It should NOT be in SE1!

a list of things which we think shouldn't be in SE1 - for whatever reason...

and to start the list:

Driscoll House on the New Kent Rd, has an SE1 post code, but is clearly on the southside of NK Rd, so should be outside SE1
as is Searles(?) Rd!

... I think this list might be smaller than 'should be in SE1' but thought it was worth posting anyway.

You'll presumably want to send:
- the south side of the Old Kent Road,
- Oakley Place,
- Ossory Road,
- Malt Street,
- Olmar Street, and
- The Cantium Retail Park (does anyone ever use that name for B&Q, Halfords and Comet???)

into exile in SE17 as well, no doubt!

Belushis...

send it back to SE666 where it came from.

The Elephant and Castle shopping centre!!! I know it's got permission to be knocked down but it's an eye sore.

LR - absolutely!

Does no one else have a soft spot for the old E&C shopping centre?

I like the shopping centre too, and I will be sorry to see the mix of shops there disappear.

Me too, dark and dingy it may be inside, but I love the mix. By the way, it remains an ambition of mine to play bingo there.

I'd certainly be disappointed if the plans don't provide a new home for the mix of colombian and other latin american businesses in the E&C somewhere nearby.

But I don't have a recollection of it as a bustling community shopping centre with independent traders when I worked nearby fifteen years ago. I do remember the experience that was the DHSS HQ staff canteen in the space now occupied by the bingo club, when I was once taken there for lunch "for the atmosphere". It was mass catering on a Butlins scale.

I know this is not exactly in the same vein but my vote would go to ....

Starbucks .

Crap, overpriced, exploitative, rubbish (did I say that already?) coffee served by faceless people in charmless surroundings. It really is the McDonalds of the coffee world. The one on Clink Street is a tragedy.