Remus Harbank
Cake and whipped cream…
a bubble to end all bubbles.
Work starts on the eagerly awaited new Foxtons office on Brixton Road
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Surely the Effra Road property is in line with the Archbishop's place one price-wise?
Grand terrace with self contained one bedroom flat included - compared to a workman's cottage with "fantastically snug" reception and "Tardis-like upper floors" (quoting the estate agent here).
What would annoy me would be if it turned out that LB Lambeth or SLAM had sold the Effra Road property to a developer so they could make an almost instant 67% profit. I know there are/were some properties used for people "out on license" on that part of Effra Road. And SLAM/LB Lambeth have form on property deals which scarecly maxed their return - look at the Learning Difficulties team building (ex-1950s registry office) at 340 Brixton Road. Now part of the Lexadon empire.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
Punting - the hope that someone with more readies than brains will take the bait. Saw this happen in the '80s and '90s, generally toward the end of a boom.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
No - it was a Portuguese family. I remember Lambeth wanting to sell one like you describe on the corner of Mervan Road at auction - they would not allow viewings "in case of disturbing the occupants" who were about to be thrown out. You can imagine what effect that would have on the price.
I have no idea whether this is true but someone mentioned that Foxtons have a property fund and the Effra one made me wonder...
innit
c'mon, little life giver
I understand they have had offers but haven't accepted yet as the prospective buyer (not me) has a flat to sell.
Gramsci
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I overheard some parents recently talking about how to get there children into schools. One said he was going the the Catholic church so that his kid could get into the local Catholic school. They note how many times u attend. You had to attend for a good amount of time for it to count. He also said that doing things like baking cakes for school events got points as well.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Of course. This is exactly how it works. And it is very wrong.
Corpus Christi, for example, manages by such means to keep its Free School Meal rate - a rough proxy for deprivation - down to 8 per cent.
Other Brixton Hill area primaries, which cannot select on the sly, generally have FSM rates of more than 50 per cent.
The classic trick at CChristi is helping run the playgroup. Together with arse-on-pew it just about guarantees a place for your child in a classroom free of vexing ruffians from those awful council estates.
Of course, families can also live inside catchment areas of non-faith schools for dubiously short periods: something I've undertaken.
Yes this ^
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
schools have always been for indoctrination, whether secular or religious.
Winot
I wholeheartedley agree with your viewpoint
Amen to that.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Don't ban them: just withdraw their state funding!
Faith schools are divisive and doctrinaire but it's much more significant that their admissions procedures lead to the exclusion of poorer kids.
Families and the schools collude in this because it improves results.
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hiraethified
Privately funded faith schools would be even worse.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Depressingly, the new 'free' secondary school for Brixton Hill, Clapham Common and Balham is to have a 'Catholic ethos'.
Rushy
basically a scrotum
Well I hope they choose which aspects they intend to follow very carefully
What and where is this school? And why is Lambeth allowing this? They've blocked other free schools and we need primaries.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Called Trinity. No site chosen. But theoretically centred on Clapham Common clock tower
http://www.trinityacademylondon.org/
There is another school with Catholic ethos in between Streatham Hill and Clapham, http://www.thelaurelsschool.org.uk/
I think it will take the first kids next September.
£3,900 per child per term. £12 grand a year, give or take, before you've bought a uniform or gone on a school trip. 40% reduction for the third child though. £31k instead of £36k if you have three kids.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I have to say though, there is no low I will not sink to if I think it is for the good of my daughter. If I were to get a bursary on the basis of not having enough money to send her to The Laurels, I probably would. Although I wouldn't want her to be in the position where she is the poorest kid and I can't afford to buy her what her peers get.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
I'd also do - and have done - just about anything. Except bow to Rome.
Ridiculously, recidivistically, I'd have no such problems with the Church of England.
ska invita
back on the other side
im amazed anyone can "pretend" go to church every week. even that bit about making a cake sounds like a hassle.
i thought the whole thing is that its not about money, its about whether you go to the church or not? how do they exclude poorer kids?
my mind is boggled by those house prices posted above.... i want to type something but its too insane
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leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Friend visited the local secondary schools this year ... her eldest is five years old and in year 1.
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
They don't actively exclude poorer kids but, somehow, the pews, and voluntary positions, at the relevant church, at the relevant time, are occupied by the well-heeled with young kids.
You'd imagine that you have to be admitted before they'll allow you to get involved in the school events.
When we tried attending church, you had to sign in if you had kids. It is the parent who signs in. With all the depravity that has gone on in the catholic church, it's probably not a bad idea to keep a record of which adults are at the child specific elements.
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
I wondered what happened to the building previously occupied by Mosaic Clubhouse.
As you would expect in Lambeth there has been some asset stripping jiggery pokery.
Close down the Effra day centre for the mentally ill. Sell the clubhouse building off. Move clubhouse into the Effra building.
Bingo. Effra re-opens as a work-related centre for the mentally ill (i.e. Mosaic Clubhouse)
You have a £12,000 a year Catholic private school for girls belonging to the top nobs you are attracting into the borough (with added large family discount for following the Catholic line on birth control).
And no Effra day centre to fund.
Well done Donatus And Lambeth Social Services (not forgetting whichever estate agent is performing the function of Borough Valuer these days!
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CH1
"Red Guard"(NLYL)
Just spotted a forthright anti Buy-to-let article in the FT whilst having a clear-out.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5efda336-3bfe-11e3-b85f-00144feab7de.html#axzz2kLR839AU
Google
Buy-to-let, not Help to Buy, is the real scourge of Generation Rent
if you don't want to register to acess FT
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/5efda336-3bfe-11e3-b85f-00144feab7de.html#axzz2kLR839AU
Buy-to-let, not Help to Buy, is the real scourge of Generation Rent
if you don't want to register to acess FT
leanderman
Street Party: July 2
Gentrification celebration on the Josephine Avenue notice board in SW2
ash
Inittogether
Not Foxtons, but £750,000 for 2 bedrooms and a downstairs bathroom !!
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30404171
http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/30404171
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