Loughborough Junction chitter-chatter

[snowy_again]

Aside from this causing me to sing 3 am eternal for the last few hours, I love the fact that this is now government funded.

 

[CH1]

Highly recommend having a look at this whilst it's here (parked just outside the Marcus Lipton Youth Center on Minet Road now til Sunday 7th)
It's a giant shipping container with peepholes all around the sides, and a dystopian urban post-riot landscape inside, in tiny model village scale.
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We had a real display of mega official flashing lights in Coldharbour Lane last night. On "retiring" at 1 am this morning noticed all this flashing going on outside. There was an ambulance, a couple of ambulance cars and a police car - plus looked like more police further towards Loughborough Junction. Seemed to be some sort of car smash. Police were directing traffic by hand to cut it down to one way only.

It felt very paranoid in the middle of the night - but unless someone knows different it seems it was a serious traffic incident rather than a round-up by the authorities. There were a couple of bent signs and a displaced 4x4 still there at 10.30 this morning.

 

[bimble]

We had a real display of mega official flashing lights in Coldharbour Lane last night. On "retiring" at 1 am this morning noticed all this flashing going on outside. There was an ambulance, a couple of ambulance cars and a police car - plus looked like more police further towards Loughborough Junction. Seemed to be some sort of car smash. Police were directing traffic by hand to cut it down to one way only.

It felt very paranoid in the middle of the night - but unless someone knows different it seems it was a serious traffic incident rather than a round-up by the authorities. There were a couple of bent signs and a displaced 4x4 still there at 10.30 this morning.

I was in domino club till the small hours of this morning and noticed nothing wrong at all, all peaceful so it sounds like probably was 'just' a car accident .

 

[bimble]

This is stuck to lamp posts by the junction .. it says they were knocked off their bike and are appealing for witnesses.
Putting it here just in case anyone can help them (photo is weird because of the curve of the lamp post).

 

[Harbourite]

scaffolding off loughborough house this afternoon. looks like a line of oreo biscuits stuck on the outside as an attempt at character.

 

[bimble]

Some fucking idiot decided to have a barbecue on the wooden decking in Elam Street park. Like it wasn't in a bad enough state already.

 

[teuchter]

 

[bimble]

Yep. Whole park could've gone scorched earth with how dry it is.

 

[editor]

My. Isn't this wonderful.

Plans in: 5 Storey, 9 Flat Scheme in Loughborough Junction

 

[Angellic]

Three more trees than there are there at present.

Are they not just small trees on the roof terrace?

 

[editor]

Three more trees than there are there at present.

Trees you can't touch.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Trees you can't touch.

It doesn't stop them being trees.

 

[ChrisSouth]

This is not part of the Higgs site. Wrong thread for this discussion

Apologies......

 

[editor]

It doesn't stop them being trees.

I can't get too excited about a few large shrubs appearing in a private garden up in the sky. And that's assuming they ever appear in the first place.

 

[teuchter]

Apologies......

I see it's been moved here now.

More info here:

Portfolio

Submitted to Lambeth in July 2016 following three pre-application meetings, we believe this incarnation of the scheme will get the support of the planners and, more importantly, local people, as it rejuvenates a strategic corner on Coldharbour Lane. The forms and articulation of the design, as well as the brickwork and bronze materials used, have been carefully composed to mend the urban fabric in a contextual way and to assert the unique identity of the place. The syncopated rhythm of the facade within the sweeping curves is intended to echo the wider texture of the urban grain a close grid of streets intersected by several railway lines.

 

[Crispy]

Fucking ensuite bathrooms in 2 bedroom flats. WHY?

 

[bimble]

"to mend the urban fabric" ? What is this, some sort of darning ?

 

[ChrisSouth]

"to mend the urban fabric" ? What is this, some sort of darning ?

I like this bit, 'The syncopated rhythm of the facade within the sweeping curves is intended to echo the wider texture of the urban grain'

 

[Mr Retro]

Fucking ensuite bathrooms in 2 bedroom flats. WHY?

Easier to rent out

 

[bimble]

Yep. ensuite = "hotel style luxury", isn't it.

 

[ChrisSouth]

It looks from the sketches as though the pavement space on that corner is going to be reduced quite considerably. I think anything that reduces pavement space around LJ should be highlighted.

 

[CH1]

Sorry to be out of step and that, but I quite like it. I feel drawn to buildings with curves. Soothing and calming.

Gramsci in the Barrier Block alienation thread highlighted a paper called "Living Well in the Neuropolis".

You may care to know that some of the research in that article concerned taking 17 neurotic Japanese ladies for a walk in the woods - after which their brain Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging became normalised.

Clearly the addition of a mini olive grove on the roof terrace is a nod in the right direction.

 

[Gramsci]

Fucking ensuite bathrooms in 2 bedroom flats. WHY?

Chatting to someone yesterday. Said I like it up in LJ as its has not had the "gentrification" that Brixton has been getting. He said it will come there next.

Really hope these new developments in LJ with "ensuite" bathrooms are not the start.

Seriously I like it up in LJ the way it is. Cycle up through Brixton bit of CHL and its finished imo. Cross the Gresham road Junction and its back to good old London again.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Chatting to someone yesterday. Said I like it up in LJ as its has not had the "gentrification" that Brixton has been getting. He said it will come there next.

Really hope these new developments in LJ with "ensuite" bathrooms are not the start.

Seriously I like it up in LJ the way it is. Cycle up through Brixton bit of CHL and its finished imo. Cross the Gresham road Junction and its back to good old London again.

En suite bathrooms sometimes signify that the developer is aiming the housing at investors who will sub-let/create a house-share.

 

[CH1]

En suite bathrooms sometimes signify that the developer is aiming the housing at investors who will sub-let/create a house-share.

Yes - you are right the whole en suite thing is built-in flexibility masquerading as posh.

 

[Winot]

A lot of university accommodation (i.e. halls) has moved over to en suite so they can rent out to conferences in the vacation.

 

[CH1]

A lot of university accommodation (i.e. halls) has moved over to en suite so they can rent out to conferences in the vacation.

Does that apply to the block above Iceland?

 

[Winot]

Does that apply to the block above Iceland?

No idea.

 

[bimble]

I won't actively miss the Floor Fashions shop, and they seem to have moved across the road anyway, but this little patch along CHL is going to look so very different in such a short space of time it's really discombobulating.
Is it 3 or 4 new buildings in the pipeline for that short stretch there near the junction?
And that "mending the urban fabric' line does really rile me, as if the fabric has holes in it and this block of flats will fix the problem.

 

[Lizzy Mac]

What with this, the flats being built opposite (that currently look like The Jailhouse Rock set) and the horribleness that will be built on the Higgs Triangle (250 homes), we will be inundated. Once a month I have to walk from The Ritzy up to near Halfords at 8am and every time it becomes more and more congested with commuters. It's hard to walk against the tide here. I expect this to happen around Loughborough Junction.