Posh School Dinners at the Brockley Mess

Pop-up dining company "Watch This Space" writes:

We will be presenting a "Posh School Dinners" pop-up at the Brockley Mess.

We are serving our take on British school dinner classics. Those that know us will know that we won't be serving soggy semolina nor concrete chips. The bell rings for dinner at 8.30 p.m. on 3rd & 4th February 2017.

We hope this will be a fun event and we hope that you eat your meat, otherwise you won't be able to have any pudding. How can you have any pudding when you don't eat your meat?

For the menu, click here.

Writer's Brock

By 2014, I thought I had exhausted every conceivable Brockley pun, so the fact that these guys hacve managed to wring another play on words out of SE4 is a sign that this is a writing group worth joining. Caroline writes:

"We're Writer's Brock, a writing group located in and around Brockley, holding monthly or bi-monthly meetings where we support and offer feedback on each other's work.

"We're currently looking to recruit new members.  All forms welcome, from scripts to prose, novel chapters to short stories."

Contact carolinebacle@gmail.com if you're interested.

Rightmove: Brockley house prices rose at second-fastest rate in last decade

On Monday, Knight Frank claimed that Brockley house prices had risen at the fifth (or possibly fourth)-fastest rate in the capital since 2008. Today, Rightmove have conducted a very similar analysis and reckon that Brockley house prices rose at the second-fastest rate in the capital over the last decade, only lagging Wapping.

The Standard says:

"Every gambler dreams of backing a rank outsider that goes on to outpace the odds-on favourite. Residents [sic] of 10 London locations have done just that, investing in areas which would have appeared in most cases to be unlikely property hotspots a decade ago.

"Nonetheless, these are the neighbourhoods that have seen the most dramatic rise in asking prices in the past 10 years, according to research from Rightmove.

"Brockley has an average asking price of £582,016 and fabulous train links to central London — just 14 minutes to London Bridge [sic] — have helped Brockley to reinvent itself as the place where buyers head when they’re priced out of neighbouring Peckham or East Dulwich [sic].

"Average asking prices are now £582,016, up 143 per cent in the last decade. Brockley converts rave about its comparatively affordable period architecture, urban village vibe and friendly, community feel."

These sorts of tables are being churned out on a regular basis, with varying results, but any meta-study of estate agent data would confirm that Brockley has clearly experienced a very fast rate of house price growth in recent years.

Brockley books London's 5th-biggest house price rise since 2008

Areas with the fastest-rising house prices since 2008 marked in dark blue

Analysis of Land Registry data by Knight Frank shows that Brockley has experienced the fifth fastest rate of house price growth in London since the financial crash of 2008.

Average house price values have risen by 55% in SE4 in the last six years.

Inner London areas in the North East and South East of the city dominate the top ten, with only Herne Hill (up 59.8%), Homerton, Stoke Newington and Walthamstow rising faster than Brockley.

The Telegraph has the full table.

Brockley Central launched in 2007.

Thanks to JPM for the link.

Brockley: Building the Dream

More4 show Building the Dream kicks off its new series with the story of Eryka and Sam, a Brockley couple who transformed a dilapidated Ashby Mews workshop into their dream home (or at least, I assume they did - the show is still unfolding).

The building is a live-work hybrid, which includes studio space for glass sculptor Eryka. They also have a DJ terrace. Why am I not friends with these people?

The show is available here.

Bowie Endswell

A few weeks ago, the Brockley twittersphere was abuzz about the Cronenberg / Gillian makeover of the Endwell Road laundrette, which was being used as a filming location. It turns out that it was for the best possible reason - David Bowie's new video, No Plan.

Thank you to Matt for the spot.

Bakerloo Extension: TfL to launch consultation on NXG and Lewisham tube stations

TfL will launch a public consultation later this year as part of detailed planning for the Bakerloo Line extension to Lewisham. The public will be asked to comment on plans for new tube stations in New Cross Gate and Lewisham.

A paper published in December states:

Following an initial public consultation on a proposed Bakerloo line extension (BLE) in autumn 2014 and a subsequent assessment of possible route options, an extension to Lewisham via the Old Kent Road and New Cross Gate has been identified as the preferred option. A second public consultation is now proposed as the next step towards delivering the BLE. The delivery of this extension was included in the Mayor’s manifesto and would support the delivery of significant numbers of new homes and jobs for London.

The consultation exercise would start in early 2017 and run for ten weeks. It would engage with the public and stakeholders on the options for locations of stations and ventilation/intervention shafts including the worksites at each. The consultation will include the relevant local authorities as well as engagement with stakeholders and landowners of sites affected.

The consultation will provide the opportunity for responses on each of the following parts of the route:

(a) Elephant and Castle station – an upgraded ticket hall and platform concourse is required to accommodate extension demand
(b) Old Kent Road 1 station – a new Tube station in the northern area of the Old Kent Road to serve the growth cluster in this part of the Opportunity Area
(c) Old Kent Road 2 station – a new Tube station in the southern area of the Old Kent Road to serve the second growth cluster in the Opportunity Area
(d) New Cross Gate station – a new Tube station providing interchange to the London Overground and National Rail services at the existing station
(e) Lewisham station – a new Tube station providing interchange to the National Rail and DLR services at the existing station
(f) Ventilation and intervention shafts – three shafts are proposed, one between Elephant and Castle and Old Kent Road 1 stations, one between New Cross Gate and Lewisham stations, and one at the line end overrun tunnels beyond Lewisham station

This provisional work indicates circa £1bn could be raised from [a range of sources including commercial development of the station sites, increased fare receipts, business rate levies, etc], covering roughly a third of the scheme costs. This is a positive start and we will further develop the approach to maximising funding from all available sources and investigating further potential land value capture options. As is common for infrastructure projects of this size and scale the funding for construction of the BLE will outlined in future revision of the TfL Business Plan.

Thank you to Monkeyboy for sending the details.