{"id":98313,"date":"2018-09-21T22:30:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-21T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-leytonstone-the-olympics-still-niggles-but-its-on-good-form\/"},"modified":"2018-09-21T23:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-21T16:02:55","slug":"lets-move-to-leytonstone-the-olympics-still-niggles-but-its-on-good-form","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-leytonstone-the-olympics-still-niggles-but-its-on-good-form\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Leytonstone: the Olympics still niggles, but it\u2019s on good form"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nIt\u2019s quite humdrum, but mostly in a nice wayWhat\u2019s going for it? The new Walthamstow. Or that might be Leyton, I forget. Or Maryland. Or Forest Gate. There are so many contenders for Outer East End Hotspot these days I can\u2019t keep up. Blame 2012. The Olympics splattered money round these parts, in the form of newly minted bollards and cheery paint schemes. It also divided opinion. Strike up a conversation about \u201cit\u201d in the queue at Percy Ingle on the High Road and six years later you\u2019re still likely to leave with a flea in your ear as well as a sliced bloomer. Still, Leytonstone appears on good form. The tootsie toes of Epping Forest dip into the streets to the north, its Hollow Ponds green space fringed by office workers on their lunch break, dreaming of escape over BLTs. A few blocks south, conversely, escapees from the rest of the planet have come to rest on the High Road, from Romanian delis to Turkish grills to Madame Chic\u2019s \u201cfrizerie\u201d. There are even signs of those most benighted of immigrants: artists. They\u2019ve lived round here since the 1980s (the 1890s if you include native \u2019Stoner Alfred Hitchcock), famously adding chutzpah to the M11 Link Road protests a decade later. These days the art\u2019s less bolshie (though July\u2019s Arts Trail is a blast) and more conceptual macram\u00e9, but at least the gentrifiers haven\u2019t invaded in full force yet.The case against\u2026 Sliced by that M11 Link Road, belching pollution. Quite humdrum (but mostly in a nice way). Still a long way from the kool kats in Hackney and the Stow, if that\u2019s your ambition. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2018\/sep\/21\/lets-move-leytonstone-on-good-form\" target=\"_blank\">Let\u2019s move to Leytonstone: the Olympics still niggles, but it\u2019s on good form<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; It\u2019s quite humdrum, but mostly in a nice wayWhat\u2019s going for it? The new Walthamstow.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-pzH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":45190,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-forest-hill-south-east-london\/","url_meta":{"origin":98313,"position":0},"title":"Let&#039;s move to Forest Hill, south-east London","date":"April 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Who'd have guessed it? 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