Showing posts with label Union Developments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Union Developments. Show all posts

Thursday, July 22, 2010

A chance to live in the heart of Greenwich cultural quarter....

Thanks to Darryl over at 853 for spotting this.  Theatro, the new development on Creek Road near Deptford Church Street is having an open weekend on Saturday and Sunday, 24th & 25th.  If you contact Union Developments - ''We're more (dishonest) than just a pretty façade'' - reserve an apartment on their open day then for a year they will pay your:
• Mortgage (interest only)
• Service charge
• Ground rent and utility bills

Among the attractions that this [yawn]''state of the art''[/yawn] apartment block offers is  a chance to live ''in the heart of Greenwich cultural quarter''  which is all the more remarkable for being in SE8 and only 60 metres from Deptford Church Street. And if by ''cultural quarter'' they mean Rose Bruford Drama College that inspired the Theatro name, or the Laban or the scores of artists working on Creekside, then it has nothing at all to do with Greenwich. Or are we to understand that Greenwich is so starved of a cultural quarter that they have to steal Deptford's?

And, miracle of marketing miracles, you'll only be ''Located moments from Greenwich town centre.''   Time travel is clearly so much easier for estate agents. 

Though curiously, if you look at the transport links bit, copied below, you'll learn that Deptford Station (not listed by name but as Deptford High Street) takes 10 minutes to walk to.  Greenwich Station, however, is only 6 minutes walk.  Why would it take 10 minutes to walk under half a kilometre when it only takes 6 minutes to walk over a kilometre?  Could it be that they don't want people to know that the nearest station is Deptford?  We'll have to brush up on our quantum mechanics before we can fully understand the relativism of space and time in Estate Agents minds...

Docklands Light Railway
Cutty Sark for Maritime Greenwich (5 minutes walk)
Greenwich (6 minutes walk)
Deptford Bridge (4 minutes walk)
Railway Stations
Greenwich Railway Station (7 minutes walk)
Maze Hill Railway Station (15 minutes walk)
Deptford High Street (10 minutes walk)
 Green route to Deptford Station (450m), blue route to Greenwich (1106m).