Edgware is a suburban area of North London that sits mostly in the borough of Barnet but also with a small section in Harrow. Edgware offers a safe and relatively green option for famililes and young professionals, with a great selection of semi-detached properties to choose from. The last two stops on the Edgware branch of the Northern line serve the area alongside Canons Road and Queensbury stations on the Jubilee line.
The good and not so bad!
On the whole there is no problem with the local area. Transport links are good with a bus right outside that goes to Edgware station. There is no traffic noise as it’s not a through road and there is little anti social behaviour. Parking is a problem as it seems people didn’t take on board that there is no visitor parking here, so you often arrive home to find someone in your space. Many residents have had to pay out themselves to install bollards. Overall I’d say it was pleasant living here.
Please review your development:
The design of the flats seem good, the houses look a little odd and very uniform! It’s hard to know who to approach with problems as it seems Fairview, IGEM and IDS all have a hand in managing the building so it’s confusing for a lot of the residents.
The parking is an issue, there are electric charging points but they seem to have been assigned without asking if the owner of that space needs one – we certainly weren’t asked when purchasing – so it means those with electric cars have no charging points and those without electric cars have them, it seems a very ad hoc way of allocating the parking.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
We wish we had known that the block had housing association flats in it before we bought. We were of the opinion that the block was all private owners. As we were moving from a block that had housing association flats in that had caused numerous anti social behaviour problems it would have been a deal breaker for us had we been informed. It will also affect the value of our flat should we sell as the flat is not in a private block.
What is the best feature of your home:
The balcony, it gives us a whole other “room” in the summer.