Owning your own home

https://pa.newham.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=documents&keyVal=J8ETH9JYS1000

Nevermind- this was refused.

I've been using planning permission websites a lot this past week.

Thanks. Looks like they wanted to attach another house to the house. Makes you wonder if the place next door actually had permission. Guess they must have done given that it's still there. It's incredibly bad though!

Massive rear extension too

Yes...that's what I was more interested in tbh. You could create a beast of a house by adding similar to the property for sale.

Also, looks like a good price for a large house on Capel Road. Nice place to live.

I like the idea of living opposite a huge green space. Hah we kind of do now. Not sure I want to give that up. Comes with its own special problems though.

Our flat sale is going through apparently. Feel like a bit of a passenger now. Need to start doing some serious searches.

I think the original floorplans would have been similar with different decorative sprinklings at the front. Can't understand how planning for that loft conversion was approved, it's not that it's bad per se it's just totally out of keeping with the building.

Can't understand how planning for that loft conversion was approved, it's not that it's bad per se it's just totally out of keeping with the building.

Hah yeah and the street. Although there is more modern stuff further down.

Bribe I reckon.

Same, I am not in London but where I am in East Midlands it seems everything is still coming on at the same or slightly higher price and appears to of been a bunch go STC in the last week so looks like people are buying. I am currently sat on the sidelines waiting to buy but reluctant jump in and risk taking a big haircut but don't want to be sat here in six months and missed out on decent places because I was waiting for a crash that never happened

That's not a million miles from me and round the corner from where @tbc used to live. So if you don't know the area he might be able to answer any questions you may have.

From my own knowledge that isn't the best bit of forest gate but it's far from the worst bit either.

Yeah I don’t know the area well to be fair.

Kind of feel priced out of the ‘nice’ areas of z2-z3 anyway. Sad face.

Kind of feel priced out of the ‘nice’ areas of z2-z3 anyway. Sad face.

You know where we are.

I'd say it's the joint best bit with the big houses on Hampton Road.

Further from the station and main high street but closer to the posh coffee shop and yoga studio.

The road was a bit of a rat run but has big speed bumps all along it. The green space can't be beaten and it's not far up to Wanstead Park either.

If proximity to a train or tube isn't a major priority there should be some nice places in Aldersbrook which is potentially even nicer.

We got priced out of Forest Gate as well, there are million pound houses on Capel Road now and a good three bed (needing improvement) in the conservation area nearby was upwards of £700k. This was for an area that people would inhale and say "be careful" when we said we were moving there in 2014.

So we moved to East Ham which makes people say "why the fuck would you move there?" in the hope that the same might happen again.

It amuses me that Hampton Road is apparently a desirable area now. Lived in one of the rundown drafty bastards in 2008

Parallels with Kensal Rise / Harlesden.

When we moved to Walthamstow in 1996 everyone was like "where? why?! stock up on stab proof vests".

* has a quick look *

Hmmm. I should get a run down drafty bastard

now is like waltham garden suburb, dahling

They definitely have size on their side. The living room was almost as big as my entire flat now. Plus the one we lived in had a cellar that'd be perfect for bike storage

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-69162981.html

This looks fun, and I like the way you can drive in to and park in your garden from the street. Nice.

Nice size but I find all those properties where all the period features have been gutted and you're just left with some magnolia boxes a bit depressing.

Yeah they are, I've seen a lot like that, you wondered what went on there.

I live round the corner from the capel rd house too and go running on that road several times a week They've put more speedbumps and a weird dedicated cycle lane (weird bc it's like 200m long and then just vanishes). If I was going to live on that road I'd rather be the Aldersbrook side (wanstead park avenue would be pretty nice if I could afford it)

I see a house like that and just assume it's been rented per room

Damp and TB, mostly

From the ones I've seen it's either was a cheap rental with a lick of paint or someone lived in there for 80 years, it was sold cheap to a developer and they've just gone the easy option.

Admittedly the one I'm looking to buy is something along the lines of the second but at least they left in some fireplaces and the like.

A remarkable number of houses which have had the same person living there for dozens of years seem to have had the fireplaces ripped out and replaced by shitty gas fires.