Creative types tend to be drawn to the area, like actor James Norton, who moved up from Peckham, Keira Knightley, who has professed her love of local hotspot Towpath café, and contemporary artist Sue Webster, who commissioned her friend, the uber-architect David Adjaye, to help her revamp a derelict hoarders’ house. This was a project and a half since the previous owner, nicknamed Mole Man, had dug a network of tunnels beneath the property leaving it in danger of collapse. But with Adjaye’s help she has transformed it into an extraordinary live-work space with raw concrete and timber interiors.