Villages in West London (maybe moving)

Wow. Nice find Print screen!

That's a gateway Web link to some great property p0rn.

Going to spend too long drooling over other people's houses now.....

Ha ha, it probably looks like its mine. Its not! I just went on RightMove and found it. Great street though, v pretty and perfect location.

Printscreen That house is brilliant - well done & it only went on yesterday.

Hammersmith Academy is the secret school of the area - set up by the Mercers Company at the same time as West London Free School but without the hype.

Barnes is a pain for traffic - crossing Hammersmith Bridge can take forever, 20 minutes from St Paul's Boys in the morning when you've got Harrodian, the Swedish School & SPS school drop offs. Much easier to walk over the bridge if you stay south. The area to the west of Hammersmith Grove isn't too noisy planewise and all three schools are walkable.

That house is 5 mins walk from local shops on Askew Rd, 3 mins from park, 15 mins walk to Chiswick High Road, 15 mins walk to Westfield.

The area between Chiswick and Shepherds Bush. Around Ravenscourt Park. Near your schools, great transport links, lots of families, safe, no airline noise.

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-46690301.html

I would go for Chiswick.

Sheperds Bush/hammersmith would be ideal for those school you mentioned. No flight noise. Schools are hard to get into though.

There is plane noise in Brook Green. There is plane noise everywhere in West London.

Re rent/rent scenario - you will pay your marginal rate of tax on ALL your rental income over and above your interest only portion of your mortgage, so it may not wash its face as much as you imagine.

Brook Green is where you are after. North of the river so no planes. Three tube lines. Walk to two of those schools, easy bus to the third. Villagey feel. You can get that square footage for your budget too.

As a W10 person you would be too far north for Holland Park now as it redrew the boundaries to exclude north Kensington. Kensington Aldridge by Latimer Road tube had the first intake in September and is a bit of an unknown quantity. Burlington Danes is up and coming and my DD is likely to go there for Sixth Form.

I don't know enough about Hammersmith Schools to comment.

Pelican
I live in Ealing and I wouldn't agree with you. Especially with Crossrail on its way. As for it being far out on the tube, you are forgetting the mainline rail - its around 10 mins to Paddington.

More great thoughts here. Thanks

Which state schools, preferably co-ed, would you think about as a back up in the W10, W6 etc areas (ie the more central tube connected areas)?

We would think about moving into catchment of those to have maximum options.

There are some lovely houses in north Kensington (W10) - quiet residential streets but close enough to Portobello/Ladbroke Grove for when you want a more urban vibe. The downside is your neighbours include the Camerons (if they get kicked out of Downing St) and the Goves (plus half of the BBC ...)

Barnes?
Probably river floodplain and no tube but if you live near river it isn't far across to hammersmith tube.

From our research a few years back...
Wouldn't recommend ealing, I feel like it is a lot of money for an average place which in reality is fairly far out on the tube.

Perhaps you should sort out the school first and make sure your dd is happy there. After that make a decision that suits the whole family. The stamp duty issue is massive, but I also think that if you are buying for the long term (we were in our London house for more than 20 years) it fades a bit when you look at the whole in relation to convenience, paperwork, tiresome tenants and repairs, etc., over a long period of time.

I hope that sort of makes sense. How old is your dd and how sure are you right now that what you think is the right thing will in fact be right? My youngest is in 6th form now and admittedly we fitted the schools around our home but sometimes it helps to just step back a bit. FWIW our first choice, dream choice school for our daughter didn't work out and she ended up very very happy at what was our 4th choice due to pulling her out, spaces and circumstances.

Perhaps it might help just to go with the flow a bit.

Oh just reread and saw tube was a requirement. Non-negotiable? DB is looking a bit further ATM with half your budget and there are some really nice spots inside M25 that you perhaps wouldn't think of. But not on tube.

In what sense 'secret'? Ungentrified, but on the brink? How far out are you happy to go?

Windsor and Eton would be the very worst place to look to avoid plane noise! they're about 20 feet above your head at that stage.

Brook Green has a lovely villagey feel and nice community, and of course is a short walk to two of those schools. Otherwise second Turnham Green and Wimbledon Village. FUrther central, the Latimer Road / St Helens Gardens area of W10 is nice

You could add East Sheen / parkside, but you will not avoid plane noise?

Would you add LEH to your list of schools? On a par with the ones you mention and your £ would go a lot further out in Strawberry Hill, Teddington, East Molesey, Kingston, Sunbury on Thames way. You could even look as far as Eton & Windsor as the extensive school bus network extends out that far. Lot's more villages and secret places than you'd get inside zones 1-4.

LOL at 'secret' bits of west London.

Use a relocation expert/property finder.

You definitely notice plane noise at Kew Gardens, lovely though it is. Barnes is nice, though probably similarly affected.