Professionals send Brixton property prices surging by 15%

[editor]

bloody when was that then?

As the near total absence of people in my panorama suggests: around 2003.

 

[Pickman's model]

As the near total absence of people in my panorama suggests: around 2003.

your photo doesn't work for me.

 

[editor]

your photo doesn't work for me.

You'll have to take my word for it or look at it with a more capable machine.

 

[Pickman's model]

You'll have to take my word for it or look at it with a more capable machine.

i've got a capable machine, your picture's not working for me. though i can see the nice writing 'granville shopping arcade, brixton london'

 

[Ms Ordinary]

Thoughtful piece about gentrification over on Brixtonblog.

I can relate to Miss South's comment: "Brixton absorbed my instability and uncertainty and didn’t judge me like Clapham or Balham might. It allowed me to pick up the pieces again and I feel I should repay it." think that's probably quite true of a lot of people who've moved here in the past.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

your photo doesn't work for me.

Nor for me.

 

[soupdragon]

Good article by Owen Jones in today's independent:

One in six households now have private landlords. And it is no longer largely the preserve of students and young people. Indeed, the number of families with children forced to privately rent has nearly doubled in just five years to more than a million. They face the prospect of having to repeatedly move, disrupting the education and overall wellbeing of their kids.


Greedy landlords are fully aware that most cannot afford to pay their extortionate rents. But they also know that the taxpayer will step in and subsidise them with housing benefits. According to the Homes for London campaign, to get a two-bed place in Camden, you need an average monthly household income of £5,324; in Tower Hamlets – one of the poorest boroughs in Britain – it's £4,333, way over double Britain's median household income. It's the state that tops up the difference. Back in 2002, 100,000 private renters in London were claiming housing benefit; it soared to 250,000 by the time New Labour was booted out.

But Cameron's Government has decided to punish the tenant, imposing a housing benefit cap that will force many out of their homes. London is on course to be more like Paris: with a centre that is a playground for the affluent, while the poorest are confined to the edges.

Housing benefit cap discussed in thread here

 

[editor]

Nor for me.

You need java installed.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I have....and automatic updates.

 

[editor]

I have....and automatic updates.

Well it definitely does work on most machines because those pages get loads of traffic, so it could be down to any kind of issue on your machine.

But, just for you, here's the image itself:

 

[fortyplus]

I think it went on getting even more moribund until about 2008/9, when the Spacemakers project started trying to revive it and it got listed. Before then LAP were only interested in running it down for redevelopment. 1st Avenue was a bit busier, particularly by the Wig Bazaar. Dagons had what is now Mama Lan's as another fish shop, and where Wagfree is used to be a halal butcher.

 

[editor]

Here's another view for the Java-deprived:

 

[leanderman]

Good article by Owen Jones in today's independent:



Housing benefit cap discussed in thread here

Probably said this before, but many of the fellow parents I know at Sudbourne primary school let out properties in Brixton.

At least two have five or six buy-to-lets.

 

[qwertyjjj]

And now I work on the front line of gentrification in Brixton Village, where I'm trying to make a business and create work locally.

fuck off. please. I hope that's not too rude. Take your cupcakes and, erm... oh... fuck off.

The 'frontline'? do u have any idea how loaded that phrase is in brixton? you sell cupcakes and/or funny hats. fuck off.

lol, I'm glad someone picked up on how pretentious that sounded
"The frontline of gentrification"

 

[fortyplus]

lol, I'm glad someone picked up on how pretentious that sounded
"The frontline of gentrification"

whatever. I was, however, fully aware of the significance of the word "frontline", and used it deliberately. Perhaps I should have used <irony> tags.

 

[qwertyjjj]

whatever. I was, however, fully aware of the significance of the word "frontline", and used it deliberately. Perhaps I should have used <irony> tags.

as long as you're not out there exterminating tramps.

 

[Mr Retro]

I was back in Brixton for the first time in about 2 years for Patricks Day in the Canterbury. Apart from Granville Arcade which I missed because I didn't know about it's new foodieness, the only change i noticed was they have eventually finished the fucking station and there is a Starbucks.

There are more Payday Loan type parasites around to cancel out the Starbucks in the drive to gentrification though

The Canterbury remains very much un-gentrified

 

[Mrs Magpie]

The Canterbury remains very much un-gentrified

Well, they've done up the Ladies, I haven't been in the Gents.

 

[Mr Retro]

Well, they've done up the Ladies, I haven't been in the Gents.

The gents remains un gentrified

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Well, they've done up the Ladies, I haven't been in the Gents.

I don't know about the Canterbury but the gents in the Albert seems quite ungentrified. The door may have moved moved but the piss lake remains well in place.

 

[ViolentPanda]

whatever. I was, however, fully aware of the significance of the word "frontline", and used it deliberately. Perhaps I should have used <irony> tags.

Which would have been fine if the supposed irony had worked for anyone except you.

 

[ViolentPanda]

as long as you're not out there exterminating tramps.

Fortyplus, Brixton's own gentrifying "American Psycho" wannabe!!

 

[newbie]

Which would have been fine if the supposed irony had worked for anyone except you.

It worked for me.

 

[gaijingirl]

to be fair - I got it too!

 

[soupdragon]

I did too - though fortyplus, get your story round the right way -

when the Spacemakers project started trying to revive it and it got listed.

The landlords worked with spacemakers after it was listed - it was because it got listed by Paul Bakelite, FBM etc that the landlords redevelopment plans ended, and they were then up for working with spacemakers via the council. Spacemakers didn't know Brixton existed when it was being listed.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

I don't know about the Canterbury but the gents in the Albert seems quite ungentrified. The door may have moved moved but the piss lake remains well in place.

It was lovely (I had a sneaky peek) and then blocked on the re-opening day....

 

[ViolentPanda]

I did too - though fortyplus, get your story round the right way -

The landlords worked with spacemakers after it was listed - it was because it got listed by Paul Bakelite, FBM etc that the landlords redevelopment plans ended, and they were then up for working with spacemakers via the council. Spacemakers didn't know Brixton existed when it was being listed.

Bakalite. He's not made of a phenolic thermoplastic.

 

[soupdragon]

Bakalite. He's not made of a phenolic thermoplastic.

No indeed - flesh and blood

 

[ViolentPanda]

No indeed - flesh and blood

Except for the hat, like.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

So are we blaming Hatboy for the gentrification of Brixton now?