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Redeveloping the Megabowl and Caesars - Streatham

Crispy said:
it will have multiple roofs at different levels :) (clever)
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ah, I see

A mini version of above maybe? :D
 
Here's some images of the proposal, taken from the planning application. Am currently downloading the next part of the document which should have floor plans showing what uses go where - it'll take a while though, the Lambeth servers are really really shit.
 

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I like it. Good variation of form and materials. Deep window reveals, retention of existing facade. I reserve judgement on the spaceplanning until I've seen it :)
 
It's not bad...could have been better but TBH it just needs redeveloping now because it looks a mess as is.
 
g force said:
It's not bad...could have been better but TBH it just needs redeveloping now because it looks a mess as is.
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And not just a mess, but a big empty hole sucking the life out of the area. SHR has enough problems without having been a political football (LibDem local Cllrs in a Labour council) for a year or more while the shopkeepers watch business lide further and further away. I have seen so many posters in shop windows in support of this scheme from desparate business and shop owners in the High Rd.
 
From SLP:

WORK on a multimillion-pound high street regeneration scheme is unlikely to start until the end of next year – 12 months later than first announced.

Developers Redefine International said it remained “committed” to the huge revamp in Streatham, but said work could not start until “economic conditions” improved.

The scheme includes demolishing the Streatham Megabowl and Ceasars nightclub in Streatham Hill.

In their place, Redefine plan to build 243 flats, shops, a theatre, community hall, garden, courtyard and children’s play area.

The project was approved by Lambeth council in April at the fifth time of asking.

Greg Miller-Cheevers, head of Glentoran Ltd, which worked to get planning permission for the development, said in April work would start this Christmas – with shops to open by Christmas 2012.
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http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/News.cfm?id=30845&headline=Year%27s%20delay%20for%20Streatham%20Megabowl
 
There is a very unresolved situation about the replacement of the leisure facility...as the current planning permission approaches is' sell-by date. Some details on the Streatham thread. A theatre space has long been agreed by the developers, now being proposed as smaller than in the original application. (the retail space has been significantly reduced, too - not sure why - I thought the plan was for major 'anchor' stores to re-ignite the shopping in the High Rd).
 
OvalhouseDB said:
There is a very unresolved situation about the replacement of the leisure facility...as the current planning permission approaches is' sell-by date. Some details on the Streatham thread. A theatre space has long been agreed by the developers, now being proposed as smaller than in the original application. (the retail space has been significantly reduced, too - not sure why - I thought the plan was for major 'anchor' stores to re-ignite the shopping in the High Rd).
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Streatham Hill demolition.jpg

This is what is left of the Megabowl and Caesars - Lambeth planning committee decide tomorrow on what happens to the site

Less than 4 per cent of the leisure space on this site, previously occupied by the Megabowl and the huge Caesars club (formerly Locarno ballroom/Cats' Whiskers) is to be returned to entertainment/community use if the developers get their way. The rest is a few shops and flats, flats, flats - 259 of them, very few 'affordable'. No prizes for seeing parallels with other major developments in Brixton and elsewhere in the borough.

The current demolition of the site has progressed on the basis of permission granted in 2010, but the highly controversial amendments - reduction in the proposed theatre/community and retail space - are going before Lambeth Planning Committee tomorrow night, July 7.
Planners have been hit with a wave of objections, backed by leading theatre figures including actor Simon Callow and director Ed Hall - as reported on the front page of The Stage earlier and in Friday's local edition of the SLP. More than seventy letters of objection and a petition signed by some 1,250 (1,142 online) have rejected the plan. https://www.change.org/p/lambeth-co...eatre-in-streatham-hill-and-revise-the-scheme

Lambeth planners are backing developers London Square who have submitted plans halving the space previously provided for a theatre and community uses. Objectors say the plans won't work, and that the facilities to make the theatre financially sustainable and workable - backstage and front of house - are totally inadequate.
 
I completely agree that 120 seats and no grant funding do not make a theatre viable, unless there are significant sources of other income - a large bar and café, lots of rehearsal space for rent, an artistic director with a big fat personal trust fund, a thriving company that already has finding and a track record, or some other safety net. This is being built 'cold' - no vision or artistic director leading the development of the building, so it will be left until later to hope for an operator to make it work, unless someone with the right match of work for the area and size pops up sooooon!
 
Well, that's the risk / fear.

Hence much local pressure to ensure that there is a viable and valuable (meaningful, relevant, affordable, accessible, quality) cultural offer for Streatham and beyond - a space that is primed to survive and flourish.
 
OvalhouseDB said:
Well, that's the risk / fear.

Hence much local pressure to ensure that there is a viable and valuable (meaningful, relevant, affordable, accessible, quality) cultural offer for Streatham and beyond - a space that is primed to survive and flourish.
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have you been into the old theatre in Streatham (the bingo hall)? The Streatham Theatre Company did a Halloween play that took the audience around the whole building. It must have been amazing when it was first built and used.
 
Ooh, I am sorry I missed that. I have never been in, no. I must.

The Megabowl went to planning last night - did anyone go? (I was not able to)
 
I have only just seen this thread, I am a SHR so have been closely following the developments re: Megabowl/Caesars. I agree with the above, this development is pretty much 100% geared towards building residential properties and presumably selling them at "unaffordable" prices. Do London Square the developer responsible for this have a credible track record in developing mixed/multi-use developments? I've been on their website and all I see is examples of expensive looking flats and townhouses. I have been skeptical of this sham of a project from day one TBH and I absolutely do not trust Lambeth to assist them in delivering a development that meets the needs of the local community, Streatham doesn't need hundreds more expensive flats!!! We need a cultural centre (Theatre, Arts) and not a shoddy one at that.
 
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