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SOUTH KENSINGTON, London

All very respectable. Smart multi storey stucco houses off Old Brompton Road and Gloucester Road, many of which have been converted into flats. Larger houses around the Fulham and Brompton Roads all of which command an equally large price. More modest homes can be found to the north of the Fulham Road. A plentiful supply of smart shops and restaurants.

Most of residential South Kensington lies to the south of the Cromwell Road. To the east Knightsbridge begins at Brompton Cross and the southernmost boundary is the Fulham Road.

Over the last 20 years South Kensington has become one of the very best residential areas of London as the Smith’s Charity estate as it was (it is now owned by the Wellcome Trust) has been developed and improved. Onslow Gardens and Onslow Square are the prime areas and alongside them is the Brompton's, a major development of the old Brompton Hospital that was completed at the end of the 1990’s. Most of the shops and cafes are around South Kensington Station which is about to be redeveloped into a major office and retail centre. Living close to this for the next few years will be noisy and dusty.

The area to the west of the tube station is a good residential area but lacks the uniformity of the Smith’s Charity Estate. Stanhope Gardens and Queensgate have nice flats but suffer from road noise and, in the case of Stanhope Gardens, from its proximity to the Gloucester Road which is at its least glamorous at the point around the underground station where there are a number of large tourist hotels. These also affect the area towards Earls Court such as Collingham Gardens.

The majority of the property tends to be flats, though Pelham Crescent and Thurloe Square have some of the nicest houses in London. Most of the leases in the Wellcome Estate are now mid-term (50 years) but the leasehold enfranchisement legislation has left a number of shared freeholds and much longer leases.

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