mizfick
New Member
And here are the men shot at 4am clearing the squat, making way for the 'destination' that Higgs has in store. They look a bit sinister to me.
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And here are the men shot at 4am clearing the squat, making way for the 'destination' that Higgs has in store. They look a bit sinister to me.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
As a matter if interest are those court bailiffs or private do you think - or is there no difference? I've never seen a bailiff except on daytime TV ("Can't pay - We'll take it away!" sort of thing). These guys look paramilitary in a Met Police kind of way.
BTW this is not the Higgs site. Though there were rumours a year or so ago that Parrit Leng were after this bit too.
I thin there was planning permission for residential on the bit between your photo and the Sunshine Arts Place, but I can't recall planning be involved in the very corner where the bailiffs are standing - which had been for some years a bedding shop.
Anybody know who does now own the sites on the corner of Hinton Road & Coldharbour? (and are they still two separate sites - or have they been combined under one owner?)
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I think you are right. The helmets have LX on them. Vauxhall apparently.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
FFS. This just makes me mad. Harmless bunch of squatters and they get met with the full brunt of the "law".
Just makes one realise that anyone who might "infringe" property "rights" is a threat to "society".
Kind of makes one understand that old quote of Proudhon "Property is theft". Taken aboard by Marx. Protecting the so called rights of property owners is one thing that the State does to underpin Capitalist society.
Harbourite
Eggnog
jesus - totally unnecessary. empty building put to good use gets riot police.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Looks like it. Not High Court Bailiffs.
Interesting that the regular cops took such an interest in this. This is a lot of cops for a small squat.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I'd forgotten - but there was a pre-application public consultation on this site, which LJAG advertised.
Consultation on redevelopment of the carpet shop on the corner of Coldharbour Lane and Hinton Road | Loughborough Junction Action Group
There has been no planning application as yet that I can find. NB the postcode LJAG give in their email is wrong - that is the postcode for the Jehovah's Witness Kingdpon Hall - and probably the Junction pub.
The site in question is probably SE24 something, but could also be SW9. The LJ intersection is like a vortex of Royal Mail post codes as well as traffic.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
FYI:
Loughborough Junction Neighbourhood Planning Forum
You are invited to the next meeting of the Loughborough Junction Neighbourhood Planning Forum to be held at 8pm on Wednesday 25 May 2016 in the undercroft meeting room in Woolley House, on Loughborough Road (the hall is on the ground floor of Woolley House, the entrance is through the grey door to the right of the main entrance under the Woolley House sign.
The agenda and minutes will follow later.
Loughborough Junction Neighbourhood Planning Forum
You are invited to the next meeting of the Loughborough Junction Neighbourhood Planning Forum to be held at 8pm on Wednesday 25 May 2016 in the undercroft meeting room in Woolley House, on Loughborough Road (the hall is on the ground floor of Woolley House, the entrance is through the grey door to the right of the main entrance under the Woolley House sign.
The agenda and minutes will follow later.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
They have also overhauled the membership scheme whereby you get 5% back as 'credit' when you buy own branded products which you can spend at a later date.
That is launching in the Autumn.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Re the eviction up thread it may be part of this http://www.acorncommercial.co.uk/files/casestudy-loughboroughjunction.pdf
Seems like in 5 years time Loughborough Junction - both sides of the railway line may look more like the corner of Stockwell Park estate by the skateboard park.
As the devoloper says: "Although time consuming, we do enjoy a complex land assembly!"
Seems like in 5 years time Loughborough Junction - both sides of the railway line may look more like the corner of Stockwell Park estate by the skateboard park.
As the devoloper says: "Although time consuming, we do enjoy a complex land assembly!"
ChrisSouth
Well-Known Member
The buildings marked in red on your attached document doesn't include the building that was-desquatted. That building also isn't included in the narrative words on the attached.
(I've only posted this in one forum - it's more relevant to LJ rather than scatter gun approach by including in Higgs forum also)
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
The photo may be to large. I upload to Facebook then copy and paste to this forum.
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
..........wanless car parking space then lol
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Anybody heard this:
Big improvements of LJ public realm. Come and have your say.
Lambeth Council, in partnership with Transport for London, has £750,000 to spend on making improvements to the public realm around Loughborough Junction. Some ideas have been developed through a steering group made up of local people and now is your chance to have your say.
Three events are taking place:
Two Pop-Ups
Thursday 2 June 8 am to 10 am and 3 pm to 6 pm outside Loughborough Junction station.
Tuesday 7 June 12 noon to 5 pm on Loughborough Road outside entrance toWyck Gardens when LJAG will also be planting up some lovely oil drum planters (see picture above).
Saturday 9 July 12 noon to 4 pm in Loughborough Square on Loughborough Road, outside the Hero of Switzerland where they will be free food and music.
I may go along - but it is a bit infuritating that the council apparently has £750,000 to spend on planters and "public realm improvements" but zilch to spend on out listable local public library.
Big improvements of LJ public realm. Come and have your say.
Lambeth Council, in partnership with Transport for London, has £750,000 to spend on making improvements to the public realm around Loughborough Junction. Some ideas have been developed through a steering group made up of local people and now is your chance to have your say.
Three events are taking place:
Two Pop-Ups
Thursday 2 June 8 am to 10 am and 3 pm to 6 pm outside Loughborough Junction station.
Tuesday 7 June 12 noon to 5 pm on Loughborough Road outside entrance toWyck Gardens when LJAG will also be planting up some lovely oil drum planters (see picture above).
Saturday 9 July 12 noon to 4 pm in Loughborough Square on Loughborough Road, outside the Hero of Switzerland where they will be free food and music.
I may go along - but it is a bit infuritating that the council apparently has £750,000 to spend on planters and "public realm improvements" but zilch to spend on out listable local public library.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Its money from TFL. So not Council money. Other Councils in London have got the same to improve junctions.
I have yet to see the ideas of the "steering group". At last LJ Neighbourhood Planning meeting I did ask that once the consultation on these ideas starts the Council should put it online. But I cannot find anything.
I don’t feel this new round of consultation is any improvement on the last one. Instead of listening only to LJAG the Council is letting the car driver lobby dictate what happens. Its all rather depressing. Hardly a great advert for community action to improve an area. Or much needed chance of money for improvements fostering community cohesion. The TFL money in retrospect was a curse and has caused more divisions not less. Both sides hate each other.
The thing about it being TFL money is that improvements should include making the roads better for cycling and pedestrians. Yet to see that.
My view is that if people didn’t want these improvements TFL should withdraw the money and spend it elsewhere. At recent meeting one of the LJ Road Madness said they didn’t want the area "prettified". So don’t do it. Those who said they didn’t want the road closure of Loughborough road but wanted traffic reduced in other ways are remarkable by there absence once the Council ditched the experiment.
It was also manifesto commitment of the Labour Group to put pedestrians and cycling first along with public transport. That is they were elected to do this. Therefore reduce domination of roads by cars etc. This appears to have been abandoned.
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ChrisSouth
Well-Known Member
Padfield Road (by the much-loved Coop) has now been reopened, with the palm trees-in-a-planter bollards removed.
I think that this is one of the last few remaining parts of the maligned Loughborough Road experimental closures. I'm disappointed by this reinstating of the road - it was accepted that this closure had been widely welcomed by local residents as it prevented Southwell Road and associated streets from being rat runs.
Anyone know anything more about this, other than it being a terrible victory for the car lobby?
I think that this is one of the last few remaining parts of the maligned Loughborough Road experimental closures. I'm disappointed by this reinstating of the road - it was accepted that this closure had been widely welcomed by local residents as it prevented Southwell Road and associated streets from being rat runs.
Anyone know anything more about this, other than it being a terrible victory for the car lobby?
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I went down there about 10 days ago when the potted palms were still there. There was a veritable traffic jam of black cabs presumably awaiting maintenance at the garage. If a victory for anyone this reopening might be a victory for the black cab lobby.
Harbourite
Eggnog
Cold Harbour
Active Member
We all got used to it being shut pretty quickly and it made the walk home from school slightly less hectic. Strange to reopen it now, white van man on a short cut from the electricity yard on Cambria Road will be pleased.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I saw the planning application for this and have been keeping a beady eye on the site so that I could try and apply for a place as soon as it was avaiable.
They installed it while I was away on holiday and it's already full
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I saw the planning application for this and have been keeping a beady eye on the site so that I could try and apply for a place as soon as it was avaiable.
They installed it while I was away on holiday and it's already full
Waiting list of 60 for the most recent one in our road.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
How do you find out the number on the waiting list?
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Neighbour told me after she applied for a space.
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