Property News · March 10, 2012

Let's move to New Cross, south-east London


Over the clamour of the traffic, there’s a definite buzzWhat’s going for it? There’s Peckham. There’s Deptford. And then there’s New Cross: only for the intrepid. Initial impressions are not encouraging. A road runs through it. A great, stinking, droning road: the A2. But if you do as the locals do and ignore it, New Cross opens up like an oyster with a pearl. For what’s that I hear over the clamour of traffic? Buzz. There’s a definite buzz around the Peckham-Camberwell-Deptford triangle these days, and New Cross is at its centre. You don’t have to be an art student at Goldsmiths to enjoy it, though it does help. Step away from New Cross’s great knot of infrastructure – roads, viaducts, railways, Sainsbury’s car park – and you come across little microclimates of hardy souls ignoring the roar by making their own noise, be that the sound of cool kidz playing guitar at the Amersham Arms, the swish of knitting needles at Café Crema or the sound of feverish community gardening. Nope, can’t hear a thing.The case against The self-delusion of the locals: there truly is no escaping the A2. It’s always there. Socially and economically (and aesthetically), some extremely “challenging” spots. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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