Buying a property in redhill?

[Safaalvi]

Hi, we live in Reigate. My hubby goes to work to london bridge for which he takes a train everyday from redhill station and it takes around 30 min from home to get on a train. Therefore we were looking to move closer to the station in redhill. Does anyone lives in redhill or knows the area? How about the schools as my daughter just turned 2 an we would be interested in having a nice school in the catchment closer to the station?

[nonwonderwoman]

Reigate and Redhill are next door to one another, so I'm surprised you don't know this information already?

[Safaalvi]

Yes I know but the problem is we live 2 miles away from the redhill station and that adds up to the total journey, therefore we were thinking to move closer to redhill, i knew about all the schools in reigate and quite familiar with the area but redhill I only go to the town centre sometimes for shopping rest of the area we dont know much about like the roads and schools etc.

[Safaalvi]

so I was thinking if someone actually lives in Redhill and give me some info about the areas to avoid and schools that have a good reputation. The house we were looking to buy is closer to Lime Tree School, if anyone knows about that school.

[Ridingthegravytrain]

St. John's area is nice and catchment for dovers green I think

[JoJoSM2]

I don't know the area or the schools. However, it might be worth reading their Ofsted report and looking at attainment data. That will give you a fuller picture than just going on one or two people's perceptions of her place. Here's a link to their report.

reports.ofsted.gov.uk/inspection-reports/find-inspection-report/provider/ELS/139557

[Safaalvi]

Yes I just did, thanks everyone :)

[nonwonderwoman]

I find the Reigate and Redhill mums' facebook group a really handy source of info about schools - might be worth putting a post on there about personal impressions of schools.

[Pixiedust1973]

Have you considered staying in Reigate & your husband riding a pushbike to Redhill station in the morning? Problem solved! I currently live in Reigate & am moving out to Salfords for a bigger house now I don't need to be in school/college catchments. I had one child go to secondary school in Reigate & the other in Redhill & can't fault either school, but of course Reigate is the one people fight to get into. Primary schools are much of a muchness!

[Martinachick]

My reply may come to late. Have you moved to Redhill then? We looked at Reigate but chose Redhill on one of the roads close to Reigate. My commute is great and we have a large period home. There is regeneration going on in Redhill too