Evening Standard Homes & Property 20 October 2010: Our property expert Anthea Masey finds Del Boy’s old stomping ground has culture and residents ready to rock Today, Peckham is a bustling multicultural melting pot of a neighbour-hood... Only a few yards away from the crowds along the main shopping street, Rye Lane, there are quiet streets of charming Victorian houses clustered around Bellenden Road. This is the area made famous by the arts-led Bellenden renewal scheme, a £12 million, 10-year improvement project promoted by the local council with the active participation of local residents.
Evening Standard Homes & Property 20 October 3010
Our property expert Anthea Masey finds Del Boy’s old stomping ground has culture and residents ready to rock
Today, Peckham is a bustling multicultural melting pot of a neighbour-hood. It is where colourful West African shops rub shoulders with quiet conservation areas, cutting-edge art galleries, the famous Will Alsop-designed green- pod-on-stilts library building, outdoor cinema festivals and this summer’s most fashionable pop-up restaurant on the top floor of a concrete multi-storey car park, from where one of London’s best sunsets could be seen.
Only a few yards away from the crowds along the main shopping street, Rye Lane, there are quiet streets of charming Victorian houses clustered around Bellenden Road. This is the area made famous by the arts-led Bellenden renewal scheme, a £12 million, 10-year improvement project promoted by the local council with the active participation of local residents.
Along Bellenden Road, look out for bollards designed by artist Antony Gormley, who at that time had a studio in the area, and street lights and mosaics by local artist Tom Phillips. And at the top end of East Dulwich Road there are bollards, a bus shelter and street lights designed by Zandra Rhodes, featuring her trademark shocking pink. There is also a pocket park designed by TV gardener Charlie Dimmock and a scheme of unifying garden walls and railings along Maxted Road. Read Evening Standard