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NOTTING HILL, London

Once a shabby backwater of London whose crumbling terraces were overcrowded with immigrants, Notting Hill is now proudly one of the capital's most fashionable areas. The Ladbroke Grove side of Notting Hill boasts the large Victorian houses and leafy, peaceful private gardens and squares which the film of the same name idealised. Most of the grand properties here have survived being carved into conversions and flats. Notting Hill's borders with Bayswater offer much more modest properties but is also experiencing rapid change as trendy stores and restaurants force out the more traditional shops as rents escalate skyward.

Notting Hill Gate itself is hardly an inspiring area. Despite the wealth surrounding it – almost any house is now worth over £1 million – it retains a certain seediness that is rather surprising. Second-hand record shops and Macdonald's compete with Kensington Palace Gardens which must be the grandest address in London.

The cause of its new-found glamour is to be found in the garden squares and more particularly in the communal gardens. If you want to live in Central London and then family life does not get any better than in a house with its own secure private park shared with a few dozen like-minded people. As the Americans investment bankers have discovered this over the last 15 years, prices for these gems have rocketed. Where the general Central London market has doubled in the last seven years, houses on the communal gardens have trebled.

Notting Hill has always had a bohemian and cosmopolitan edge to it – and that continues further to the North around Westbourne Grove. Here there are restaurants of every nationality and every year at the end of August it explodes in a three-day cacophony of sound, rubbish and marijuana smoke that is the Notting Hill Gate carnival. Sensitive souls wanting to live here should arrange their holidays then.

Around the Portobello Road, with its famous street markets, it is more like New York than any other part of London with one street separating smart restaurants and wine bars from seedy clubs and street barrows.

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