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Permalink Reply by Julia on August 23, 2012 at 18:17

Have you widened your search to West Green? I live easily within that walking distance of the tube and because we are not on the ladder and have the 'dreaded' N17/N15 postcode the snobs won't move here so there are lovely houses in the area which are cheaper and often bigger than on the ladder. It's their loss because we also have three fantastic parks (Belmont, Dwnhills, Lordship) and at least one very good primary school and it's genuinely lovely here. (I'm thinking of Langham, Waldeck, Stanmore, Graham, Carlingford, Mannock, and Downhills Park Roads etc.)

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Permalink Reply by Taz Gray on August 23, 2012 at 19:48

There's not a 'like' button on here for comments, but I agree with Julia. I didn't know about the stigma attached to N17/N15 postcode before I bought (shows how much research I did) but love the area, the beautiful parks, the accessible local butchers and fishmongers and don't regret it (not yet anyway). You'll definitely get good value for money if you did want tolook further from Green Lanes. Good luck :)

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Permalink Reply by Geoff Amabilino on August 23, 2012 at 22:18

And include the Woodlands Park area - about 10mins walk to Turnpike Lane, the same down to the Salisbury and 15-20mins walk to Seven Sisters.

In fact the house next door to us is for sale (3 Terront Road) but that is a largish 3-4 bed terrace so may be out of your price range - otherwise it's a nice house with quite a few original features left (and great neighbours of course!).

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on August 23, 2012 at 22:30

Forget about any perceived stigma - before long it'll be cachet.

I think the whole of Harringay is great value. but wonder if there isn't particular value in our N15 bit right now.  

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Permalink Reply by Julia on August 23, 2012 at 23:09

Not you personally, nor anyone specifically! I just meant that sometimes I do sense there's a perception that the ladder is the be all and end all (obviously perhaps since this is Harringay not Haringey online) and that anyone who lives on the Gardens or not in N4/N8 is a slightly poor relation.

Despite our alledgedly dreadful postcode we've got a lovely 3 bed house, a 70' garden with a gate at the bottom straight into the park and blackberries growing over the wall; lovely neighbours who've been kind to us since the day we moved in; friends in the adjoining street and plenty of people to say hi to; a great local primary school; the brilliant Haringey Independent Cinema, Wood Green and Turnpike Lane shops right on our doorstep; Banksy; Shepard Fairey; an easy 6-7 minute walk to Turnpike Lane tube; fab Saturday morning yoga classes a few minutes walk across Duckett's Common; and yes a very short walk to the lovely Harringay market and Green Lanes shops and restaurants too! Plus our house cost us at least £100,000 less than it would have on the ladder (trust me we looked and compared).

I guess in the same way that Hugh's a bit of an evangelist for Harringay I'm doing the same for West Green and suggesting that people come and see it before ruling it out because of what they might think it is or isn't - esecially if, as the OP suggets there are very few properties available on the ladder just now.

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Permalink Reply by Julia on August 23, 2012 at 23:43

In the church hall on Hampden Road - starting up again on 15 Sep

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on August 24, 2012 at 9:53

Yes, let's hear it for West Green! About 150 years or so ago it was a bigger and more important village than Wood Green. Sine urbanisation it seems to have lost it's identity. Even the school at its centre (Park View Academy) styles itself as being in Tottenham (though the head has assured me there are good reasons for that). It would be marvellous to see someone championing a rebirth of West Green pride.

Julia, do you have notions of roughly where you say West Green is? (I have my own, but am less clear about where people who live there think it is, particularly the northern and eastern 'boundaries').

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Permalink Reply by Julia on August 24, 2012 at 14:00

Hi Hugh,

I hadn't thought about it too much before you asked but here's the offical (well, Wikipedia at least) version in blue and my own rough view in red. I don't think I'm any kind of expert though only having lived here a couple of years. I suspect it tends to reflect how far I stray from home before thinking I'm not in West Green any more Toto!

Sorry I can't work out how to embed the map

https://maps.google.co.uk/maps/ms?msid=212768118019400650114.0004c8...

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on August 24, 2012 at 19:36

Thanks Julia. (Although don't take the Wikipedia map as official. The article's another of mine. I started it thinking a West Greener might pick it up.) However, it was mostly written back n 2007. Since then, conversations with many people and doing more local history research led me to revise my notion of where Harringay extends to in the Woodlands Park area. So - not that it really matters - I now think of Harringay as extending roughly to Cranleigh Road and north of that as West Green. I'm interested to know what people who live in that area think 

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Permalink Reply by Hugh on August 24, 2012 at 9:58

Jane,

I hope you're able to find somewhere.

Can I check about your specification of Hermitage or Harringay roads. Any reason you  pick two roads at opposite end of the neighbourhood? Harringay Road is within 10 mins of Turnpike Lane. Hermitage isn't, but is that close to Manor House. 

We've had plenty of house rentals let through the website, but to the best of my knowledge no one has yet been brave enough to try a house sale through the site. Although of course people are more than welcome to!

What's your ideal price range?

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Permalink Reply by Lou on August 24, 2012 at 16:07

We have just bought in N15 and are very happy.  I wish you best of luck - it took us ages to find a house.  In the time searchng house prices rose - there is just so much demand for afforable property and I think it is one of the last places in London you can get a house under £425k, so close to a Zone 2/3 tube station (I always walk to Manor House!). 

Oh and I used to have a flat on Hermitage - if you are looking at the Green Lanes end be prepared to have your teeth rattled as it is a container truck cut through.  I am not kidding - I used to watch them try and do u-turns when they hit the barrier and wait for one to take out the front of my building.  It is also houses a really transient population, so it never really felt like home. Best come to N15 - it is nice and quiet and the people are lovely! Close to the Sailsbury too.

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