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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

I'm opening a secondhand bookshop in Stoke Newington at 213 High St, but we haven't yet been able to decide on a name - any suggestions? So far we have Bookopolis, Book Spines, Abney Books, High Street Books. Anyone got any creative inspiration to help us?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@WestcottMark @StokeyUpdates I like this - Nathan who will be working with me in shop was prompted by this to suggest Defoe and Poe due to local literary links (evidence courtesy of the Rochester castle)

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@irratyonal Hi, we won’t be applying immediately but maybe in a few months if it’s busy and/or if I want to go back onto the road sourcing books instead of being behind the counter.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@StokeyUpdates @HistoryOfStokey any name suggestions?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 months

@freddie_poser Before we expand London, let’s take a bulldozer to this low density crap that forms a multi-mile noose around the city and replace it with 6 storey+ mansion blocks, at least any of it within 500m of a metro station

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@AaronBastani They’re also getting urbanism right - when to Paris last week and initially thought it was empty compared with London due to how quiet it was, but then realised it because hardly any cars in the centre, just bikes and pedestrians.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@HistoryOfStokey Hopefully we get keys in next few weeks and open a few weeks after. Secondhand books for £3 each (mostly secondhand- maybe some remainders too).

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Twice in the last year I've seen new builds & been genuinely impressed. Both times, unexpectedly, by same architect: @AminTahaArch

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 years

@ACAPeckham Back in 2015 I moved to Peckham, but OKR outskirts as not enough housing in centre as even then it was unaffordable. Sure I wouldn’t be able to afford these, but at least those that could wouldn’t be competition for cheaper housing stock if it was built.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Vauxhall Square Student Tower shooting up. Only started piling last July. Ready for September? No cars = no basement = fast build.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

5 months

These aren’t doing so well either

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

5 months

“Vibrant”, Morrrisons Stamford Hill.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

When you use Word 97's WordArt to design your tower block reclad... approved plans for Tustin Estate, Southwark @owenhatherley @abrightfar

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

1 year

@JeffSpeckFAICP Reminds me of a knock off of Amin Taha / Groupwork’s upper street project. It recreated a long lost building on the site from a photograph. They’re a an interesting practice using stone structurally in a lot of projects.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

High Rise can highlight, rather than detract from, historic buildings.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

7 years

@tylercruzdotcom Try Opera, uses Chrome base but is a bit more Firefox like in usability.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@PaulWellman_EG @rorymeakin @HackneyYIMBY @stockwool also isn't as blank as shown. Still not great though

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@HistoryOfStokey Ah no way I’m about to open a bookshop in 213 where there was a library in this photo! What date is this from?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BetterPlumstead even if their hypothesis was correct, building towers for non families frees up houses for families

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@PaulWellman_EG @createstreets I wonder how many windows not have inadequate light to make up for it though

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

7 years

Anyone know where London #criticalmass is currently. Late due to saddle snapping off

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 months

@freddie_poser Would be interested to see Madrid by comparison, love coming into it by train and seeing high rise next to open countryside. Apart from satellite towns I believe it’s urban footprint hasn’t grown much.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

@kirstenharper_ I've got two staff in same boat. I've been trying to raise this with journalists - can others do the same - I'm sure if it gets media attention it might be fixed.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

1 year

@SouthwarkNotes @35percent_EAN It’s not even that much denser, they could be just extended the existing building sympathetically and got the same floor space/no of flats.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@LondonYIMBY @HTADesignLLP my favourite one was a Streatham scheme to replace four flats (that look like two semis) with over 30 homes

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@LondonYIMBY many got built and are unsuitanable suburbia and no model for housing people today due to infrastructure costs

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 years

@JenOnTheMoveUK Reminds me of the cycle track on the 70mph A10 which it expects you to cross the slipways. Never seen anyone brave enough to cycle on it

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 days

@constructingldn Seems low numbers for such a big site

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

While quite bland in design, and lacking in "amenity space" (balconies) they offer city centre living for hundreds.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Finally completed on our flat. This tank feeds the boiler. Wonder if original from 1976

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@PaulWellman_EG @LondonYIMBY Found it! 13 houses to 105 flats

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BetterPlumstead @OKRpeople I don't think residents of upper east side would agree. Those failings are ones of management.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

⁦ @abrightfar ⁩ good English breakfasts round there too

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@Astr0flux @TheMurkyDepths waterfront 1 has 127sqm non resi space. But that might not be ground floor.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@CampaignSkyline If 7 storeys are too high, then not only are they opposing any form of dense development, but also flats in general.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 months

@HistoryOfStokey Found another photo of it with a different sign

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@SthLondonPress people who oppose new housing create the housing crisis. Perfect location for a taller tower and more homes

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

10 years

BBC News really needs editorial review of push notifications. Big stories don't get pushed, but unimportant ones do. http://t.co/IJapXEeGZe

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 years

@AnyaMartin8 I’m one of them (I even briefly had a blog of urban developments to prove my Yimby credentials). But the reason I want development is due to urbanism. To me London is big enough geographically but should be many times the current density.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@LondonYIMBY 'rezoning' suburbia within 500m of a station for apartment blocks might allow householder self interest to add to stock

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Original cladding of Eros House, Catford. I'd hope it will be restored by new owner (block for sale £15m)

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

When you try to do low rise density like @createstreets argue for, you get flats like these that lack light

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

Would be good if rather than selling off surplus land, government would run design competitions, get planning permission, then sell.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@jon_cooper75 @subtopian You get this in Thamesmead, where it's even more out of place, yet the style is even more parochial (mock tudor)

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 years

@ACAPeckham So why are you opposing the density of this? Peckham is a major town centre and has tower blocks already, this is obviously what is needed to provide homes for the area. A low rise scheme would mean fewer homes and far less social units.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Surprised to see a 23 storey Brutalist tower behind Tate Britain. Really nice entrance hall too. Hide Tower. Almost invisible on skyline.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

I wonder what @createstreets make of these - low rise, high density but no streets - Berlin's Mietskaserne

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

In London this would surely be in an antique shop by now.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@createstreets @PaulWellman_EG Bit too set back from the street for my liking - a small back yard rather than the front parking please

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

It took Fripp cat less than a minute to cut through this lock. Get insured.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

Canalside site in Hoxton had permission for 88 flats, became a 1 storey delivery office. What happened to mixed use? http://t.co/OGuh1kxlxe

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

I thought my hometown Wakefield was above the 'Irony Curtain'. Apparently not.

Visit Wakefield™

@Visit_Wakefield

9 years

Our Media department have spent days producing this promotional video. Check it out! #VisitWakefield http://t.co/N1VbwNsvfh

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

12 years

Waiting for Lauren's arrival!:-D (@ Terminal 3) http://t.co/4ampnhAP

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 months

@KaneEmerson @BritainRemade Too much industrial land already lost, pushing up prices and meaning less working class jobs. There’s tons of metro land near stations with housing past end of life with gigantic gardens that should be comprehensively redeveloped instead.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@RichardBlyth7 @PaulWellman_EG I expect it's to encourage "Transit Orientated Development", which is big buzz word in America

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@TheMurkyDepths Will get these out soon, not uploaded yet. I did write a blog post on a scheme in Sidcup that I visited, but no start there.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

10 years

@owenhatherley not certain if you've seen this, but someone has proposed an arguably Brutalist building in Stratford http://t.co/gOunuiMQcs

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

10 years

Vista on Chelsea Bridge Road (where QVC and it's terrible po-mo building was) is going up fast http://t.co/Z4uYniLlN7

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

12 years

@kommunism Call me. What colour Christmas lights. Don't delay call now

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Would be more appropriate in Harringay.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

@AndrewSparrow No extension to furlough announced for those whose first RTI was after OCT30th, lots of people on twitter fearing losing jobs they've switched to, seems worth covering

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Owen Luder's last remaining big buildings are in Catford. Other is Milford Towers (sadly to be demolished). Dunston Tower was big loss.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 months

@RCL89649445 @CapitalonTap I think it’s a generalised issue as I also can’t log in on iPhone or website

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@HackneyYIMBY I asked create streets once & they seemed to think sprawl suburbia was less of a pressing problem.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@Astr0flux @TheMurkyDepths @Sarkies_Proxy it's just a modern extension being removed. Mills to be renovated. Think for offices but not 100%

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

2 years

@ACAPeckham The real campaign needs to be against government legislation that prevents councils from borrowing enough to build social housing. Why is no one focussing on that? It might not be sexy as a topic but it could have massive impact if councils willing to build

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

For every flat a terrace. Why not more zigguratian blocks? Can only think of Alexander Road as another example. Lennox House, 1937, Hackney .

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

11 years

@rosswolfe do you know how to watch/how to get hold of: sotsgorod: cites for utopia & t dan smith: something funny happened on the way to..?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@JoanaRamiroUK at least they're not too old to rock and roll yet.......

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@OKRpeople nothing wrong with tower blocks. House lots of people in flats with good natural light. Area has lots already, why not more?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BatterseaPwrStn Is this pile driver from your photos for construction for phase 3 (Foster/Gehry)? Has it started? http://t.co/8Wn2rTL3al

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BetterPlumstead @Astr0flux private rented sector, so likely well paid professionals.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@TheMurkyDepths I've taken very similar photos of the same schemes recently, it's on my route to a coffee shop I work from

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@TheMurkyDepths one of successes of Nine Elms is the levy for Northern Line extension. This could be copied if the council has foresight

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

10 years

... Upper middle class accents eating salads with more balsamic vinegar than greens.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@BTCare I'm getting the 'requires the use of BT DNS Servers' error despite neither BT Protect or BT Parental Controls being on-started today

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@LondonYIMBY quite a few examples of single houses being redeveloped as a dozen family sized flats

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BetterPlumstead @Astr0flux @OKRpeople create streets and policy exchange are hardly unbiased

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

11 years

Overheard woman denying her child a free balloon: "if you ain't got one you're not disappointed when it flys away".

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

@tamxa1 @RishiSunak Even those who started in October aren't eligible it if paid on 31st or after. I've got two staff members in this boat who now have no work due to shops closing.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@Astr0flux @TheMurkyDepths @MyWoolwich Over 'The Warren' will contain 2,442m2 non-resi and over 2000 units (500 in first 3 blocks)

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

@pumphousemuseum @MrTimDunn @geofftech @ModelRailClub If struggling to find a good home otherwise: I can do a revenue share on selling these online, I’m from a a local (Haringey) based book dealer company, Sell Books Ltd, we sell just under 10,000 books a month. Happy to collect, sign contract etc

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

10 years

Yet often actually significant events that change geopolitics and are headlines don’t get alerts. Who edits this? A Newsround Journo?!?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Looks like my blogging may have done some social good - Southwark to plan to ban flats in railway arches

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@TheMurkyDepths The Linpac site seems very suburban and not very dense. Could provide quite a few extra units if the houses were terraced.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

Why can't we have something interesting like this in London?

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@laurenvansmith except I make the coffee

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@rwja Well it's the road name so the developer can't get the blame for that. Part of original Peckham New Town, very close to River Peck.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@BetterPlumstead many social housing estates were great at the start, policy change to only house most-in-need caused problems.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Housing policy idea: ban renting out existing stock (except main home), pushes buy-to-let capital into new builds to stimulate construction

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

13 years

Perhaps I just can't accept the results of karma, but can affiliate marketers please stop sending me their free iPad offers on twitter.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

Time to redevelop 1980s private estates? They often offer more potential for density uplift than council blocks

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

9 years

@CleanAirLondon @jameshbellinger I support reducing car numbers now, but was pointing out to do so we need dense housing like this.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

Brunswick Centre also sort of this shape.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

4 years

@simply_chscake @MetroRadioNews I'm in same boat with 2 employees who just missed Oct30th deadline (first paid on 31st!), nothing announced so far, it feels callous - treasury trying to save tiny bit of money but hurting itself in long run.

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

3 years

@constructldn Small and medium sized businesses, say 500sqft to 30,000sq ft, would be better under mixed use developments. For instance like this:

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Sean Spurr

@SeanSpurr

8 years

@CampaignSkyline looks good to me: office space, jazz club & on site dual aspect affordable flats. Area bit dull ATM, this will improve it