It is a pretty good area. Most residents are the decent and friendly type.

There are a few issues but if you trawl this forum you will see most of them discussed.

By London standards nothing ever happens.


The only story I've heard in the last 5 or so years that affected an ordinary member of the public was a couple of people who were mugged over about a 1 month time period by the same offender. He wasn't from the area and he moved on.


The rest of the issues come down to littering, dog fouling and pizza delivery people almost running people over. It's pretty much rife anywhere in London.

Pippi, credit where credit is due. 5 stars for such an honest response.

Interesting!

I don't live in this neck of the woods but will keep an eye out.

Haha, thanks Londondrz. Still have frequent feelings of ambivalence/ guilt about being so relatively laissez-faire about it tho.....
Anyway, on a positive note, I've lived in 11 different parts of London in my life and HOP/FH is by far my favourite place I've ever lived! So friendly, pretty, peaceful, green....there's a lovely feeling of light and space, and THE VIEWS!!!!!
The positives of our lovely SE23 massively outweigh any of the niggly
negatives, imo. And big up to our fab near neighbours Sydenham and Beckenham too, excellent places that I had no idea even existed till I moved round here

Having lived on Brockley View for nearly 20 years I'm intrigued to hear we have a drug den on the road-I must have been walking round with my eyes closed! I've seen the suspicious cars parked by Blythe Hill Fields of course and assumed they are either 1. illicit couples 2. people who are too lazy to get out of their cars and actually walk their dogs or 3. drug dealers
I've never noticed random young people going in and out of one of the houses though.............

It's a nice area. I'm a home owner in the 'council estate' and my neighbours are nice people and definitely not chavs. Underprivileged and poor people are often the kindest and most decent people in my experience. They know what it is to suffer and will bend over backwards to help someone else out.

Good post pico. I have worked in 'social' housing for many years and would agree with you.

I moved here seven years ago from a now very pricey part of SW London and this area compares very favourably.

Wish there was a like button on here because I would have liked so many posts on this thread especially Pico's 😍

*blinks* The only thing I've noticed about that estate is that it's one of the few places around here where the residents aren't all WASPs. Struggling to see how they are "shady-looking"...

OP, apart from fox feeders and dog-fouling facilitators, the only other real irritant is a higher than usual quotient of "Look at me" parents, but otherwise its perfectly safe.

I didn't even know there was a council estate near HOP station. Can someone tell me where it is? I'm rather confused...

It's not really an estate - it's the set of flats on the corner of Grierson Road and Honor Oak Park.

Hi there,

Friends of mine are thinking of moving into the area. But they've heard worrying rumours that the recent influx of middle class newcomers includes a tiny lunatic fringe of mean-spirited snobs and social cleansing enthusiasts. Can anyone put their minds at rest?

Thanks!

No

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Good Lord No. Unless you are married, have children called Tarquin and Poppy, a golden Labradors called Fenton and drive a Volvo look elsewhere.

Well, I think that's settled the issue.

LOL I don't expect these replies to last long on here, but thanks for the entertainment. You took the words right out of my mouth !

Feeling a bit worried now. I've lived in the area for eighteen years but it now occurs to me that I may not meet the new and exacting requirements for the contemporary Honor Oak resident. Do I need to have that reviewed?

Does anyone know how that works? Do we all have to report to the other person's gaff for him to assess our relative worth as human beings? What does that involve? I imagine that you have to fill out some kind of multiple choice questionaire while he holds you in his penetrating gaze and runs the ''shadyometer'' up and down your body.

Bit daunting. But I suppose that's the price of progress.

I have my annual citizen of SE23 assessment next week now you mention it. Dusted off the tweed and hidden the dogs (they poo you know!!)

Fingers crossed I can pass the oral exam, I think I have the written sussed!
It is getting harder and harder to make the cut these days though. I even had to get a job as a cleaner at Ernest and Young just to get a swanky ID card to flash.