Friday, 8 March 2019

THE DEGRADING OF BEAUCHAMP PLACE & BROMPTON RD

This part of Knightsbridge was once a serene and beautiful place but today you feel have been transported to the worst and most squalid parts of Edgware Road.
 Charming family-run restaurants have been replaced by shisha bars and dreary 'tea shops' catering for Middle Eastern visitors.
The pavements are filthy with rubbish and spilled food.


 Some reasons that explain how this has been allowed to happen

 1. RBK&C and Westminster City Council share responsibly for this prime part of London so it's a case of the area falling between two stools
2. Only establishments catering for Middle Eastern tastes can afford the massive rents and business rates
3. There is no one landlord with over-arching responsibility for the area.

 The major London estates such as Cadogan, Grosvenor, De Walden, and Portman jealously guard the appearance of their properties and demand the highest standards from tenants. This works to all our advantage if we live in the area. 

 One local property expert commented, " A landlord like Cadogan may be very demanding but they do keep the area looking smart: their view is very long term"

 This area of Brompton Rd and Beauchamp Place has a multiplicity of owners with no coherent view on the preservation of the environment: their drive seems to be to achieve the highest short term returns on capital and the result is the mess that we now see.


16 comments:

  1. Anonymous8 March 2019 at 09:43

    Too true. I hate walking down Beauchamp Place....so depressing.
    I blame RBK&C

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  2. Whip It Out8 March 2019 at 10:15

    Money counts. In fact it is the only thing that counts. We only have ourselves to blame

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  3. Anonymous8 March 2019 at 12:15

    Why is it that Arabs bring such a mess wherever they go? And the richer they are, the worse they are. STop them at the border, I say.

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  4. Outraged8 March 2019 at 15:28

    It is absolutely astounded that elected representatives (in this case Tories) allow prime property in Central London to be trashed in the way that vast quantities of Knightsbride around Harrods has degenerated. A foreign culture from Arabia has been allowed to infest our City with alien customs and filth - and shows no respect for local culture.

    It is high time to put a stop to this nonsense before the cancer spreads to wider parts of the Capital City

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    1. Lord Kensington8 March 2019 at 15:29

      Well said Outraged. I could not have put it better

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    2. Anonymous8 March 2019 at 17:21

      Absolutely right! I lived in Arabia and other Arab countries. I found that they are only concerned about the area immediately around them; what is beyond can be as filthy and decrepit as could be. There is very little sense of "community", as there was/is(?) still in this country. As far as richer you are more untidy you are? Right on. Not only that they do not know the difference, but also have flunkies to clean up after them...
      As for Beauchamp Place: this was once such a nice place. ONCE....

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  5. PTTP8 March 2019 at 20:05

    "Oh, I thought they silenced us, 'Ye Power to the people

    No one meant to have all that power"

    (not on youtube)
    https://soundcloud.com/the_urbanian/power-remix-feat-jay-zswizz-beatz

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    1. Anonymous8 March 2019 at 20:24

      What are you on about

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    2. Anonymous9 March 2019 at 15:35

      It just that this blog speaks of powerlessness of the residents who complain....'they' walk all over them everytime.

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  6. Verite9 March 2019 at 03:55

    When the first shisha cafes appeared in Beauchamp Place, I protested to RBKC, the Beauchamp Place assn.and everyone else I could. I wrote for a glossy tobacco trade magazine, and knew that this practice was bad for health - not to mention the children allowed to run around these areas. RBKC brushed off this complaint,saying it was nothing to do with them. The others didn't bother to reply.

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  7. Anonymous9 March 2019 at 07:20

    Having trashed this once beautiful part of London Arab visitors then compound it by insultingly driving their stupid supercars noisily and endlessly around our streets.

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  8. A Hornet9 March 2019 at 08:18

    Try wearing a bikini in Saudi. You will get the shock of your life. The infidels think it is an insult to their culture. Straight to jail and a hefty fine.....

    We should treat the trash in the same way that they treat us when we visit their country

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    1. Be controlled9 March 2019 at 15:45

      Eye for an eye....agree with you AH but the truth of the matter is that our world is an unfair one. Those with money hold power (though I do not agree with this). If you are of lower class you've got no voice. Grenfell nearly pulled it off yet I doubt that they'll get the justice they deserve. At the end of the day, it's those on the upper echelon who decides what is allowed for the lower class IF that suits their agenda. Most of the people are asleep so let's go back to watching football, soapbox, play xbox. There are a plenty of distraction to keep you docile while the media churn out fake news.

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  9. Outraged10 March 2019 at 11:27

    The Sunday Times reports today that the Qatar ruling family payed a $450 million bribe to FIFA to stage the World Cup there in 2022. All dressed up as a TV "success fee" paid by Aljesera - which is owned by the ruling family.

    They are a bunch of smelly and bad behaved crooks - bribing FIFA and defiling Knightsbridge.

    Why do we welcome these people????????

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  10. Anonymous10 March 2019 at 14:31

    Outraged is fully in his/her rights to protest. Liberal Britain has become a joke. Even foreigners think we are bonkers to let them crap all over our country

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  11. Upstanding Person10 March 2019 at 18:29

    Does the Dame know if dizzy has a position re the Arabs colonising prime London areas?

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