Up and coming Town/Cities in the UK??

Davesnave

I rather doubt that one person's personally biased post on MSE would cause a human tsunami to decend on some unsuspecting town, 'gem' or otherwise.

We all know from discussions, here and elsewhere, that one persons opinion of what is 'up and coming' might be at variance with others' observations. It was only a couple of weeks ago that people were saying how lovely they thought Poundbury is, whereas every time I drive past it on the A35, I can't help thinking 'Trumpton!'

Anyway, OP hasn't defined their terms. As a parent, one's criteria for selecting a place to live may be completely different from those influencing a young, carefree singleton, or a grumpy old git like me.

moneyistooshorttomention

ManofLeisure wrote: »

Why? Are you looking to descend upon such an area to invest in buy-to-let?

Which is a very valid point.

For all we know - OP isnt a home-owner - but instead is an investor seeking to buy up housing en masse and then expect those that actually live there to just put up with a load of students/everyone else going to University moving into their neighbourhood.

Followed by many of the residents promptly moving out of their neighbourhood:cool:

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

For all we know - OP isnt a home-owner -

They were last time I looked, and not enjoying it either.

MysteryMe

Morata_ wrote: »

Haverhill?

No

Although surrounding villages are nice

trailingspouse

Bingley.

Five years ago there was only one supermarket (a rather grim Co-op) - now, we also have Sainsbury's local, Aldi, M&S Food and we're about to get a Lidl. Literally something for everyone!!


And we recently had a Costa open up too - whatever your opinion of the big coffee chains, they are very good at spotting 'up and coming' places, so I for one was very pleased to see it.


Central Leeds is only 20 minutes away by train, and the Yorkshire Dales aren't much further away by car.

tori.k

No new towns have been built since the 70's, regeneration has just become housing with no infrastructure so think its a hard call to say anywhere is up & coming

moneyistooshorttomention

trailingspouse wrote: »

And we recently had a Costa open up too - whatever your opinion of the big coffee chains, they are very good at spotting 'up and coming' places, so I for one was very pleased to see it.

That had me doing a quick google of towns in the area I'm living in now to check Costa coffeeshops there are. Not a fact I'm immediately familiar with - as I don't like them personally. Me - I like Coffee#1 and individual (but modern) coffee shops.

Result was that the difference between towns with one or more Costa shops and those without any boils down to having a population of 15,000 or more people. So I'd say it's size of population that makes the difference - as I wouldn't describe any of the towns with a Costa here as "up and coming" - just a "town of 15k or more people".

I know there was a figure I saw quoted once as the "size at which a place has a reasonable amount of facilities" and I seem to recall the figure was 15k population upward.

humptydumptybits

tori.k wrote: »

No new towns have been built since the 70's, regeneration has just become housing with no infrastructure so think its a hard call to say anywhere is up & coming

Isn't there one that Prince Charles had something to do with, in Dorset I think. He probably owned the land. I do remember that being talked about as a new town about ten or twenty years ago.



Thinking about it weren't they going to build one in Devon, maybe near Plymouth or Exeter?

tori.k

humptydumptybits wrote: »

Isn't there one that Prince Charles had something to do with, in Dorset I think. He probably owned the land. I do remember that being talked about as a new town about ten or twenty years ago.



Thinking about it weren't they going to build one in Devon, maybe near Plymouth or Exeter?

Nansledan is just a huge 540 acre estate extension to Newquay Duchy land wainshomes built.
Its cleverly spun "walkable neighbourhoods for less car dependance" means 35 homes per acre of land there is a new academy school being built in Newquay as they already have a shortage of placements but no doctors hospitals or road infrastructure in place. Cornwall is building houses faster then anywhere in the UK, 47500 are being built over the next 16 years and we are still short on the amount that the Government wants to build.

Linton

tori.k wrote: »

No new towns have been built since the 70's, regeneration has just become housing with no infrastructure so think its a hard call to say anywhere is up & coming

https://www.scambs.gov.uk/northstowe-overview