The World's End

thelogicalsong

Does anyone know what they are building on top fo the World's End? There is a full wooden structure and now they are putting steel post up?

Arkady

Yes. The have planning permission to build an extra recessed story on the top. This will involve a new fire escape on the lower flat roof, which will be hidden behind a green wall.

The planning documents can be found here: https://www.islington.gov.uk/onlineplanning/docserver/docs.jsp?caseId=P101800

The (pub chain) landowner actually sold off the top floor of the building for apartments some time back, which has made building the new floor vastly more difficult and expensive than it otherwise would have been.

Arkady

OK hyperlinks don’t work any more. The planning application number is P101800.

Arkady

Oh, you don't have to use brackets (< >) any more.

andy

it's a brave new world

miss annie

Not Toyah's best work.

ChangN4N6

The bands there on sat were great - subOasis mainly and good and noisy like the N4 should be. But I wouldnt want to live on the top of it.

Arkady

The World's End has reopened after a refurb. A very nice job, with a tasteful repaint and lots of old photos of the area, many of which I hadn't seen before. New floor tiles, seating, etc. A wider beer selection too. Most importantly they have utterly gutted and refitted the gents, which used to be horrendous. Someone from Enter Shakira appears to be DJing on NYE.

Sutent

If your not watching a band it is impossible to chat in the front bar.<div><br></div><div>Those toilets were grim!</div>

Arkady

Why would anyone want to chat while a band was playing? A man just came in complained that they no longer do Fosters. Sometimes it's the small things that really dog-whistle big changes.

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Idoru

I would have thought that not doing Fosters was a cause for celebration.

djmattyoung

have they sorted out the toilets? they stank and water/urine/whatever on the floor constantly. I've always liked this pub apart from that. 

Mirandola

Does this count as gentrification?

harpistic

Totally. Well, depending on the state of the toilets, probably.

ChangN4N6

Very annoying like the dairy you can have two ppl in there wanting a quiet drink or snog and they turn the sports TV up LOUD. What for ? Bar staff can't be arsed. Chang

Arkady

Anyone know what's going on with the World's End?  From the scary signs I assumed that they had had a problem with falling masonry (which doesn't surprise me, it was in a terrible state and they chose not to fix it when adding the new floor) but the scaffolding has been up for an age without any sign of actual work happening.

Arkady

So I asked what the scaffolding is all about.  Apparently the people who built the new upper story did a shoddy job, and bits of it were falling off onto customers in the street below.  The scaffolding went up both the fix the problem and to protect the punters, but nobody has come to do the repairs.<div><br></div><div>Also, for those who care about such things, I was reminded that the pub is actually owned by Green King.</div>