Melborne Grove being decimated

[macutd]

three businesses now moved away from Melbourne Grove

Please open the street

[macutd]

chemist

[macutd]

Callows

[smooch]

don;t bother contacting the local councilors - they are not interested and refuse to admit there is a problem at all.

[goldilocks]

Chemist move is zero to do with the street changes and everything to do with them moving to the health centre - they were previously linked to the dr surgery on Melbourne Grove - both have moved into Tessa Jowell.

Callows is now on the main road but seems to have quickly sold the lease. The barbers closed and was immediately re let to Art K.

The other hairdresser seemed to have some falling out with the landlord and couldn't agree a commercial rent that worked for them - assume the landlord has someone else lined up now as its under offer.

If these units were remaining empty you'd have a point, but with the exception of the chemist they're not - also not sure whats happeningi re the chemist as there are plans to build on the old health centre.

[macutd]

Judging by your posts goldilocks you live in one of the shut down roads and don't care about what effects it has on the rest of us so long as you are ok!

goldilocks Wrote:

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> Chemist move is zero to do with the street changes

> and everything to do with them moving to the

> health centre - they were previously linked to the

> dr surgery on Melbourne Grove - both have moved

> into Tessa Jowell.

>

> Callows is now on the main road but seems to have

> quickly sold the lease. The barbers closed and

> was immediately re let to Art K.

>

> The other hairdresser seemed to have some falling

> out with the landlord and couldn't agree a

> commercial rent that worked for them - assume the

> landlord has someone else lined up now as its

> under offer.

>

> If these units were remaining empty you'd have a

> point, but with the exception of the chemist

> they're not - also not sure whats happeningi re

> the chemist as there are plans to build on the old

> health centre.

[goldilocks]

Judging by your posts you have an agenda and no idea what is happening in any of the units you've posted.

Your argument would be much stronger if the units weren't being quickly re let.

[macutd]

well let's see

[goldilocks]

Its not a 'lets see' - factually they have been sold or re-let with the exception of the Chemist I think - though i've no idea if that is even up for reletting re the development plans. Its a shame though as its a big unit and being boarded up does the street no favours and makes it look shabby.

[Buxton Spring]

they will sell them of to some devloper and build more flats

[KidKruger]

So basically closure of Melbourne Rd has led to a retail boom on that street, or made net zero impact.

Righto.

[Dogkennelhillbilly]

macutd Wrote:

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> well let's see

Already seen, mate.

[goldilocks]

No One said it was a 'retail boom' - just that the units weren't sitting empty, which indicates that the landlords putting up rent were infact right in terms of what businesses are willing to pay.

Someone did obviously start this thread to say that the street was being decimated by the filters - obviously this is just totally untrue given the rapid relets.

[macutd]

So did you admit to living in a cordoned off road and you have a selfish i'm alright, stuff you, agenda?

[goldilocks]

No such thing - would you be so rude in real life or do you just save it for being a keyboard warrier?

[teddyboy23]

No one as taken callows yet

[heartblock]

I think it would be interesting to answer though...there are many closed roads, so it will not identify.. I suspect it is a yes 'I do live in an LTN' and yes 'I have a large house, a car and a garden' and yes 'I drive on ED Grove', but of course it's a forum and we are all allowed some privacy..although someone recently did tell me where I was located on ED Grove...but got it wrong...so swings and roundabouts..

From chatting to some Melbourne Grove retail owners, I have been told that the local Councillors are ambivalent and the residents want them all to go and have one 'nice' coffee shop and no businesses that attract school-kids. Charming!

[goldilocks]

Callow's was under offer a couple of months ago and the estate agent listings still list it as under offer.

[goldilocks]

If 'someone said' it, then it most definitely must be true...

heartblock Wrote:

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> I think it would be interesting to answer

> though...there are many closed roads, so it will

> not identify.. I suspect it is a yes 'I do live in

> an LTN' and yes 'I have a large house, a car and a

> garden' and yes 'I drive on ED Grove', but of

> course it's a forum and we are all allowed some

> privacy..although someone recently did tell me

> where I was located on ED Grove...but got it

> wrong...so swings and roundabouts..

> From chatting to some Melbourne Grove retail

> owners, I have been told that the local

> Councillors are ambivalent and the residents want

> them all to go and have one 'nice' coffee shop and

> no businesses that attract school-kids. Charming!

[teddyboy23]

Scot the owner of callows said the buyers pulled out last minute

[legalalien]

Well, given Southwark?s planning policy is not to have hot food takeaways within 400m of a school, they see it as a health policy issue but don?t, as far as I can tell, have powers to close down existing takeaway businesses, you can see why they might not leap to the defence of any hot food takeaway businesses in Melbourne Grove.

[heartblock]

I don't remember saying 'someone said it'.. but do continue.

[goldilocks]

@Heartblock - just pasting what you actually said here:

From chatting to some Melbourne Grove retail owners, I have been told that the local Councillors are ambivalent and the residents want them all to go and have one 'nice' coffee shop and no businesses that attract school-kids. Charming!

It was the 'I have been told' element that made me deduce that you were telling a story where someone said something!

[alice]

What is it with that sole coffee shop on Melbourne Grove it is never open when I go past. It?s either someone?s vanity project or it will be shut before the summer.

[heartblock]

The primary function of quotation marks is to represent exact language (either spoken or written) that has come from somebody else, but I like the way you wrote 'then it most definitely must be true...' , which I deduce is a rather unsubtle way of intimating that I am lying. I think that says quite a lot and again embeds my view.