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Burnley and Pendle streets ahead for cheap homes
1:16pm Tuesday 7th July 2009 in
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- By Chris Hopper » Reporter
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”.
Comments(10)
Old Timer
says...
6:28pm Tue 7 Jul 09
Areas that are demolished will still have their sevices installed or is that too simple an ides for our planners to think of. Factories building them workmen erecting and lots of employment for unskilled workers.
RAyzer
says...
8:42pm Tue 7 Jul 09
disgusted tunbridge wells
says...
10:16pm Tue 7 Jul 09
blueheeler1
says...
10:50am Wed 8 Jul 09
That's what happens because its a deep and entrenched problem.
If you spend resources lifting peoples skills and social understanding you create expectations that can not be met.
You have to take unskilled people and give them dignity. Then jobs then hope.
It needs actions not words.
Its for these reasons the BNP flourish.
stealer
says...
8:10pm Wed 8 Jul 09
generation deserve better than a stopgap
situation!
The big problem is the 'property developers',get rich
twenty to forty somethings buying anything they think
that can be turned to
profit!TV promoted!
New build is beyond the price range of most young couples,because the property speculators
and well known builders are only interested in large return on their investments!
Council sponsored building of 'affordable'housing does seem the obvious solution but
who eventually ends up as owner? the 'property developer'!!
bankhall
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9:47pm Thu 9 Jul 09
aaarg diddums
“Elevate is criticised but it is slowly moving Burnley in the right direction.” which direction is this ?? i see no evidence of this anywhere ;we still have over 3000 empty houses that no-one wants to live in because the population is dwindling year on year.aLL I see from elevate is that duke bar area is now becoming a slum since the influx of the druggies and britishtanis from daneshouse and stoneyholme.They have brought their filth with them and the area is sinking fast.I have also noticed and been told that Fulledge is going the same way now the druggies etc have been moved over from the 'Wood' well done elevate and Burnley council.just move the filth into good areas and wreck them .I am now trying to get out becuse of the stench from cooking permeastes everything in the house and surrounding streets.
Longtimerover
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10:36pm Thu 9 Jul 09
Quote .......... ALMOST half of Britain’s 20 cheapest streets are in Burnley or Pendle, a new survey claims.
One wonders why.
Longtimerover
says...
10:47pm Thu 9 Jul 09
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.
I think that I do.
RAyzer
says...
8:42am Sat 11 Jul 09
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3:28pm Tue 7 Jul 09