Property News · May 24, 2013

Let's move to Charlton, south-east London


‘Its high street contains useful shops that in posher spots might have been turned into candle purveyors and poodle parlours’What’s going for it? Amazing what a road can do. On one side, you are in verdant Blackheath or Greenwich, with their stratospheric house prices. A couple of hundred yards later, you are in verdant Charlton, decidedly without stratospheric house prices. Said road, the A102, is unlovely, a great slicing ravine of concrete and carbon monoxide, but it’s not enough to explain this urban transition. Charlton has fine schools, magnificent views from its rolling hillside, great transport links to central London, leafy parks such as Maryon Wilson and, at its heart, what was once a Kentish village, with old church, ye olde pubbe, village green and a Jacobean stately home, Charlton House. Its little high street contains useful shops that in other, posher spots might have been turned into candle purveyors and poodle parlours. There is no Starbucks. Its homes are well built and affordable. Plus it has an (almost) restored lido. Heated water, too. Beat that, Blackheath.The case against Defiantly unfashionable, for those who set store by such things. Estate agents have started calling it Charlton Village. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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