Comments on: Photographic memories

By: Mushtimushta

Mushtimushta — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 14:54:35 +0000

The Kennedys factory on Peckham Road (near the junction with Southampton Way) had auction signs attached to it yesterday. All three of the buildings go before auction on 14 February. It’s a pretty big site„ so I imagine it will be bought by a property developer and levelled.

By: Mark Dodds

Mark Dodds — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:48:12 +0000

Yes. Kennedy’s I was no expert having only bought from there twice but their sausages and other stuff seemed pretty UK. I would have gone back and bought more often if the shop had been open — it was closed three or four times when I pitched up on the off chance of getting a sample — as a result of my interest being stimulated by comments here and on flickr… It was around 4pm or mid — late afternoon every time. On one occasions they were open but sold out of everything but Christmas pudding. It was quaint and the people working there were nice but it was a time warp.

By: red5standingby

red5standingby — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 17:21:10 +0000

I’ll take the bait…

Did I miss much by never having had a Kennedy’s sausage?

Porkinson’s are my current favourite “happy” sausage.

Ooer Mrs, etc etc…

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:27:01 +0000

Well exactly — one of the reasons the Town and Country Planning Act (and hence use class orders) was introduced in 1948 was to give the state greater control over how land was used in the effort to rebuild the country postwar.

Our planning system is not perfect but plannign is too important to be left purely to market forces i would say.

Anyway this discussion does not apply to Nightclubs as they don’t have a class they are what is known as Sui Generis — ie planning permission is given for that specific use rather than just a general “type of use”

Right somebody say something about sausages or organic vegetables before i bore you all to death!

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:55:44 +0000

I suppose there’d be no state schools for one thing, or hospitals…

Unless some sort of notional pricing was applied for community use maybe..

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:50:45 +0000

So the market would dictate Planning Use classes? Well it does sort of anyway in that where the demand for residential property is high investors will buy up commercial property and apply for a change of use — obviously the council may not neccessarily grant that change of use. Obviously in the case of Vauxhall some propoerty is unsuited to residential — ie the railway arches.

By: Alan Dale

Alan Dale — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 15:36:09 +0000

What would happen if everything (commercial/residential/community/whatever) was just reclassified to it’s most lucrative classification?

By: Regeneguru

Regeneguru — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:21:22 +0000

Hannah — I agree with you on that Vauxhall point. Many in Camberwell do not understand or pretend not to that the commercial and residential property markets have their own dynamics. For example, retail space will cost more on Oxford Street than an equivalently-sized apartment, yet the reverse is true on Farmers Road SE5 (try telling that to the offshore company landlord gunning for residential conversion).

All I can say on the Night 36 is, that had better not be our pre-election bribe. Are we really reputed to have such low community self-esteem as to accept that?

By: Hannah

Hannah — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 14:04:39 +0000

JohnnyM i assume that comment was aimed at me?

Vauxhall maynot be cheap for houses but it is relatively cheap for people looking to set up clubs (abundance of railway arches and industrial buildings etc..) that’s one of the reasons q very vibrant late night gay scene has grown up ther ein teh past few years.

By: mark dodds

mark dodds — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 12:27:15 +0000

Yeah… good point Regeneguru, if Carlsberg did takeovers they’d sell the Freehold of The Sun and Doves to me. But the adverts are always a load of fantasy bollocks aren’t they. So tongue in cheek you know they’d never do what they say on the can.