Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Advice Please: Expats leaving Tanzania for Harringay
Hello! We are a family from Northwest London and the US originally who are just finishing up a two year posting in Tanzania. We have a two year old daughter and are looking to settle in a child friendly community with safe open spaces and decent housing. We were renting in Camden before we left so are painfully aware of just how overpriced London can be but there seems to be hope on the Harringay Ladder! Or at least there was when David Sexton wrote the Evening Standard article. Is it still possible to get a three to four bedroom house for between £450,000 and £600,000? We've been looking at Zoopla and Right Move etc are are hoping to get some local advice as trying to get a sense of a neighbourhood in London while you're sweltering in East Africa feels very disjointed. Looking at this site has been great so far as it has a real sense of community. Mumsnet has also been very helpful. We're leaving here June 29th and are looking for a place to rent on the South end of the ladder immediately on arrival for about six weeks while we settle back to the UK and get a feel for the area, GP's, pre schools etc, then rent somewhere for about six months and then hopefully buy.
I see that people offer short term accommodation here as well so does anyone have a two/three bedroom house or flat on the south end of the ladder that we could rent short term from the beginning of July? And are there any estate agents locally that people have had good experiences with? Lots of questions and any advice gratefully received!
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Permalink Reply by Allie on
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Hi Vanessa,
Great choice of area. As a mother of two (3yrs and 1yrs) it is great for kids with loads of parks, two great primary schools and loads of families. A decent pub, great food, local farmers market etc etc.
There is a good nursery but at the other end of the ladder - Orange Day nursery. We have used Paul Simon estate agents and they are v good. Property prices are a bit crazy but you should be able to get something for your budget.
Hopefully you just bring the sunshine!
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Hi Allie,
I'll do my best but hopefully leave the mosquitos and snakes behind!! I'll get in touch with Paul Simon. Which are the good primary schools? I've been looking at Ofsted reports but they never tell the whole story.
Many thanks!
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Permalink Reply by ElleCarumba on
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You should be aware that due to a London-wide baby boom and increasing attractiveness of local schools, your primary schools choices are likely to be very much limited by where you live. Schools (non-religious) allocate places on basis of distance from the school. You can find out how far the furthest pupil who gained a place lived from the school during the last round of admissions from the local education authority but obviously the distance changes a bit each year depending on number of children that year and how many are sibilings of existing pupils (siblings get priority).
Consequently, you are only likely to get a place in your nearest primary school ( and even then, there were some roads in the area last year where pupils didn't get places in any of the local schools because they fell between two areas)
But all the local primaries are fine, so don't worry too much about whether one is marginally better than the other.
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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I thought this might help, my son has just been offered a place and this info came with the place offer letter. What is interesting is that the catchment for South Harringay is twice what it was last year, something like 250m (3 streets) last year. Also of note, attesting to the baby boom observation, the number of sibling related places.
On schools, I am not sure how old your kids (do you have more than the one 2 year old?) are, but we love South Harringay Infants, I believe Chestnuts is a pretty good Primary, and N Harringay is just as good a school. Chestnuts might win on the fact it is a primary so you have continuity infants to juniors, but the big question is possibly access to secondary schools around here- I am not sure we are served particularly well on that front. Worth bearing in mind.
All in all coming to the area is a good choise. We have been here 9 years, and I really have no desire to go anywhere else. Its a great spot to be and bring up kids.
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Hi Vanessa,
Just to echo thoughts below most of the primaries are v good but you don't really get to choose,. South Harringay Primary and North Primary Harringay are both good and at different ends of the ladder. The only thing to bear in mind that some of the roads in the middle of the ladder sometimes fall between the catchment areas. I would also definitely look at the north end of the ladder too for housing as it is cheaper and actually much closer to the Tube
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