Where in London will be gentrified next?

[Willow1086]

Where in London do you think will be gentrified next?

It depends what gentrification means to you, I suppose

If it’s artisan coffee shops and bakeries replacing Gregs, plantation shutters becoming de rigour and incoming buyers almost certainly slapping Farrow and Ball or Mylands on the walls, all those those places listed in the thread (maybe except manor park!) qualify

It doesn’t mean there won’t be scruffy houses on streets. You can walk down the nicest roads in Chelsea and Notting hill and still find dilapidated houses with net curtains and peeling paintwork

I guess when the shuttered houses outnumber the net curtain houses on a street, that’s probably officially up and come..?

Norbury? Now that streatham, west Norwood and Crystal Palace have all fancied up, it’s the last little patch which is still affordable but scruffy

I find Catford to be pretty gentrified. There was a point about 5 years ago where trendy types stopped laughing about it and started buying houses there.

I wish Lewisham didn't gentrify, the whole Ladywell/Brockley/St John/Telegraph Hill area is naice af, then you've got Blackheath and Hither Green on the other side, but I love Lewisham's high street and veg market, love it all just as it is. Lewisham is this oasis of grimy functionality with gentrification all around.

exactly E&C still hasn't been gentrified though it's almost there - it's been 20 plus years.....and am not even sure that Shepherds Bush has fully gentrified either. It's so hard to predict.

There are also lots of places that have just been forgotten. I often feel that large swathes of NW London are totally underpriced. They are not rough but no one is rushing to gentrify them either

@ladycarlotta

I find Catford to be pretty gentrified. There was a point about 5 years ago where trendy types stopped laughing about it and started buying houses there.

I wish Lewisham didn't gentrify, the whole Ladywell/Brockley/St John/Telegraph Hill area is naice af, then you've got Blackheath and Hither Green on the other side, but I love Lewisham's high street and veg market, love it all just as it is. Lewisham is this oasis of grimy functionality with gentrification all around.

Parts of those places are naice but parts are still grim. Housing is expensive because it's zone 2 and there are green spaces but as someone who lives in one of the areas you've mentioned, it isn't that naice. It's full of people who think it is something very special but I'm lost as to why they think that at times. We have a nice view.

Catford is probably soon to be gentrified but I certainly wouldn’t say it has been already. The centre is still prettty horrible.

When would a place be considered gentrified anyway? There are plenty of places where a £2m house is sandwiched between council flats

Tottenham is changing. It is getting the students and the artists which is the first step. Coffee shops and breweries. It will be getting crossrail 2. It has a lot of Victorian housing and the tube. It's going.

Gentrification destroys not saves.

@kirinm I've lived in nearly all of them. They're certainly not un-gentrified by a long chalk. Most people I know who rented there for years are priced out and buying in much more down-at-heel places. I'd have bought there if I could have, the area has changed immensely over the last ten years. I think you'd be hard pushed to find any part of London now where you couldn't get an oat milk flat white and some privately commissioned 'street art'.

First the artists come, then the developers, the £100000+ flats, then artists leave cos it’s got too expensive. And all the cute independent shops go cos rents are out of control.

Where does Canning Town come on the gentrification spectrum?

There’s an area near us that I still remember being like a war zone when I came to London in 1990. Homes had barred windows, crime was really high and you didn’t venture alone at night.

Then fancy actors and models moved in and the ratty old health food shops and antique shops became coffee boutiques and tea houses.

It’s still a high crime area - but I guess the bag snatchers probably do better these days.

New Cross (please)

@EssentialHummus

New Cross (please)

I hear you!

White Chapel, Bethnal Green, Bow, mile end

Forest Gate / East Ham

Catford is in the process of being gentrified with lots of new build flats shooting up. Penge is also CP overspill now and isn't actually that cheap. I'd say South Norwood and Croydon. I don't know north London to comment.

South Norwood

@lboogy

Tottenham

100% Tottenham. That's where my money would be going if I was investing in this way.

If you think, 15 years ago, Peckham was byword for shithole, now it's super trendy.

@Iusedtoliveinsanfrancisco

Gentrification destroys not saves.

If done well and in a balanced way, it doesn't have to. The problem is it's often not been done well. But it could be.

Just looking at Rightmove as I hadn't even heard of some of these areas - some of the places that apparently aren't gentrified yet and are described as total shitholes are still unbelievably expensive places to buy property.

@Forrestcat

There are also lots of places that have just been forgotten. I often feel that large swathes of NW London are totally underpriced. They are not rough but no one is rushing to gentrify them either

Yeah it's weird. I don't get why? Seems to be lots of nice sized family houses and green spaces. Decent links to central London too. I'd have thought they'd be more popular.

@Iusedtoliveinsanfrancisco

Gentrification destroys not saves.

This.

There's so much concern on MN about rural and coastal communities being destroyed by incomers pushing up prices and here we have a thread celebrating young Londoners being priced out of their hometown and local communities destroyed.

@MoChridhe

White Chapel, Bethnal Green, Bow, mile end

That's already happened hasn't it?

All I’m saying is twice I have bought in supposedly up and coming areas neighbouring areas I couldn’t quite afford.
Well 20 years later neither upped or came and if anything got worse. I upped and moved on. Estate agents and developers and schools and the community all talk things up but it often just doesn’t happen.