That ****s got way out of hand in parts of the New Forest. So many cyclists thinking they're the next Bradley bloody Wiggins, all the gear but no ****ing idea. As for it's legality I think cyclists are allowed to ride 2 abreast but on busy or narrow roads it's single file only. Happy to be corrected mind as I'm not 100% sure.
If it’s not illegal , it bloody well should be IMHO . Just had a look . They can ride side by side , only 2 , but on narrow roads , busy roads , or when going round bends they should be single file .
Tottenham now has an artisan bakers, and a couple of independant coffee shops. It'll be like Hackney soon.
When I was controlling engineers in London . There was a place called Arrabella drive , always sent the engineers in pairs , occasionally in threes !
South Acton used to be a rough area, the number nine bus used to go through there. It never came back but I think the gesture was good.
Leigh Park in Havant near Portsmouth deserves a mention. It is the biggest council estate in Europe, people sleeping on a bench get set on fire and every Paediatrician lives in fear of his life! There was once a sign outside a house saying "happy 30th Nan"
It's been demolished and rebuilt now. The Willowbrook estate was ****ing awful, nearly as bad as Pepys. It's all luxury flats in North Peckham now.
****ing yuppie central. I was round by the Walworth Road just a short while ago. ****ing unbelievable!...High rise yuppie flats everywhere!
When I went Burnley away last season the place was a proper **** hole. Half the gaffs and shops were boarded up and kids were dressed in clapped out 90s clobber that their older brothers and sisters must've worn. Can't speak of what it's like in terms of trouble but definitely rough as **** from a viewing perspective.
Bit by bit all of the poor people are being shifted out of London and the areas gentrified to make way for people with money. The problem is that loads of those new flats that have sprung up in all the old 'regeneration' areas are bought up by rich Arabs, Russians etc and either rented out at astronomical cost or sat sitting empty whilst the house prices increase, so that they can make money on their investment.
Problem is location. If you lived bottom end of the Walworth road you could actually walk to Westminster of The City in 30-40 mins. Jump on the tube at the Elephant and it’s a few minutes.
Agreed, although that shouldn’t be seen as a ‘problem’. But yes for developers poor people living in close proximity to the city, they represent a problem to making money from rich city workers who will pay a premium to live there.
For me, a major problem appears to be that these large developers are supposed, in most cases, to build a certain percentage of social housing as part of the deal that gives them planning permission. In practice, this doesn’t seem to be happening. Certainly not to the level it should, anyway.
I don't know the figures, but simply looking at architectural scale alone, there's no way that the numbers of people who lived on those old estates are being accommodated in the new developments.
