Comments on: Streatham Hub Hubris

By: Hub Questions | onionbagblog

Hub Questions | onionbagblog — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 00:05:18 +0000

[...] skipped the previous Streatham Hub public meeting, it was decent for the corporate paymaster to turn up this time. Mike Kissman, the UK Corporate [...]

By: geoff

geoff — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 03:21:37 +0000

The work the vox populi has done on forcing a restoration of Streatham’s public amentities is amazing! Before I can get involved I need to absorb it. Good work!
As a former happy Streathamite – 1986 -1993 – currently exiled in Tooting Bec – but moving back to Gleneldon Rd, if all goes to plan, in July 2010 – I am keenly following all the hoo-haa and palaver over the ‘Hub.’

I was a frequent user of both the rink and pool (and also the sadly defunct Palm Beach niterie atop the rink). I am appalled at the ineptness of Lambeth and their commercial ‘partnership’ with TESCNOS who have left SW16 – in fact the entire borough – with woefully (wilfully?) inadequate leisure facilities.

Is the plan to install planting on the mid-section of the High Rd going to continue? Have seen the attempts at pallisaded arbroretums in front the Odeon . . . will this be extended? The High Rd seems so grey now.

Still mourning the loss of Pratts – why was its elegant Victorian / Edwardian frontage replaced with such a lamentably Lego/ Lidl/ Barratt Homes sub- vernacular non-descript red brick rubbish? Lambeth (lack of) planning? Conservation area?? That road is choked and dangerously polluted. A hazard for drivers and pedestrians alike.

By: That’s Life | onionbagblog

That’s Life | onionbagblog — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 16:54:06 +0000

[...] Speaking of which the front page headline leads with Redskins Rejoice! This is of course in relation to cabinet agreeing the new agreement with Tesco to finally do the deal over the stalled Streatham Hub. [...]

By: SW16 Seal of Approval | onionbagblog

SW16 Seal of Approval | onionbagblog — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 22:56:41 +0000

[...] so after a decade of political and corporate dithering, the future of Streatham Hub all came down to one hour of complex political and economic points being condensed into a voter [...]

By: Cabinet Q’s | onionbagblog

Cabinet Q’s | onionbagblog — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:40:01 +0000

[...] A few more observations have headed over my way ahead of the @lambeth_council special cabinet meeting on Monday to ratify the proposals for Streatham Hub. [...]

By: Hub Hindrance | onionbagblog

Hub Hindrance | onionbagblog — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 21:23:22 +0000

[...] commitment‘ to continue to work with @lambeth_council on the construction of the Streatham Hub project, details are now starting to emerge about the finer points for the plan to regenerate [...]

By: Streatham Hub – Hurrah! | onionbagblog

Streatham Hub – Hurrah! | onionbagblog — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:39:56 +0000

[...] time. Possibly even *oooh* the past decade. I hope that the past ten years of waiting for Streatham Hub to become more than an architect’s scribble will have been worth the [...]

By: No Change | onionbagblog

No Change | onionbagblog — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:13:31 +0000

[...] Streatham Hub is hanging on a board decision being made by the top level of Tesco boardroom management later this month. They may be good at selling baked beans, but I don’t think that leisure in Lambeth is the number one priority of the corporate supermarket chain. [...]

By: London Elections

London Elections — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 10:09:35 +0000

The 2010 Conservative Candidate for Streatham (Rahoul Bhansali) seems to be the only Prospective Parliamentary MP who can successfully deliver the Streatham Hub Project to it’s Full (and Final) Completion.

Other Streatham General Election Candidates sadly appear to be artfully displaying Highly Unhelpful Traits of ‘Political Hoi Polloi’ ; without any Potential Gravitas or Leverage (whatsoever).

By: The Hidden Swimming Pools of Lambeth | onionbagblog

The Hidden Swimming Pools of Lambeth | onionbagblog — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 20:04:34 +0000

[...] first person to put a pin on The Rookery at Streatham Common as a swimming location gets a dunking in the temporary pool whenever / if our friends [...]