Stockwell Skate Park, Network Homes and the BRX/SO BRX development

[CH1]

Yeah! Living the lifestyle!

Not very PC is it? No blacks and NO gay couples.
To me it seems aimed at people who would like to live in South Kensington, but only have 1/10 of the money required.

 

[Favelado]

Come to Brixton and help turn it into exactly the opposite of why you wanted to move here in the first place!

 

[editor]

Come to Brixton and help turn it into exactly the opposite of why you wanted to move here in the first place!

I don't think a lot of the people coming here want actual Brixton. They want the whitened, middle class, foodie-grazing Brixton lite version.

 

[ricbake]

Cla'am; St' Reatham; Brx Toan

 

[djdando]

I don't think a lot of the people coming here want actual Brixton. They want the whitened, middle class, foodie-grazing Brixton lite version.

What is actual Brixton? People just want to get on the sodding housing ladder and live somewhere half decent.

 

[editor]

What is actual Brixton? People just want to get on the sodding housing ladder and live somewhere half decent.

This isn't a development for people trying to get on the housing ladder, as the lifestyle marketing makes perfectly clear. One bedroom flats go for nearly half a million.

 

[mojo pixy]

CNTS

there's a tagger in Bristol called CNTS, also usually the T is an upside-down cross Next time I'm there I'll take some pics.

On-topic, rock on Stockwell Skatepark,I have grazed my arms and legs and been laughed at there. Shared joints and made friends. I live on the other side of the country now, but feel the love from here.

 

[Favelado]

I lived off Landor Road many years ago for a while. I just thought it was a brilliant thing to be there.

 

[ricbake]

https://photos.app.goo.gl/RZ9BdT7xPVVolNqv2
Looking down on the skate park as Brx block rises

 

[editor]

Strong stomachs are needed to read this guff about Brixton's "posh boutiques and unpolished streets. Unapologetically so. Wonderfully so."

The soul-destroying BRX London development towers over Stockwell Skate Park, May 2019

 

[editor]

FUCK OFF

Eclectic. Exciting. Brave and daring. This lively corner has everything for everyone. From Brixton Village to Brixton Market, the Rec to the Ritzy, the green panoramas of Brockwell Park and the concrete playground that is the skatepark. There are bookmongers and brew-makers, pop-up shops and honky tonks, rooftop terraces and waggish watering holes.

There’s fine-dining and street-food, casual chophouses, bars behind prison bars and pubs. It’s home to legends and heroes. Levi Roots and David Bowie.

It’s posh boutiques and unpolished streets. Unapologetically so. Wonderfully so. That’s what makes it so charming and disarming. It’s why the world gathers here to have a good party

 

[Crispy]

christ

 

[Pickman's model]

FUCK OFF

i don't know how you kept your dinner down writing that, i nearly chucked over my keyboard

 

[DietCokeGirl]

So tempted to book an appointment to view a show flat and just cause havoc

 

[klang]

 

[editor]

This is how you enjoy your day when you're living the BRX dream:

This is your escape from it all without needing to escape it all. Beers clinking on your balcony at the end of a mad, mad day. A terrace filled with your favourite tapas from your favourite takeaway.

The glow of soft lighting as you curl up with a new-old book. The pale wood floor feeling great underfoot. The lost sounds of Brixton spinning round and round as you dance and cook. space, space and more space. Modern touches and warm tones.

The scent of your morning espresso. that get up and go. Sun pouring in through your plant-filled balcony, the communal gardens giving you another sanctuary. This is falling in love and falling in life. this is the place. Your sanctuary. Your retreat.

And you know what?

This is more than just a place to live for a moment. It’s a place where every moment matters. It’s a lifestyle and a life. That’s what makes it so rare.

 

[editor]

They've given the apartments groovy names like ‘Marley,’ ‘Ziggy,’ and ‘Ritzy’ but surely - please God - the 'Parks' apartment isn't named after Rosa Parks?

Oh and here's their 'green credentials':

• ELECTRIC CAR CHARGING POINTS
  (FOR PURCHASERS ONLY)

 

[catriona]

Towers over my flat too. I'm also tempted to pose as a buyer & waste as much of their time/money as I can. I did formally object when it was proposed, citing the wind & pollution canyon effect as well as thelack of genuinely affordable housing. Fat lot of good that did of course.

 

[shakespearegirl]

This is how you enjoy your day when you're living the BRX dream:


And you know what?

What a load of wank!

 

[shakespearegirl]

What a load of wank!

Sorry reply didn’t work properly, wank was directed a their pointless lifestyle waffle

 

[editor]

Stockwell Skatepark news Stockwell Skatepark to benefit from £300k upgrade and refurbishment work

 

[ricbake]

Stockwell Skatepark news Stockwell Skatepark to benefit from £300k upgrade and refurbishment work

One assumes this may restrict activity in the skate park while they flog the flats. Then make it more visually appealing and controlled to enhance the new tenants view....

 

[editor]

Stockwell Skatepark pics

Photo feature: Stockwell skate park in the lockdown – with a graffiti coronavirus warning

We visited Stockwell skate park earlier this week and found a handful of skaters and friends hanging out – and spotted a coronavirus warning on the concrete.

www.brixtonbuzz.com

 

[editor]

Developers raking it in: Developer cashes in with £480,000 for one bed flat in new ‘SO BRX’ tower overlooking Stockwell Skate Park

 

[editor]

Coke speak,

 

[nick]

if you're suffering from low blood pressure, then I recommend downloading the brochure: should get the heart pumping

There are bookmongers and brew-makers, pop-up shops and honky tonks, rooftop terraces and waggish watering holes. There’s fine-dining and street-food, casual chophouses, bars behind prison bars and pubs. Real pubs. Pub-pubs.
It’s where brave flavours get embraced.
It’s home to legends and heroes. Levi Roots and David Bowie. It’s posh boutiques and unpolished streets. Unapologetically so. Wonderfully so.
That’s what makes it so charming and disarming.
It’s why the world gathers here to have a good party.

POP TO POP
Pop Brixton is a one-of-a-kind space that epitomises Brixton: a community initiative that has transformed a disused plot into one of London’s most pioneering spaces. It’s a street food market, event
venue and shopping hotspot made
from shipping containers.

Apart from the vomit inducing marketing guff, I wonder what length of lease you get for that, and how much they hit you for service charge on top of the somewhat excessive headline pricing?

 

[editor]

Network Homes have got some corker reviews on FB

Absolutely awful. Even one star is far too generous for this company. Network Homes are incredibly unprofessional. Their customer service is beyond appalling. I deeply regret buying my flat from them. They are rude, dishonest, unprofessional and incredibly disorganised. Do yourself a favour and stay away from this company. It's incredible how they get away with what they do. Surely this level of horrific service must be illegal.

We put our life savings into a property run by Network Homes. The whole experience has ruined my health. Avoid like the plague.

Words can not describe the shocking treatment we have experienced from network homes the past few weeks. To say no one knows what they are doing is an understatement! There is no communication between departments and misinformation is handed out freely with no responsibility for their actions. Our biggest regret is buying our property from them. Anyone looking to buy a property from network homes I advise you forget about it and look elsewhere to a landlord who treats people with respect. I will now be escalating my complaint reguarding their appalling service and shocking attitude from members of staff to the Greater London Authority! Their slogan, Good homes make everything possible, should be changed to Bad homes make nothing possible!! Network homes have made our lives a living hell. Avoid at all costs!!!!

Wish it could be zero stars

Network homes has to be the worst housing association in the country.

Do not enter into a shared equity property with them. You pay them rent and pay towards a mortgage, yet they have all the rights. They over charged me £40 a month on my service charge for nearly a year! I only found out because I was looking to sell my property. I had to fight them to get a refund and received no apology when proved right.

After they finally reimbursed me the overpayments, they were taking from me, I’m still left paying £175 a month in service charges!!!. And what do I get for that? Bird mess all over my property that they refuse to clean or deal with and a security guard that refuses to come out of his office and deal with gangs of youth smoking and dealing in cannabis.

When you try and sell your property they do not want to help or offer any support. They have shown no empathy in regards to the cheap faulty cladding used on my property.
Please do not make the same mistake I made , avoid at all costs. If you don’t believe me check out all the other reviews. We can’t all be wrong now can we!!!!!
Please avoid this association and don’t let them ruin your life, like they have mine.

Network Homes

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[Favelado]

I'm glad I don't live in Brixton now. What a sad thing to have to say.

 

[CH1]

Network Homes have got some corker reviews on FB

Network Homes

Network Homes, Wembley, Brent, United Kingdom. 944 likes · 7 talking about this. We’re a housing association that builds, sells, rents and manages homes in London, Hertfordshire and the South East....

www.facebook.com

The comments on the Facebook page seems to be from all over.
According to Wiki they started as Brent People's Housing Association Network Homes - Wikipedia
Housing Associations which target growth at the expense of customer service can get obnoxious and inefficient.
I have no idea how this gets put right whith a Housing Minister like the present one.

 

[Gramsci]

I do remember Stockwell Park Estate in its original form. When the doctors surgery was there.

It had a lot of problems.

The scheme to regenerate started out as tenant led. Im not sure what happened along the way.. Over the years its ended up like this.

It could be seen as what could happen to other large estates in Lambeth.

The private housing was to fund the "regeneration" of the social housing on the estate.

As its no longer under Council control its not that easy to ask questions about how this scheme worked.