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micron_2

ringo_24601 wrote: »

Sunny - do you ever remember a wool shop called Bettys on Green street? I think it's an Afgan/Persian restaurant now

Yes, I do. It was a wool shop. Betty was a lovely lady. Her shop was piled high with all types of wool etc but she always knew where to find whatever you asked for and within seconds too!

jamespetts

I was referring to the map that you linked (which fails in Firefox but works in IE). This one, too, however, shows Shoreditch as having high levels of deprivation.

i_am_bob

jamespetts wrote: »

I was referring to the map that you linked (which fails in Firefox but works in IE). This one, too, however, shows Shoreditch as having high levels of deprivation.

Oh I see, it used to work fine in firefox.

Consider again that those Shoreditch data might actually be telling you something about Shoreditch and East London in general: deprivation lives next to wealth, more so than elsewhere. The fact that lots of wealthy people live there doesn't mean lots of poor and otherwise deprived people don't also. Those are exactly the conditions where crime tends to be highest. The numbers they're plotting are not measures of house prices, and are not simply correlated with that.

jamespetts

Hmm, but if deprivation and wealth lived next to each other, would the measures not show the average of the two, rather than just the highest possible score for deprivation?

i_am_bob

jamespetts wrote: »

Hmm, but if deprivation and wealth lived next to each other, would the measures not show the average of the two, rather than just the highest possible score for deprivation?

I don't remember how it works, have you tried to find out?

It can't be an average because it is ordinal data, and that concept isn't defined there.

Typhoon2000

For something less Victorian have a look at E16 Royal docks area. You can get 2 and 3 bed houses in your price range in the Brittania Village development by Royal Victoria dock. It also houses the Ofsted 'Outstanding' Brittania village school and another school is being built. Already has 3 DLR stations and the Cable car station, and Cross Rail is coming to Custom House.

jamespetts

The Royal Docks area is one big flood zone according to the Environment Agency's map. Thank you for the suggestion, however.

I completed my viewing marathon to-day (with the exception of the double fronted house in Manor Park, whose viewing was cancelled owing to a family emergency on the part of the vendor).

The only two that I should seriously consider of those that I viewed were this one:

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/33825475

and this one:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-47065196.html

The first is, I believe, in the Burges Estate area of East Ham, and the second is a very short distance from West Ham Park. The second one I have viewed before: I came back, with a builder, to assess the situation with the chimney breasts, as these had been removed. He checked in the loft and confirmed that the chimney breast removal had been done properly with a joist in the loft; reinstatement was possible, he said, but would be expensive - he will send me a quote.

I rather like the idea of having proper chimney breasts and having some nice coal fires (with the regulationary smokeless coal, of course) in the winter and as backup if the central heating fails, but this is not essential, and it is reassuring that the removal has been done properly.

Both are in reasonably good areas, it seems to me, although the smaller property on Boleyn Road is in a slightly better area, very near the lovely West Ham Park. That is 7 miles to work; the one in East Ham 8.6 miles to work, which is relevant given my penchant for cycling to work.

I am not entirely enamoured of the absence of porch and passageway on the Boleyn Road property, but I notice that one of the neighbours has built a rather classy porch on the front of her/his house (which is of identical style), which could replace the internal stud wall thing keeping the front door from opening straight into the living room.

The East Ham house (a probate sale, I am told) has a proper traditional porch and passageway, but a curious arrangement with the (small) kitchen and a downstairs bathroom in addition to the upstairs bathroom; the kitchen could be knocked through to the downstairs bathroom, albeit at a cost. However, this one is cheap enough that that cost may be able to be met (albeit it is an "offers over X" price, and I am told that there are already "offers over X", but not how many offers or how far over X that they are, so the actual selling price is hard to discern).

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micron wrote: »

Yes, I do. It was a wool shop. Betty was a lovely lady. Her shop was piled high with all types of wool etc but she always knew where to find whatever you asked for and within seconds too!

she still is lovely! Living in gants hill now. Oh those piles of wool will never leave my memory. They had to give away loads of it when they closed the shop

Typhoon2000

Are you looking at the Flood Map for planning which shows risk if there were no flood defences or the Map showing risk of Flood from River or Sea (Most of London is in the Very Low category)

MysteryMe

I grew up Forest Gate/ East Ham and not aware of any flood risk. I still go to the area regularly because I watch West Ham. Never any flooding, the Thames Barrier is not there as a tourist attraction.