{"id":172465,"date":"2023-03-15T18:38:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=172465"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:38:29","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:38:29","slug":"we-live-on-britains-most-dangerous-street-thats-now-lined-with-1million-houses-were-being-pushed-out-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/we-live-on-britains-most-dangerous-street-thats-now-lined-with-1million-houses-were-being-pushed-out-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"We live on Britain's 'most DANGEROUS street' that's now lined with \u00a31million houses – we're being pushed out | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"
BRITS living on the country's "most dangerous street" have slammed wealthy homeowners for pushing them out.<\/p>\n
Coldharbour Lane in south London has spent decades as a crime hotspot – fit with stabbings, muggings and murder.<\/p>\n
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But its residents are now more concerned by rich people buying up their homes than criminals.<\/p>\n
One business owner in the area, Patrick Kelly, 62, told MyLondon the real danger was the street "losing its identity".<\/p>\n
When he opened his shop BookMongers in the 1990s he knew 80 per cent of his customers.<\/p>\n
Now he says he's closer to not knowing 80 per cent.<\/p>\n
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Gentrification has started to push locals out, according to barmaid Maya Rivett-Martinez, 19.<\/p>\n
She added: "It has got less dangerous, but due to gentrification. <\/p>\n
"It's pushed out communities that have lived here."<\/p>\n
The two-mile long lane was first named Britain's worst street in 2003, after nearly 15,000 stabbings, robberies, muggings and murders.<\/p>\n
<\/picture>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/picture>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Some \u00a31million of crack cocaine was dealt there every month.<\/p>\n In 2002 Lambeth council made the problem worse when it piloted a scheme to allow those caught with drugs to avoid a criminal record.<\/p>\n It soon became known as London's drugs capital.<\/p>\n It's still second only to Lambeth for knife offences in London in the last five years.<\/p>\n And has the second highest murder rate with 36 homicides since 2018.<\/p>\n Yet property prices have soared from \u00a3200,000 to an average of \u00a3600,000 – and terrace houses regularly sell for \u00a31million.<\/p>\n It comes after a man who bought a house on the street for just \u00a35,000 says it's now worth \u00a31million.<\/p>\n Hasan Rezvan, 75, has lived in the\u00a0four-bed terraced house\u00a0near Coldharbour Lane in Brixton,\u00a0South London\u00a0for 53 years.<\/p>\n He bought the house in 1970 for just \u00a35,000 after arriving in the UK from\u00a0Cyprus\u00a0without any more money to spare.<\/p>\nPrice of packet of cigarettes to rise to \u00a314.39 from 6pm tonight<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n
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