Tulse Hill

[kirinm]

Hi,

Any thoughts on the Tulse Hill area? My DP saw a place there today and I'm going to look tomorrow but we've had to totally change our search area and Tulse Hill wasn't even on my radar. The postcode is actually SW16 which is Streatham but the flat is very close to Tulse Hill train station.

We've been to a pub close to the station before for a pub quiz and that was really nice but my knowledge stops there. Any tips?

I'm in Leytonstone currently (as mentioned upthread, I've lived in West Norwood/Tulse Hill as well) and TBH I probably preferred living in the West Norwood area to the Leytonstone area.

Maybe it's just because I'm a South Londoner in my heart of hearts, but the West Norwood area felt more like London to me than Leytonstone does - paradoxically really, because Leytonstone has a Central Line tube station, but there we go. Maybe it's also partly because I find West Indian cultural influences lend a certain 'buzz' to an area which other diasporas don't (Leytonstone's immigrant populations are predominantly South Indian or Eastern European - perfectly pleasant neighbours but they don't lend quite the same vibe). If you're used to Peckham and Brixton, I think NE is a bit of a culture shock - although obviously, there's a huge cultural mix pretty much anywhere in London.

I still have wistful memories of living there and wandering over the hill to Crystal Palace or walking back from Brockwell Lido in the heat of summer with wet hair drying in the sunshine.

Good to know SJFR is not a rat run then - might take a look.

Ah yes £1m is a lot of money of course, reetgood - but I think you'd get the house closer to £950k, and believe me, for the exact same house in Herne Hill it would cost upwards of £1.5-£1.7m. So to be that little bit further north (about 1.5 miles according to google maps) you can add on another half a million!

But don't really want to live in West Norwood...

Now THIS is the house that I actually want to buy, but again it's about 100k over our top budget.

Brixton Townhouse

And it needs work. So it's a non-starter really. Sigh.

I live a couple of roads away from St Julian's Farm Rd in West Norwood, and the roads around there are all very pricey now.

Having lived in WN since 1999, I have seen a massive, if not painfully slow, change to the area with people priced out of West Dulwich/Crystal Palace/Herne Hill all spilling into the area. It's nothing like it used to be, and as someone who is currently trying to upsize from a 3 bed maisonette to a 4 bed house, I can say it is definitely no longer the affordable enclave it once was.

My son goes to Julians school on Leigham Ct Rd which is terrific, and hopefully we are in the catchment for Dunraven secondary which is an excellent school, if we decide to stay in the area.

HI I hijack this thread and ask a couple of questions please?

I just saw a house in Lairdale Close on rightmove, which would tick most of our boxes, but don't know much about the area as I was looking at other areas before - can some local people tell me about this location? Is it actually an ex-council house (the advert does not say so)? And if so, is the area safe for the family with a child?

I need to find a 3(preferably 4)-bedroom house near good primary school and within walking distance to the station which would get me to Blackfriars/City Thameslink in 15-20mins and up to £730-750K maximum, and it is not easy at all... ((