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Network Rail and the Brixton and Herne Hill arches: it’s a shambles
It’s February 2017 and Network Rail along with their contractors, Spence Ltd, continue with their shambolic attempts at running two building projects within the railway viaducts at Brixton and Herne...
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Network Rail and Brixton Viaduct redevelopment – it’s going to be disruptive...
Close examination of the Network Rail planning documents show that the scale of the proposed refurbishment within Brixton Viaduct will have a far greater impact on the community than anyone, least of...
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Brixton Arches: Network Rail set to break Lambeth council’s planning conditions
When Lambeth Council granted permission for Network Rail to redevelop the Brixton Arches, they included some important conditions. One of these conditions – Condition 4 – requires Network Rail to...
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FFS Lambeth. Fix the water leak from Carlton Mansions. It’s been FOUR months now
Please excuse the less than elegant headline, but we’ve become infuriated by Lambeth’s continuing inaction over a major water leak taking place from within Carlton Mansions on Coldharbour Lane. Back...
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Carlton Mansions water leak gets bodged up as Lambeth continue to ignore the...
With Lambeth Council and Thames Water seemingly incapable of attending to the sizeable water leak that had been escaping from the abandoned Carlton Mansions building on Coldharbour Lane, the Fire...
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Brixton Arches: Advertising hoardings disappear along Atlantic Road and...
Just as swiftly as they appeared, the shiny ‘Brixton Pillars’ billboards all along Brixton Station Road and Atlantic Road have vanished. Network Rail’s hugely unpopular decision to evict traders...
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Brixton Arches development “hopelessly stalled” with Brixton’s ‘Dead Zone’...
The blight that has been imposed on Brixton’s town centre, with the hopelessly stalled development of its historic arches by absentee landlords, Network Rail, is set to continue into the foreseeable...
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Brixton Arches farce continues: Billboards go up, down and up again
The travesty of the Network Rail refurbishment continues as the ‘Brixton Pillars’ billboards are once again reinstalled along Atlantic Road and Station Road. The shiny advertising boards were first...
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Brixton Arches redevelopment: are contractors flouting the rules?
The controversial eviction of most of the traders operating along the arches in Atlantic Road and Brixton Station Road by Network Rail has left Brixton with a ‘dead zone’ in its heart. With very...
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Brixton Arches evictions: long time trader Beautiful Books struggles to survive
Network Rail’s unpopular and ill-thought out refurbishment scheme for the Brixton Arches continues to cause suffering to local businesses. Brixton has already lost many of its much loved small traders...
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In photos: What happened to the popular Brixton Food Court in Atlantic Road
Here’s the sad sight of the former Brixton Food Court on Atlantic Road, as captured yesterday. Opening in late 2015, the Food Court offered a new, affordable, outdoor eating and drinking space in the...
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Brixton Arches: Atlantic Road turns into an eyesore as Brixton Pillars...
We already had huge reservations about the effectiveness of the ‘Brixton Pillars’ campaign – which saw rows of metal billboards being erected in front of the closed businesses along Atlantic Road and...
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Brixton Arches redevelopment ‘continues to flout existing planning and...
After the controversial eviction of traders operating along the arches in Atlantic Road and Brixton Station Road by Network Rail, Brixton has been left with a ‘dead zone’ in its heart, with a local...
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Brixton’s Carlton Mansions: the water leak is back as the building remains...
It was bad enough seeing the iconic mural on the side of Brixton’s Carlton Mansions being vandalised to near the point of no-return, but now it seems that the future of the building itself could be in...
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Brixton Arches – Network Rail prolong the agony for residents with...
The deeply unpleasant stench coming from the rotting carcass of Brixton’s Dead Zone is about to become far worse as it is expected that Lambeth Council will shortly rubber stamp their (predetermined)...
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Lambeth evict woman and her two young children: petition launched
At 10am last Wednesday a Clavia Chambers and her two young children were evicted from their Brixton home and denied rehousing by Lambeth council. Soaked and distraught, she dragged her belongings to...
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Brixton Arches: Network Rail go on the PR offensive and revamp baffling...
The shiny metal billboards lining the evicted premises along Station Road and Atlantic Road vanished again last week, and now have been replaced by ones bearing a full-on PR offensive from Network...
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Evicted Mum re-occupies her council flat and asks for community support
A desperate mother of two kids has re-occupied the flat she was evicted from last week in Brixton. She is appealing to Lambeth council to let her stay. Unite Community member, Clavia Chambers, was...
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In photos: evicted mother and activists reoccupy Brixton flat
At 10am last Wednesday, Clavia Chambers and her two young children were evicted from their Brixton home and denied rehousing by Lambeth council. Clavia insists that the arrears are down to mistakes in...
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Protest outside Lambeth Council to rehouse evicted Mum of two, Fri 18th Aug,...
Campaigners are staging a protest outside Olive Morris House in Brixton today to demand that local resident Clavia Chambers is immediately rehoused. As we reported earlier this week, Clavia and her...
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