Accomodation in Winchester help!

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Dear all "Money saving experts", my dd is moving to Winchester with work, please where should be looking at to rent with 2 others and where are the NO GO areas for a young woman of 21 in this town
Any thing you can tell me about the area will be appreciated
Many thanks
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TrickyDicky101

Winchester in general is a lovely place to live and work with relatively few areas that I wouldn't want my children to live in. I would avoid Winnall if possible. Being lovely does go hand in hand with being expensive, however.

spirit

Hi,

Agreed, Winchester looks nice in all the guide books etc but there are 3 council/ex council estates that I would stay well away from. Winnall is one (just off the M3 where T3sco's is, Highcliffe which is the bottom end of town down past King Alfreds statue and Stanmore which is out on the Romsey road just past the hospital.

The university is in the St Cross area so you get students renting some of the ex council houses on Stanmore (as this is a vast estate and goes from the Romsey road down to the St Cross road. Also Badger Farm. Badger farm is ok and wouldn't mind my daughter renting there. BF is past Stanmore on the Romsey road and bear left at the roundabout. It is a big private estate, probably the first phase of development was in the 70s with later additions as it grew. It has a fair sized Sainsbugs supermarket there.

In town itself, rents are likely to be high due in part to the student population but also we don't have a large housing stock to start with. There are older houses up past the station on to the Stockbridge Road and by Peter Symonds college area (called Fulflood area).

If you go out of town a bit there is the Harestock estate, another 1970s estate with a mixture of flats and bigger houses. There is a newish Waitrose here too. Weeke estate nearby is an old 1950s council estate with mostly older people in. Weeke and Harestock estates are next to each other. Both places have a good bus service if your DD doesn't have a car.

don't get me started on traffic jams and the one way system :eek:

further out, say 2-3 miles you have Kings Worthy going out on the basingstoke road. Kings worthy is lovely (i am biased ) but it has grown in the last 10 years to include the Springvale estate. Rents here should be a bit cheaper than in town itself. there is a bus service here but it stops in the early evening.

South wonston is the next village over from Kings Worthy and has a few smaller estates. you'd have to be able to drive to be here really. I love it as my last house but one was here and where my kids grew up.

If Winchester rents are too high (as it is for many who work in town) Chandlers ford, bishopstoke or Eastleigh are fairly near and you can just jump on the train. watch out for Eastleigh itself, it's not called Beastly Eastleigh for nowt.

Hope this helps a bit but feel free to ask any more Qs

TrickyDicky101

spirit wrote: »

...watch out for Eastleigh itself, it's not called Beastly Eastleigh for nowt.

Sacrilege! ;-)

Actually, I completely agree - if you're going to work somewhere as nice as Winchester don't spoil it by living somewhere like Eastleigh (and I've lived in and around Eastleigh for the last 33 years so I have personal experience).

Richard_Webster

My office is in Eastleigh so I'm slightly offended - but my real loyalty is to Southampton where I live!

spirit

Richard_Webster wrote: »

My office is in Eastleigh so I'm slightly offended - but my real loyalty is to Southampton where I live!

commiserations to you Richard :eek: do you still have your original wheels left on your car?

I guess you must know Mr RL then from DG firm? Superb conveyancer. :T

I have a friend who lives in Regents Park area of Southampton, that area, the road where Optimax is and Ikea are the only places of southampton that I know.

TrickyDicky101

Richard_Webster wrote: »

My office is in Eastleigh so I'm slightly offended - but my real loyalty is to Southampton where I live!

I might argue Southampton is to Eastleigh as Eastleigh is to Winchester!!!!

spirit

TrickyDicky101 wrote: »

I might argue Southampton is to Eastleigh as Eastleigh is to Winchester!!!!

Yep, it's like that comedy sketch isn't it. Winchester folk look down on Easteigh folk etc etc

TrickyDicky101

spirit wrote: »

commiserations to you Richard :eek: do you still have your original wheels left on your car?

Fortunately, I actually live in Bishopstoke so my car is currently fine

Threads like these do just reinforce the mantra when choosing property of "location, location, location"!

spirit

TrickyDicky101 wrote: »

Threads like these do just reinforce the mantra when choosing property of "location, location, location"!

Indeed, I happened to watch one of those relocation programmes last week. An older couple were moving down here from oop north. I was really shocked at the places they were taken to - apart from one over Romsey way. I could have shown them better properties.

Richard_Webster

commiserations to you Richard do you still have your original wheels left on your car?

Yes and it went to Winchester for a service recently

I guess you must know Mr RL then from DG firm? Superb conveyancer.

Yes, we're often are on opposite sides on sales and purchases - and he's in Winchester

I have a friend who lives in Regents Park area of Southampton, that area, the road where Optimax is and Ikea are the only places of southampton that I know.

Regents Park - wrong side of Southampton - just as TrickyDicky is east of Eastleigh in Bishopstoke so the best place to be is east of the Itchen in Southampton - like where I live right under the flight path!