Peckham Village - the new East Dulwich?

[DVdad]

From The Times:

...Bellenden Road. ?It thinks of itself as East Dulwich,? says one local estate agent. ?It has street upon street of lovely Victorian houses with gardens and a shopping parade.? Nunhead is similar but ?sleepier?... Young professionals are arriving from the more expensive Clapham and East Dulwich.

[citizenED]

It has been the "new" East Dulwich for at least 6 years.

[Huggers]

no we don't think of ourselves as the new East Dulwich over here in Peckham village; we think of ourselves as the new Notting Hill.

[tomchance]

I like the idea of someone arriving in Bellenden from East Dulwich!

[????]

I like the idea of taking anything an Estate Agent says seriously

[Brendan]

Estate agents should not be allowed to use adjectives. They clearly aren?t qualified.

[legalbeagle]

Brendan Wrote:

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> Estate agents should not be allowed to use

> adjectives. They clearly aren?t qualified.

Why do you care? You're moving to Surrey!

[sulk]

[Brendan]

That's, Fucking Surrey!

[Jah Lush]

More estate agents bollocks. Jeez! Recently I read some bilge about Herne Hill. "It's not a place, it's a way of life." Wankers!

[legalbeagle]

Brendan Wrote:

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> That's, @#$%& Surrey!

Wotever.

[continues sulk]

[woofmarkthedog]

Bellenden Rd...

The stinkbridge between Peckham & East Dulwich

W**F

[Huggers]

''The stinkbridge between Peckham & East Dulwich ''

yes I'm afraid we had to dig that to keep the bugaboos out of Peckham village.

[Jah Lush]

"Peckham Village", proper arsewank Estate agent speak. It's Peckham whichever way you look at it.

[Huggers]

you mean it's not a village? better retrieve my sheep from Warwick Park.

[woofmarkthedog]

Jah

Didn't it used to be called "Print Village" at some point ?

Though see the cars they drive down there at "Stinkbridge"

Very "Peckham" wouldn't you say ?

You don't see many of those on LSL

W**F

[charliecharlie]

I think Peckham Village is the name they gave to part of the redevelopment of the North Peckham Estate and is not the Bellenden area (which tends to be called the Bellenden Road area!!!)

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/house-and-home/property/more-for-your-money-bellenden-road-peckham-london-se15-469889.html

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01072/property-graphics-_1072894a.jpg

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2653845.stm

"In Peckham, south-east London, famous for Del Boy and Rodney, you will now find Peckham Village. It's the name given to a redevelopment of formerly tough estates into low-rise housing with gardens, but it doesn't cut any mustard with former estate agent Steve Wright.

"If you said you lived in Peckham Village, you would expect to find a duck pond, everyone playing cricket and knowing each other in the village pub," he says.

One local resident was less kind: "It's a dump. You can call it Peckham Village. You can call it whatever you like. It's still a dump," she said.

[tomchance]

It's made all the more silly by the fact the Peckham was at one point a village, then in the 19th century grew rapidly to be a town centre with a major shopping parade and has remained urban ever since.

Perhaps the estate agents are trying to re-establish the role of village idiot?

[TheAllSeeingEye]

Im an esate agent, and I go more along the dump route than the village route .... :-)