{"id":474233,"date":"2026-03-21T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T10:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/?p=474233"},"modified":"2026-03-26T10:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T10:26:18","slug":"se1-named-as-one-of-the-best-postcodes-to-live-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/area\/bermondsey\/se1-named-as-one-of-the-best-postcodes-to-live-in\/","title":{"rendered":"SE1 named as one of the best postcodes to live in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>SE1 is one of seven London locations featured on The Sunday Times Best Places to Live 2026 list.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stretching from Bermondsey to Waterloo, taking in Elephant and Castle, Borough, South Bank, Blackfriars and Bankside it has been hailed for its amazing cultural offerings, food and landmarks.<\/p><script type=\"text\/plain\" data-tcf=\"waiting-for-consent\" data-id=\"69959\" data-bid=\"1\" data-placement=\"448384\" data-no-track=\"impressions\">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<\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Richmond was named as the best place to live in London, while other London locations mentioned include Fulham, Walthamstow, Crouch End, Bow and even Plumstead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-southwark-news wp-block-embed-southwark-news\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"CJ3BYtovVdW7ARLcQgnOwbe58EHP2z4kIr1XxaGsfj0\"><blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"SZUW5M3uaM\"><a href=\"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/news\/community\/southwark-is-now-the-most-expensive-borough-to-buy-a-property-in-south-east-london\/\">Southwark is now the most expensive borough to buy a property in south east London<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Southwark is now the most expensive borough to buy a property in south east London&#8221; &#8212; Southwark News\" src=\"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/news\/community\/southwark-is-now-the-most-expensive-borough-to-buy-a-property-in-south-east-london\/embed\/#?secret=7qXBlnJtwH#?secret=SZUW5M3uaM\" data-secret=\"SZUW5M3uaM\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The wider list includes 72 locations across the UK, with the overall national best place to live named as Norwich in Norfolk. 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Stretching from Bermondsey to Waterloo, taking in Elephant and Castle, Borough, South Bank, Blackfriars and Bankside it has been hailed for its amazing cultural offerings, food and landmarks. Richmond was named as the best place to live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19233,"featured_media":474245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":"Richmond was named as the best place to live in London"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"800"},"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,187,7375,77,13539,15871,18246,13602,560,805],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-474233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bermondsey","category-borough","category-community","category-elephant-and-castle","category-featured","category-lambeth","category-lifestyle","category-news","category-south-bank","category-waterloo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474233"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475342,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474233\/revisions\/475342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southwarknews.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}