London NW9 - Word on the street
What is it really like to live in London NW9?
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Word On The Street: London NW9
04 July 2006
Roe Green village is a fab place to live in Kingsbury ...
... It's a beautiful place to live, green and leafy. Modelled on Hampstead Garden suburbs, at a fraction of the price.
The community is really alive, with a fully functioning residents committee who are responsible for organising village fetes on the green, a village newsletter and other events.
A hidden gem and I love it!
Word On The Street: Kingsbury
20 June 2005
We've lived in Kingsbury for several years and have enjoyed living in the area...
It has brilliant primary and secondary schools. There are so many local parks and near to the Welsh Harp and of course a stone throw away from the new Wembley Stadium! It's lovely for all members of the family.
22 November 2002
Property speculation is really beginning to build in the best roads in Kingsbury...
Salmon Street is undoubtedly leading the charge. I have heard that Bellway and Barratt are offering up to £200,000 premiums on pairs of semis to build £750,000 5 bed luxury homes.
19 April 2002
Kingsbury should be high up on every property speculator's list...
Because of its proximity to central London and its relatively affordable prices in comparison to some of the surrounding areas Kingsbury is poised to take a large leap upwards. It is no coincidence that Bellway, Barratt and Laing have snapped up a large number of sites to build luxury apartments and houses. Salmon Street is the finest road in the area.
I know that Preston Bennett (of Stanmore) are offering inhabitants a premium to sell so that they can replace these typically 3 and 4 bed semis with luxurious 4 - 5 bed houses starting at £600k. Watch this space.
14 February 2002
Kingsbury NW9 is beginning to be the most desirable location to live in bar none...
It has an eclectic mix of cultural identities with a strong sense of community. The architecture in the area is imaginative at its worst and breathtaking at its finest. Who can fail to be impressed by the Castle flats at Buck Lane? If nightlife is your thing be prepared to be energized at The Green Man, Kingsbury's answer to Mezzo at London's Wardour Street. Sample exotic Indian Karahi at the Lahoria.
07 November 2001
I live in Kingsbury, just off Church Lane...
It's close enough for Sainsburys (Hendon), Kingsbury Road, the Gym, Wembley Market. Good parks for children & enough greenery.
It's just far away enough when there's any major events, close enough to walk if you're going. You have Wembley Park as the nearest Station & decent enough bus services.
From Church Lane you're not far from Brent Cross/Neasden/Wembley for whatever shopping.
A Fun Fair & Steam Fair once a year.
Kingsbury was considered boring many years back, but now everyone seems to know it with no problem living there. Even people who move away always seem to come back and if you have to walk at night you still feel safe.
Good primary schools (Fryent/Oliver Goldsmith/Kingsbury Green) & Kingsbury High School gets better.
KINGSBURY: Busy or quiet, it's what you make it, but you'll like it.
15 August 2001
I have lived in Colindale for a year and a half now...
...and I absolutely love it. It is clean and very accessible in many, many ways and I have a particularly soft spot for the place because I met my wife there! It's great.
04 July 2001
I love Colindale....
It's full of sweet old people who do their neighbourhood watch thing, and as there is no local high school, there are no dodgy teenagers knocking about (only us nice residential ones).
Colindale has newsagents, travel agents, pubs, and car showrooms (about 10 of each)and nobody wants to visit because it's BORING, but it is peaceful. It's well supplied with public transport - you can get to central London or Watford on a bus.
Colindale JMI primary school is the best in London, nay, England (you have to see the new bench arrangement in the junior playground - it's so posh). Colindale has two parks, one's great the other one isn't.
As far as jobs are concerned, I haven't really looked, but unless you want to sell cars, pints, holidays or sweets, I would look somewhere else (and you'd have NOTHING to do in your lunchbreak).
Kingsbury is almost as great as Colindale. It smells really nice in Kingsbury (because it's on a hill) and there are some very desirable homes up there. The part with the shops is less nice, and the tube station is on the Jubilee line which is amazingly slow after Finchley Road, and doesn't get you to the places in London that you want to get to.
I am actually about to leave sunny Colindale, much to my disappointment :( because it really is a nice place to live. (oh and everybody seems to own a cat or two, so if you're scared of them, I'd avoid Colindale like the plague).
