White Stuff.. change of mind?

[Quaywe]

THIS JUST IN: An 'inside source' has confirmed to me that White Stuff indeed will be opening their doors in the old Walsh site. White Stuff are actually going to take two of the 3 shops over and sub-let the third to another company (potentially another small Clapham clothing store). The delays have been experienced because the building owner - you guessed it; Parkhill Properties - has tried to stop them taking all three Walsh stores over as they obviously have a wealthy client that wants to open their doors in the third site that White Stuff are going to sub let.

White Stuff has now won this battle and will open their doors and retain the rights to sub-let the third store. Unfortunately because the fit out was delayed, the White Stuff fit out engine is now fitting out other stores throughout London so the ED White Stuff now won't be fitted out until late April, opening its doors in early May.

So as we see this appears to be the second story I've heard in a month where Parkhill are not only buying properties up in LL, but are trying to bully their existing tennants into moving out of or forfeiting their already leased properties so that PHP can let them to clients willing to pay a premium (i.e. Starbucks etc). Savages...

[Jamie]

Dear Ed,

Whilst I agree that PHP represent the devils work, may I go back to a thread I started previously about house prices. If you (and everyone else) in the area is all up for getting the most out of the rising house prices, how can you be upset by PHP ethos of essentially destroying the prospect of more small businesses moving into the area. Same principles apply and the sooner everyone in the area accepts responsibility for letting estate agents make this a prime area for rich, cash paying property investors, developers and the like, the sooner we will stop companies like PHP controlling the real estate (although may be a bit late now).

Lets hope white stuff give the third store to a nice independent retailer on a low rent just to piss off PHP.

Jamie

[Amelie]

Does anyone know anything about Parkhill Properties, for example a correspondence address or the name of the managing director? I know it might not achieve a great deal in the short term but perhaps if someone sent a formal letter of complaint to Parkhill they may come to realise that they are causing bad feeling here. What does concern me is the silence and inaction of Southwark's Planning dept, Parkhill are not merely buying in ED they are also buying up parts of Camberwell High Street and if Southwark don't start paying attention they may find they end up with whole areas which do not fit with in their development policy.

[monica]

To go back to the original topic,it is definately white stuff,it was confirmed by a courier delivering to walshes,shop name on the delivery note,white stuff.Amelie, i admire your approach to parkhill,but its been done and mr parkhill does not care about the good of the area,only the healthy bank balance he probably admires every 5 minutes.

[spadetownboy]

Quaywe Wrote:

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> THIS JUST IN: An 'inside source' has confirmed to

> me that White Stuff indeed will be opening their

> doors in the old Walsh site. White Stuff are

> actually going to take two of the 3 shops over and

> sub-let the third to another company (potentially

> another small Clapham clothing store). The delays

> have been experienced because the building owner -

> you guessed it; Parkhill Properties - has tried to

> stop them taking all three Walsh stores over as

> they obviously have a wealthy client that wants to

> open their doors in the third site that White

> Stuff are going to sub let.

>

> White Stuff has now won this battle and will open

> their doors and retain the rights to sub-let the

> third store. Unfortunately because the fit out

> was delayed, the White Stuff fit out engine is now

> fitting out other stores throughout London so the

> ED White Stuff now won't be fitted out until late

> April, opening its doors in early May.

>

> So as we see this appears to be the second story

> I've heard in a month where Parkhill are not only

> buying properties up in LL, but are trying to

> bully their existing tennants into moving out of

> or forfeiting their already leased properties so

> that PHP can let them to clients willing to pay a

> premium (i.e. Starbucks etc). Savages...

may,perfect just in time for the autumn collection