Buyers on the move to the Hill

THERE’S a different march up on Military Hill these days and it’s accompanied by the whine of the angle grinder and the staccato thrum of the pneumatic drill.

It presages the advance of the Middle Classes whose troops are the dusty and safety-booted millionaire class the average builder.

Dreary flats are now gleaming sash-windowed houses with magenta doorways and re-instated stained glass. The route to gentrification has been clearly mapped out by a buoyant property market and the convenience of the location.