Reply to: Boomed! Wandsworth is now a prime property location

[sasguru]

Probably, I remembered it from crimewatch. I thought it was from Wandsworth/Balham area.

Ah Balham - yes too close to Streatham.

[sasguru]

To play devil's advocate for a moment, Sas is right about Wandsworth being rather large and covering a wide demographic. Wikipedia says it's population is about 284,000 which is slightly more than Dim's very own Newcastle. I've lived in various parts of Wandsworth for about 5 years now and never had any trouble.

Where do you live Bunk?

[Moscow Mule]

Is this the one you mean? Its in North London.
Sounds horrific.

Heavily pregnant woman raped in her own home by armed gang | Mail Online

Probably, I remembered it from crimewatch. I thought it was from Wandsworth/Balham area.

[Bunk]

To play devil's advocate for a moment, Sas is right about Wandsworth being rather large and covering a wide demographic. Wikipedia says it's population is about 284,000 which is slightly more than Dim's very own Newcastle. I've lived in various parts of Wandsworth for about 5 years now and never had any trouble.

[sasguru]

Is this the one you mean? Its in North London.
Sounds horrific.

Heavily pregnant woman raped in her own home by armed gang | Mail Online

[sasguru]

Just as well you haven't got a flashy motor.

Isn't that the area where that gang broke into a house, beat up the husband, raped his pregnant wife and stole his S5?

Didn't hear about that.

Sure it wasn't Battersea? There's always stuff going on in Battersea.

[Moscow Mule]

Don't be a pleb. Like most boroughs in London Wandsworth is large and encompasses several, shall we say, income brackets.
Never seen anything in years in my area.
Thanks for taking the trouble to look it up though

Just as well you haven't got a flashy motor.

Isn't that the area where that gang broke into a house, beat up the husband, raped his pregnant wife and stole his S5?

[sasguru]

It sounds loverly.

Knife crime and muggings rise but police hail stop-and-search | News

A drugs gang led by a convicted robber which made £100,000 a month was smashed after police mounted a “Wire-style” investigation involving covert surveillance and officers posing as addicts.

The Stick 'Em Up Kids, which controlled the flow of cocaine and heroin in Wandsworth, was run by Musa Mohammed, on licence after being released from a four-year jail term. Mohammed, who goes by the street name Mikey, has 10 previous convictions for charges including armed robbery and drugs offences, and was only released in February last year — two months before the investigation started. His gang is also suspected in connection with a murder of a teenager in 2006.

In a four-month period, five undercover officers made 32 deals. They became so trusted that dealers would contact them to let them know “we've got good stuff”, Kingston crown court heard. When police arrested the gang in August and seized their phones they found that more than 25,000 calls regarding drugs had been made during the time they were under surveillance.

The gang paid £40 a day to runners as young as 15 for their services. A total of 13 youths pleaded guilty to dealing drugs between May and August last year.

Mohammed, 23, was due to be sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs today.

His gang members were given sentences ranging from five years to 24 months.


Shopkeeper sees off robbers with handful of chilli powder | News

Police linking spate of shop robberies in Wandsworth (From This Is Local London)

Woman attacked by knife-wielding thug in Tooting Bec Common (From Wandsworth Guardian)

Wandsworth home to more gun owners than any other borough in London (From This Is Local London)

Don't be a pleb. Like most boroughs in London Wandsworth is large and encompasses several, shall we say, income brackets.
Never seen anything in years in my area.
Thanks for taking the trouble to look it up though

[DimPrawn]

It sounds loverly.

Knife crime and muggings rise but police hail stop-and-search | News

A drugs gang led by a convicted robber which made £100,000 a month was smashed after police mounted a “Wire-style” investigation involving covert surveillance and officers posing as addicts.

The Stick 'Em Up Kids, which controlled the flow of cocaine and heroin in Wandsworth, was run by Musa Mohammed, on licence after being released from a four-year jail term. Mohammed, who goes by the street name Mikey, has 10 previous convictions for charges including armed robbery and drugs offences, and was only released in February last year — two months before the investigation started. His gang is also suspected in connection with a murder of a teenager in 2006.

In a four-month period, five undercover officers made 32 deals. They became so trusted that dealers would contact them to let them know “we've got good stuff”, Kingston crown court heard. When police arrested the gang in August and seized their phones they found that more than 25,000 calls regarding drugs had been made during the time they were under surveillance.

The gang paid £40 a day to runners as young as 15 for their services. A total of 13 youths pleaded guilty to dealing drugs between May and August last year.

Mohammed, 23, was due to be sentenced for conspiracy to supply Class A drugs today.

His gang members were given sentences ranging from five years to 24 months.


Shopkeeper sees off robbers with handful of chilli powder | News

Police linking spate of shop robberies in Wandsworth (From This Is Local London)

Woman attacked by knife-wielding thug in Tooting Bec Common (From Wandsworth Guardian)

Wandsworth home to more gun owners than any other borough in London (From This Is Local London)

[sasguru]

I'm sure...

I hope you've started saving for school fees. The Secondary schools round there are tulipe.

We are indeed. Luckily have no mortgage.

[sasguru]

Overlooking the A214? Doesn't that get a bit noisy? That's closer to Earlsfield or Tooting. Besides, that article is talking about Wandsworth Town, which is the bit beside the river. That's where most of the bankers are moving; into the new riverside apartments and penthouses around there. Too modern for some people, yes, but you don't expect the bankers to have taste do you?

Its very quiet where I live. I like the bit around Bellevue - much nicer than the modern soulless apartments on the river, as you rightly note.

[Moscow Mule]

No not near the nick.
And there are no "bargains" in that area.

I'm sure...

I hope you've started saving for school fees. The Secondary schools round there are tulipe.

[Bunk]

Our house is in the nice bit facing the common, visible from Bellevue Road.
That's better than the river bit IMHO.

HTH

Overlooking the A214? Doesn't that get a bit noisy? That's closer to Earlsfield or Tooting. Besides, that article is talking about Wandsworth Town, which is the bit beside the river. That's where most of the bankers are moving; into the new riverside apartments and penthouses around there. Too modern for some people, yes, but you don't expect the bankers to have taste do you?

[sasguru]

Near the nick then? Bargains to be had there obviously...

No not near the nick.
And there are no "bargains" in that area.

Found a fascinating history in which a picture of our house appears (no its not the windowless Tooting one):

What is Gentrification?

[Moscow Mule]

Our house is in the nice bit facing the common, visible from Bellevue Road.
That's better than the river bit IMHO.

HTH

Near the nick then? Bargains to be had there obviously...