Revised new - M&S planning application to replace Iceland..

[DulwichFox]

Have just been to Iceland.. It was packed out. Ironic.

Lots of talk about the closing and oddly enough not many people knew it was going. ?

There are far more people in East Dulwich than are on EDF.

It would seem most if not all staff are being located to other stores. I.E. Old Kent Rd. / Walworth Rd.

So that's good people are not losing their jobs.

I suspect M&S will do well even without my patronage... I don't think they will miss me.

DulwichFox

[first mate]

Bermygirl, the primary objection is not to M&S. Some people would have preferred Iceland to stay but I don't think anyone is losing sleep over it.

The issues are with the scale and density of the development above the retail space. There are also real and valid concerns about increased delivery times by extremely large vehicles, less turning space/ access and safety re the last point. If you visit the site and view the damaged bollard that sits at the entrance, you will have a better understanding about those concerns.

[bermygirl]

I take your point First Mate. I think it is what it is though and I guess us ED residents will have to adjust and learn to live with it.

[Sundial]

Fantastic we need a Marks and Spencer in lordship lane.

[DulwichFox]

Sundial Wrote:

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> Fantastic we need a Marks and Spencer in lordship

> lane.

Why do we actually 'Need' one. (M&S) ?

We have all survived for ever without one. No body died.

DulwichFox

[richard tudor]

Their food does not make your s..t stink like Iceland food.

You will fit in seamlessly

[DulwichFox]

richard tudor Wrote:

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> Their food does not make your s..t stink like

> Iceland food.

*ignorant comment*

DF

[richard tudor]

Really.

The whole thing M S vs Iceland is pointless. Why do we need M & S because people want it

I use Iceland all the time.

It all comes down to who will pay the most for the lease.

If it means Rye Lane I will forget it.

[KalamityKel]

Grrr man stop it! Anyone taking the application as an objection seriously is not referring to which ever company moves in to the site! It is he development proposed plain and simple.

Attitudes like yours are irrevelant and just tiring

[richard tudor]

Like most of the comments on this matter from the start

[KalamityKel]

No need for the childish display though is there? *hands back thrown teddy*

[richard tudor]

Hands back brown teddy?

[first mate]

There has been a lot of very noisy activity on the old Iceland site today.

Does anyone know what happened with the penthouse application?

The people living in the flats must have gone, but it should be noted that those floors cannot be used as office space as they have been inhabited for the last few years.

[robbin]

The former Iceland site going to be an M&S, I think.

A penthouse would be good too!

[first mate]

Yes, M$S fine, no quibble with that but the proposal to add another story plonk a penthouse on top is somewhat different, if as many if us suspect, the aim is to avoid a social housing quota. James Barber had said the last application would be called in and so. I am wondering if this has happened or what the latest is?

[Catalyst]

Three years this thread has been going now. Talk about glacial.

[Nigello]

Glacial - Iceland - the irony!

[Ridgley]

*pulls up chair, opens beer and sits back with

> popcorn*

Love it:)

[DulwichFox]

Well the roof is now off.. and the back of the store demolished...

Looks like there will be further floor/floors added..

This isn't going to be a quick job even in Conways aren't involved..

12 months + ??

DulwichFox

[bob]

Did they get approval for the additional floor.

Bob S

[LondonMix]

There was an update back in June that the new store wouldn't be open until summer 2016.

[Jules-and-Boo]

M&S is SO boring.

although their easy peel oranges are the very best - and kept chilled....

[edhistory]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Well the roof is now off.. and the back of the

> store demolished...

>

> Looks like there will be further floor/floors

> added..

>

> This isn't going to be a quick job even in

> Conways aren't involved..

>

> 12 months + ??

>

> DulwichFox

[first mate]

James Barber said the additional floor application (taking it up to four stories) was to be called in. He has not declared on the forum if this has happened yet and if it has qhat the result was; if it has not when is it to be called in.

He said it was to be called in quite some time ago but silence since.

It would be good to know if a fourth floor with penthouses is to be a added to the existing floors and whether the application for the other floors to be offices will stand?

Note an earlier application was passed for 8 flats in the area that on the current application is marked out for offices (thereby giving housing in the form of two penthouses only).

So 8 flats on three floors has been passed over by the developer in favour of two penthouses on four floors, with floors 2 and 3 for offices.

[bob]

Thanks FM so they will build it first then argue about it afterwards.

Bob S