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Naively perhaps, I'm hoping for this summer.

It was a nice place to stop off on the way back from the Park, although I didn't go there often. Would like it to reopen in time for the summer.

I find it infuriating. Often see dogs running through the flower beds. Children picking flowers less so, but that too occasionally. So selfish.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/feb/14/battersea-nine-elms-property-development-housing

Fair enough Bobbsy - it sounds plausible.

The Burritos on NXroad are very good.

I would be pretty wary of any 'research' coming out of the Taxpayers Alliance. It's got a pretty clear agenda.

Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Austria works this way, and works very well > indeed. As far as I could work out, there was a > percentage levy paid by both employees and > employers that went into an 'insurance' fund. > Free at the point of delivery like the NHS, but > more complex in its underlying funding. Kind of like National Insurance then, only hypothecated.

Yeah, the loss of parking is a shame. It's difficult transporting a cat by foot. I hear the site is going to be become a supermarket and flats.

What about Brixton?

They are a bit knackered - but surely an argument for introducing new ones, not reducing the service.

Pugwash Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If you are the only person occupying a home you > can get 25% off your council tax. > Surrey Council were going to put up their CT by > 17% !! ...until the government did a secret deal with them. I personally think Southwark do a pretty good job. I do think that cutting back on free collections of bulky items will probably end up costing more than it saves. There 'regeneration' projects are well dodgy, but on the day to day business as usual stuff, they're not bad.

That's good advice from Jeremy. I'm hoping that the trains will start to settle down soon (to some extent this has started to happen). Longer term it would be great if it were transferred over to TFL. Peckham Rye is quite well served, but if you live to the South of ED, it's a pretty long way.

I have lived in the area a long time and commuting is getting more difficult in my opinion. The number of people using public transport has increased massively and capacity hasn't kept pace.

Yes. Getting into work on time is becoming more and more difficult / unpredictable for lot's of people.

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > rahrahrah Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > .. hmmm, no mention in that Times piece of > > Marmite. They clearly don't know what they're > > talking about. > > Next you'll be telling me it doesn't contain a > dash of Worcester and a squeeze of ketchup!! Exactly, these so called 'chefs' don't know what they're talking about!

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There are established communities and tax payers > all around OKR. To read this you'd thinknot was > completely uninhabited. The 'opportunity areas' identified around OKR and Nine Elms / Battersea have with very little housing. This is why they've been identified for development. Of course people live in nearby, but these are not town centres like Camberwell for example. The residents of PC World and Toys R Us along with those of New Covent Garden flower market and the Nine Elms Lane car dealerships, have not been crying out for new transport or campaigning since the 50s for a tube extension.

As taxpayers, we do pay for it of course. We pay for the development at Nine Elms / Battersea - in order to ensure maximum return for the developers of luxury flats and the speculators buying them off plan. These people need a huge taxpayer subsidy of course. Let's see how much 'affordable housing' gets built.

Transport in this area is getting unbearably bad. The trains are generally unreliable and the buses unpredictable. It's pretty clear that TFLs policy on tube expansion (see Northern and now Bakerloo) is to only investing public money where it can be used to subsidise developers, so unlikely to see any significant future investment in established areas. Best bet, seems to be a transfer of rail services to TFL, but with a Labour mayor and a Tory government, that looks a long way off too. So it's bike if you can.

Apparently there is a strike today.

The amount of pollution this morning as a result of the gridlock / idling buses etc. was unbearable. One BMW with a broken exhaust was bellowing thick black smoke out whilst it sat, not moving on LL. By the time I got to work (I walked) I felt like I had smoked several packets of fags and my eyes were stinging.

Yeah, the PC World is a dead zone for transport

Good article on the challenges and opportunities facing us as a country https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/11/brexit-kibasi-ippr-article-50-referendum-remain-leave

I don't know any cats who are trained behavioural experts.

'Toad in the holes'. The collective noun is a bellywobbler of toad in the holes