Northern lights: new flats in Zone 4 area on the Northern line is an obvious choice for priced-out first-time buyers
It’s an area of playing fields, country parks and leafy avenues lined with tidy interwar semis that are popular with middle-class families whose breadwinner commutes to the City or West End.
Recently designated a housing growth zone, this unspectacular suburb is changing.
Being on the Northern line, in zone four, Colindale is an obvious location for young Londoners priced out of the centre.
The former Oriental City, an Asian food emporium, made the area a little exotic.
The site has been redeveloped into flats and houses, with a scaled-down food hall that attracts shoppers from across the capital.
Called 399 NW9, one might say it’s where the North-West meets the East. New townhouses with garden and underground parking have been launched.
A showhome has opened for viewing. Prices from £675,000. Call 020 7043 8888.