{"id":12806,"date":"2013-09-20T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T11:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-west-norwood-south-london\/"},"modified":"2016-05-12T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T04:38:40","slug":"lets-move-to-west-norwood-south-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-west-norwood-south-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Let's move to West Norwood, south London"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nWest Norwood is\u00a0no dozing suburb any moreWhat’s going for it? To the untrained eye, south London “all looks the same”. I’ve heard those words uttered. Shame on you. There’s a\u00a0world of difference between Catford and Norbury, each district’s micro-ecology thriving with distinction and diversity between the gasholders and Dixy Chicken shops. Squeezed between hills at Crystal Palace and Streatham, West Norwood is one such overlooked Anyplace, with nought but a decent cemetery to lend it renown. It sounds like the kind of place Reggie Perrin might live. The reality is a little grittier, a little dustier, though he’d probably approve of the 30s semis up the hill and lust after the huge piles towards Dulwich. Slivers of relatively central London where you can winkle out a detached house for under half a million are miracles indeed, so West Norwood, we salute you. And this is no dozing suburb: a\u00a0new leisure centre arrives in spring; there’s talk of a Picturehouse cinema; while the West Norwood Feast, from the people behind Brixton Market, goes from strength to strength.The case against The centre is all traffic and peeling flyposters, though regeneration is at hand. Traffic can be nasty: chicanes and sleeping policemen sloooow everything down. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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