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hpsaucey Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ditto - moved from ed to nunhead 15 years ago. > More peaceful, great pubs, community feel. Just > walk across park to east dulwich or peckham. > Surrounded by green spaces from park to one tree > hill etc. > > Love it here! > > HP > > gerranks Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > try nunhead used to live in dulwich Funny you should mention Nunhead... we?ve been thinking about there too... but didn?t want to attract the pitchforks by mentioning it on the ED Forum. It seems like Nunhead is ED?s little sibling. Smaller but similar, slightly cheaper and with similar housing stock. My only worry is... are the schools as good? Ivydale seems to be the best bet but also seems pretty big to me. Might be a bit overwhelming for a kid? Are there others that were highly rated?

Coach Beth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Do bear in mind that as your baby is now just > under 5 months old, that you will find a schools > reputation can change between now and then. But > as you say in your first post there are many great > schools in East Dulwich - also near Bellenden > Road, you have St.Johns & St. Clements, Goose > Green Primary (had some problems but under > leadership of Simon Wattam, the school has > improved dramatically and Bellenden School (not > The Belham but another state school very near). > You also will find you form your own options as > you do the inevitable school tours in a few years. This is a great point... it?s obviously a bit mad to be thinking of schools so early but I guess that?s just part of living in London? It does seem like ED gives us a good chance of finding (and getting into) a school we like in 4/5 years time...

scarlettbanks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > benschiffer Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > > > I love Bellenden Road but had missed Belham > > Primary somehow. It looks great though, so > we'll > > definitely consider this. Thanks! > > > Yes, we had originally missed it too, perhaps > because it's newer than some (in its 6th year now) > and away from Lordship Lane, but it was our > favourite of the primary schools we visited. Our > kids attend now, and it has fantastic leadership > and teachers, it manages to be both > fun/arty/nurturing and academically stimulating, > and the kids seem very happy. > > Bellenden Rd and the surrounding streets have a > lovely feel to them - we prefer vs Lordship Lane - > although I can see why others like LL. Also, there > are certain streets which seem close enough to get > admission to both The Belham and then Charter ED > for secondary school. I just looked up Charter ED. Also looks really interesting. This message board is basically sorting out our kids education! If you can be bothered, I?d love to know what streets you recommend we target...

scarlettbanks Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Also consider the Bellenden Rd area - in Peckham > but close to East dulwich. Nice shopping street > (smaller, less busy than Lordship Lane), better > commute to central London (Peckham Rye station), > near trendy bits of Peckham and good restaurants > etc. Our kids go to The Belham Primary and love > it. Price probably similar to ED these days, or > slightly less. I love Bellenden Road but had missed Belham Primary somehow. It looks great though, so we'll definitely consider this. Thanks!

KidKruger Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > ED is nowhere near the best place in the world, > but if you gotta live in London you could do > worse. > Obvious question is - if you only need to go into > town once or twice a week and not during rush hour > WHY choose ED, when you could be further out, have > more space/bigger house and possibly better > quality of life ?! This makes total sense... but the truth is, I've lived in London basically all my life. I've never been more than about 15 minutes walk from a Tube Station. Even ED feels a bit far out for me... so I don't think I'm ready for the proper suburbs!

Thanks so much for all your responses. I didn't really expect much, so this is great.

Hello, Firstly... Merry Christmas! Secondly... I'm not quite sure what sort of response this is going to get but I'll give it a whirl anyway. My wife and I are thinking of moving to ED soon. We had a little boy 4 and a half months ago, currently live in Myatts Field in Camberwell. We're pretty happy in the area but are upstairs neighbours are a complete nightmare, so are hoping to buy our first house. I'm convinced East Dulwich is the place to be. I love Lordship Lane. Peckham Rye's close for dog walks. The biggest selling point seems to be schools. There are threads on this forum worrying about which of the four amazing Primary Schools people should send their kids too. The only drawback I can see is transport... but for context, neither my wife nor I are commuters. We go into Central London on average once or twice a week but very rarely at rush hour. I've seen threads complaining about the transport but my sense is that if I'm not trying to get to an office at 9am, it'll probably be alright? I'm kind of presuming anyone hanging around on the ED Forum is going to be pretty pro but... I'm just putting it out there. Is ED really the best place in the world? Or should we move to Kensal Rise or Walthamstow instead? Thank you for bearing with me and... again... Happy Christmas. Ben