Hanover - toddler friendly?

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Moved to Preston Park/Fiveways area last year and are renting. Really like it but way too pricey to buy/carry on renting and saw a place I really liked in Hanover today. Does anyone live there and have good things to say about it from a child-friendly point of view? I know there are quite a few students living around the area but is it particularly noisy, partic at night? I there much to do for kids in the area? TIA.

all I know is that it's very hilly to wander around with a pushchair!

Sorry I don't know about toddler groups around there etc, hopefully someone else will come along who knows more about it than me!

(although I did go to a sing and sign group there, an nct group and tarnerland is over there too, so it seemed very family friendly to me!).

Thanks! I was wondering about the hills, where I am in Preston Park is quite hilly and I moan about that already. Plus when DS starts walking for proper I imagine it'll take forever to get anywhere! But maybe you get used to that. What's tarnerland?

it's a nursery that is meant to be really excellent. i have only heard good things about it.

I think there is lots to do, but don't know whether there are lots of noisy students there. my friend moved from the Elm Grove area because she found it too studenty.

I don't live there, but nearby & have friends that live there, the hills can be a killer..our friend & her baby could get out of house for days during the snow, because the hill was like glass.....but at all other times she likes it because it keeps her fit, & I get the feeling theres quite a community feel to living there

you have Queens Park nearby, which is fantastic, & you have the Level park on your way to the Shops.....you are in the catchment area for some very good nurseries & schools & I believe theres toddle groups & more going on at the Hanover center, & theres also the Pheonix centre at the bottom of the hill, probably more

My DD went to Tarnerland Nursery, it was fantastic

I've just done the opposite - moved from Hanover to Fiveways. If you can cope with the hill here then Elm Grove will be fine. Hanover is v. child friendly . I've lived there for 13 or so years and although it is studenty, it's not so much that it's a problem - though some roads are better than others.

Although you may have a baby now before you know it they'll be at school and there are some roads that fall into a nebulous in between world for the lovely schools in the area.

there are loads of toddler groups around - st joseph's on fridays in milton road, there's one most days of the week in Lewes road at St martin's and one at Park hill by Queens park, where i seem to have spent the whole of the last 3 years. i could go on.