soupdragon
Well-Known Member
How paternalistic! Maybe that's the real meaning of 'Pop'...
Pop Brixton (formerly Grow Brixton) Pope's Road development
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
I was at that meeting and don't remember hearing anything like that. Pop wouldn't have responsibility for issuing licences so is it possible you misunderstood?
DietCokeGirl
Fishing in the rivers of life
I think he said more along the lines of she chose not to take a unit because she couldnt commit to opening 7 days a week due to having a young family.
CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I don't remember him saying that. But the licences would surely be licenses to occupy - not alcohol licences, so integral to leasing/renting at Pop I would have thought.
blameless77
Well-Known Member
Yes - that's what I meant. Not alcohol licence, but rental contract. He did present it more as 'I told her not to go forward with it' - yes, paternalistic. Is it common for businesses to be required to open seven days a week?
299 old timer
Well-Known Member
That's because Pop is crap. All the bright young things need constant distraction and a sense of being in the right place at the right time, and despite the finest hype and PR efforts Pop is pretty lame - just another booze and eatery place in a non too spectacular environment.
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Rushy
basically a scrotum
Big difference between "she chose" as Diet Coke Girl said and "he told her". Pretty sure I'd have recalled him saying something quite so dodgy.
Yes. It's common for groups of shops to have to open 6 or seven days a week as having some units only open at peak times could detrimentally affect other businesses. I'd have thought that the seven in this case would be because once the office community opens up it will have both a weekday and weekend identity. It does seem a bit pointless for some of the shops though - e.g. Clothes/jewellery. I'd have thought an optional one day closure (Monday or Tuesday) would be workable - as long as all on same day. No doubt some of the food /coffee places would choose to stay open anyway to service the office folk.
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hiraethified
It's pretty common for tourist-luring foodie/shopping destinations.
blameless77
Well-Known Member
Fair enough - thanks for the clarification.
Boudicca
Seaside Queen
Same in Greenwich market (my friend has a shop there). The landlords don't want shoppers/tourists to turn up and only half the shops be open.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
One problem is that the very high rents make life difficult for the independent food places in there, which is why Kaff has called it a day.
299 old timer
Well-Known Member
I'd be surprised if they were not aware of the rent demands before they went and signed on the dotted line.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
No doubt.
Twattor
Well-Known Member
May I refer the learned gentleman to the case of the millenium wheel which i believe only had planning permission for 5 years
Rushy
basically a scrotum
You may. Retrospect is a fine thing as I'm sure the learned gentlemen appreciates.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
You may. Retrospect is a fine thing and not the same things as prior guarantee. As I'm sure the learned gentlemen appreciates.
ash
Inittogether
After I visited on the third day I have been fairly neutral up untiI now.
I 'popped' in today and now have to agree with the anti view. I don't think that race is the issue, I'm not totally sure it is class? I felt an attitude and sense of entitlement and agree that it felt like a bubble. As an everyday brixton person I felt very out of place.
I 'popped' in today and now have to agree with the anti view. I don't think that race is the issue, I'm not totally sure it is class? I felt an attitude and sense of entitlement and agree that it felt like a bubble. As an everyday brixton person I felt very out of place.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Gixxer1000
cant wheelie a shaftie :(
Brixton has officially "Jumped the Shark". Pop is unbelievably shit.
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hiraethified
I just feel poor.
I doubt that.
boohoo
No.
leaps straight in there! Bet you've been chomping at the bit during your ban
Poor is relative. I'm sure comfortable off people feel poor in many of the shops in Bond Street.
I am quite hard up but I look at the wonderful sunset and am glad I manage to pay my bills, am healthy and pretty content.
shifting gears
Well-Known Member
Why don't you just fuck off for good?
We both know who you are and the fact you're a returning poster with an axe to grind, under another tedious alias.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Quimcunx and I went to Pop yesterday evening, from 1900-2000. We had a double VAT and a Pimms flavoured cider (she had that, was like melted sweets 
) - relatively reasonably priced at ~£8.
It was full but not packed, got fuller as time went on. Seemed to be after-workers as some shirt sleevey chaps with nice shoes, plus lots of young people that I recognised from when I was a young person.
I didn't really get it. Is it all food? Not work/retail spaces too? Some containers were piled up and I'm not sure there's space to have, um, ladders to have the higher one in use? Isn't the market all food too? So much food. Relentless Colombian (edited!) food. Surely there is a food tipping point?
It looked to me (idly) like it could be useful if the 'street level' was food/bars and the higher level was maybe desk hire for small biz/start ups with stairs up the back...? A hub? Does the area have that already?
) - relatively reasonably priced at ~£8.It was full but not packed, got fuller as time went on. Seemed to be after-workers as some shirt sleevey chaps with nice shoes, plus lots of young people that I recognised from when I was a young person.
I didn't really get it. Is it all food? Not work/retail spaces too? Some containers were piled up and I'm not sure there's space to have, um, ladders to have the higher one in use? Isn't the market all food too? So much food. Relentless Colombian (edited!) food. Surely there is a food tipping point?
It looked to me (idly) like it could be useful if the 'street level' was food/bars and the higher level was maybe desk hire for small biz/start ups with stairs up the back...? A hub? Does the area have that already?
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Spymaster
Plastic Paddy
I noticed that. I reckon they're storing it up there to put somewhere else eventually.
Unless it's going to be an abseilers bar.
5t3IIa
Registered User
Maybe stairs inside so a place has stories?
Put them where else? There's no space to expand, I don't think.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Quimcunx and I went to Pop yesterday evening, from 1900-2000. We had a double VAT and a Pimms flavoured cider (she had that, was like melted sweets
It was full but not packed, got fuller as time went on. Seemed to be after-workers as some shirt sleevey chaps with nice shoes, plus lots of young people that I recognised from when I was a young person.
I didn't really get it. Is it all food? Not work/retail spaces too? Some containers were piled up and I'm not sure there's space to have, um, ladders to have the higher one in use? Isn't the market all food too? So much food. Relentless Columbian food. Surely there is a food tipping point?
It looked to me (idly) like it could be useful if the 'street level' was food/bars and the higher level was maybe desk hire for small biz/start ups with stairs up the back...? A hub? Does the area have that already?
It's two thirds non-food. But the food has come first.
