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Look at the Local Amenities before you Rent a London Flat


How Far – Can I walk?

Everyone knows how important local shops, restaurants, pubs, buses, trains and tube stations are to where you live. The key question when flat hunting is – “how far away are local amenities?” and – “can I walk to them?”.

In order to speed up hunting for a London Flat to rent it’s important to do your research online before you start the time consuming process of booking and attending viewings. Use Google and Google Streetview to look at the property, the street it is in, and how far it is to local amenities.

Fortunately there is a new facility to enable you to automate the process, and I’ve embedded it in this blog, so you can give it a spin.


Here is the amenity report for Pimlico Flats, as you can see we are just about in the top 10% of all locations for walkable amenities. You can put any address into the panel above to compare other locations to us. I am confident that you will find that Pimlico Flats is a better place to rent a Flat than 90% of all other locations in London.

Pimlico at the Centre of London


Travel Time Tube Map

If I ever needed a picture to show why people want to live in Pimlico this is it, Tom Carden’s Travel Time Tube Map. Click on a station to see the London Underground map reorganise around the times of travel from that station. Shortest paths are used to place the other stations – radius is proportional to time to travel, and angle should be correct for as-the-crow-flies direction on a map. The concentric circles are at 10 minute intervals.

The closest station to Pimlico Flats is actually Victoria rather than Pimlico which is up by Vauxhall Bridge. I can walk to Victoria Station in 5 minutes, and from that transport hub Buses & Tubes go everywhere in London. If you look at that map you readily see that the whole of Central London lies within a 10 minute tube Journey.

Westminster & Pimlico Heros – NoToMob Nominated

Coat of arms of Westminster City Council

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At the beginning of the week I told you about Westminster City Council’s awards for people who are making a major difference to the lives of others, and suggested that if you know someone who has made a real difference in Pimlico, you should nominate them for an award so that they could win a £500 grant for their organisation or to help them continue the good work they they do.

I would like to thank “Bruce” for this morning nominating NoToMob an organisation devoted to campaigning against WCC’s Parking Charges on Motor Bikes, and currently campaigning against sneaky hiding of traffic CCTV cameras.  I have a feeling that an organisation agitating against WCC policy may not receive an award, but I applaud their humour and passion in publicising their cause.

No to Bike Parking Tax

No to Bike Parking Tax

The fight is a Pimlico fight which would find a place in the immortal “Passport to Pimlico“:

Frederick Albert ‘Fred’ Cowan: You can’t push English people around like sacks of potatoes.
Jim Garland: English?
Connie Pemberton: Don’t you come that stuff, Jim Garland! We always were English, and we’ll always be English, and it’s just because we are English that we’re sticking up for our rights to be Burgundians!

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May 2012

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