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Five New London Suburbs Named. What you you think?

Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
edited August 2011 in General Charlton
  • Chobham Manor (north-east): Suggested by Gary Davidson-Guild from Lambeth, south London. Pre existing name from 14 century manor house
  • East Wick (north-west): Suggested by Oliver O'Brien from Hackney, east London. Close to Hackney Wick
  • Sweetwater (west): Suggested by Kevin Murtagh from Reading. Site of 1950's sweet factory
  • Marshgate Wharf (south-east): Suggested by Stephen Davies from St Albans. Gateway to area that used to be marshland
  • Pudding Mill (south): Suggested by Dave Arquati from Wandsworth, south-west London. Pudding used to refer to milling which tok place on the Lee in medieval times
I quite like them. Almost 2,000 names were put forward in the competition to name the new neighbourhoods. Over the next 20 years, 8,000 new homes will be built, along with schools, nurseries and health centres. The neighbourhoods will also share a new green space called Queen Elizabeth Park. The park will open in phases to the public from 2013, with families moving into the first new homes in 2015.
Crackingly negative comments on the BBC website are amusing, too.

Comments

  • InspectorSandsInspectorSands
    edited August 2011
    Nice typically-English names, and better than "north Stratford". Can't see them sticking, though, unless you put some infrastructure in bearing those names (a road, a station, or even a bus terminal). People will just call it the Olympic Park, won't they? Pleased it's "East Wick" and not "Eastwick" as I saw earlier...

    Wonder if anyone suggested Bow Locks?

    The last London area to get named in a competition, by the way, was Thamesmead. 
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    rubbish ..... properties in Chobham Manor will be much more desireable than the same drum in Pudding Mill. And surely we have enough trains, boats, planes and places named after that silly old bat Queenie Lizzie the second. How much has she and her family forked out towards the Olympics AND rumour has it that Liz is charging rent for the use of Greenwich park for the equestrian events
  • Off_itOff_it
    rubbish ..... properties in Chobham Manor will be much more desireable than the same drum in Pudding Mill. And surely we have enough trains, boats, planes and places named after that silly old bat Queenie Lizzie the second. How much has she and her family forked out towards the Olympics AND rumour has it that Liz is charging rent for the use of Greenwich park for the equestrian events
    What are you talking about?

    Or are you just trying to be deliberately confrontational and start a cyber-row?
  • Henry IrvingHenry Irving
    Heard them on the radio and disliked them.  Written down don't seem so bad but still a little bland.
  • RothkoRothko
    Good names, and glad they've stuck with traditional names for the areas such as Pudding Mills and Marshgate
  • Off_itOff_it
    edited August 2011
    Oh right (Lincs), I see, you're answering a post about the name of the suburbs by launching an attack on the name of a park and and the same time bringing an inflammatory tone and terminology to your post - rather than just make the point in an adult way.

    I'll go back to sleep now. Someone obviously hasn't taken on board the comments in the "why is society so f**ked thread?"

  • PlaaayerPlaaayer
    They should have gone with the Brit Olympic gold medals winners like Redgravia.
  • Off_itOff_it
    Thompsonville

    Tessa Town

    Coe Alley
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    They should have gone with the Brit Olympic gold medals winners like Redgravia.
    Daleythompsonia, Sebcoeville, Ovetttown, Adlingtonland, Damekellyholmestead .. I like that idea .. too late now
  • Bexley DanBexley Dan
    didn't realise the site was that big - what are the comparable suburbs / neighbourhood sizes round here? would each one be like a new eltham or avery hill or a middle park estate and a cold harbour estate? Would have thought just keeping them under 1 name would have been sufficient but i guess not
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  • InspectorSandsInspectorSands
    didn't realise the site was that big - what are the comparable suburbs / neighbourhood sizes round here? would each one be like a new eltham or avery hill or a middle park estate and a cold harbour estate? Would have thought just keeping them under 1 name would have been sufficient but i guess not
    That's the thing - I don't think it's that big. Perhaps they want to avoid a single name being a stigma if it all goes tits-up (Thamesmead again).

    It's possibly the way developers are going now - "Kidbrooke Village" (the old Ferrier estate) is doing a similar thing including a cheeky "Blackheath Quarter". They might just end up being marketing names.
  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    Lincs
    You know full well that your first post was bound to be inflammatory, so why do it? It would be great if you took on board what AFKA wrote on the other thread.

    Back to the thread
    I see one of the suggestions was for Walford, which would have been funny!

    Inspector - ~ I think schools and health centres (and as you suggest transport infrastructure a la Mudchute on the DLR) will be appropriately named and the aim is to create distinct suburbs..
  • LincsaddickLincsaddick
    didn't realise the site was that big - what are the comparable suburbs / neighbourhood sizes round here? would each one be like a new eltham or avery hill or a middle park estate and a cold harbour estate? Would have thought just keeping them under 1 name would have been sufficient but i guess not
    the old railway sidings and warehouse areas aroud Stratford were enormous, I'd take a wild guess at 10 times the size of (say) Blackheath village, lots of houses to be built, lots of money to be made and all the land was cleaned up (nuclear waste wagons used to be laid up there) and  developed for private investors at the taxpayers'/lottery punters' expense.
  • Floyd MontanaFloyd Montana
    How else do you think development would have been possible?
  • aliwibblealiwibble
    Well there's already Pudding Mill Lane station on the DLR - is it in the bit they're calling Pudding Mill, or sufficiently far away that it's going to be really confusing?
  • WheresmeticketWheresmeticket




    The last London area to get named in a competition, by the way, was Thamesmead. 
    Lets hope they don't all turn out like Belmarsh Villas.
  • DRFDRF
    Don't like Marshgate much but the others are OK.
  • thai malaysia addickthai malaysia addick
    The bitches of East Wick, perhaps.
  • GranpaGranpa
    What happened to Valley View ?
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