Where in London will be gentrified next?

[Willow1086]

Where in London do you think will be gentrified next?

@Cremedelabelle

This is a privileged mentality.... what about those who have been living in certain areas their entire lives who now HAVE TO leave because of being ousted by gentrification, how is that fair?

Conversely, I also people know who have lived in these areas, Penge, East Dulwich for decades (when they were really rough) and have ended up living a gold mine with properties worth over a million, particularly in ED, that they paid comparatively very little for.

Penge is already expensive.

It’s certainly gone up in price but I don’t think it’s gentrified yet. It’s lagging a bit behind Sydenham (the area near the station) which has really picked up the pace in the last year. And Sydenham is not yet Crystal Palace or East Dulwich.

@dreamingbohemian

Planned and implemented well, gentrification can create a balanced community.

Examples, please.

I've yet to see it myself (in NYC, DC, London or Berlin)

Poplar/East India, Canning Town, Isle of Dogs

@medebourne

Catford is definitely 'naice' and has been for a long while. Not the central shopping area which is very rundown, but the side streets. Some very nice and pricy houses. Ditto Lewisham.

And such beautiful green areas overlooking London. It's beautiful. Sadly the town centre is abysmal as is Lewisham. So it depends on your preference.

Kensal Rise long since done.
Walthamstow likewise.

Bounds Green is whispered every now & then.
Wood Green has little snips of OK.

Anything along the new Elizabeth line is of interest & this leads to areas just outside London such as Langley. Unlovely buuuuut has fast rail service, loads of affordable housing stock, retail units ripe for hipstering & some well performing secondary schools alongside the remarkable number of grammars. Nearby Slough under going infrastructure regeneration & accordingly plenty of speculative residential accommodation going up.

Kings Cross/Granary Sq area was light industrial & railway ‘waste land’, there were a few Victorian tenement buildings that were well established squats. These have now been sandblasted & stand as architectural curiosities amid the new development. Street based prostitution was rife & highly risky for sex workers as the area was desolate.
The local estates remain as they were.

I was in Elephant and Castle at the weekend, previously an area I avoided whenever possible. Much better feel now, there’s a cycle lane all around the huge roundabout for one. Some nicer shops opening and generally a better kind of urban planning is on its way. I was impressed.

I remember moving to kings cross when I was working at st Pancras hospital in the 90s. Went for a walk to get a feel for the place and returned to nurses’ accommodation totally crest fallen. The transformation is unbelievable. I could invent a new monopoly type game: areas around London you could have afforded a property in once but didn’t buy ( and now bitterly regret). I could fill a whole board.

Deptford?

Forest Gate. Crossrail station and slowly the shops are improving

Mitcham is set to boom. I hear investors are waiting. Colliers wood. Tooting broadway, south wimbledon have all boomed already. First time buyers will be funnelled into mitcham. I for one am a little weary, as mitcham is still locked without tube station and surrounded by 3 council estates - 1 the biggest in europe and very grimey.

Redbridge and Gants Hill? - gentrification has already reached neighbouring Leytonstone, Wanstead and Woodford. Redbridge is next on the map. Already sprawls of done up houses (mostly 1930's semis but some Victorian) when you drive about, just missing the vibrancy on the high streets.

Penge - is definitely changing. Great house stock, 3 train stations at a fraction of the price of close by Crystal Palace. Already has a general store and brewery to name but a few

go go Dagenham ( lots of " mid century " property there!!
plus no one's mentioned it

@Walmark

Penge - is definitely changing. Great house stock, 3 train stations at a fraction of the price of close by Crystal Palace. Already has a general store and brewery to name but a few

I heard last night about a 4 bed house on Phoenix Road that sold recently. Good location as 3 minutes walk from Penge East and 5 from Penge West but tiny front garden and little more than a yard out the back. Victorian terrace advertised at £800k but sold for..... £930k. Immaculate inside but.... wow.

I find some of this hard. I rented in the place near I grew up in and desperately tried to get into something (volunteering, being more sociable than I would normally be) but the gap between those who have bought and those who haven’t seems so big now. I couldn’t connect with them despite the fact that I tried so hard ( and didn’t mention my circumstances or make it an issue).

It is also really bothering me that the tone was set that these areas were rough/neglected/full of people who didn’t care/were problematic - we weren’t ! We had our own home, worked very hard, were good neighbours who looked out for one another but I feel quite looked down upon by some people who seem to want to emphasise their middle classless at exaggerate the distinction between them and locals.

I also don’t like the idea that every problem then gets reduced to whether you are on the ascendant or not- if you are it’s an issue to be taken seriously - if not it’s your fault and some sort of personal failing/social dysfunction.

I just watched a couple of episodes of this. I would love to see a follow up, I wonder what happened to all the participants. I googled a couple of the names, and sadly one had died, and another was the subject of a police manhunt in Gibraltar.

I guess Deptford didn't gentrify on the scale that was expected. Friends live in south Tottenham which has always been mooted as the next place ripe for gentrification, but that doesn't seemed to have happened either.

Deptford had so far to come

Woolwich!!

Tottenham and Wood Green, due to overspill from Muswell Hill and Crouch End to the west, and Walthamstow to the east. Getting trendy already.

I thought Walthamstow had already gentrified?

Yes it has. Perhaps I didn't explain it clearly enough. That's why Tottenham is coming up, because it's the next area along to Walthamstow.

Similarly Wood Green and Bounds Green are coming up because people can't afford Crouch End or Muswell Hill.

Another vote for catord.
They have recently got a cinema/ picture house. Same venue will host live music/concerts.
Some funky pubs opening up e.g Ninth life.
The shopping centre is going to be regenerated.
Bakerloo is to be extended there.

*Catford