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On walking past the old branch of the Woolwich on Lordship Lane today, I noticed for the first time a planning notice in the window announcing that an application has been made to turn it into a betting shop and that objections should be submitted to Southwark by 18th January. Having walked past the premises many times in recent weeks, I'm amazed I've not seen it before.

Did anyone see it during January? Has anyone objected? Is it too late to try and stop it?)

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'tis a pity more of us didn't object to all the estate agents on Lordship Lane all in a neat bundle....we should of insisted they move further up and leave space for some variable business....after all if you want to use them you will travel to them....then maybe we'd be able to park along L L
In a week when the BMA have said that current rates of alcohol consumption and binge drinking among young people especailly the middleclass and females - will potentially shorten 30% of their lives, we still get these petit bourgeois complaints about 'bookies' ....if it was yet another trendy little bar it would be "great, and they do wicked cocktails" etc....."you can take the man/woman out the suburbs etc"

A betting shop which does latte..........why not?

It could replace that old male bastion the pub bar that had no kids and fewer women.

It could sell warm pints of mild and bitter, bags of pork scratchings with extra salt, and the 'bog' paper would be torn pieces of the newspaper hanging from a bent nail tied with white hairy string, in fact it could give newspaper a value now lost.

Quids and I could be quids in on occasional lucky days>:D<

While we're talking....

Aren't there a lot of buggies on Lordship Lane?

Don't you think there are too many / not enough childfriendly pubs?

Is it better to be working class and born and bred ED or recently arrived middle class?

Have you SEEN that Foxtons?


We should really discuss these pressing local issues shouldn't we?

>:D<

annaj wrote Aren't there a lot of buggies on Lordship Lane?


I come across dozey buggies all over the place, but with the pavements on LL being so narrow perhaps LL should be oneway traffic on Saturdays and increase the buggie pushing space 200%.

Wots the odds on that 'appenin?;-)

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