The cafes are taking over!

The whole city is dead at the weekend and bank holidays. I quite like it then - I love to cross over London Bridge and walk round the city knowing I'll hardly see another person, and knowing that most of the people who work there during the week wouldn't believe what it was like if they saw it at the weekend.

yes but do you want the whole of london to be like that

Thermo man....

corney & barrow - too expensive for a humble temp, and in the years that I worked there never saved up enough money to eat in the two asian restaurants downstairs nears Benjys and postoffice..

but as I said it was a great area to work in.

Benjys is my favourite shop too Jan as the staff there are particularly friendly and you're quite right to mention the Post Office as another plus point.

It all adds to the mix. I imagine the More London area will be a very different place at different times of the week. Cant wait till the skateboarders find out about it and make it theres after dark...

The staff at the post office at broadgate could teach the staff at canary wharf a thing or to, having waited 15 minutes in a queue was told that the documents i produced were not sufficient for collecting my first bus pass/freedom pass, even though they were specified as acceptable on the form...I stood there looking like the granny in the Giles cartoons, waving me stick almost...

It took them 15 minutes to see sense. I got me pass!

Michael - no, not at all. I think the city proper is an anomaly just because so few people live there.

No one lives in the city because the corporation of London refuses to allow disused offices to be converted for residential use

This is ridicules

So instead the housing developments are forced on to the river side like at potters fields
which should really be a tourist and cultural area the millions of people the flock across the millennium bridge aren't going to view flats or to marks and spensers for that matter ,or even to work they're visiting the cultural attractions which more London definitely is not

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The discussion has touched upon the attitude of the Corporation of London towards residential uses.

For detailed information see: http://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/our_services/development_planning/planning/udp/

Chapter 3 of their UDP explains precisely their attitude towards residential uses in and around the City.

Niall Connolly

ha ha !! I love their target of new dwellings (to contribute to the increase in housing for London between 1992 and 2006) - a massive increase of 120 !!

Actually though I loove the quieteness of the city at the weekends - it is great to cycle around - reminds me of the 'Omega Man' (for those of you with long memories).

was that charlton heston? and the survivors of atomic war...with white eyes? good film that was...