Property News · January 13, 2017

Let’s move to Streatham, south-west London: forget what you know


‘Huge efforts have been made to reverse the reputation for crime Streatham attracted in the 80s. It’s worked’What’s going for it? Don’t, don’t, don’t believe the hype. Or the opposite of hype, whatever that is. Streatham has a reputation. But so what. The reality is amazing. In the 1930s (geographically challenged) people called it the “West End of south London”. Streatham was glam. The High Road is still lined with art deco mansion blocks, former department stores and cinemas from the era of Clark Gable. This was the main route to London’s airport at Croydon and, flying being an expensive affair back then, the glitterati purred through in their Wolseleys en route for Deauville. You want more proof? Waitrose opened its first supermarket here! Huge efforts have been made to reverse the reputation for crime Streatham attracted in the 80s. It’s worked. The neighbourhood’s golden ages have left it with homes high on its hill that’d be the envy of Hampstead, but without the snobbery.The case against It has rather a large road running through it, and we can’t do much about that. Let’s run with it. Turn it into a boulevard. Plant trees. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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