AlexC

Was due to be opening in Dulwich Village this month. Don't know if it has yet. EDIT - Gail's twitter account says 9th April

That's terrible. I'm a member too, but not been in a couple of months. A real shame.

A few places are closing. Other places have opened. It's not a sinking ship. Rents have risen as the area has risen. Landlords will only raise rents if they think they can get away with it. They would obviously change that if the demand wasn't there. They'd rather have a tenant than a boarded up shop. The signs are not there to see. This stuff happens in all areas. Businesses come and go. You get the odd empty shop. That does not mean that the place is about to become a wasteland of them. ED seems to have been mentioned quite a bit recently in the press as a great area people don't know so much about. Hardly signs of a decline. Of course, if by decline you mean some of the independents closing may be replaced by a one or two more chains, then yes, that's not great. ED loses a bit of character. I'd rather that didn't happen. But to say that the place is in decline is, as i said before, utter tosh.

What a load of tosh...

Hi James, I live on Landcroft Road and had a letter a couple of months back saying that the road was going to be re-surfaced. I forget the exact dates now the work was due to happen, but they have been and gone. No work has been done as far as I can see on any part of Landcroft Road. Something similar happened a year or so ago where the whole road was due to be re-surfaced, but only a bit down at the police station end was done. I was expecting they would do the rest this time. Can you please find out what happened? Many thanks.

Lol - I had no idea I was being pompous by referring to Lordship Lane as the Lane. It's just one less word to say!

Citygirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Thank you for welcoming me, AlexC. Good to know > there are several nice pubs where I can go. As for > a rocky bar.. hmm.. what a pity.. Does it mean > I'll have to go to central London in order to go > dancing? The only local place for dancing is the Adventure Bar, but it involves dancing to cheese and I wouldn't really say it has a dance floor per-se! If I was in the mood for a club-y type place, I'd tend to go to Shoreditch. Bus up to Forest Hill, and the Overground train. Takes about 40 mins door to door.

Welcome to the area! There are plenty of nice pubs within easy walking distance from where you are - Great Exhibition, the Actress, the Bishop, EDT....as for club/bars that play rock-y music. None in the vicinity that I know of!

Fair enough - I'm not sure how solid the business model would be for 3 screens. I think a really good one screen cinema could be a possibility if there was somewhere suitable. I know cinema's in pubs have been mentioned, e.g. Montpelier and EDT but for me that's apples and oranges. I admit I've not been to the Montpelier one, but looking at photos of it, it's not really comparable to a well fited cinema with sofa style seating, big pro screen and sound etc.. I'm thinking somewhere of the quality of the Everyman in Hampstead or the like.

Katy Tonbridge Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > How nice to see a thread that talks about "houses" > rather than "properties". Somewhere in the last > 15 years the British population got brainwashed > into thinking the main purpose of a house was to > make money. I don't think people were brainwashed into thinking this. A large number of people were making ??? on their properties during the boom! It wasn't make believe! Nothing sums this up better for me than the episodes of Sarah Beeny's show during the boom years. Idiot property developer wannabe buys house in need of work. They ignore all Sarah Beeny's very sensible advice and instead get emotionally involved in the development and generally make some glaring mistakes.....but as the market has risen since they bought it, they still come away with a tidy profit!!

benmorg Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > AlexC Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > aicardo Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > Add to that the fact that many buyers are after > > period conversions, which are of course of > limited > > supply. > > No, demand for flats is much less strong than > demand for houses outside the centre. > Most of the growth in prices has been in larger > houses or prime central locations. A period > conversation in SE22 isn't a safe bet. I don't really think that there are any safe bets, so I'd agree with you there, but I just don't see a property price crash happening in London. Price stagnation, maybe. I see the odd property getting reduced in price but looking at the ads it usually seems more of a case of the seller thinking prices are still rising a la pre-recession levels.

aicardo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > it's a fact that > house prices, even in London, have to eventuallly > reflect average earnings, so they just have to > fall, but not overnight. I don't think this is by any means a fact. The population of London continues to grow. The amount of new housing built doesn't keep up with that. Add to that the fact that many buyers are after period conversions, which are of course of limited supply. London just doesn't follow the same rules that most of the rest of the country does - I don't think prices have to fall at all. They may steady off, or just rise in a slower manner but I can't see them crashing tbh.

Lishyloo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Why are people to lazy to travel 5-10 minutes it > takes to get to our already struggling cinemas? 5-10 mins? Which cinemas are you thinking of? The nearest is prob 15 mins from me (Plough end of LL) - the one at Peckham - but it's pretty scuzzy. Not one I'm up for supporting. After that it's a long old schlep to Brixton on the 37 or a trip into central. So not many good local options IMO.

If they were web saavy, they'd also realise that posts never die. Easily come across while google'ing, looking for reviews of the places... http://dulwich.mywakefield.co.uk/news/re-my-big-fat-greek-on-melbourne-grove-45 http://dulwich.mywakefield.co.uk/news/ed-businesses-restaurants-and-trades-re-le-chandelier-1

I understand that some businesses are not so 'au fait' with social media...and even your basic internet forum. I also understand that posts with libelious accusations about the inner workings of a company from possibly disgruntled ex-employees, should probably be removed unless they can be backed up with hard evidence. ....however, I don't agree with businesses banning all mentions of a company from the past and future. I'm slightly dissapointed if the Administrator has fully complied with these sort of requests. Feels a little like this forum is being hosted in China. The way to deal with negative PR is not to just try and censor it, or withdraw from new forms of customer feedback. It's to engage. It sounds like some companies really need to wake up and realise that it's something you need to deal with in the modern age.

DulwichFox Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Happy now M&S supporters. ? > > > Fox I don't think people on either side of the debate want it to sit there empty while legal wranglings take place!

So if the application does get rejected - which obviously is still speculation - I wonder what could happen to the site? If the developers have decided they want to increase the rent they get from the building and Iceland's lease is coming to an end, would the developers give Iceland a rolling/temporary lease? Or would Iceland bother to stay there if it looks like the developer is after more rent than they are willing to pay?

Thanks James. Good news on the Landcroft Road re-surfacing. It's a bit ropey these days. There were notices up last year saying it was going to be re-surfaced but the workman only did about 10 metres of the road before disappearing!

Heber Road getting a Waitrose?

Congrats Dulwich Fox! You've now managed 8 posts in this thread, all of which have rained on the OP's parade - even in the face of all the positive messages this thread contains. I think a small cinema could be a go-er. I rarely go to the big chain cinemas these days, unless the small nicer ones aren't showing what I want. My current favourite is http://www.aubincinema.com/. It's only one screen, but is very comfortable, shows good films and not much more expensive than your average Vue/Odeon. Of course, there is a difference between being in Shoreditch and being in ED so maybe it wouldn't be viable here, but it would be great if it was thoroughly investigated by a potential investor.

An ED cinema would get my vote and would definitely be something I'd use. As drew says - it's one of the few things ED is missing.

Is he not just describing the drivers who have been giving him hassle?! Ok, it could have been phrased a bit better but it seems pretty clear to me that's all that he's trying to get across.

The good old EDF. It doesn't matter what you post on here - someone will jump on the thread and take strong offence to something.

Would you feel the same if it was a Waitrose? Or would that still lead to blighted lives?

Ah ok... so M&S "withers hopes and ambitions" and "impedes progress and prosperity"! :))