East Greenwich - Safety Aspect

[Nuttym]

Hi All,

I asked this a few weeks ago under the general chat section, but 'Local Greenwich' sounds like a more appropriate forum for it.

We've always been fans of Greenwich (town centre, the museum, riverside walk, the park of course, ...) and now that we have a little one, we've started looking into buying there.

Our budget rules out the West and the nicer conservation areas so we've been focusing on the East. We've been looking at terraces on/around Colomb, Walnut Tree, Calvert roads. Whilst we like these streets and the surrounding areas, we are a little dubious about Trafalgar Road and it has us worried about the safety aspect of the area.

Is it safe at night especially with establishments such as The Crown and Rick's Bar? Is it safe for mums strolling down with prams or on buses? Is there a lot of anti-social crime in this area? Or have we misjudged the area?

All views, advice, opinions will be greatly welcome.

Thanks,
nuttym

I live in East Greenwich, on Vanbrugh Hill and there is a great community of mummies around. Parts of the Trafalgar Road are unattractive but it is very safe and quietens down a lot at night. I've never experienced any problems with the pubs or with anti-social behaviour in the area. I think families move here for similar reasons to you (cheaper than West Greenwich) so in fact there is a friendly family feel to the area and the park is on your doorstep. The new Seren Park development has also lifted the area with plenty of City types around and when the development on the old hospital site is complete, it's bound to improve the area so think property prices will shoot in the next few years.
Hope this helps...

Before you buy, please look into the local primary school catchment areas. It always comes as a huge shock come School Application time to everyone. Also, if you have reservations of whether you'd like living around here, why not rent for awhile?

agree with acqua - schools may not be a priority now but in a couple of years it will be an issue (unless you go private of course). halstow, you practically have to live in the surrounding three to four roads and property prices are approaching west greenwich prices. calvert/vanbrugh/annandale/pelton all nice roads but only in catchment for meridian school (which isnt too bad).

East Greenwich generally not bad crime wise - v noisy near the main road due to police/ambulances going to woolwich and lewisham and traffic can be a nightmare on the main road in the mornings/rush hour. bit of graffiti dotted around, lovely park at the Pleasaunce with one o clock club and pistachios cafe. and of course greenwich park on your doorstep. transport v good I think - maze hill station/westcombe park - about 10 -15 mins into london bridge and short bus ride to the jubilee line. one or two homeless alcoholics have appeared outside kfc/bench by the forum but they are usually moved on and I have not witnessed any trouble from them. The odd band of youths wanders around (seem to come from the estate opposite the old hospital site). Basically the usual social mix you will get in any london borough!

lots to do for mums and babies and you will inevitably meet lots of mums in the parks/forum/leisure centre who all have loads of activities on.