Thursday! Not Wednesday. Sub-editor reqwired.

The FixMyStreet website also has two reports of the problem. The first of them dates back to June 15th: "Manhole cover rocks and is noisy as cars drive over it". The second, from 22nd July, describes a "collapsed catchpit cover". Both include pictures of the damage.

The cover was originally broken by a utilities worker, who had said it would be fixed the next day, according to one resident. Another said he had reported it to Thames Water, who sent the report to Lambeth council, while a third said he had reported it to Lambeth directly.

Contact with the damaged ironwork sent the car onto the pavement of Heybridge Avenue at around 2pm. Residents of the street described it as an "accident" that was "foreseeable", and said that several of them had reported the broken cover as a problem.

A car crashed into a lamppost on a #Streatham street on Wednesday after hitting a broken drain cover that residents have been reporting to the council for nearly two months. Emergency services attended, and the female driver was taken to hospital with a suspected broken arm.

...occupied a slot in "The Dip" between Streatham Green and the station. That unit has since had several incarnations, including as an international call centre and clothes shop, a "purveyor of lovely stuff" selling craft beer, and most recently a hairdresser and wiggery.

The British Heart Foundation operates a second-hand bookshop on the High Road, but the new Waterstones branch is otherwise Streatham's only specialist bookseller, and the first since Words Worth Books, fondly recalled by long-time Streatham watchers...

"We haven't figured out yet whether busy there means good or bad for us," one said. "Most people are very positive about it - it could help create a little hub, as people go there and notice us," said another.

In nearby cafes and gift shops, staff were positive about their new neighbour, although they said it was too early to know whether it was good for business.

Staff asked by @streathamstuff didn't remember selling Boris Johnson's memoir 'Unleashed', but one copy seemed to have gone from the central half-price display between Friday and Sunday's close. "We are selling a lot of books, that's for sure," one diplomatic staff member said.

Local MP and Environment Secretary Steve Reed cut the ribbon to formally open the store on Saturday morning, and said it was "really good news for the area". There was no suggestion that the scissors used in the ceremony were hand-crafted or expensive.

The High Road's new bookshop was immediately busy on its unannounced "soft" opening on Friday, and stayed that way. Staff said the shop felt busier than other branches they had worked in, with people "constantly coming in and saying how excited they are about it".

Waterstones' first weekend in #Streatham went "fantastically", and "a lot of books" got sold, possibly including one by Boris Johnson, although that could not be confirmed. --1/8

Staff said they were "really pleased about the amount of excitement" around the soft launch, business had "exceeded expectations", and nothing had gone badly wrong so far. They did also say, "Sorry, it's my first day," at least once.

Waterstones @waterstones unexpectedly opened their new #Streatham High Road bookshop late on Friday afternoon and immediately attracted plenty of customers, with queues forming at the tills within the first hour.

The GLA says developers can crack on with their 14-storey #Streatham Vale scheme. Like Lambeth, it claims the plans meet - near enough - planning rules and guidelines. It's a conclusion built on some shaky foundations and through-the-looking-glass logic

"We'll see what they do, we'll fight on, it's not dead in the water," said one resident. "there's definitely another stage to it yet - the council and [developer] Hadley may believe that it's a foregone conclusion but you never assume anything until the decision's been made."

Objectors to the plans say that they fail to meet the high bar that is set for tall buildings in low-rise residential areas, would put too much pressure on local services and transport links, and breach Lambeth's own local planning rules by damaging views from Streatham Common.

The Mayor of London's planning website is still accepting comments on the plans, despite suggesting that it closed for comments yesterday, and some 135 had been made by 7pm, the vast majority of them being recorded today.

Lambeth's planning committee approved the development on Tuesday by four to two, but the size of the proposed development means that it now goes back to the mayor's office for a "stage 2" process, at which the mayor can approve, refuse or take control of the application.