Neither Kew nor Richmond - outside my bank balance. More west west Chiswick, north Kew, south Ealing area.
sounds like Brentford. This is my old stomping ground in my youth. Nice area with lots of riverside pubs. Housing stock there has been very desirable, but band F is high for a flat in that area.
You would not recognise the place now. Even since I left it has changed - all the old docks and even the river side of the high street have been replaced by new flats. Expensive new flats.
https://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/72659240/?search_identifier=9e3255436d04a9f0648b537e8db3b128cfd8ad5a1d4a63e09aa5090af290ad7d
I’ve driven through there in recent years and it’s changing every day. Any inch of land is being used for building. I’m so glad to have escaped from legoland
Indeed, I share that view. It is now identi-kit blocks of flats from Kew Bridge, through Brentford and Isleworth and into Hounslow. Thousands of flats - with little improvement in local transportation, or services, or sewerage. But, bringing it almost back on topic, Hounslow council must be raking in millions from new properties all coughing up substantial council tax. Apparently Hounslow has seen an average of 1,200 new properties a year and 13% more residents over 10 years.
But on the positive side Brentford FC is in the top 10 in the premiership.
the incentive isn’t the council tax but the community infrastructure levies they charge developers which are meant to be to fund the underlying services for these overdevelopments but undoubtedly end up funding local authority deficits. Who checks what these funds are being used for?
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