oakhurst grove and nearby roads for a family?

[movingeast]

what's oakhurst grove like?

seems like a great location to me with LL, leisure ctr, playground, upland road etc nearby but is it safe and will there be lots of families nearby?

[EDmummy]

You'd be hard pushed to find an inch of ED that isn't full of children. We live near Oakhurst Grove and it's lovely. The important question is access to schools (which I will leave to comments from those with younger children, we got in to our school when there was less pressure). 'Safe', it's London, depends on what you mean by this but we feel safe, had a burglary 6 years ago but we love it here.

[sillywoman]

movingeast has already posted that she will only consider moving to Dulwich or ED if she can find a good private school for her daughter to go to, so catchment to any of our excellent local primary schools isn't a factor for them.

Am also interested about why having Upland Road nearby would make somewhere a 'great location'? No offense Upland roaders, your road is lovely, but the same level of lovely as any other road in ED. What's the draw there for movingeast? Is there some special thing happening on Upland that I'm missing out on?

Oakhurst Grove is a lovely area, but you'd be hard pushed to find an area in ED that isn't frankly.

[LondonMix]

Maybe they mean Northcross and the market etc rather than Upland (they might not have noticed that the name changes once you cross over Crystal Palace Rd).

[Strawbs]

I live on Oakhurst with a 16m old and I like it. Its close to the park at goose green which has a lovely little playground, a short stroll to the markets on northcross or Lordship Lane, close to the gowlett which does excellent pizza (best in ED in my opinion), close to the big peckham rye park, centrally located between peck rye and ED train stations so great for transport, 37 and 484 bus at the bottom of the street on ED road. It also has bollards which makes it less thoroughfare than it could have been. Also the Gardens surgery is just around the corner which in my view are a fantastic GP practice.

I've been broken in to twice on Oakhurst in 4 years but I think that applies to a lot of people on various streets, it is not Oakhurst specific.

[EDZ]

Its a good central location, but I think that road is about 80% flats. A number of which are counsel flats. Lived around the corner for 5 years and used to walk the road every day. There was a lovely drug dealer on it for a while....

[Jessie]

Ah those council tenants and their drug-dealing ways. Not.