Tesco coming to Loughborough Junction?

[teuchter]

Yeah, see your point, but when you could be sandwiched between two kebab shops, or a tesco and a TKMaxx with no comeback, it didn't seem like a risk worth taking. (plus IMAGINE the state of those carpets)

(Edited for spelling)

Fair enough - that's your choice - just that the expression you used of planning consents being "all over the place" implied that the situation didn't make sense or was a mess, when in fact it's probably a reflection on the history of the area, and (I would hope) leaves it with some opportunity to come back to life at some point, particularly along the central Coldharbour Lane bit which is rather run down at present.

 

[editor]

So goodbye The Junction/Warrior because it'll never be coming back as it was. That used to be a real community pub.

 

[teuchter]

So goodbye The Junction/Warrior because it'll never be coming back as it was. That used to be a real community pub.

I'm not sure if the Tescos will be in the pub building. The hoarding is around the site immediately next door.

 

[editor]

I'm not sure if the Tescos will be in the pub building. The hoarding is around the site immediately next door.

Yes, I know - and I could be wrong - but it just seems another nail in the coffin of the viability of the place ever reopening as a pub.

 

[teuchter]

Yes, I know - and I could be wrong - but it just seems another nail in the coffin of the viability of the place ever reopening as a pub.

Indeed.

 

[editor]

I always think if the Warrior - with its own, in-house brewery - could have lasted just a couple more years it would have been doing fantastic business now.

 

[ChrisSouth]

So goodbye The Junction/Warrior because it'll never be coming back as it was. That used to be a real community pub.

It's not been the Junction/Warrior for oh, at least five years. Perhaps it's time to move on. You'll find that the majority of people who live in the LJ community are looking forward to that Tescos.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It's not been the Junction/Warrior for oh, at least five years. Perhaps it's time to move on. You'll find that the majority of people who live in the LJ community are looking forward to that Tescos.

What's wrong with the shop already there at the moment? I don't think a Tesco is any improvement on that tbh.

What is it about Tesco/Sainsburys/whichever supermarket which seems to be inherently more attractive to (middle class?) people? Genuine question...I just don't get it...

 

[ChrisSouth]

What's wrong with the shop already there at the moment? I don't think a Tesco is any improvement on that tbh.

What is it about Tesco/Sainsburys/whichever supermarket which seems to be inherently more attractive to (middle class?) people? Genuine question...I just don't get it...

In answer to your first question, there isn't any shop there at present. In answer to your second, I'm presuming you don't live in LJ.

 

[ringo]

The shops in LJ are generally crap. Most of the shops sell the same limited range of stuff. Fine for super strength lager and bog roll, but anything above lowest common denominator products (iyswim) you'll be out of luck. A small Tesco will clean up, LJ being a 10 - 15 minute walk from the supermarkets in either Brixton or Camberwell.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

In answer to your first question, there isn't any shop there at present. In answer to your second, I'm presuming you don't live in LJ.

Sorry, I meant the shop across the road from the old Crown/Mucky Duck pub (which I where I originally thought the Tesco was going to be.) That has a decent-ish selection of stuff. I lived just down Loughborough Road for 6 years and used to use that shop a fair bit. I agree most of the other shops round there are a bit rubbish and I agree Tesco will clean up. I guess it just disappoints me that Tesco (with its endless list of immoral business practices) is generally seen as the pinnacle of food retail.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Sorry, I meant the shop across the road from the old Crown/Mucky Duck pub (which I where I originally thought the Tesco was going to be.) That has a decent-ish selection of stuff. I lived just down Loughborough Road for 6 years and used to use that shop a fair bit. I agree most of the other shops round there are a bit rubbish and I agree Tesco will clean up. I guess it just disappoints me that Tesco (with its endless list of immoral business practices) is generally seen as the pinnacle of food retail.

I suppose morality is subjective, but I'm guessing Tesco won't be selling single cigarettes to under 16 year olds. And I'm hoping that staff won't be calling me a batty boy in Urdu, thinking that my co-shopper doesn't speak Urdu. Or perhaps if people were to tell Tesco that their food is out of date/off, they won't be told to fuck off and go elsewhere. Of course, once Tesco does open, they will be able to fuck off and go elsewhere.

 

[teuchter]

You'll find that the majority of people who live in the LJ community are looking forward to that Tescos.

What do you base this on?

The Nisa shop on CH lane is perfectly good, and has a much better selection of stuff than any Tesco express that I've been in. In fact several people who've visited me have commented on this.

Plus I've always found the staff in there to be very friendly and never had any problems with them. And they look happier in their jobs than most Tesco employees I've come across.

 

[ChrisSouth]

What do you base this on?
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Because I talk to my neighbours.

 

[ChrisSouth]

Plus I've always found the staff in there to be very friendly and never had any problems with them. And they look happier in their jobs than most Tesco employees I've come across.

I'm pleased to read that you've had good experiences. Looking happy doesn't stop them being homophobic.

 

[Winot]

There is a good point here that is often forgotten in the chains -v- independent debates. Independents are not always so morally pure.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I suppose morality is subjective, but I'm guessing Tesco won't be selling single cigarettes to under 16 year olds. And I'm hoping that staff won't be calling me a batty boy in Urdu, thinking that my co-shopper doesn't speak Urdu. Or perhaps if people were to tell Tesco that their food is out of date/off, they won't be told to fuck off and go elsewhere. Of course, once Tesco does open, they will be able to fuck off and go elsewhere.

That's fucked. Which shop are you referring to?

 

[teuchter]

Here it is, steel frame going up



"Working with the local community to make a difference"

 

[editor]

The apartment building at the back looks about one metre thick!

 

[Manter]

"Working with the local community to make a difference"

The 'saying something makes it true' school of corporate social responsibility.... << sigh >>

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I thought the Tesco was gonna be in the ground floor of the pub...but it looks like they're building it in the empty space next door. Or perhaps it will be both. The funny thing is Sainsburys will probably get most of the Loughborough Junction trade by virtue of being about 20 meters closer to the train station.

 

[cuppa tee]

The apartment building at the back looks about one metre thick!

Battery Farm living for the 2!st century

 

[editor]

Battery Farm living for the 2!st century

A vibrant battery farm lifestyle, surely?

 

[trabuquera]

A vibrant battery farm lifestyle, surely?

Vibrating battery farm lifestyle, at that distance...

 

[cuppa tee]

A vibrant battery farm lifestyle, surely?

Ain't that the clucking truth !!!

 

[teuchter]

I thought the Tesco was gonna be in the ground floor of the pub...but it looks like they're building it in the empty space next door. Or perhaps it will be both. The funny thing is Sainsburys will probably get most of the Loughborough Junction trade by virtue of being about 20 meters closer to the train station.

It doesn't look like it'll be using the space next door - the hoardings are only around the "empty space" bit.

I'm trying to work out what happened to what was there before...which looked like some kind of entrance courtyard/bin store for the flats above:



I wonder how the residents of the flats feel about Tesco appearing where they had their nice arched entrances previously.

 

[Ol Nick]

I'm guessing Tesco won't be selling single cigarettes to under 16 year olds. And I'm hoping that staff won't be calling me a batty boy in Urdu, thinking that my co-shopper doesn't speak Urdu.

Let's not ignore this bit. I'd rather have 10 Tescos than filth like this. Assuming that's not the first time, they could and should be going to prison for this.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

It doesn't look like it'll be using the space next door - the hoardings are only around the "empty space" bit.

I'm trying to work out what happened to what was there before...which looked like some kind of entrance courtyard/bin store for the flats above:

I wonder how the residents of the flats feel about Tesco appearing where they had their nice arched entrances previously.

Yeah it was just an open courtyard before.

The drawings on the planning database make it look like the ground floor of the pub *and* the new bit will form the shop - otherwise it wouldn't look big enough.

 

[teuchter]

I'm not sure I see why that drawing suggests the pub bit will be part of Tesco?

 

[Crispy]

Well, the ground floor plan will tell all.

PS: The building in the background isn't a meter thin, it's the truncated end of a triangle: https://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ll=51.465065,-0.103354&spn=0.001698,0.00327&t=k&z=19