The Santa Rita café in Leeland Road has been closed for a while and rumour has it that this site is to be redeveloped and flats built above. Then I noticed yesterday that the hairdressers next door was shut. A bit of a blow as that’s where I get what’s left of my hair cut! Maybe he’s on holiday but there wasn’t a sign on the door. Anyway, not necessarily a bad thing to redvelop this little site but with local house prices climbing ever higher, partly driven by Crossrail, there is likely to be more and more of these infill-type developments.
Sad to say, he closed at the weekend, because of the development – we were in there on Saturday, getting my son’s hair cut. We asked him about re opening, he said he’s going on holiday for a while, not sure if he’s going to find another spot elsewhere as rents are going up so much. Sorry to be bearing bad news!