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Vik Wrote:

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> Doubt it on that stretch unfortunately.


Their neighbouring unit, Rabbit On, has been empty for years. Unless someone can take on both units and make the space more useable, but unlikely.

The colour shop is fab, it sells wonderful paint, there's often interesting art to look at and there is a spinning wheel of wonder onto which you can drip paint and create your own psychedelic masterpiece.


I think the right shop could do well along there. Something a bit specialized that people will walk up from the lane to.

Serena2012 Wrote:

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> On the subject of East Dulwich shops closing down,

> I was in Old Villa earlier today and they had

> their closing down sale on. Sad times.


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Crikey, it seems like they've only just opened!


If you're going to sell extremely expensive stuff in a tough economic climate, you've got to be pretty sure there's a market for what you're selling. And their expenses must have been hugely higher than they were in Bellenden Road.

Ed Nagaiutb writes .........."Their neighbouring unit, Rabbit On, has been empty for years. Unless someone can take on both units and make the space more useable, but unlikely".


Interestingly the "shop" called "Rabbit On" appears never to have been a shop. I've watched people go in and out of the premises over the years and it seems fairly clear that it's simply a front for a building providing residential accommodation - a planning scam. Strange that Southwark haven't been able to work that one out!

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