SWITCHED ON REGIONAL FOCUS London’s SW postcodes offer not only better value than many of their capital counterparts, but also an identifiably different set of lifestyle choices he swathe of London below the gentle western curves of the Thames has achieved an extraordinary transformation in recent years. So much so that house hunters who would have previously barely clocked places like Balham, Brixton, Streatham, Tooting, and Wandsworth now clamour for homes in these revived urban areas. Where students, artists and media folk once cherished SW London’s less polished streets and low housing costs, now a much wider range of house hunters are seeking out its fashionable haunts, discovering its more affordable nooks and crannies, and cherishing the wider streets and rolling green parks, which has reshaped the area’s housing market, retail, leisure facilities, pubs, restaurants and cafés. Parks have had a huge role to play. Almost every area of SW London has a substantial green space and, in some cases, lidos too, including Brockwell Park near Brixton; Clapham, Streatham, Wandsworth and Tooting commons; Wimbledon Park and also Putney Heath – to name a few. And let’s not forget the colossal redevelopment of the formerly industrial riverside area of Nine Elms and its
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