New Flats At ED Station - Be Warned! (it has a "veneer")

[petercain0110]

Times move on .. Maybe the Victorians lamented the passing of straw huts .. Maybe the Victorians would envy the new builds .. I live in a 1902 building .. I like it .. Never-the-less, a new build is undoubtedly better ..

[cella]

petercain0110 Wrote:

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> Times move on .. Maybe the Victorians lamented the

> passing of straw huts .. Maybe the Victorians

> would envy the new builds .. I live in a 1902

> building .. I like it .. Never-the-less, a new

> build is undoubtedly better ..

Unless it's this one!

[cella]

chazzle Wrote:

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> For the latest impact (the fifth) the lorry turned

> in at speed and drive about one metre onto the

> pavement. Just bad driving. A bollard should help.

Bad driving! No consolation if you're a member of library staff, a shopper or a pedestrian at that moment!

[solar]

It's been hit again!

[Charles Notice]

How long before the tyre business is shut down due to health and safety when the library is fully operating.

[Amanda1979]

solar Wrote:

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> It's been hit again!

.... or not been fixed since the last time?

[chazzle]

Still the same damage from before - they appeared to be fixing it this morning.

How could you shut Melbourne Tyres on H&S grounds, when it's been trading there safely for 30 years?

[Pugwash]

Melbourne Tyres - have used several times over the years - very helpful and allow you to park on their small forecourt so that you are not on the yellow lines

[Charles Notice]

Children going to the library, cars parked up on his work area, vehicles cutting the corner, single lane traffic up to the builders yard. More pedestrian safe space needed as people cannot look.

Before this development there was plenty of room for all.

I hope they do not find reasons to close it.

[MatthewGBCN]

I tend to agree on your statement quote 'They look quite smart, but don't be fooled!' ....

Modern , a snazzy/trendy way of saying cheap and quick to grab-in the idiotic/foolish young yuppies .

It seems we are 'assimilating' Turkish building designs and standards ....

... new home buyers are doomed !

I agree with some other folk on here saying that proper bricks , really do make our houses homely and inject a certain interesting character :-)

[alex_b]

Why would real bricks be better here? They'd be more expensive to repair and will be less thermally efficient than modern construction methods.

My principal complaints about those flats are:

1. No effort to colour match the brick tiles to the attached station building

2. Building a balcony without accompanying protection on the pavement to stop trucks cutting the corner

[MatthewGBCN]

Alex_b ,

I will keep this short , but I do want to reply before I got to work and forget :-)

BOTH your points are SPOT ON and accurate , but as for the REAL BRICK houses being 'inefficient' well , honestly that is a 'half truth' in my opinion .

Yes , I will agree that modern building designs are 'better' [ noticeable - but not by much - just MY opinion] in keeping noise down (sound-proofing) , insulation (energy efficiency) ....

.... However , I used to live in these old houses , ( and I love it ! ) I know they get damp , mouldy and filled with wood lice etc , but if your tech-savvy and with a good combination of knowing YOUR HISTORY , you can avoid massive heating bills , expensive building repairs and aggravation from your neighbours over noise (except dinner parties !) .

All I can say is , please dont ruin (disapprove) good old stuff for us , there are adults - like myself , kids grown up from the 90's that actually remember what it was like in ED in the old houses , before they 'absorbed' by the rich and affluent . :-)

Anyway that is enough for me on this topic , and I am the kind of guy that could go on for many days , but I am out !

P.S. Southwark Council have lost the plot , and it seems to me they dramatically have lost their 'foresight' intelligence when approving/disapproving building applications ....

...Are they taking bribes ? You never know - maybe .

[alex_b]

Just to clarify I'm not against old houses, I grew up in a Victorian house and live in a Victorian house now. Of course they can be improved and you can make them much more thermally efficient.

What I was saying is that if you are building new buildings now, using "real brick" in place of more modern construction methods isn't sensible either from an environmental or cost point of view.