Do you live in Radstock, Somerset? Advice needed

Helen224488

Hi,

We are looking to buy a house in Radstock or Midsomer Norton areas. We have viewed a few houses but would be really interested to know the bad areas - high crime etc. Also I would really like to know the locations of council/local authority estates. I cannot find this info at all. I can find crime details website.

Have booked to view this house: http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-60892562.html

Looks like a council estate to me but unsure.

Does anyone have knowledge of Radstock and can advise us of good/bad areas? I have been told Clandown is not so good.

fairy_lights

I don't know the area well, but I've heard there's a disturbingly high murder rate in Midsomer Norton.

kirtondm

Frome about 8 miles away is much nicer and a rising area.

Midsomer Norton / Radstock is slowly dying

Helen224488

Frome is just too far for us, husband works in Bath, I work in Bristol and daughter attends school in Bristol. Has to be Radstock, Midsomer Norton or near by villages.

Davesnave

kirtondm wrote: »

Frome about 8 miles away is much nicer and a rising area.

Midsomer Norton / Radstock is slowly dying

I doubt if anywhere commutable to Bristol & Bath is going to die.

Frome has been bidding to be the Totnes of its area for most of my life, and perhaps it's got there by now. Whether that makes it attractive depends on one's preferences and the price premium to be paid.

Norton-Radstock is more workaday, but it's hardly the Bronx. It's much more affordable than alternatives in the villages around, like Shoscombe, now long-gentrified.

I'm not up on prices now, but Timsbury used to offer good value for somewhere relatively close to Bath.

The area in the OP link is mixed, with ex-council, HA and private properties all within a hundred metres of each other. It's on the wrong side of town for the excellent Whitstone's fish & chip shop, but I could probably live with that!