fulham/battersea

[ethel]

Perhaps you can tempt them with Blackheath or Greenwich if you want them South East sarah?

my friend told me that she doesn't like south east london from what she's seen of it. as far as i know, this amounts to the inside of my flat, crystal palace and driving from hither green to brixton.


anyway. i've managed to get her as far east as oval.

 

[Thora]

Tbf, south east London is a bit rubbish.

 

[ethel]

 

[oryx]

Tbf, south east London is a bit rubbish.

Why? It's the best part of London I've lived in.

 

[Thora]

I don't like it.

 

[T.H.R]

I don't like it.

LOL

I love the zone 1 and 2 parts of south east London, but as soon as you get past Peckham or Lewisham, it becomes far too suburban for my liking. Hither Green, Forest Hill, etc might as well be out in the middle of Kent.

Lived in Battersea for a year, it's nice but a bit boring. We were 14 floors up though and the views over the city made it all worthwhile.

 

[dodgepot]

I love the zone 1 and 2 parts of south east London, but as soon as you get past Peckham or Lewisham,it becomes far too suburban

that's what i like about south east london

 

[ethel]

LOL

I love the zone 1 and 2 parts of south east London, but as soon as you get past Peckham or Lewisham, it becomes far too suburban for my liking. Hither Green, Forest Hill, etc might as well be out in the middle of Kent.

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oi! there's nowt wrong with hither green a lot of the trains skip lewisham so it's not much further away from town than lewisham and it's quieter. i can walk into lewisham in 15 mins anyway.

 

[Christian Reese]

Fulham is a pretty expensive area and unless you have a well paid job, you're going to have a bad time. Sorry to sound pessimistic. I even used to live there for a while. Going to work between 7 and 9 was a nightmare. Parking? Same story. I also had a lot of fun though. Going to the numerous shops at the Fulham Broadway with my girl was my favourite time of the week. Bishops Park is no doubt one of the best parks I've ever been to. Ah memories. Fulham is a really cool area, but like I said, you need to have a well paid job. My moving out is not a good memory though. I had scheduled a house removal the same day the Fulham team were playing home. The streets around Craven Cottage and Stramford were clogged with supporters. It took a long time until we managed to get our of the SW6. So if you're moving out, keep that in mind.

 

[batterseaboy]

get a place here..... if youre minted. The new battersea power station property. The roof garden looks nice, although a tad expensive

Battersea Power Station Development

 

[hash tag]

This must be open to offers; it has been up for sale for a long time now.http://www.knightfrank.com/en/prope...ter-road-battersea-park-london-sw11/rvr150236

 

[T & P]

Many moons ago I used to live in 'Little India', a triangular area tucked behind Falcon Road & Battersea Park Road. That used to be reasonably affordable for the area, 15 years ago at least. Fuck knows how much rentals and sales are now though.

 

[oryx]

Many moons ago I used to live in 'Little India', a triangular area tucked behind Falcon Road & Battersea Park Road. That used to be reasonably affordable for the area, 15 years ago at least. Fuck knows how much rentals and sales are now though.

Yeah, I used to live in Battersea, closer to Clapham and Vauxhall than 'Little India' though.

I lived in a small two-bedroomed rented terrace. In the 90s I had some redundancy money and thought if I mortgaged myself up to the hilt and got a lodger, buying the place for about £90k might be feasible (the landlord didn't want to sell). I recently saw a house on the same street on sale for a million!

When I first moved there in 1984 people said it was 'up and coming', then it was gentrified, now it's megabucks banker style salaries type territory. When I moved to Lewisham in 2007, almost all the elderly and ordinary people living there when I first moved there had gone. Now the place seems not just gentrified but uber-gentrified.

On a lighter note, the pic hash tag has posted looks like a bad nightclub!

 

[hash tag]

The picture is from an 8 bedroom flat that is for sale in Albion Riverside, the big curly building which is on the river just by Battersea Bridge.
If you lived in Battersea area just a few years ago, you would not recognise it now, what with the new blocks going up everywhere and still being planned

 

[T & P]

What they've done around the Power Station is nothing short of a cunting disgrace.

 

[oryx]

The picture is from an 8 bedroom flat that is for sale in Albion Riverside, the big curly building which is on the river just by Battersea Bridge.
If you lived in Battersea area just a few years ago, you would not recognise it now, what with the new blocks going up everywhere and still being planned

I pass through every now and then and the bit around the end of Wandsworth Road, and the bit by the river where the tip used to be is getting more and more and more unrecognisable...

(As well as the tip, I'm old enough to remember Nine Elms Cold Store!)

A lot of the rest of that flat looks like an upmarket restaurant or a hotel rather than a home, even a show home.

 

[T & P]

I pass through every now and then and the bit around the end of Wandsworth Road, and the bit by the river where the tip used to be is getting more and more and more unrecognisable...

(As well as the tip, I'm old enough to remember Nine Elms Cold Store!)

A lot of the rest of that flat looks like an upmarket restaurant or a hotel rather than a home, even a show home.

Speaking about a different tip site I believe (Smugglers Way), but still in Battersea/ Wandsworth. I do feel sorry for the entire side of the undoubtably very expensive apartment block that directly faces that tip site. Paying half a million plus for a flat where every window and balcony is metres away from a garbage processing plant.

Unless you're into rubbish collection lorry spotting. If that's the case those are the best apartments ever!

 

[oryx]

I do feel sorry for the entire side of the undoubtably very expensive apartment block that directly faces the tip site. Paying half a million plus for a flat where every window and balcony is metres away from a garbage processing plant.

Unless you're into rubbish collection lorry spotting. If that's the case those are the best apartments ever!

I thought the tip had gone but no, looking at Wandsworth's website it's still there. Used to love going to that tip as it had great views of the power station.

 

[T & P]

I thought the tip had gone but no, looking at Wandsworth's website it's still there. Used to love going to that tip as it had great views of the power station.

Sorry, I just edited my post as you were replying to it. I realised I was talking about a different tip site (Smugglers Way), though still in Battersea and still surrounded by very expensive property developments that were recently built around it.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Sorry, I just edited my post as you were replying to it. I realised I was talking about a different tip site (Smugglers Way), though still in Battersea and still surrounded by very expensive property developments that were recently built around it.

Pretty much the whole stretch between Battersea Bridge and Smugglers Way has been done now. I still remember the local shock when the old Charrington site near Wandsworth Bridge was built on. Anyone in the area born in the 60s or earlier knew how heavily contaminated the land there was. I know they remediated the site (well, skimmed off the top 3 meters of soil and replaced it), but that place had half a century of various chemicals leaching into it. Even local kids wouldn't climb the fence and play in there!

 

[hash tag]

Which side of Wandsworth bridge, Wandsworth or battersea?

 

[chillum86]

I lived in Battersea for a couple of years, this was six years ago but then I actually quite liked it. The magic garden is a decent music pub, with a fantastic outdoor space, the park is one of the best in London and clapham junction is super handy for transport.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Which side of Wandsworth bridge, Wandsworth or battersea?

Battersea side. Basically, where Tesco, all the expensive housing, Plus One Gallery is, that was all contaminated land. When the land was briefly taken over by eco-warriors and an eco-village constructed there 20 years ago, locals were very quick to tell the crusties to not eat any veggies they grew there, unless they wanted to be very ill!

 

[hash tag]

Cheers. I went to the protest site with critical mass once or twice! Did not know it was anything to do with Charringtons.

 

[oryx]

Battersea side. Basically, where Tesco, all the expensive housing, Plus One Gallery is, that was all contaminated land. When the land was briefly taken over by eco-warriors and an eco-village constructed there 20 years ago, locals were very quick to tell the crusties to not eat any veggies they grew there, unless they wanted to be very ill!

I remember the eco-warrior site - The Land Is Ours! Can't believe it was 20 years ago.

'crusties'

 

[ViolentPanda]

I remember the eco-warrior site - The Land Is Ours! Can't believe it was 20 years ago.

'crusties'

On the several occasions I visited, there were many dreadlocks, and many dogs on strings on display.

 

[oryx]

The Land Is Ours are still going:

The Land Is Ours

Interesting website, wish I had time to read it in more detail.

 

[hash tag]

Ive just been copied in on this.....Subscribe to read

"The great thing about a long-term scheme" there is no great thing about this scheme.

"But the developers have said they are looking at almost doubling the total office space." no problems with that!

"This was partly down to stamp duty changes increasing the tax on expensive homes, which Mr Tincknell said had left a “huge, huge hole in the residential market”." - nothing to do with the unnafordable and ridiculous prices being charged then.

Something good has come out of it "Prices for prime London homes fell 5.8 per cent last year, and in the most expensive areas they are down 12.5 per cent from their 2014 peak"