Gone are the grime and the slums. Fulham’s Sands End has become a swish new riverside residential quarter in south west London, says David Spittles.<\/p>\n
The now-fashionable Fulham neighbourhood of Sands End is a parable of our times – the triumph of development in a cut-off\u00a0corner of London. Despite the negatives of a tract of industrial land blighted by gas works and dissected by train tracks,\u00a0developers have transformed the area into an enclave of coveted flats and houses, now one of Fulham’s best addresses.<\/p>\n
During the Victorian period, it was a very grim place, lined with factories and a coal-fired power station, before it gained a\u00a0reputation for slums and troubled council estates.<\/p>\n
Only when nearby Chelsea Harbour was built alongside a muddy inlet in the Eighties did residential developers look at this\u00a0waterfront strip with different eyes. It has become a new suburb in SW6.<\/p>\n
Today, there is a riverside path to Chelsea Harbour via Chelsea Creek, another swish residential scheme, and the Sands End\u00a0district has offices, bars, restaurants, hotels, small businesses and a settled hinterland that stretches to trendy New King’s\u00a0Road, packed with galleries and boutiques.<\/p>\n
The new renters<\/strong> Tucked away behind the waterfront are original artisan cottages and smart, small three-bedroom terrace houses that let for\u00a0\u00a3750 to \u00a3800 a week, and conversions, including garden flats, from \u00a3450 a week.<\/p>\n Commute by riverbus<\/strong> Boris bike effect<\/strong> There are times when the slab of riverside apartment blocks looks somewhat forlorn. But this is an evolving district that has\u00a0come a long way over the past decade and is likely to gain more cachet as the years go on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gone are the grime and the slums. Fulham’s Sands End has become a swish new riverside residential quarter in south west London, says David Spittles. The now-fashionable Fulham neighbourhood of Sands End is a parable of our times – the triumph of development in a cut-off\u00a0corner of London. Despite the negatives of a tract of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9PjAq-iT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poseidon-gp.com\/property\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n“The riverside developments have enticed a new type of Fulham renter,” says Glen Neligan, manager of Benham &\u00a0Reeves Lettings. “People, mainly young professionals and downsizers who had previously only considered a period home, started\u00a0to appreciate the lifestyle benefits of a development \u2014 the security, the parking and the amenities.
\n“In general, the waterfront homes now command a premium and are on a par with fully refurbished properties at Parsons Green,\u00a0traditionally Fulham’s best address.”\u00a0Studios start at \u00a3350 a week and two-bedroom flats from \u00a3550 a week, with rents rising to \u00a32,500 a week for a glamorous\u00a0penthouse and \u00a33,000 a week for a five-bedroom house.<\/p>\n
\nThe Thames Clipper riverbus service is hugely popular. Boats leave as early as 6.10am and Costa coffee is\u00a0served on board. Most people commute to Embankment or Blackfriars or go all the way to Canary Wharf, without having to change.<\/p>\n
\nBoris bikes at Imperial Wharf have caused property ripples in what was an urban backwater. Rental demand has\u00a0jumped 25 per cent since the bikes were introduced, according to Benham & Reeves.<\/p>\n