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Ruth Bloomfield

Where to live on Crossrail: Southall house price growth, new homes and Elizabeth line journey times

Southall Crossrail station

(Picture: Daniel Hambury/Stella Pictures Ltd)

There is something joyfully unique about the chaos that is Southall Market, the beating heart of London’s South Asian community, and the go-to place to shop for spices and sari fabric and enjoy outstanding street food.

The market has remained blissfully immune to the kind of gentrification which have turned other London street markets into bouji crafts-and-organic-food jamborees - despite the fact that this neighbourhood, affectionately known as Little India, is in the throes of a vast multi billion pound regeneration.

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