{"id":2689,"date":"2010-11-12T09:45:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T15:56:18","slug":"brixton-car-park-awaits-its-fate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-car-park-awaits-its-fate\/","title":{"rendered":"Brixton car park awaits its fate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-1.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It may be one of the ugliest, most depressing buildings ever put up in Brixton, but the crumbling multi-story\u00a0car park on Brixton Station Road has become a centre of\u00a0controversy.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nLambeth Council propose to\u00a0demolish\u00a0the car park and replace it with a\u00a0temporary ice rink to help Tesco get out of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-market-lockdown-traders-protest-against-proposed-car-park-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\">sticky\u00a0situation<\/a> they&#8217;ve got themselves into.<\/p>\n<p>This has infuriated market readers and local\u00a0businesses\u00a0who say that removing vital car parking spaces will reduce the amount of people coming into Brixton to shop.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the car park remains empty, closed and\u00a0useless while it awaits its overdue demolition. Here&#8217;s some photos of how it currently looks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-2.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-3.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-4.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The car park is covered in a green\u00a0gauze.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-5.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The old entrance. Curiously, the old car park attendant&#8217;s office is still manned.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-9.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-6.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-7.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-car-park-8.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton car park awaits its fate\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve no idea why the lights are all on inside because I&#8217;ve never seen anyone working in there.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-station-road-car-park-to-become-ice-rink\/\">See views of the car park here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may be one of the ugliest, most depressing buildings ever put up in Brixton, but the crumbling multi-story\u00a0car park on Brixton Station Road has become a centre of\u00a0controversy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6821,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,193],"tags":[1191,342,276,19],"class_list":["post-2689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-market","tag-cars","tag-protest"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-car-park-1.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-Hn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2689"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2692,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2689\/revisions\/2692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}