I lived in Linwood about 9-10 years ago. We rented a two bedroom top floor flat, and had no problems living there. Good points: 1. Quite spacious for what we paid. 2. Walking distance from Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye stations. 3. Quiet apart from the trains. 4. Accommodation over two floors, which was quite nice for a flat. 4. Plenty of off-road parking. 5. Some nice grassy spaces to sit outside on a sunny day. 6. Not too much neighbour noise (although if you had particularly loud neighbours this might not be the case!). Bad points: 1. No gas supply to the estate so electric hob, electric shower and electric storage heaters (which I HATED). 2. Nestled at the junction of two railway lines, so a fair bit of train noise (which after a while we didn't notice). 3. Railtrack used to use the car park at the back as an access point for engineering works (mainly weekends), and ended up parking maintenance vehicles all over the car park when they weren't supposed to. 4. No service bells for the postman, so unless you were in a ground floor flat with your own front door you often went a few days without post until someone was home to let the postie in (or you ended up coming home to piles of mail dumped on the ground outside the door). 5. The alleyway (by the George Canning) that you cut through to get home from the Denmark Hill station could be a little scary at night on your own. 6. Very small kitchens. Overall we were happy at Linwood and I wouldn't put anyone off living there, although please bear in mind my recollection of the place is from quite some time ago. Perhaps the large number of properties you see available is simply down to there being over 100 flats there?
