bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
So how much public space has been lost? If any?
New home for Black Cultural Archives - Raleigh Hall
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lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
AFAIK It takes some of the space that was turfed over to form Windrush Square using the Brixton Challenge cash, but it doesn't actually encroach on the "Rush Common" land.
The Rush Common boundary follows a diagonal line across Windrush Square - you can see the rough line from the set back of the houses south of Saltoun Road rebuilt by Brixton Sheltered Street scheme.
Crispy
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bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Top notch. second question, and I think google might be more appropriate, but what it the inside like? Are they intending to rip out anything that ought to be saved?
Rollem
two kinds of wonderful
ooh, thats clever
Crispy
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Interior is knackered. Will be restored to original condition.
The history of the building is interesting. Started off as 2 semi-detached houses and was expaned over the years.
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00194629.pdf
This is a very comprehensive document of the whole development.
The history of the building is interesting. Started off as 2 semi-detached houses and was expaned over the years.
http://planning.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00194629.pdf
This is a very comprehensive document of the whole development.
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snowy_again
Slush
Funding announcement today:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/12/boris-johnson-lottery-fund-black-cultural-centre-brixton
HLF, £4m, Mayor of London £1m, Lambeth £0.9m
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/12/boris-johnson-lottery-fund-black-cultural-centre-brixton
HLF, £4m, Mayor of London £1m, Lambeth £0.9m
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Starry Wisdom
your lambeth planning document brings up an uninformative 404
Black Halo
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His post is over 2 years old ...
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hiraethified
At last! The archives should be a great addition to Brixton.
Crispy
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Ok, my copy was corrupted, so I found it on the Lambeth website: 12MB PDF: http://planning-docs.lambeth.gov.uk/AnitePublicDocs/00194629.pdf
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
This is great news. It has been talked about for years. Frankly I'm astounded that a Tory mayor has come up with (some of) the cash in the middle of a recession. (The lottery is funding most of it tho.)
I couldn't agree more - and I was thinking exactly the same thing when I walked through the square this morning. I think the BCA could massively improve the overall feel of the square.
Any idea how long it's going to take?
I couldn't agree more - and I was thinking exactly the same thing when I walked through the square this morning. I think the BCA could massively improve the overall feel of the square.
Any idea how long it's going to take?
snowy_again
Slush
The HLF will probably have required match funding as part of a sustainability plan, and therefore with no council / Mayor's Office funding, Lambeth would have been left with an empty building and damage reputation in one of it's 'flagship' bits of regeneration. The Major's office money has probably been allocated for a while too.
(isn't it easy to sink into management speak)
(isn't it easy to sink into management speak)
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/07/black-history-archive-collapse-firm
"Ambitious plans to create the first permanent home for a unique archive, covering centuries of black history in Britain, have been hit by the collapse of the building firm working on the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed £6.5m project."
"Ambitious plans to create the first permanent home for a unique archive, covering centuries of black history in Britain, have been hit by the collapse of the building firm working on the Heritage Lottery Fund-backed £6.5m project."
Rushy
basically a scrotum
That's a real shame. This project has been pretty well plagued by delays. Given how long it has taken, three more months is neither here nor there. Hope the cost implications aren't too disastrous.
kalibuzz
downtown
What!!!?
that is unbelievable! How can a 150 year-old firm take on a project like this and then go into administration?? Doesn't the lottery fund and other sponsors check a company'e credentials before awarding them a project like this?? Been taking years already Probably another Tory cut, they don't give a shit about black archives anyway, plus at this rate of influx of new inhabitants they might as well turn it into a spa
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
I think its not the fault of the Lottery Fund or BCA but is a sign of the economic situation in this country. Which imo is worse than some people might think.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
You've answered your own question: if they'd checked the credentials (as I'm sure they did) they presumably concluded a 150 year old company was a safe choice.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
From the small amount of info I could find online it looks like the company made a modest profit last year but was forecast to make 90 million this year. They also apparently had a 3million pound overdraft facility which was up for renewal. The problem at the moment is that lots of banks are withdrawing funding arrangements that companies have had available to them for years. If the facility is called in and the company's cashflow snapshot at that moment means it does not have the cash or cannot refinance it straight away then the company will go into administration. It's a bit like going overdrawn in between your monthly paydays, except that whoever provides your temporary overdraft suddenly says they want their money back and won't wait until the end of the month. Perfectly functional companies have been wrecked in this way. I don't know if this is the case in this instance but it looks like it may be.
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
This ^^..... Presumably a new contractor can be found and they can continue the work with the unspent portion of the HLF grant.
kalibuzz
downtown
Yea but a company does not go bust from one day to the next or else it would not have survived for so long, imo they took the money, probably paid of whatever was more important to them and the rest can see where they go. Llike travel companies that make poeple pay for flights a day before they go bust, they know exactly what the state of their finances are, they just don't give a damn
Brixton Hatter
Home is south London mate
if the HLF had any sense (and I expect they do) they would have provided the grant/funding in tranches on completion of each stage of the work - i doubt they would have given Kilby & Gayford the whole £6.5m upfront.
snowy_again
Slush
Capital expenditure would only be released from the funder on the submission of invoices for completed work...
lang rabbie
Je ne regrette les gazebos
The bulk of a construction contract is normally paid in arrears, once the work has been signed off by a quantity surveyor. So I very much doubt whether K&G will have been sitting on much of BCA's money.
A large proportion of K&G's activity used to be specialist conservation jobs for institutional clients.
I suspect they have been badly hit by projects being cancelled/postponed by the double whammy of reduced public expenditure and less generous private donations to projects.
It must be a real worry for a lot of their specialist craft sub-contractors as well (several of which are long established south London businesses).
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
From the figures in the last few posts, if this is a £6.5 million pound project (over a few years), of which they're probably getting most but not all, and they were predicting a £90 million profit (so much higher turnover) this year this is going to be a fairly small part of their overall work. I doubt their going under has that much to do with the BCA at all tbh.
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