Property News · June 29, 2018

Let’s move to Surrey Quays, London


It’s quiet and relatively affordable right now – but about to get very busyWhat’s going for it? This corner of south-east London has been “regenerated” once before. In the 1980s, red-braced developers magicked what was once Surrey Commercial Docks into the quainter-sounding Surrey Quays, eradicating the embarrassing past of manual labour with a Thatcherite Alphaville of suburban yellow-brick houses, cul-de-sacs and Frankie & Benny’s. It was a banal vision of the future, compared with the area’s heroic past: mac ’n’ cheese or BBQ chicken pizza rather pales beside trading whales with Greenland, hauling forests from the Baltic, giving the Pilgrim Fathers a send-off, etc etc. So they’ve come up with a new plan. Worry not, nostalgists for the 80s: the Barratt homes and marinas are staying, as is Printworks, which once churned out Daily Mails, but now churns out EDM for the clubbing masses. But lo: the developer behind King’s Cross’s regeneration, in one of the biggest planning applications, like, ever, has envisioned for the rest of Surrey Quays a £3bn future of skyscrapers and piazzas. I’m sure they’ll throw in a few creative hubs and artisan coffee roasters for good measure.The case against Can you survive years and years of building work? More to the point, are the future plans worth sticking around for? For the moment the area is pretty quiet, often underpowered and suburban, especially towards the river. Nice nature reserve, mind, and Southwark Park is delightful. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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