Hello,
We really could do with advice... We are a family of 3, hopefully 4 in the next couple of years and need to move ahead of school applications opening in September. Our budget is around 1.3. Currently we are in St Katherine's Docks and really like it but think that a garden may become a necessity.
Priorities are:
- commute to Canary Wharf and the City
- excellent state primary schools - we could possibly move again for secondary school but in a dream world we would at least be in the right place to minimise that chance - totally fine with Catholic faith schools
- min 3 bedrooms, ideally 4
- low pollution (being close to the river helps minimise that where we are now)
- garden - is a small garden pointless? Some gardens have been really quite tiny and whilst great that there is outside space, practically as children grow up do you find it's too small to be used and you still need to go to the park etc or is any size useful (thinking of during the summer if wfh)
- childcare options
- villagey, chi chi feel - Dulwich looked great but state options are few and far between, Barnes the commute seems too far, we seem to have a preference for south London but maybe that's simply because we know it better
thanks so much for your advice! London is so big that we are definitely getting some analysis paralysis.
