This area is just outside Heathrow. There are plenty of areas in London proper where I woudn't live as a Black person. I know some of the "tells"; 1930-1950 reddy brown brick council house estates are usually the preserve of generational white working /underclass families. Just off of Red Post Hill ( those who know, know), my cousin was moved into a flat on one of those estates and got shit posted through her door and told to "go back home". Downham is full of them and I don't care how many Black people live there now, I'd move to Leeds before I moved there. The whole Borough of Greenwich can do one, too. Bromley is where I had to beat two racist white women as a teen and run barefoot to catch the bus back to civilisation.
It's zone two/one all the way for me, if it's London.
Barking, Dagenham, Canning Town, Beckton, Woolwich, Thamesmead, Bermondsey, Plumstead, Rotherhithe were and still are areas that many long time West Indian heritage Black people in London still wouldn't be seen dead living in as they remember how these specific areas bred an inordinate amount of racist, bitter white working class/underclass families who were extremely snide about diverse areas like East Ham, Ilford, Manor and Upton park, Peckham and Lewisham, etc. I won't even chat about how Romford used to stay.
I am not au fait with these types of areas in the outer reaches of West London as Ashford seems to be. But I noticed the "tells" of "spot the South Asian/Black", that familiar terraced housing and not a lot of trees lining the streets when I watched that horrible video.
This incident took place in the London Borough of Hounslow. So to say that London per se is a paradise of diversity and acceptance is a lie.
I always say to myself that if a Place in London outside of zones 1 & 2 has no South Asians , that is the "tell" that it is either a cultural wasteland, too rich for my pocket, a shithole or most definitely racist if it is white working/underclass.
And I won't be gaslit into thinking different. It's kept me from having to beat up any racists since the 1980s. I've been Black a long arsed time in London and just like New York City vis a vis Staten Island, there are a lot of places where Black people are not welcome.
This country is still overwhelmingly white and in London, Black people are mostly ghettoised to certain areas, pr certain types of areas, no matter income, which is both good and bad for us as the cheek by jowl livity is not producing good health and social outcomes, but the racism outside of these areas will send too many of us to prison or hospital.