Somerleyton Road: one of London's dodgiest streets?

[William of Walworth]

However, call me a hippy, but I do believe that places have an 'energy' about them. You can feel the harmony (or disharmony) in a place, don't you think ? It's not JUST based on your own fears.

I hate to be an antihippy, but the way you express this sounds incomprehensible to me.

Yes, you can feel the safeness or not safeness of a street or place, but I don't think that's down to something so nebulous as positive or negative energy (man). The 'vibe' of a place is much more tangible ...

If an area's disharmonious/dodgy (and I've never felt too comfortable on Somerleyton myself the odd few times I've been down there late) it's very likely because cos there are dodgy fuckers hanging around with the potential to cause trouble.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Every time bar once my son has been 'out of his area' and it's always been coming home from school related (in Stockwell not Brixton) and the only time he was hurt it wasn't a robbery it was a drunk man in his thirties who randomly punched him at a bus stop a few miles away from where we live (Croydon not Brixton).

A sincere question: is random violence that common? Would most parents have similar stories to tell about their teenaged children?

 

[Pip]

A sincere question: is random violence that common? Would most parents have similar stories to tell about their teenaged children?

I think it is, especially in areas like Croydon
He's pretty unobtrusive and definitely not a fighter, but has got long hair and at 15 or 16 (when he got punched) was kind of short and babyfaced.

 

[Cowley]

I'm not sure whether it's one of London's but it's certainly one of Brixton's. I won't walk down there after dark...too dodgy...full of crack dealers & addicts...or at least it use to be.

TBH That area around Coldharbour Lane, like Moorlands Road and the other one...Loughborugh Park? all kind of give me the creeps.

 

[Bazza]

I heard a commotion last night, looked out my window and saw the aftermath of a guy getting robbed on the corner of Somerleyton and CHL last night.

Is it bad that I shut my window and thought "Not getting involved"?

I have to say, where I live, I refuse to get involved in reporting crime unless it's very serious (not had that yet) because I feel like a sitting duck for revenge where I live.

Sad state of affairs that isn't it?

 

[ChrisFilter]

4 bedroom house going for £150k just off Somerleyton Road at the moment... that just about somes it up.

 

[editor]

I heard a commotion last night, looked out my window and saw the aftermath of a guy getting robbed on the corner of Somerleyton and CHL last night.

Is it bad that I shut my window and thought "Not getting involved"?

I have to say, where I live, I refuse to get involved in reporting crime unless it's very serious (not had that yet) because I feel like a sitting duck for revenge where I live.

Sad state of affairs that isn't it?

You *should* report it you know. That way the police have less excuses not to act.

 

[detective-boy]

You *should* report it you know. That way the police have less excuses not to act.

And the likelihood of (a) anyone finding out you called or (b) doing anything even if they did are way, way smaller than people believe, especially where people are entirely unconnected with the incident (e.g the sort of situation you describe which is significantly different from the one mentioned earlier (on another thread I think) regarding the broken wall) .

 

[han]

Yes, you can feel the safeness or not safeness of a street or place, but I don't think that's down to something so nebulous as positive or negative energy (man). The 'vibe' of a place is much more tangible ...

If an area's disharmonious/dodgy (and I've never felt too comfortable on Somerleyton myself the odd few times I've been down there late) it's very likely because cos there are dodgy fuckers hanging around with the potential to cause trouble.

By 'energy', I mean 'vibe' - one and the same.

 

[sonik]

What amazes me is that the council/police whoever allow these places to get so bad, i was talking to the editor only the other day about the garage on Coldharbour Lane and how it's now just a dumping ground and hang out for crack heads with lots of dubious shady goings on. Why oh why is this kind of shit allowed to just happen?

 

[detective-boy]

Why oh why is this kind of shit allowed to just happen?

Frequently it is because there is some sort of grand plan in the offing whereby loads of money will come in to do some major re-vamp / overhaul / whatever and, until that happens, nothing else will get spent out of routine budgets unless it is absolutely essential. Unfortunately, these big plans have a habit of being deferred, put-off, re-considered, reviewed, binned by new political masters .... and sometimes never happen at all, and frequently for years.

Don't know if that is the case here, but it wouldn't surprise me - I would have expected that estate to be on one list or another ...