Professionals send Brixton property prices surging by 15%

[Belushi]

Every 15 minutes is frequent enough to me given I don't have to travel bent over crushed in a door with my nose up someones arm pit to get into work.

Never have that problem in Brixton.

If I get the train from Streatham I do though.

 

[Brixton Hatter]

Every 15 minutes is frequent enough to me given I don't have to travel bent over crushed in a door with my nose up someones arm pit to get into work.

of course, the other benefit of Brixton is that it's easy cycling distance into town - a mere three or four miles.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

It's getting closer....I went up about a year ago and there were about 20 people left in the flats. A few months later it was about 10. My mum went up there to chat to an old resident recently and she reckoned she was almost the only one left. Claydon (the big block nearest to the top of Walworth Road where I was born) is now completely closed off and works have begun in the old gardens next door. An exhibition was held a few weeks ago showing the plans for the new development....which none of the residents appeared to be that impressed by. It's coming soon.....

Must have been weird being one of the few residents left on the estate

Wonder how the new Elephant will affect traffic in that area?

 

[Pickman's model]

Wish they'd all fuck off North of the River where there's loads of tube stations

i think you misjudge the sentiment north of the river if you think yuppies are welcome anywhere

 

[Pickman's model]

of course, the other benefit of Brixton is that it's easy cycling distance into town - a mere three or four miles.

less, surely. what, a mile to kennington and a mile from there into central london? (from, say, brixton library)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i think you misjudge the sentiment north of the river if you think yuppies are welcome anywhere

I reckon places like Islington are full of them.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

less, surely. what, a mile to kennington and a mile from there into central london? (from, say, brixton library)

No it's not. I used to walk it (although that was from Whitehall to Brixton Hill)

I just put in Trafalgar Square to Brixton Hill into google maps and it reckons 4.2 miles

 

[Pickman's model]

I reckon places like Islington are full of them.

full, perhaps, but are they welcome among what remains of the indigenous population? i doubt it.

 

[Winot]

less, surely. what, a mile to kennington and a mile from there into central london? (from, say, brixton library)

5 miles by bike to Chancery Lane.

 

[Pickman's model]

No it's not. I used to walk it (although that was from Whitehall to Brixton Hill)

alright, how far is it then?

 

[Pickman's model]

5 miles by bike to Chancery Lane.

fuck knows how you're cycling it, via stanmore or something.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

alright, how far is it then?

See previous post. (That's going over Lambeth Bridge btw, not Westminster)

 

[Brixton Hatter]

My current cycle journey from near the Jamm to Victoria is 3 miles exactly. I'd say Brixton tube to Oxford circus is about 4.5 miles.

 

[Pickman's model]

My current cycle journey from near the Jamm to Victoria is 3 miles exactly. I'd say Brixton tube to Oxford circus is about 4.5 miles.

i make it 4 miles from brixton tube to centrepoint

 

[Ms T]

According to the article "A two-bedroom flat that would have sold 18 months ago for £270,000 is now coming on to the market for at least £300,000."

I'm not sure that's confined to Brixton though - the whole of London is experiencing rises.

 

[Pickman's model]

online mapping for people wanting to have a pop

http://www.charlesclosesociety.org/OSMap

 

[Pickman's model]

According to the article "A two-bedroom flat that would have sold 18 months ago for £270,000 is now coming on to the market for at least £300,000."

frankly that's not too far off the inflation rate (albeit c.7.5% rather than 5)

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

i make it 4 miles from brixton tube to centrepoint

hah

 

[colacubes]

My current cycle journey from near the Jamm to Victoria is 3 miles exactly. I'd say Brixton tube to Oxford circus is about 4.5 miles.

Sounds about right. My cycle in is pretty much bang on 4 miles from centre of Brixton to Tower Bridge.

 

[Yelkcub]

According to the article "A two-bedroom flat that would have sold 18 months ago for £270,000 is now coming on to the market for at least £300,000."

Potential bullshit detector says who says 'sold' and 'coming on to the market' are separate measures.....

 

[Brixton Hatter]

The hipsters do quite a bit of cycling on their bright green fixies....maybe that's why they're all moving to Brickers

 

[Matey]

Hi everybody.

I've recently bought a house in Brixton which I'm converting from two flats back into one house (as it was before). I bought in Brixton primarily because a: it's a nicer house than I could afford to get elsewhere and b: it's on the tube so I can go to work.

I have been reading through this forum after seeing the Evening Standard article tonight. I see lots of posts bemoaning the gentrification of Brixton and perhaps I haven't read the right ones, but I can't really see any explaining why people object so much?

My crude understanding of Brixton is that it was for at least 2/3rds of its existence an affluent Victorian suburb.

Acknowledging that it would be a real shame if the pendulum swung too far the other way (which I can't see happening for a long time, if ever) what's wrong with Brixton improving its lot a bit?

Apologies if I'm treading on a lot of sensibilities here but I'd love to why a bit of 'gentrification' (which I don't think is really the right word in Brixton’s case) is such a 'bad' thing?

 

[Belushi]

Ace

 

[Pickman's model]

Hi everybody.

I've recently bought a house in Brixton which I'm converting from two flats back into one house (as it was before). I bought in Brixton primarily because a: it's a nicer house than I could afford to get elsewhere and b: it's on the tube so I can go to work.

I have been reading through this forum after seeing the Evening Standard article tonight. I see lots of posts bemoaning the gentrification of Brixton and perhaps I haven't read the right ones, but I can't really see any explaining why people object so much?

My crude understanding of Brixton is that it was for at least 2/3rds of its existence an affluent Victorian suburb.

Acknowledging that it would be a real shame if the pendulum swung too far the other way (which I can't see happening for a long time, if ever) what's wrong with Brixton improving its lot a bit?

Apologies if I'm treading on a lot of sensibilities here but I'd love to why a bit of 'gentrification' (which I don't think is really the right word in Brixton’s case) is such a 'bad' thing?

so, you've reduced the capacity of the dwelling from two households to one and you can't see the problem with that?

 

[Brixton Hatter]

I have been reading through this forum after seeing the Evening Standard article tonight. I see lots of posts bemoaning the gentrification of Brixton and perhaps I haven't read the right ones, but I can't really see any explaining why people object so much?

Quite a few of my friends have been priced out of Brixton, including families who have lived here all their lives. It's a huge change in the community. We were talking earlier about the Heygate estate at the Elephant - another really close community which has been torn apart by closure and future redevelopment.

 

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Hi everybody.

I've recently bought a house in Brixton which I'm converting from two flats back into one house (as it was before). I bought in Brixton primarily because a: it's a nicer house than I could afford to get elsewhere and b: it's on the tube so I can go to work.

I have been reading through this forum after seeing the Evening Standard article tonight. I see lots of posts bemoaning the gentrification of Brixton and perhaps I haven't read the right ones, but I can't really see any explaining why people object so much?

My crude understanding of Brixton is that it was for at least 2/3rds of its existence an affluent Victorian suburb.

Acknowledging that it would be a real shame if the pendulum swung too far the other way (which I can't see happening for a long time, if ever) what's wrong with Brixton improving its lot a bit?

Apologies if I'm treading on a lot of sensibilities here but I'd love to why a bit of 'gentrification' (which I don't think is really the right word in Brixton’s case) is such a 'bad' thing?

Is this a wind-up?

 

[editor]

My crude understanding of Brixton is that it was for at least 2/3rds of its existence an affluent Victorian suburb.

Might be worth you reading up on the history of the place: http://www.urban75.org/brixton/history/history.html

 

[quimcunx]

define ''improving it's lot''.

Welcome to urban btw.

 

[Matey]

so, you've reduced the capacity of the dwelling from two households to one and you can't see the problem with that?

There are now two more people living in the house than there were before.

 

[Pickman's model]

There are now two more people living in the house than there were before.

if you have converted the house from two flats into one house, then unless you've done some jiggerypokery there are no longer two households in the property. so, you've reduced the capacity of the house from two households to one and you don't see the problem with that?

if you want the house to be in keeping with the majority of brixton's history then you should rip it down and turn it into a field.