{"id":3650,"date":"2011-09-18T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/?p=3650"},"modified":"2011-09-18T16:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-09-18T15:28:07","slug":"works-starts-on-brixtons-new-ice-rink-on-popes-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/works-starts-on-brixtons-new-ice-rink-on-popes-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Works starts on Brixton&#8217;s new ice rink on Pope&#8217;s Road\/Brixton Station Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ice-rink-starts-01.jpg\" alt=\"Works starts on Brixton's new ice rink on Pope's Road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-market-lockdown-traders-protest-against-proposed-car-park-closure\/\" target=\"_blank\">long-running campaign of opposition from local traders<\/a>,\u00a0work has started on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/brixton-station-road-car-park-to-become-ice-rink\/\" target=\"_blank\">new ice rink in Brixton<\/a>, located on the site of the old Pope&#8217;s Road car park.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The 56m x 26m rink is set to\u00a0open\u00a0in January 2012, and for two and a half years will serve as the temporary\u00a0home of Streatham\u2019s ice skating and ice hockey teams while Tesco&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/streatham-struggles-to-keep-its-leisure-and-entertainment-venues\/\" target=\"_blank\">controversial Hub\u00a0project\u00a0is being built <\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ice-rink-starts-03.jpg\" alt=\"Works starts on Brixton's new ice rink on Pope's Road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hoardings on Brixton Station Road.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ice-rink-starts-02.jpg\" alt=\"Works starts on Brixton's new ice rink on Pope's Road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Work on the rink is underway.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/brixton-ice-rink-starts-04.jpg\" alt=\"Works starts on Brixton's new ice rink on Pope's Road\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Corner of Pope&#8217;s Road and Brixton Station Road.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lest we forget<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/popes-road-car-park-dec-2000-04.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Pope's Road car Park: a last look at what we've lost\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how the site looked like back in December 2010 from a similar vantage point as the photo above. It sure is grim, eh?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/popes-road-car-park-dec-2000-01.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Pope's Road car Park: a last look at what we've lost\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Although it was undeniably useful, the car park was an\u00a0<em>exceptionally<\/em>\u00a0ugly piece of bleak modern\u00a0architecture.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/popes-road-car-park-dec-2000-02.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Pope's Road car Park: a last look at what we've lost\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/images\/popes-road-car-park-dec-2000-03.jpg\" alt=\"Brixton Pope's Road car Park: a last look at what we've lost\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/popes-road-car-park-to-become-temporary-ice-rink.255775\/\" target=\"_blank\">Popes road car park to become temporary Ice Rink<\/a>\u00a0(0ver 200 replies)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.net\/forums\/threads\/ice-rink-brixton-market-decision-day.268621\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ice Rink \/ Brixton Market decision day<\/a>\u00a0(70+ replies)<\/p>\n<p>[<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urban75.org\/brixton\/\" target=\"_blank\">More Brixton features<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite a long-running campaign of opposition from local traders,\u00a0work has started on a new ice rink in Brixton, located on the site of the old Pope&#8217;s Road car park.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7212,"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],"class_list":["post-3650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brixton","category-places","tag-brixton","tag-brixton-market"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/brixton-ice-rink-starts-01.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQI7P-WS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650","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=3650"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5107,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3650\/revisions\/5107"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.urban75.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}