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Urban regeneration? It's all about cupcakes

Never mind crime maps and house prices, research from the States suggests it's the state of your bakeries that may be a bellwether of your area's fortunes.

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Permalink Reply by Yan White on December 21, 2010 at 0:26

another new one opening next to the hair saloon..

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Permalink Reply by Louise Nazeraj on April 2, 2011 at 23:51

We used to call them fairy cakes I believe. Did up North anyway. You are entirely right though Liz, a bun is something quite different. Queue lengthy discussion on baps vs buns vs barms...oh and the stottie!

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Permalink Reply by Liz on September 30, 2009 at 0:10

I am a user of both poundshops and even hairdressers from time to time. The issue arises not from one pound shop or one hairdressers (well unless you are Muswell Hill where the appearance of a pound shop caused total panic) but one more. When an area already has a large number of a certain type of shop, the arrival of another exactly the same elicits perhaps not crossness but a sense of great disappointment.

However, it could be argued I suppose, better economic activity of some sort than empty shops.

Which reminds me, whatever happened to the Big Plan for creative spaces in our empty place?

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Permalink Reply by TTTH on October 1, 2009 at 11:31

Love this article - now if i could find a PhD title like this I would be sold ;o)

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Permalink Reply by Alison P on October 1, 2009 at 11:41

Great link Liz, thanks. I was reading about a fancy new cake shop in Brixton and wondering what that symbolised ..

Re new pound shops - as Liz says, it's the mix of shops that matters. I was very struck by how ludicrously excited I was when Marie Curie opened last year. A charity shop on Green Lanes!! Something different!!

Are charity shops indicative of anything? There are tons in Crouch End, but few this side of the tracks. What's that about?

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Permalink Reply by matt on October 1, 2009 at 11:54

Are charity shops indicative of anything? There are tons in Crouch End, but few this side of the tracks. What's that about?

You may find the following surprising. I did at the time;

We found at school fetes selling second hand clothes didn't go down well. Some ethnic groups find the whole idea of dressing their children in other people's second hand clothes insulting. They prefer to buy new. Green Lanes is obviously very multi-ethnic so maybe on at a wider community scale there's not much demand for a charity shop, which mainly sell second hand clothes.

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Permalink Reply by Alison P on October 1, 2009 at 12:04

Interesting. Reminds me of a conversation I had with some relatives of my husbands who clearly thought putting your children in second hand clothes was a bit nasty and cheap.