not true - our lovely 3 bed in sydenham hill cost that six months ago.
yup. a whole three bedroom house. ex council but big. lovely residential area.
i'd live in either of them two tomorrow. busy high streets, handy shops, good travel connections, nice quiet residential roads.
way things are going, an excellent investment...
) will get as close as possible to ED wherever there is decent housing stock, transport links and schools. It is going to change a lot I reckon, especially as mentioned above, with St Julians and Netherfield expanding and investing. (was that on purpose - it's good!) - which is now becoming 3 form entry. Also Dunraven is opening a 2 form entry primary this year which is taking lot of pressure off Streatham Wells and the situation at this end and the ends of all those WN roads that finish on Leigham Court Road - it's already proving to be popular because kids can go the whole way through to the secondary. Fenstanton is also being talked about in more positive terms since it's joined the Kingswood federation. So at all ends, with the new Julians site there's more capacity. I agree that ED people are looking this way. I think some who have expanding families and got a cheaper 3 bed house are now priced out and coming WN way to get bigger houses for their money - ditto all the people moving up from Brixton/HH etc. I met a lady who'd moved with her husband from Shoreditch.
Hitherfield..
, we're looking to put our smallest one there in the Autumn.
I don't think West Norwood is off the East Dulwich crew's radar at all. Those that are already there are staying and those who want to move there are looking at WN. They (whoever they are, is there really an East Dulwich type or are we just against anyone richer/more financially upwardly mobile than us on this thread?
Hitherfield..
Feast is interesting. we have gone a few times. Suddenly it's like a little block of middle class educated people just pop up, a few hundred of them in one spot, eat some food, then disappear again into the shadows and the next day the place returns to being a fairly normal place with a good mix of people from all walks of life. now you see (with a plate of Goa curry in their hands and an "awesome" cupcake) , now you don't!well there's quite a few... B&Q (but that's been a rumour for ages now).. child friendly cafe thing (apparently their pop-up was rammed).. at least one Northcote Road venture is looking at Streatham (I know that's not WN but it seems like it's coming in from all angles.. up from Herne Hill, in from Dulwich, down from CP, along from Balham/Tooting), Antic is apparently still interested, Feast seem to be expanding - all that stuff going on in the Portico gallery and some of the other shops up that way - I just keep bumping into some very well-heeled people around and about and with all the new primaries opening up with decent reputations - it's inevitable really. I met someone the other day childminding who's charges' parents were moving here from E. Dulwich. #beginningoftheend..
what, just like i was saying?
or they make it themselves
