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• Town planning in London, planning proposals and applications, and planning decisions

  in Improving Public Spaces • 11 hours, 39 minutes

  

  Often older people don't like change so I would expect some resistance from people who look back with rose tinted spectacles.
  However some of those estate are incredibly grim and dreary places. Often making people anti social and a haven for crime especially drugs.
  They can also be expensive for the council and tenants to maintain. Having all the problems of older buildings. Not true of all older estates but certainly this one.

• Velolife, Warren Row

  in Social • 2 days, 5 hours

  

  Exactly...the real shock for me is that one solitary complaint could potentially sink a thriving business and leave staff unemployed.
  And the owner potentially bankrupt.

• Town planning in London, planning proposals and applications, and planning decisions

  in Improving Public Spaces • 2 days, 6 hours

  

  Great that it's back in public ownership but it's a pretty awful estate. The residents deserve better.
  Well done to the campaigners.

• Clearout! Nitto, Thomson, Velo Orange, Kask, Wald, Brooks, Shimano, BLB

  in Components, clothing and miscellany • 2 days, 6 hours

  

  Pm about saddle and risers

• Velolife, Warren Row

  in Social • 4 days, 23 hours

  

  I hope the publicity will do the business good. It deserves to thrive.
  I for one wouldn't have heard about it other wise.
  The most concerning thing for me is that the whole fiasco stems from a solitary complaint from a neighbour.

• Velolife, Warren Row

  in Social • 6 days, 6 hours

  

  Fantastic news...common sense prevailed.
  Shouldn't have dragged it out for this long tbh.

• FS: Ricky Feather, hand-made, bespoke-build, single-speed bike

  in Complete bikes and frame & forks • 6 days, 7 hours

  

  The main benefit of a bespoke frame is much like a saville row suit in that it is bespoke.
  Once it's resold unless it's got unique features that add value in its craftsmanship, it will be no better then a off the shelf item.

• London bike shops closing

  in General • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Just noticed that the Chiswick Evans has shut up. After the Brentford one closed a while back.
  But a branch of the london cycle workshop I've heard will be opening in east sheen.
  Nothing but good things to say about the Stamford brook one.
  Hopefully some sort of evolution has occurred and the fittest have survived.

• Centralised discussion space for TfL plans and cycling in London

  in Improving Public Spaces • 1 week, 6 days

  

  The similarity is in that small groups of well connected and organised people. Are able stop something that is essentially positive.
  This is where things need to built quickly.
  Cw9 is hasn't started yet and it's been perhaps a decade since it was first envisaged.

• Centralised discussion space for TfL plans and cycling in London

  in Improving Public Spaces • 1 week, 6 days

  

  Well cs9..or rather cw9 will soon knock on the borough door, by ending at the Olympia.
  The idea being eventually the public opinion will sway, when is anyone's guess.
  With regards to Swiss cottage...sadly it will take a death before anything changes even then I'm not holding breathe.