gatwick and the only trains into London are into London Bridge

 

[xsunnysuex]

Anyone got a power cut? No power in Barrington Rd.

 

[bimble]

Gramsci I'll be unable to attend the meeting tonight, again (doing something even less fun i promise). If anyone can report back with any news re the playground on Gordon Grove I'd be very grateful.

 

[teuchter]

Looked like the squatters were being turfed out of the Higgs building earlier.

 

[CH1]

Improvements to the 35 bus - frequency increased from every 30 mins to every 20 mins on weeknights, and on Friday/Saturday nights increased from every 12 mins to every 7-8 mins.

It's gonna be the hipster express - Pop Brixton to Shoreditch Boxpark and vv.

 

[Angellic]

It's gonna be the hipster express - Pop Brixton to Shoreditch Boxpark and vv.

Do hipsters take the bus?

 

[CH1]

Do hipsters take the bus?

If they are buying properties in Brixton there is no alternative.

 

[Harbourite]

Looked like the squatters were being turfed out of the Higgs building earlier.

sorry to hear that

 

[Gramsci]

Gramsci I'll be unable to attend the meeting tonight, again (doing something even less fun i promise). If anyone can report back with any news re the playground on Gordon Grove I'd be very grateful.

I asked again about the contested results of the master plan about the adventure playground, Yet again this has not been followed up.

There will be more consultation on final version of master plan once it's "signed off" by planning.

I don't think we will get an answer. Will grind people down with never directly answering.

The officer who turns up to the meetings is OK. But he is Junior. I think the Council will try to fudge the issue.

 

[ringo]

Improvements to the 35 bus - frequency increased from every 30 mins to every 20 mins on weeknights, and on Friday/Saturday nights increased from every 12 mins to every 7-8 mins.

Be good if they applied the changes to the night buses. I've waited over an hour and a half for one from the Shoreditch end to get to Camberwell.

 

[Crispy]

Be good if they applied the changes to the night buses. I've waited over an hour and a half for one from the Shoreditch end to get to Camberwell.

They are. Read the announcement carefully

 

[ringo]

They are. Read the announcement carefully

Good stuff

 

[teuchter]

We just need the 45 upgraded to 24hrs too, now.

 

[CH1]

Be good if they applied the changes to the night buses. I've waited over an hour and a half for one from the Shoreditch end to get to Camberwell.

Sorry about that. I have used it from Clapham Junction to Brixton from time to time in the past few years and normally find it runs to the timetable. Of course on the CJ-Brixton bit of the route there are 2 alternative buses - 37 and 345, so maybe the 35 might be worse that my impression.

 

[ringo]

Sorry about that. I have used it from Clapham Junction to Brixton from time to time in the past few years and normally find it runs to the timetable. Of course on the CJ-Brixton bit of the route there are 2 alternative buses - 37 and 345, so maybe the 35 might be worse that my impression.

For years I would visit a mate in Dalston and leave very late. The journey down to Broadgate was always quick, but the wait for a 35 to where I lived on Coldharbour Lane took anything from 10 to 90 minutes. Don't live there any more, and have got old so out late so far from home with less frequency, so no idea how its changed in recent years.

 

[Gramsci]

Took a few photos of Loughborough Estate. Last Friday clear day with good sunset.

The Estate looks dramatic when the sun is setting behind it.

Just finished reading Ballards novel "High Rise" and reminded of it last Friday. ( Its not the simplistic, tower blocks are bad, dystopia one might assume it would be. )

All in all a rather good piece of architecture. It grows on me. Was non plussed about it. But seeing it more and how the blocks relate to the green areas around them I like it.

 

[Gramsci]

There seem to be regular supply problems in the Coop shop. Anyone else noticed.

In there today and the freezer was not stocked up and someone was asking for mustard. Which as he said is a basic item to have.

Still. I tried the Coop "99" fairtrade teabags ( 80 for a pound) and they are good value for the price. And I got the expensive bread for 29p. Sunday evening good time to check for priced downed bread.

 

[editor]

Loughborough Junction Station. 1964.

 

[CH1]

There seem to be regular supply problems in the Coop shop. Anyone else noticed.

In there today and the freezer was not stocked up and someone was asking for mustard. Which as he said is a basic item to have.

Still. I tried the Coop "99" fairtrade teabags ( 80 for a pound) and they are good value for the price. And I got the expensive bread for 29p. Sunday evening good time to check for priced downed bread.

I think this is down to the bank holiday. I went to Lidl on Monday afternoon (in Acre Lane) and it was like a tornado had hit it.

Many "offers" simply exhausted, empty packing boxes everywhere and 2 years supply of pre-packed spinach stacked against a wall instead of on sale.

By which I assume they were understaffed and not doing the normal re-stocking etc. I guess the Co-op probably hit the same problems if their weekend extends to 3 days.

 

[teuchter]

Steelwork above the hoardings on the corner site now.

(nb traffic jam stretching way down Loughborough Rd)





This has appeared on wellfit rd where the tattoo place was previously.




Finally I'd like to congratulate whoever's responsible for this carbuncle.

 

[teuchter]

Looked like the squatters were being turfed out of the Higgs building earlier.

I think I was wrong on this by the way, as this afternoon they seemed to be enjoying some beers on the roof.

 

[SpamMisery]

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Finally I'd like to congratulate whoever's responsible for this carbuncle.

You don't like it? I think it looks nice

 

[Crispy]

You don't like it? I think it looks nice

They've made a reasonable effort, but you can tell it's a modern building in victorian skin. The floor to floor height is too low and the ground floor windows are very strange.

 

[SpamMisery]

True. But it's a better attempt than most

 

[teuchter]

You don't like it? I think it looks nice

The ground floor is a complete disaster.

 

[Crispy]

The ground floor is a complete disaster.

I bet it's all bin store and bike parking.