Burnley and Pendle streets ahead for cheap homes (From Lancashire Telegraph)

Burnley and Pendle streets ahead for cheap homes

1:16pm Tuesday 7th July 2009

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By Chris Hopper »

ALMOST half of Britain’s 20 cheapest streets are in Burnley or Pendle, a new survey claims.

Nine of the 20 ‘most affordable’ addresses in the UK are in the two boroughs, according to figures published by the property value website Mouseprice.

The site’s 2009 report shows Hargher Street in Burnley is the country’s fourth cheapest road with an average property costing £29,160.

And in the top 10 most affordable streets in the North West, eight are in Burnley and one is in Brierfield, with the tenth and cheapest address in Manchester.

A Mouseprice spokesman said: “An interesting feature about this list is that all of the top 10 streets located in the North West are ranked in the national list as well.

“Similar to last year, postcodes BB9, BB10, and B11, which include Burnley and Brierfield, link together to make up 90 per cent of the most affordable streets in the North West of England.”

The eight Burnley streets in the North West top 10, valued from £29,160 to £34,290 are Hargher Street, Duckett Street, Altham Street, Elmwood Street, Norman Street, Wood Street and Clough Street.

Meanwhile, an average house in Oxford Street, Brierfield, costs £30,600, according to the survey.

Burnley councillor Tony Lambert, who represents the deprived Trinity ward, said he hoped schemes such as Elevate, which has seen hundreds of millions of pounds pumped into East Lancashire to renovate housing stock, would improve the town.

He said: “I don’t think surveys like this do the image of Burnley any good whatsoever.

“It is very sad but I don’t know what the solution is.

“Elevate is criticised but it is slowly moving Burnley in the right direction.”

He said the new 65-home Keepmoat development in Cog Lane would “help a lot”.

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