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hiraethified
You've no opinion about the actual discussion then?
Windrush Square used by We Train commercial personal trainer company
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discobastard
Well-Known Member
I suspect they use that language just because its of the time. I don't think a spontaneous business would be very successful!
I wouldn't want a commercial venture taking over a public space on a regular basis. There's certainly a bigger discussion to be had about that, but in this case it doesn't look like they have a very large footprint - and (as of now) certainly not regularly creating an inconvenience for people. But then I'm sitting at a desk by Tower Bridge so who knows.
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
one thing worse than a spontaneous flash mob is a commercial fully licensed faux flash mob
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Has anyone mentioned what type of people/person that are using the square? I thought peoples concerns where about a private business rocking up in a public space/thoroughfare.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Like taking photos of the crowds gathered in a public place and selling them to media agencies
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
oh this will end well 
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
What are you on about?
editor
hiraethified
Ah so he's arrived at his Big Fucking Point and it's every bit as irrelevant and every bit as wilfully spiteful as expected.
Taking a photo in a public square is not even remotely comparable to setting up a commercial business as any fucking idiot knows. And in the case of the one photo you're dredging up here, I gave all the money away to a hospice and the subject liked it so much, I sent him a free copy too. So what exactly is your point and what has it go to do with the subject under discussion?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
People in glass houses
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Still no clue.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
Got it now,You got beef with someone here. carry on.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
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hiraethified
Yep. Three year old, disruptive, tedious, irrelevant and unfocused beef. Yawn.
Back on topic, I messaged the WeTrain people and asked if they paid for the space or if it was a flashmob kind of thing. Like I said, it's not the issue for me, but it might be informative to know if Lambeth is renting out the square.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
No, you're right. People exercising, trying to improve their health shouldn't take precedent over drunks using the space in an anti-social manner. Drunks who invariably cost me as a taxpayer via increased NHS costs and housing.
write to the council?
start a petition?
talk to the people in the square?
Join in, I'm sure a selection of folk joining in would put them right off.
cuppa tee
Well-Known Member
this is exactly what I find annoying about nu exercise culture, a post industrial version of strength through joy
with nasty social Darwinist undertones....
bi0boy
Power User
We must sit at home if we're not getting strong through working at the foundry I suppose.
sealion
Conformity is the last refuge of the unimaginitive
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hiraethified
Who the fuck mentioned drunks?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Yeh it's all about you. Don't try to improve your health because I, as a taxpayer, don't want any part of funding your pension.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I would expect them to be treated the same as everyone else using public space - fine as long as they're not getting in the way of other users, but advertising would not generally be permitted. That's going beyond just having branded t-shirts or something, and I suspect it's a major reason they're there - it's not like it's the best place to have an exercise class is it? Unless you want a lot of people to see your adverts....
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
I'm pretty sure there are by-laws mandating payment of public space for commercial usage,and no "get-around" of it being a "pop-up" is going to impress anyone except Cllr Jacko Hopkins, who gets turned on by business buzz-terms.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Lambeth are forever whining about cuts.You'd think that they'd be policing possible income streams tightly.
discobastard
Well-Known Member
I think the issue is more about having a licence rather than having specifically rented that space no?
Looks like a licence gives you permission to practise in public spaces in Lambeth more generally.
Did you hear back?
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
I think that's the most ridiculous post I've read for quite a while
Mr Retro
Beware hedgehogs
Care to expand? I'd like to understand why you think people who excercise are wankers.
Gramsci
Well-Known Member
As a matter of history a peaceful green anarchist group some years ago set up on Sundays a stall on Windrush square giving away vegan food for a few hours. After a few weeks of this Police turned up using a rather interesting interpretation of ASBO legislation to get rid of them. There argument being that whilst these people were peaceful they encouraged those who might break the peace loitering in the square.
Police accept political stalls outside Tube station and Iceland- to there credit - have never complained about stalls outside there shop.
My point being that whilst Windrush Sq was set up as a public space its actually policed to discourage activities that may be seen as political.
Police accept political stalls outside Tube station and Iceland- to there credit - have never complained about stalls outside there shop.
My point being that whilst Windrush Sq was set up as a public space its actually policed to discourage activities that may be seen as political.
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Not what I said.
