11th June – Day Off 🙂 I’ll edit & add the walkthrough video ASAP
I’ve made this because homeswapper has limits to pictures & how much text you can type. Videos of course are not possible on HomeSwapper.
Location
- 10 meters from one of largest parks, the view should come with a £multi-million property.
- Great place to live to access the London job market and all those opportunities.
- No road noise as a result – extremely fortunate. It’s probably within the top 3% of homes anywhere in London for lack of road-noise & feels like you could be in Totnes (the quiet parts) until you head off towards the train station.
- Riverside are trying to vacate this estate & give swappers a priority direct swap to any of their other estates https://www.riverside.org.uk/find-a-home/rent-a-home/apply-social-housing/
- If you stay, you get a brand new larger flat with 0 stairs, a balcony & £8100 government grant with all moving expenses & compensation (regeneration laws)
Immediate area overlooking park (Video coming soon)
If you stay: They’ll start building your replacement flat this summer, they’ll move you AND you get substantial compenstaion by law for inconvenience
Or direct-swap anywhere: You can stay for the new flat, or Riverside would give you preference to move directly (or a bit later if you have to wait for availability) to any of the large number of areas that they have housing. See “29 areas” link.
Beckenham: Nearest features & towns
South East London view- Beckenham is direct to Victoria Station & the underground
VIDEO – stupidly quiet, 20ft from park.
I have more videos coming soon (flat walkaround)
Bedroom from doorway (2.8m x 4.2m)
Bedroom From right window/corner
Bedroom from …….well, you know 🙂
Lounge(Office) Picture 1 (5m x 3.2m)
The cat-trees (yes, 2) and lots of office equipment would all go, of course, leaving a reasonable sized lounge for more reasonable people (unlike me)
Lounge(Office) Picture 2
But my office has a nice view and lovely bird sounds.
My cats love their custom-made “Velux Balconies” which an estate agent would tell me to remove before making photos.
PETS ALLOWED 🙂
They also apologise for the mess (“Lived-in-look”)
Lounge (Office) Picture 3
I wish it could be christmas every day. The cats and I prefer the fairy lights. I am lazy, but that’s not the reason I still have them !!
Lounge without my clutter
This is the lounge from 2013 on moving in day – before I painted & decorated & obviously added 5x more things than it was designed for. (Communal heating & hot water)
Bathroom (2m x 2m) Pic 1 – 2 Showers
(1 on communal hot water, 2nd shower is higher pressure but electric)
Bathroom Pic 2
I can leave the cabinets
Skylight is nice for air & light, but is an oven in summer (hence my “version1 composite blinds”)
Kitchen (2.2m x 3.2m) [the uncarpeted area]
Apologies for mess in coming video
Note fridge freezer recess created & skylight.
Box room door (lighting & electrics) 2mx2m
Kitchen 2nd side.
Presently a Youtube studio, 3DP & CNC workshop, Composites workshop & table.
( I will take it all with me, don’t worry !!! )
Garage
2.4m x 7m (there was 1m deep shelves behind the car when I was working on it).
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Regeneration pros & cons
- Riverside (one of the hugest Housing Associations) are keen to remove tenants fom this estate, they have 29 areas around London. They would give me your home as a swap, and be happier to put you into one of their other properties than to replace me here.
- The estate is being regenerated, the housing association has made various commitments & promises. I have seen many promises kept & many promises broken, so there are questions to ask as always, and answers needed ( and then please backed up on headed paper)
- One option is if you stayed in my flat, you should be moved into a brand new & 25% bigger property with balconies in around 2-6 years.
- Or at any time, Riverside can move you directly into any of their void properties around the country – they’re quite keen as they can sell any calverley flat for full market value, which means they will be helpful. Let them know & they’ll put you as a high “moving on” priority to one or more of those 29 areas you tell them you prefer.
- What we need to be sure of together is what your rights are. If you move here & are moved into the new flat, do you get the same rights to re-iimbursed for the carpets & other things, do you get a 2nd home loss payment of £8100 when you move? (link https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/803/made )
Flat
- One of the most sought after areas, Beckenham has a quite different character from Croydon, Penge, Crystal Palace and Orpington.
- I have a garage, and there’s plenty of off-street parking presently.
- SORRY FOR THE MESS/CLUTTER: I’d obviously be taking all the man-cave objects with me – I have a hobby-come-business start-up so my lounge and kitchen is my office,workshop, laboratory and video studio.
- I’m keen to move back to south devon, all my childhood was down there and I no longer need access to London Jobs or nightlife as I did 30 years ago.
- new to home-swap so I just have the 1st time entry as reference, where they remove anything & everything and provide a basic shell. Home swap may not be like that, I don’t know.
- I want my bed, microwaves & airfryers. The cooker & washing machine, even the fridge I’m happy to leave. You need the velux blinds & it’s fair if I recarpet throughout. But there is the regenearation to consider, so I’m not sure how that works.
- I can arrange for new carpets throughout for the right home-swap.
- See the videos for a virtual tour & commentery (and you can hear the birdsong that I am listening to right now.
Dimensions:
Height 2.2m
- Bedroom 2.8m x 4.2m (9.2ft x 13.7ft )
- Bathroom: 2m x 2m ( 6.5ft x 6.5ft)
- Lounge /Diner: 3.2m x 5m ( 10.5ft x16.5ft)
- Kitchen: 2.2m x 3.2m (7.2ft x 10.5ft)
- Box Room Off kitchen 1.8m x 2.2m ( 6ft x 7.2ft )
- Entrance & Stairs – 2m³ storage
- Hallway & 2m³ Storage Over
However, the new flat will have no stairs, a balcony and it will be 50m²