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Sutton High Street

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GORGEOUSX · 15/01/2011 18:34

In thinking that the people who inflicted the new and 'improved' Sutton High Street' on us should all be sacked?

I actually think it's a shame we can't tie them to the benches,(which they obviously rescued from a skip/dump) and give them all a sound public flogging!

Not only did someone design this sorry-looking High Street but lots of other twats actually thought it was good enough to inflict on us!

So, what have we got for our millions? A truly shitty High Street which I can't bear to see so I have stopped shopping in Sutton. We've got so many different types of paving on the ground that it looks like someone's started doing it and changed their minds several times, the above-mentioned benches and a stupid bloody 'farm'.

It looks so horrendous that it truly does have to be seen to be believed. It's a complete bloody embarrassment. (When we have visitors we make sure they don't go within a mile of it) and it really is taking the fucking piss out of Sutton's Council-tax payers. I'm so angry about it, even now, months/years? later. Why would anyone want to shop in Sutton and have the sight of the High Street inflicted on them when they can't even stop for a rest on a decent bloody bench. Epsom, Kingston, Croydon are all 'state-of-the-art' compared to this fucking tip of a High Street.

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CognitiveDissident · 15/01/2011 23:20

Anyway,my Thornton'eath has been trumped with New Addington...'You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villany'

It's a modern St Giles with added pitbulls.

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GORGEOUSX · 15/01/2011 23:24

Sorry, I've got no sympathy for the posters complaining about other areas because you lot might get an 'improvement' on your High Street one day. We've had ours! Wink

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CognitiveDissident · 15/01/2011 23:24

charliesmommy

Oooh,forgot all about Slough. I used to live in Middenheap and was forced to shop there until I discovered Reading.

It's gone from being merely crap to seriously rough in the past 10 years.

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GORGEOUSX · 15/01/2011 23:28

Cognitivedissent LOL! Think someone's breeding pit-bulls in Sutton - thank God I live in Cheam where all the lovely ladies carry their darling bichon frisees around in their LV bags Grin

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hester · 15/01/2011 23:42

I've never been to Sutton, but spent my youth in Croydon. Dear god, just thinking about it makes me feel all post-traumatic, like a Nam vet...

As for Foot Neef (as Thornton Heath was called at my primary)... [hester develops a twitch]

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GORGEOUSX · 15/01/2011 23:44

Also Suttontsarina where do you think tfl money comes from? It's still tax-payers' money. The lib-dems applied to TFL for a grant to 'improve' the High Street and promptly squandered it on this disgraceful bodge job!Angry

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GORGEOUSX · 15/01/2011 23:46

Hester LOL! We obviously attended the same school .......

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wombly · 15/01/2011 23:58

You lot need to calm down and pay a swift visit to this thread.

Especially that shameful person who dissed Morden. Shock

CointreauVersial · 16/01/2011 00:11

We went Sale shopping in Sutton a couple of weeks back, when we couldn't be arsed to battle the traffic on the way to Kingston.

I have to confess, I never noticed the "improvements" to the High Street.

Hmmm....what can I say? You can't polish a turd.

CognitiveDissident · 16/01/2011 00:28

wombley
Morden wasn't dissed as far as I remember.It was Mitcham.

I've signed the petition BTW, we visit the city farm a lot. DS will be heartbroken if it closes.

Maylee · 16/01/2011 00:30

I live in Croydon and I like it. Easy commute to work. Decent shops (new John Lewis on the Purley Way grin]).

New Addington is scummy but, if you can see past all the sprawling, depressing estates then you'll meet some very nice, hard working people who haven't had the easiest lives......

SuttonTsarina · 16/01/2011 11:45

Yes Deen City Farm is fab and well worth campaigning for - GORGEOUSX - maybe you could campaign over there and support our local communities instead of doing them down - the high street may look like a pigs breakfast and has done ever since they allowed them to knock down the arcade for the now defunct virgin megastore but its still a place with good community.

Instead of moaning on here - get involved.

Also your name is shit

wheredidyoulastseeit · 16/01/2011 23:26

I think Suttontsarina should read the origianl post

PeachesandStrawberry · 16/01/2011 23:31

I can't believe you prefer CROYDON?????!!!!

GORGEOUSX · 17/01/2011 08:35

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GORGEOUSX · 17/01/2011 08:36

Peaches - never thought I'd see the day! LOL. But have you seen Sutton High Street?

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PeachesandStrawberry · 17/01/2011 09:07

I have seen Sutton High Street, but Croydon is worse. It has an arcade of shops which have been unused for a while. The atmosphere is just dreadful. My mother nearly got mugged there as well.

Also at East Croydon there were those people always on the scrounge.

The attitude there is terrible. I have been to Sutton and not found it nearly as bad.

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GORGEOUSX · 17/01/2011 09:27

Peaches I know what you mean and agree it's dire - but at least when you walk down the High Street the paving is nice and you've got decent benches to sit on in the Summer. Also Sutton High Street has had millions spent on it and that's what we're left with.

Re people on the scrounge, have you ever been caught by the woman in Alders Car Park asking for money because her partner's left her stranded with no money to pay car park fee? I gave her money months ago and a few weeks ago she spun me the same line! Hasten to add I didn't get mugged that time.

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slowshow · 17/01/2011 09:33

Well, I live in Morden and think it's a shithole. Sutton town centre kind of makes me feel at home, because it's remarkably like my Essex hometown.

I'm glad I can get to Wimbledon and Kingston for proper shopping Grin

SuttonTsarina · 17/01/2011 09:42

GORGEOUSX - well you're all charm arent you?

Although MN isnt moderated it doesn't allow personal attacks - just some helpful advice, as you're new and all.

carminaburana · 17/01/2011 09:51

I like Sutton High St. It has a good selection of shops and has a nice "feel" to it. & In nearly 15 years of going there I've never had a problem with crime.

Jesus christ - the laptop just spoke to me!...

WTF???

wheredidyoulastseeit · 17/01/2011 09:59

I think the point is that after spending millions of pounds on High Street 'improvements' the urban environment of that particular area - the High Street has been adversely affected

It is a comment on urban design or lack of it, the people of Sutton and the shops of Sutton are great and deserve better.

And one could infer that if huge sums of our money in whatever form it was received had not been wasted on poor design it could have been available to spend on something more worth while.
Another point is that if the works carried out were more aesthetically pleasing residents would think that they had received value for money in the form of improved quality of life and the urban environment, if you walk up and down the High Street you can see that clearly hasn't happened

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GORGEOUSX · 17/01/2011 10:05

ABSOLUTELY!

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kayah · 17/01/2011 10:07

Sutton's OK.
Fairly quick to pop in for a quick shop, but agree, parking costs are up :(
Croydon's full of ppl who do window shopping and meeet there to gossip :)

carminaburana · 17/01/2011 10:25

I really haven't noticed the "poor design", I go into Sutton to shop - not to look at the paving stones & benches. These things are always a matter of opinion anyway, I'm sure some people love the new design, and as far as wasting money goes, I can think of far worse examples.

I'm just a bit fed up with people knocking Sutton. yes, it has it's "down at heel" parts, ( doesn't everywhere?) but it also has some of the best schools in the country and one of the lowest crime rates in London. if all you've got to moan about is it's paving stones you're very lucky. Visit the Medway Towns - that will really put things in perspective.