Lunar wrote:
Highpoint Village was a pipe dream, I wonder if the Hillingdon Council are happy with the type of residents that are living there - Private Landlords dream that we are all paying for. I wonder what the future of the hotel is going to be.
I think the Irish lads who own Ballymore Developments dreamt up Highpoint Village after one pint of the black stuff too many at Cheltenham, there's a You Tube clip of the place with all the 'Hayesness' of the surrounding area airbrushed out.
Who in their right mind envisages young, urban professional types, hipsters and students flocking to this place, not saying gentrification is without it's own pros and cons, but the areas of London that do get made over and moved into tend to be in Zone 3, have tube access and a metropolitan flow of people and traffic.
If anything, with the bedroom tax they'll send all the dross out of Zone 2 or 3 out this way, from what I've read two gangster types recently involved in separate Operation Trident shootings were living there.