Top ten up and coming areas in London

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...according to this article. What are people's views?

www.thelondoneconomic.com/property/top-10-up-and-coming-places-to-live-in-london-313439

I mean some places I’d never heard of despite being born in London. Actons been established for ages as have one or two of the others. Ilford is interesting because of the cross rail and the new lido they’re building in valentines park. Seems like the council are hoping it will be the new Hackney with all the student accommodation and bubble tea shops. Pretty sure harrows always been too posh to be considered up and coming though! So yeah, not sure how authoritative the article is.

As the article points out, Kingston has an average house price of £785k. Hardly up and coming even by London standards.

I live in Penge so I'm biased and it's a heck of a lot better than when I moved here 25 years ago. Anerley is next door and has some nice period houses (as well as some pretty grim ones) but there's not a lot there beyond a craft beer place and the bakery mentioned in the article.

Has Stratford really improved ? I know it had a big knife crime issue when they first did the Westfield centre and had metal detectors at the station. Has it changed, haven't been in the last five years??

Some of the list are very established already. Some would be more up and coming 😬 like Anerly

Or Anerley as it's spelt in Anerley. Odd that the author of the article got the spelling wrong.

Surely the gentrification of Peckham is at least a decade old by now?

I agree on Penge / Anerley but Peckham is a while back as pp said

Peckham has some pockets of lovely but vast areas of no go zones. It's south London apartheid. Vast wealth around the rye and squalor in the social housing.

But that's ok as long as there is a craft beer to be had and a new eaterie to try out.

I could be advertiser led too. Journalists can be asked to mention certain areas as key advertisers might have new developments in these suburbs. I have no evidence to support this claim but I am also London and it seems some of these are well established areas (Action, Kingston, Peckham) versus what might be considered more up and coming (Anerley, Penge).

I have mixed views about Harrow. The council could’ve stopped the beautiful period properties towards West Harrow being carved up into flats and HMOs, making it more attractive for families looking for houses. Now it is all flats, with all office space and, shortly, the Civic Centre, all being turned into flats. Easy commute into central London though and some lovely parks and amenities.

Kensal Green ‘went’ years ago. It’s a stones throw from Ladbroke Grove. It’s an expensive area.

Kingston isn't London but is expensive.

Peckham started its gentrification about 10 years ago.

Rubbish article.

The article makes me laugh. Tottenham is a dump and Ilford is not much better.

You could not pay me to live in Peckham. I thought it was meant to have improved but I went there earlier this year and what a depressing horrible place. Saw quite a lot of it too and hated it all

This hunger for London gentrification is becoming decidedly cannibalistic in my opinion. Many of these areas have been 'the next big thing' for at least a decade.

I wish people would realise that a driftwood-lined bakery and rising house prices does very little for the people who already live in an area, who generally want useful stuff like better GP surgeries, transport options and green spaces.

@NightmareSlashDelightful

This hunger for London gentrification is becoming decidedly cannibalistic in my opinion. Many of these areas have been 'the next big thing' for at least a decade.

I wish people would realise that a driftwood-lined bakery and rising house prices does very little for the people who already live in an area, who generally want useful stuff like better GP surgeries, transport options and green spaces.

I agree though, and it may just be coincidence, but Penge and Anerley (pretty much the same place, and both are SE20) have seven local parks, including the huge Crystal Palace Park, improving GP surgeries and brilliant transport options. Both are on Overground and Penge East gets you to Victoria in 18 mins or Brixton in 9.

I agree that Penge and Anerley have some lovely houses and a lot of green spaces but would say that the area started gentrification some years ago and it is a pleasant place to live.
Peckham also gentrified in parts some years ago though most of it is still awful. I would hate to live there.

Kensal Green has been gentrified for years!

Kingston? It came up decades ago! Acton was 'up and coming' in the 80s, and I had thought was pretty much 'up'.

@LadyJaneHall

I agree that Penge and Anerley have some lovely houses and a lot of green spaces but would say that the area started gentrification some years ago and it is a pleasant place to live. Peckham also gentrified in parts some years ago though most of it is still awful. I would hate to live there.

Yep, it started with the Overground for Penge and Anerley. Think that was in 2008. The change pre-Overground to now is remarkable.

I live down the road from Acton and like it so much that I’m moving there, I’d say 80% of it is really nice now

Some of these places up and came decades ago, others (Tottenham, Stratford) just aren't there yet, despite massive development and great transport links.

I suspect the areas are chosen based on where the person writing it (and their chums) have recently bought, in the hope of making them more desirable.

I had to check the date on the article, either that or the age of the person who wrote it? They need to keep up, massively behind the times.

It will take more than an article for Ilford to become desirable. Crime, prostitution and poverty are rife and I would not want to pay in excess of 500k to live in a grotty house in an area I couldn't walk around in after dark.

Ilford seems surprisingly immune to gentrification. Which is odd, because it has decent transport, it's pretty cheap, there's some lovely housing stock, nice green space and a grammar school.

There's just something grim about it though. We know the area and would never buy there, despite it being far cheaper.

Harrow on the hill is posh, the rest not particularly. The cheaper areas are south Harrow and Harrow and Wealdstone, and the latter has been said to be up and coming for the last 15 years.