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hiraethified
Wait, are you the person wasting time and money with this FoI when you could have found an answer to your question within a few moments of consulting Google, or even asking here?
Out with the Old... Network Rail tell businesses to vacate Atlantic Road arches
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Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
tbh i have every right to photograph who i want in the street, at least for non-commercial purposes. and if i choose to put those photos on the internet, why, i have every right to. now, this doesn't mean i would: but did i choose to, there would be nothing in law to prevent me posting pictures of children i had photographed in the street. in different settings, of course, different rules would apply.
Gramsci
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I have talked to one of the parents. She was delighted with Potent Whispers going to the school and taking them to the arches to talk to the about to be evicted shopkeepers. As was her daughter.
Cllr Rachel has stuck her neck out publicly opposing this Council in the interest of her constituents. And got disciplined by her party for it.
Your FOI reeks of Daily Mail right wing nastiness.
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hiraethified
And stupidity and ignorance and an obvious agenda.
He should be ashamed of himself for abusing the FoI system and wasting public money.
Carpet man
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Let's face it we all know it's a ' done deal ' with their bed partner Lambeth Council but why the change of use to Arches where the existing tenant is supposed to be returning ? , the answer is that NR have no intention of allowing them to return as once their out NR will find a 'problem ' with the works forcing the old tenant to look somewhere else !
When planning is granted Lambeth should insist it's done in stages to avoid a massive dead zone being created which will blight the town centre and help returning traders to find alternative units in the same street once their finished , is that too much to ask ?
When planning is granted Lambeth should insist it's done in stages to avoid a massive dead zone being created which will blight the town centre and help returning traders to find alternative units in the same street once their finished , is that too much to ask ?
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hiraethified
I've had Network Rail emailing me insisting that the 300% stepped rent rise is a fiction:
Baron
Active Member
Network rail is increasing my rent from 22K to 65K in 5 years. Fact. NR is full of shit. Fact. Lots of empty promises. Fact. Ask any affected shop keeper. My compensation offer has been reduced now I am fighting them. I leave with under 30k. Pay 40% tax on it. No business for a year. Then I must come back to an empty unit, and re fit it at a cost of about 60k. For this privilege pay more rent. Do not forget my family have had this shop since 1974! Never had any help from NR. Never asked. Always paid my rent. Pay Lambeth £810 a month business rates.
IT IS NOTHING TO DO WITH REGENERATION. JUST GREED.
Tricky Skills
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hiraethified
So far from it being a case of 75% of all readers agreeing to return, what's actually happening is that "the majority of tenants with whom Nework Rail have a contractual relationship have indicated that they wish to return."
So the make-up of the arches may change considerably.
So the make-up of the arches may change considerably.
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hiraethified
This "market rent" is such a wonderfully vague and meaningless phrase to bandy about. It's a bit like "affordable" housing
Carpet man
Active Member
It's a refurbishment and not a redevelopment ! The existing leases should not come to an end but should be ' Frozen ' whilst the Arches are modernised . If your landlord wants to redecorate the house you live in he doesn't ask you to return on a revised tenancy and instantly double your rent when you return !
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
Not Cllr Hopkins but the ever loyal Donatus. The problem I have with this is that senior officers in planning have been working closely with NR on this application. My view is that senior officers in planning and Regeneration do not have a problem with NR. In there view NR are bringing in significant inward investment. They also want a good working relationship with NR as under the yet to be finalised Brixton Central Master plan they will be working with NR on "regeneration" of rest of that area around the Rec and market. Heard a few days ago the final public consultation on the Brixton Central Master plan will now not take place until September. How convenient. By that time major decisions will have been made. As with the land swap on the Canterbury Arms site. Joe Public really has little say.
My criticism is that senior officers in Regeneration and planning are taking decisions that radically affect Brixton. With little oversight from local Cllrs. Cllr Rachel has been sidelined. I like Donatus but he is such a loyalist that he will say whatever is expected of him.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Funnily enough the "grocers" Donatus refers to in that article was one of the problem off-licenses of the time (late 1980s).
In actual fact none of the occupants of the arches who are being forced out are/were problematic. Rather the issue is William Hills next to the rail station entrance and H & T Pawnbrokers, which are bona fide FTSE100 companies.
Carpet man
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hiraethified
Background to tomorrow's meeting: Brixton Arches planning application meeting, Tues 2nd Aug: Our Brixton calls for an end to the evictions
