Joan Street squat gone

i see the bailiffs have removed the squatters from the old office block on Joan street. Its now boarded up and surrounded by razor wire.

They were officially evicted a month ago. I've heard rumours that the new owners are going to do a temporary 'fix' and paint job on the building and turn it into a pop up arts space. I'm not sure of the original source of this information though.

could definatley do with a paint job, its quite an eysore....

You can't see what it's like on top, it's possibly even worse than the sides.

A slap of paint would do a bit of camouflage on it,but it's so hideous I can't imagine anything working apart from demolition.Do you have a photo taken from higher up Zoe? Is the roof really in as bad a condition as the rest of it? The mind boggles.

Actually, it's probably not in that bad a condition, it's just got some bizarre drawing on it

https://twitter.com/zoekennedy/status/589788489572560896

You're right,it is weird.Thanks for sharing this sight with us,it looks worthy of a Hammer Horror movie set,Alex Crowley influenced.Did you have flickering lights and cries of anguish coming from there? Or was it an advanced game of hopscotch? We had no idea that it was quite so hideous from pavement level.

Seems to coincide with squatters moving back into the old carpet shop at the corner of Borough High St and Trinity St in the past week.

Van loads of furniture, electrical goods and personal belongings have been moving into the old Mayfair Carpets today.

I like this building. It just needs a bit of TLC. Give it a scrub and you'd have £1 million 'former industrial' loft space in no time. Or something more useful and affordable, if London wasn't bonkers. Shame it's going to be knocked down.