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Kidbrooke
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Henry Irving said:cantersaddick said:golfaddick said:cantersaddick said:Rob7Lee said:Where about's are you looking?
Problem is the 2 train stations you need to commute into are on 2 different lines. I live in Swanley, which is on the Victoria line, and it's a bugger if you want to get into London Bridge. I'm not sure if there are many areas that would serve both lines.
Not much there has come up a few times and is precisely why I started this thread. Useful information thanks. We are planning on visiting the area and viewing one (currently empty) place in the next week or so to get more of a feel for the area.
We've looked at other areas on and off in the last year, including places like st Mary cray as well as awful options like Bromley and Croydon!
You wait till you have kids and you'll be begging to get them into a Bromley school.kids are a long way off...
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Kidbrooke has changed alot since I lived on the outskirts of the ferrier (towards Eltham) however personally I'd move a few stops down the same train line, much for value for money to be had and in a few years you'll be doing exactly that I reckon....might as well cut out the moving twice now.0
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The other thing I would say is that it's in a great location for outdoor adventure. We regularly take the kids out for walks up to Greenwich park and blackheath, up to Oxleas woods, up to eltham park and the well hall pleasance and round the corner to Sutcliffe park. Theres no shortage of green space around the area.
We live just off the Rochester way (Tilbrook Road) and it is absolutely perfect for family life. I gre up more near shooters hill (Dursley road) and that area is nice too but I prefer where I am now.2 -
be very wary of buying the shared ownership houses there - have heard some nightmare stories about trying to sell them on.0
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kidbrookeaddick said:The other thing I would say is that it's in a great location for outdoor adventure. We regularly take the kids out for walks up to Greenwich park and blackheath, up to Oxleas woods, up to eltham park and the well hall pleasance and round the corner to Sutcliffe park. Theres no shortage of green space around the area.
We live just off the Rochester way (Tilbrook Road) and it is absolutely perfect for family life. I gre up more near shooters hill (Dursley road) and that area is nice too but I prefer where I am now.0 -
SE10Addick said:be very wary of buying the shared ownership houses there - have heard some nightmare stories about trying to sell them on.1
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Thanks all, some really useful info. Much food for thought.0
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Lovely place to live, just a tad expensive for what you get but I guess that's London property these days!
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kidbrookeaddick said:I've lived in Kidbrooke most of my life. Moved to plum stead for 5 years and could not wait to get back.
Most of Kidbrooke is nice and quiet. The road I live on very rarely has any trouble and most of the neighbours happily stop for a chat.
As you said it is great for transport links, you've got 2 buses that take you to north greenwich station which run regularly, kidrooke station and the A2 all nice and close.
Kidbrooke Village for the most part is really nice and they are still building on it and once complete they will be upgrading the station too.
Not sure what else there is to say really other than I have 3 kids and me and they wife see the area as a great and safe place to bring them up
I always wondered how you chose your user name.7 -
The new park there is really nice too, great if you have kids.
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Just out of interest, where did Greenwich council rehouse the former residents of the Ferrier ? Must have been thousands living there.0
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They opened a Youngs pub there last year which was the main thing it was lacking. It's a bit quiet but decent enough, has a quiz every thursday as well0
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Don't do it. It's nothing more than an overly priced over-spill from the extremely pretentious Blackheath, with it's parents that don't believe in barbers and who love giving their children stupid names.8
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alan dugdale said:Just out of interest, where did Greenwich council rehouse the former residents of the Ferrier ? Must have been thousands living there.
Quite a lot of the properties adjacent to Sutcliffe park (where Greenwich Borough FC used to be), I believe a lot of those were people that have been rehoused from Ferrier.
Friend of mine told me a lot were rehoused in Mottingham too.
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cantersaddick said:SE10Addick said:be very wary of buying the shared ownership houses there - have heard some nightmare stories about trying to sell them on.
And if buying leasehold READ YOUR LEASE and find out about maintenance/service charges, rules, regulations etc.1 -
Canters - don't forget to check this site - check the street you are interested in.
We did before buying a place, and noticed one potential purchase was on a street with a huge ASB rate - turned out it was a route from a flat roofed pub to the 'hood. ;-)
https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/blackheath/?tab=CrimeMap
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Big_Bad_World said:Don't do it. It's nothing more than an overly priced over-spill from the extremely pretentious Blackheath, with it's parents that don't believe in barbers and who love giving their children stupid names.Baldybonce said:cantersaddick said:SE10Addick said:be very wary of buying the shared ownership houses there - have heard some nightmare stories about trying to sell them on.
And if buying leasehold READ YOUR LEASE and find out about maintenance/service charges, rules, regulations etc.MrWalker said:Canters - don't forget to check this site - check the street you are interested in.
We did before buying a place, and noticed one potential purchase was on a street with a huge ASB rate - turned out it was a route from a flat roofed pub to the 'hood. ;-)
https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/blackheath/?tab=CrimeMap1 -
Surely one of the finest examples of pub architecture ever created. In fairness, when it was built, it was next to a supermarket, newsagent, post office, doctors surgery, library and a branch of NatWest - everything that was required for the local community. We moved onto the brand new Ferrier in c. 1974. Even now my mum says how lovely it was, how spacious the flats were and how the people were all, actually, very nice. Unfortunately, it didnt stay that way for long (we moved out in 1976...)
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Flat roof.
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DaveMehmet said:kidbrookeaddick said:I've lived in Kidbrooke most of my life. Moved to plum stead for 5 years and could not wait to get back.
Most of Kidbrooke is nice and quiet. The road I live on very rarely has any trouble and most of the neighbours happily stop for a chat.
As you said it is great for transport links, you've got 2 buses that take you to north greenwich station which run regularly, kidrooke station and the A2 all nice and close.
Kidbrooke Village for the most part is really nice and they are still building on it and once complete they will be upgrading the station too.
Not sure what else there is to say really other than I have 3 kids and me and they wife see the area as a great and safe place to bring them up
I always wondered how you chose your user name.
did you get yours because you were shit at football?4 - Sponsored links:
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LargeAddick said:DaveMehmet said:kidbrookeaddick said:I've lived in Kidbrooke most of my life. Moved to plum stead for 5 years and could not wait to get back.
Most of Kidbrooke is nice and quiet. The road I live on very rarely has any trouble and most of the neighbours happily stop for a chat.
As you said it is great for transport links, you've got 2 buses that take you to north greenwich station which run regularly, kidrooke station and the A2 all nice and close.
Kidbrooke Village for the most part is really nice and they are still building on it and once complete they will be upgrading the station too.
Not sure what else there is to say really other than I have 3 kids and me and they wife see the area as a great and safe place to bring them up
I always wondered how you chose your user name.
did you get yours because you were shit at football?0 -
E_cafc said:They opened a Youngs pub there last year which was the main thing it was lacking. It's a bit quiet but decent enough, has a quiz every thursday as well1
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I had sampled their expansive range of world lagers, legendary real ales and Michelin rated comestibles in my time. Were you the regular being sick by the bar with the three legged dog on a bit if string?1
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LargeAddick said:DaveMehmet said:kidbrookeaddick said:I've lived in Kidbrooke most of my life. Moved to plum stead for 5 years and could not wait to get back.
Most of Kidbrooke is nice and quiet. The road I live on very rarely has any trouble and most of the neighbours happily stop for a chat.
As you said it is great for transport links, you've got 2 buses that take you to north greenwich station which run regularly, kidrooke station and the A2 all nice and close.
Kidbrooke Village for the most part is really nice and they are still building on it and once complete they will be upgrading the station too.
Not sure what else there is to say really other than I have 3 kids and me and they wife see the area as a great and safe place to bring them up
I always wondered how you chose your user name.
did you get yours because you were shit at football?0 -
SporadicAddick said:Surely one of the finest examples of pub architecture ever created. In fairness, when it was built, it was next to a supermarket, newsagent, post office, doctors surgery, library and a branch of NatWest - everything that was required for the local community. We moved onto the brand new Ferrier in c. 1974. Even now my mum says how lovely it was, how spacious the flats were and how the people were all, actually, very nice. Unfortunately, it didnt stay that way for long (we moved out in 1976...)
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Have you considered Westcombe Park? Not sure what choice of trains you get from the station these days. Back in the day was always London Bridge, Waterloo, Charing Cross but I'm going back to the eighties.
Thing is it's an SE3 Post Code and close to Greenwich (and the Docklands Light Railway if relevant too).
@Len\'s_little_girl has spoken of it as a possibility if she comes back to Blighty permanently.0 -
cashncarry said:When I lived there Kate Adie was our Avon lady.My mate was a rear gunner on the Milk Float0
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AFKABartram said:There’s a new Youngs pub there that opened last year called The Depot that looks decent
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Some of the cheaper housing in Kidbrooke is ex-Council Housing stock around Kidbrooke School. You have slightly better properties on Broad Walk and then there’s Kidbrooke Village0
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MrWalker said:Canters - don't forget to check this site - check the street you are interested in.
We did before buying a place, and noticed one potential purchase was on a street with a huge ASB rate - turned out it was a route from a flat roofed pub to the 'hood. ;-)
https://www.police.uk/pu/your-area/metropolitan-police-service/blackheath/?tab=CrimeMap
Bexley 73
Chislehurst 84
Sidcup 104
Eltham 137
Bexleyheath 195
Bromley 325
Wouldn't want to live in Bromley. Imagine how bad their figures would have been if we hadn't all been in lockdown for most of the month!3