Luckily for me I know the people In church road, therefore I'm safe. Brixton has calmed down, Croydon should definitely be up against Brixton and hackney. Born and Raised in Tottenham, and in my opinion it's a great area in terms of transport links and shopping, could do with some nice restaurants and things to do for the youth though... Only places that can be slightly dangerous are the roads surrounding Northumberland Park and Broadwater farm, the area around seven sisters station looks very rundown and does attract a few interesting characters, but they're unlikely to bother you if your minding your own business. Crime Statistics for Peckham, London, Southwark, October 2020. How Mozart is 48 behind Canning Town is ridiulous! No character, no life, no shops worth speaking off, no sense of community. If you have kids don't send them to a public school in Enfield, drugs are taken so lightly now it seems normal to smoke some weed before school isn't even bad now, this really depends on which school it is but if I was you I'd make sure your kids are smart so they can go to a selective school that's really your only chance trust me. The issue is convenience for the sights and for getting to and fro with a small child who will need times to feed and sleep. In 2001 to 2002, there are 9 people shot dead on Clarence road, this doesn't include stabbing. Edmonton is crap area in Enfield run by Socialist Labour councillors, who have neglected the area for many years and have caused it to be overpopulated with people and council blocks.Edmonton is infested with crime, gang culture, degenerate sub-human children born from out of wedlock Crack mothers dependent on welfare, corruption, bureaucracy, unemployment and crap public services. Also stuck in between tottenham and enfield, which are places with high poverty and unemployment. wouldn't mind living there again. I wouldn't stay there, it's in an awkward place to travel and the reviews are pretty bad. I guess we will just pass Bestwestern. TOP 10 MOST DANGEROUS PLACES IN LONDON REACTION ‘UK DRILL’ WON’T BELIEVE WATCH! Luckily, I know some members of peckham so they're kind to me. Also, I love the greenery - you wouldn't find that at other places ine ast London. I've lived & worked all over London. Apparently, even in better days Tottenham had no heart, largely because of the way it was built, all at once in instead of organically. I get on well with everyone, from the Pakistanis at the two grocery stores by the tube, the Cypriots at the Kebab shop, and of course the Portuguese cafe and restaurants owners and staff. I lived in Kilburn and couldn’t wait to move out as I child I was raised here but South Kilburn is a thiefdom all of its own. I ended up moving enough said. I was once in peckham with my two best friends, we were walking through the streets at night when we heard a loud bang. The Peckham Boys, also referred to as Black Gang (due to its association with the colour black), are a multi-generational gang based in Peckham, South London. Also generally avoid exploring South of the River, you could enter some really bad area like Loughborough, you were warned. I have lived in Tottenham all my life and have felt a sense of community; I also feel lucky that due to the cultural diversity in Tottenham I have learnt about other cultures - broadening my horizons. This was the only way I could find to post my opinion. This is a beautiful place I've lived here and I must say it is so multicultural and diverse incompared to other places nice people, nice neighbourhood but they do have afew incidencts and I think police should be more aware of this place. It is a huge area, and some parts are definitely worse than the others. I worked in Harlesden for a little while and I didn't feel safe at all as I was working long hours and very frequently left my office after 6pm. Leafy suburb, expensive houses and home of the England rugby union team. Go figure, but SK looks after its own. Taxi Tours - Do they ever drop off at the airport? Oh my goodness. Happy just up stay at home & look forward to new picture house promised for a year or so. Sure, it's different in Brixton than Richmond, but I would avoid even going on Kensington High Street, etc. (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? Drugs are readily available and dealers will drop off what you want to your house. Harlesden looks like an third world African Refugee Camp inhabited by thugs, drug dealers, uncivilized people, closet racist, gangster wannabes, who are all recipient of and dependent on state welfare, free health care and housing. it's not a good place for teenagers to grow up in. Some people tried to take over our house, my dad was abducted and nearly killed then dropped into the middle of an intersection, everybody's been mugged a few times, on my second birthday a drug dealer was killed by his kids outside my old house. If you give people an idea of budget (£/night) sugestions may be possible but otherwise have a look at budget chains like Premier Inn or Travelodge in more central locations, assuming you're intending to sightsee. Chingford is kind of ancient looking and a place everyone should visit at least once in their life. There's a lot of domestic violence, & I saw plenty of women walking around with black eyes. Tell us your budget as well as your arrival and departure points please. Visiting and living in an area are two different things. Mark Duggan is the idol for all the thugs and race hustlers in Tottenham.If Tottenham was a country, it would be a failed state on par with Somalia. The only reason there are a lot of shooting and stabbing is obviously to to with gangs OF ALL RACES smh and trappin and loosing drugs and not because it's a bad place like any other places it gas difficulties. and as for being Muslim, about 10% of peckham are Muslim so you wont be alone. Enfield is actually nice borough in London (if you don't live in Edmonton). Firefighters are warning of the dangers of leaving cooking unattended after a fire at a flat on Bournemouth Road in Peckham. Wanstead flats and manor park cemetery are nice if you want to walk your dog or whatever. Peckham is a rough-and-ready area of inner suburban London, although parts of it are gentrifying, and it is well off the usual tourist trails.I there any reason you specifically want to stay at that hotel? Peckham did have a bad reputation some 30 years ago when the Jamaican yardies came over. I've just passed by bus through Hackney and the scenery was horrible. I moved from Islington escaping violence and harassment to live 10 min walk from GP.The only shops in the area are on the concourse where you will be met with drug dealing, junkies and alcholics. Nuke Edmonton. Bakerloo and London overground are reliable. I certainly wouldn't choose Peckham as somewhere to stay on holiday, but nice as it is (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? Sure, crime can happen. Community is rich and it feels great. Drugs, knives, guns and murder was probably just the few things that peckham has to offer, almost every part of it is full of thugs, dealers or new bloods that are soon to be killers. The police take 4 hours to respond to anything. I was burgled within months of moving there, had my house smashed up and my lip split open by a dodgy bloke. There are homeless people who will ask you for money when you go to the high street. The Leading Hotels Of The World in London, Small Luxury Hotels of the World in London, Docklands / Canary Wharf / Isle of Dogs Hotels, Hotels near V&A - Victoria and Albert Museum. But get on their wrong side, and your one way ticket to hell is delivered. I'm 14. Police are on patrol in Westminster, London's most violent borough (Image: Metropolitan Police/ Fulham Chronicle) Although only the most affluent live in the borough, Westminster is actually the worst in London for violent crime - and by a long way. In my opinion all of inner London is much ‘safer’ than many of the relatively deprived towns in other parts of the country. ...more. Always armed police everywhere... shootings and stabbings are common here, one of the most dangerous areas in the most dangerous borough. They were knocked down and built into houses. Great nurseries and primary schools here. I finally had the sense to get the hell out of there. <<. Not much of a place for dog owners either, people used to shy away from my beautiful beagle as if she was a rabid wolf. It has mediocre dodgy shops, ugly pigeon crap infrastructure, dodgy ugly looking Council Estates, overpopulation, high unemployment, broken uneducated families and 3rd public services. There are risks of all sorts everywhere it seems. :-). Another time I was just out shopping when I could see two guys handing each other what looked like drugs, I have seen drug dealers, murderers, and more here. Once I walked past a shop and saw a male laid out with ambulance aiding him. I pity anyone that moves to this hell hole. The hotel itself looks OK but it's inconvenient (afaics), and in quite a gritty area. The area with the highest number of crimes in Tottenham is definitely around the north of Tottenham where it’s bordering the Higham Hill in Walthamstow. Newham Council have abused, neglected, and financially exploited the area for their own personal gain, while its citizens have to look forward to the prospect of foreign neighborhoods, more poverty, higher unemployment, more crime, more welfare dependency, rise in broken families, gang culture and the disappearance of English Cockney. I have almost been stabbed in Tulse Hill and I live here. But is it weird that I'm proud Harlesden was on this list? Peckham (/ ˈ p ɛ k əm /) is a district of south London, England, within the London Borough of Southwark.It is 3.5 miles (5.6 km) south-east of Charing Cross. Dagenham used to be great area before decade later that it became a hotspot for crime. In recent years young professionals and students have moved to the area. This was the biggest estate in Europe before they started knocking down some of the 300+ blocks that are there. Interesting area sub sections of it like the market are very nice (some skinheads) but otherwise quite nice. Home to the North Peckham estate this district is among the most impoverished in London and has become a breeding ground for gang violence. However, if you don't know the youths there don't try screw face because you can get stabbed. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-84367280', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');Twickenham? The same applies to other London Borough like Brent, Hackney, Peckham, Lewisham, Newham, Haringey & Tower Hamlets.All these are run by Labour (Socialist) Party, who give those thugs welfare money & council housing in exchange for votes.Labour's Lambeth = Democrat's Detroit (both are failed areas).There more hope restoring Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia & Iraq than failed London Boroughs like Lambeth, Ealing, Newham Hackney, Peckham, Brent, Haringey, Enfield or Lewisham. Did I just write 9yr old? It's a shame because there are some lovely Victorian houses and nice quiet side roads and there are decent people in Stockwell hidden amongst the criminals! It has got so bad over the years. Also, the majority of the people I grew up with are either in the prison system or in the process of doing something stupid to go back in. Also generally avoid exploring South of the River, you could enter some really bad area like Loughborough, you were warned. According to statistics from 2018, there were a total of 38,559 crimes recorded in the Southwark, making the borough one of the most dangerous areas in London. Its crazy that this is so low down on the list considering all the gun/knife crime and all the drugdealing that goes on there its only a small estate as well.. easily one of the worst estates in London, 21 are you joking what is this doing below canning town too this place is a literal hell and an insult to Mozart himself. West Croydon was probably the worst effected area in the Riots, guess why? But it's home. (If it's coming in cheap, there's usually a reason for that). Yes I understand that there is poverty in Tottenham but I have felt a growing sense of ambition amongst my peers and others in my community to achieve something. I'm from Australia and even the taxi drivers would warn me not to go any where near the station at night. True garrison area from way back in the 60s, round here everyone's a tough guy, white millWall, chiny, Turks, blacks ghetto and other clicks. My dad grew up there and there was fights gangs and bad stuff. I would think nothing of walking up and down Edmonton Green all day long all night long and nothing would happen. No way number one it's just a bunch of yuppies everywhere. >>The only issue is that the Best Western isn't in the best location for the area - you are close to Camberwell Art school and the South London Gallery (which has a nice cafe) but not great for transport links and isn't in the heart of the area (it's almost in Camberwell). It's another crime infested hole with dodgy council homes, gang cultures, broken feckless families on welfare, crap schools, crap police, high unemployment and a local Race Hustler & Closet Racist Named Lee Jasper. Other than that the area is crap ruined by the useless, self-serving, Local Labour Council. Two men in hoodies walked towards us from across the street and one of them pulled out something from their jacket, I didn't see what it was but I directly grabbed my friends hands and we started to run, we got away luckily enough. As a person who has been brought up in Croydon, I know where to go and what it's really like. Now it is a no go zone for white people and is controlled by sharia law. Everything was so grim, it looked like one of those horror movies where someone is waiting for you around the corner with a knife.Hackney is my definition of hole. 10:04. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-84366390', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');London. This estate is terrible! It is a useless London area with too many illiterate, materialistic, money-obsessive wannabe gangsters run by a useless Labour MP (Andy Love) and his equally crappy Labour Council.Edmonton = Tottenham = Peckham = Harlesden = Brixton = Stonebridge Park = Acton = Birmingham = Stevenage = Luton = Liverpool = Blackburn = Bradford(all these areas are crap and making other areas around them equally crap, with high welfare dependency, overpopulation, ugly council blocks, unemployment, uncivilised single parent mothers (with 3 or more degenerate spoilt children with multiple absent fathers), poor schools/health services, same parade of shops (cheap takeaways, betting shops, charity shops, halal meat). We listen and talk to you, and find out what affects your daily life and feelings of security. If Musical Composer Mozart was alive today, he would request his name to be removed from this HELLHOLE place. Well organised no dramas cause the bosses want everyone to grind and stack doe. I've been threatened by gang members holding me at knife point but luckily I know people so I feel safe. Shaba Hair and Cosmetics in Rye Lane sold the banned cosmetics, which contain harmful chemicals, to undercover officers on two occasions. Even at daytime, it is scary and I'm not the kind of person who is easily impressed. Troublesome by night. London isn't safe anywhere! I could walk through any area even south chingford at late night early morning and I wouldn't feel at all scaredand the jetman story is made up as if there was ever rocket launcher shot anywhere in London especailly at some cops it would be all over every news paper and channel! Brilliant. With towns like Peckham, Bermondsey, Camberwell that house low-income families on cramped, dilapidated housing estates, this is another area where gang culture is deep-rooted. (If it's coming in cheap, there's usually a reason for that). I've lived in Edmonton for 16 years and I feel like the only Englishman living there. Growing up there didn’t really think it was that bad but friends from school used to think it was like Gaza. Look at Travelodges and Premier Inns that are more central if you're on a budget. Peckham is a rough-and-ready area of inner suburban London, although parts of it are gentrifying, and it is well off the usual tourist trails.I there any reason you specifically want to stay at that hotel? May be a sensitive topic? It was a horrible place then and it is still is now. Blimey, I bet he/she is a weight to carry around. Studio in London. Neither this road was given the name murder mile for a reason. A new addition to the top 10 most dangerous boroughs list, last year 33,446 were committed in Brent – with 11,374 violence against the person offences. It's not a prosperous area, which some non-Londoners confuse with 'dangerous', but I'm happy to walk around there at any time of day or night. It gives off a tacky kind of feel (but I still love it). People get mugged everyday and stabbed too often. A Peckham trader has been ordered to pay more than £11,000 after he was caught selling illegal skin-lightening products. Question Re: Possible future trip. But unless one is a gang member, the typical crime (according to local police and my own experience) is a mobile ...more. The high street is okay and nice but then you have South Kilburn. Crime Statistics for Peckham, London, Southwark, October 2020. ta.queueForLoad : function(f, g){document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', f);})(function(){ta.trackEventOnPage('postLinkInline', 'impression', 'postLinks-84368812', '');}, 'log_autolink_impression');Twickenham is too far out if you want to see the sights. Richard, 49, the caretaker of a community centre near the park, says, “It’s as dangerous as any other part of London. my friends have been stabbed and shot. A high density of gangs in and around Brixton, Camberwell and Peckham make the area one of the most dangerous for knife crime in the country. The dreggs of society, it's no wonder the Islamists are taking over, they are way too dumb to hold down a real job. But "Antique" is a resident of South London and she has come to the Eternal Life Support Centre (ELSC) in Peckham to reveal the brutal inner workings of the capital's growing number of girl gangs. London is dangerous only at night, with some exceptions (Brixton, Tottenham, Edmonton, Hackney, Peckham). 'I would 100% agree that Peckham is becoming gentrified and I am probably part of the process.' I lived there at the start of 2014 and was mugged 2 times at night and in the late afternoon walking through an alleyway. It's a place where there were pleasure gardens and Shakespeare and Ben Johnson hang around (there are plaques that remind us about the past). Great neighbours who care for you when you care for them. I just got screamed at in Natwest by a horrible rude man for absolutely no reason...there are crackheads, beggars, muggers, mentally ill, you name it, Stockwell has it! The community is mostly Asian and I get blatant stares I assume because I am a white woman. The gang is particularly prominent for its members prolific activity in music. Peckham. Let's just say I've had a woman abducted on my road last week. On the positive side the high street has handy shops like co-op, Tesco and Poundland and lots of cashpoints. The famous borough is home to the Shard, Globe Theater, the Imperial War Museum and the Tate Modern. Peckham is a rough-and-ready area of inner suburban (ta && ta.queueForLoad ? Know shopkeepers, cafe owners. Having said that, this borough is a major tourist and commuter area for London and so there will be many more people present in the borough than most. How to use Oyster Cards, Travelcards and 2-4-1 offers in London? From my point of view some comments about 'Hackney' are over the top, they say more about the 'writers' than the borough itself, they just, perhaps, feel relieved when they label Hackney in derogative terms. I'm not sure I understand why you won't take public transport. Peckham is less dodgy than Bricklane and Stoke Newington... and I talk about experience, I've been strangled almost to death in front of Bethnal green road's Tesco. There was a time when a boy put a lot of weed in a cigarette and gave it to. I've lived in the heart of camden my whole life. From my window I can see Ghurkin, the Shard and the new Skyscrapers down the City Road, including the Wafer. Statistics Pic Via. (If it's coming in cheap, there's usually a reason for that). If you live in the mare street area, or the nightingale estate area or even Pembury estate and especially Clarence road, there's a high chance of something dangerous happening to you. Be careful after dark in the hight street of West Croydon, London Road. Absolutely must be Brixton!My father stayed outside the Brixton Academy (I was at a concert) and he's lucky he's a pretty big guy (6' 4", 360 lbs) so people didn't try to rob him or beat him up...there were constantly blacks asking him for change or drugs, or if he wants to "buy"...even after the concert, tons of blacks approaching me and others asking for something, probably trying to rip you off...stay out of there unless necessary. Young adults & young kids caught up in homicides, stabbings, shootings, kidnapping, and drug dealing. As soon as I'm old enough I'm moving. Selling drugs and owning guns. Drugs, drugs, shooting, stabbings, even the white kids are terrible here. Vandalism on council estates is also a real problem. 7) Haringey . And the rest is miserable too. K&C Family Tv Recommended for you. There's just gang wars in custom house, Forest Gate, Beckon, Stratford and Plaistow due to murders and stabbing. Not a day goes by when we don't hear about a case of violence in London.. Peckham is a rough-and-ready area of inner suburban London, although parts of it are gentrifying, and it is well off the usual tourist trails.I there any reason you specifically want to stay at that hotel? Best area to stay in London as a 3-day tourist? Absolutely avoid places in Becontree, Barking etc... during nighttime and avoid shortcuts like in allyway and parks and depressed neighbourhood. Despite it being a great place to live, it does face a number of challenges, including gentrification, high rates of child mortality and, of course, crime. Home News. Enfield is lovely to live in. Moved there for the low price, BIG MISTAKE. Literally around this same big ass tower as before. Never stop at the traffic lights, and if you do, don't look left. Stonebridge Estates don't exist anymore. Southwark is a lively and diverse London borough, stretching from just south of the River Thames all the way down to Crystal Palace.. Avoid. A Muslim girl and the girl was so frass that they had to take her to the hospital. I always saw gangs of 14-20 odd year olds walking around the streets thinking they own the place. Lived there for only 3 months and was burgled, and surrounded by a group of teenagers at night in the town trying to intimidate me. However no riots or angry protests were started unlike Mark Duggan, who symbolises the thuggish and violent community in Tottenham. It was named the Least Peaceful Area in the UK last year and I'm not suprise because:(1) Its run poorly by a Labour (socialist) Council since 1971 & Three Labour MPs (Jim Dowd, Heidi Alexander & Joan Ruddock). I've lived in edmonton for 11 years, and I have seen many crimes taking place. It has a lively bar and restaurant scene which means, providing you're actually staying in Peckham and not some borderline district, you … I live in forest gate and it's very dangerous. With high tensions between rival gangs getting caught in the crossfire is a high possibility a lot of guns, drugs, gangs, and hitmen. In Peckham you've got poor people, predominantly black gentle working class dudes, but no major probs, a good community and quite proudly tight... Hackney is dodgy as well, middle class allegedly artists but in truth crackheads and coke hounds... but the worst ever is the West end, Wood Green, Bounds Green and even Soho, there are more dangerous places in Soho than all London... loads of coke hounds, aggressive and limitlessly aggressive. Women’s football. London's most dangerous area: Westminster This borough has the highest crime rate not only in London but in the entire nation with 1,580 crimes reported per km 2 in a year. >>The only issue is that the Best Western isn't in the best location for the area - you are close to Camberwell Art school and the South London Gallery (which has a nice cafe) but not great for transport links and isn't in the heart of the area (it's almost in Camberwell). Church road is not even all that now its just full of youths, Church road people shoot up stonebridge on a weekly basis, should be in top 5, I've lived in Kilburn my whole life (1 year) so far. Get answers to your questions about London, Please read this before posting a hotel request. Tottenham is one of the poorest areas in London and it is a failed area, plagued with crime, unemployment, welfare dependency, race hustlers, gang/gun/drug culture and degenerate broken single mothers (with 3 or more kids from multiple fathers.Tottenham is run by Labour's Haringey Council (the same council whose Social Services couldn't protect Baby Peter from his abusers or failed to improve the area since the riots in 2011. I was born in camden and moved to Canada a while back and every story I have heard is always about crime. Getting worse, lots of young men that want to hurt each other, this includes Highams Park. Related: What are the most popular tours in London? Getting better with time but still has its dangerous parts. There will be no go areas here soon. Forest Gate is for losers! Have a look at grahame park in north west London. Possibly one of London’s most famous gaffes for pie, mash and liquor, M. Manze is one spot you should definitely stop at while in Peckham – if for nothing else but for the chance to dine on that famous London meal of jellied eels. They're always posted at the traffic lights if you look left for too long or you're screwed and you're dead. As long as you stay near a relatively 'nice' place like Lambeth North or Elephant&Castle you should be ok, don't wander around or you might walk into Brixton, Oval, Stockwell.