Bromley Cross among best places to live
9:11am Tuesday 2nd October 2012 in News
THE suburb of Bromley Cross has been named one of the best places to live in the country.
A survey, commissioned by Family Investments, looked at quality of schools, childcare provision, affordability of living and crime levels.
The market town of Wokingham in Berkshire topped the table, followed by: Woodley, Berkshire; Chulmleigh, Devon; Lightwater, Surrey; Shebbear, Devon; Oakham, Rutland; Bromley Cross; Bingham, Nottinghamshire; Chinnor, Oxfordshire; Yarm, Yorkshire; and Chandlers Ford, Hampshire.
These are followed by: Bloxham, Oxfordshire; Malmesbury, Wiltshire; Wendover, Buckinghamshire; Bradninch, Devon; Topsham, Devon; Twyford, Berkshire; Dunnington, Yorkshire; Guildford, Surrey and Llangammarch Wells, Powys.
Kate Moore, head of savings and investments at Family Investments, said: “Everybody has different ideas about what makes a great location to start a family and bring up a child and we have tried to be as comprehensive as possible in gathering information on the factors parents have told us are most important.”
The factors considered by the study included key stage two and four results, school inspection outcomes, quantity and quality of early years care, affordability of childcare, local crime figures and property affordability.
It also considered the availability of an existing population of parents with young children, parks and green spaces, leisure centres, zoos and farms and museums and theatres.
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Rememberscarborough
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11:28am Tue 2 Oct 12
I, Ludicrous
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11:45am Tue 2 Oct 12
billyexpat
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1:02pm Tue 2 Oct 12
BoltonX
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1:29pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Jackfinlay wrote:Envy, it’s a wonderful thing. No doubt if Family Investments did a survey of your place of residence it would be in the hundreds.
Yeah but only if drive a range rover and can give each other a high six!
billyexpat
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2:41pm Tue 2 Oct 12
DRIVERS who leave their cars unlocked can expect a visit from the police.
Officers have launched a ‘shock tactics’ operation to drive home the message about locking your car.
It follows a series of incidents in which thieves have got into vehicles which have been left insecure. In three nights, officers visited 26 streets in Horwich and found 34 cars left unlocked and one front door.
Sgt Andy Vernon, who is leading the operation, said: “We have looked at our crime figures across the area and there have been a number of burglaries and thefts from vehicles as a result of cars being left insecure.
Looks like the burglers are fighting back
Jackfinlay
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2:45pm Tue 2 Oct 12
BoltonX wrote:That was a joke. An observation! ¿Comprende?
Jackfinlay wrote:Envy, it’s a wonderful thing. No doubt if Family Investments did a survey of your place of residence it would be in the hundreds.
Yeah but only if drive a range rover and can give each other a high six!
I'm quite well off! I have to say 'lol' now..... Lol
andy_88
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7:10pm Tue 2 Oct 12
Comment777
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9:46pm Tue 2 Oct 12
What kind of misleading survey is this, it should probably be accused of misrepresentation...
Edgworth is on the doorstep but does not seem to feature in the top 20...
Bromley Cross is a grid locked over developed nightmare of a place...I have happy memories of my childhood there but sadly on the few occasions when I now visit I am dismayed by what it has become; the greed for more and more rate payments shown by those occupying Bolton's victorian town hall is the cause of all the village's problems and yet in the 90s they sell Blair hospital to a group of Asians for very little return (bearing in mind the building and its land where given to the people of the area) who then sold the land on for building losing the area one of its finest buildings....Good luck to all those who live in Bromley Cross, I hope this survey makes you feel proud of where you live but in reality the village is a consequence of bad planning, greed and speculation an indictment of today's society.
Amy Hare
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11:55pm Tue 2 Oct 12
andy_88 wrote:you won't have seen how many times the bus stop outside the co-op was smashed up then will you Andy, and it was often due to children from outside the area. And as for idiot spoiled kids, I think you're forgetting there is a council estate slap bang in the middle that is full of children who are mostly not idiots and are definitely not spoilt!!!!! don't tar them all with the same brush please! This article was first published some months ago in another publication and it used schools, green space, parks, transport links and Leisure centre's as part of the survey, given the local leisure centre is no longer accessible to the majority of the village due to the running being taken over by the school I feel the standings have possibly changed somewhat.
not surprised as the idiot spoiled kids go and trash other areas and go home back to Bromley Cross.
@Comment777 how right are you, I've spent many a morning stuck in traffic taking my daughter from Bromley Cross to a School in Egerton, bottleneck it still is i'm afraid!
exiled
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8:18am Wed 3 Oct 12
atlas123
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8:15pm Wed 3 Oct 12
Amy Hare wrote:If it is so bad, do both of yourselves (and the rest of the roadusers) a favour... Walk your bloody kids to school!
andy_88 wrote:you won't have seen how many times the bus stop outside the co-op was smashed up then will you Andy, and it was often due to children from outside the area. And as for idiot spoiled kids, I think you're forgetting there is a council estate slap bang in the middle that is full of children who are mostly not idiots and are definitely not spoilt!!!!! don't tar them all with the same brush please! This article was first published some months ago in another publication and it used schools, green space, parks, transport links and Leisure centre's as part of the survey, given the local leisure centre is no longer accessible to the majority of the village due to the running being taken over by the school I feel the standings have possibly changed somewhat.
not surprised as the idiot spoiled kids go and trash other areas and go home back to Bromley Cross.
@Comment777 how right are you, I've spent many a morning stuck in traffic taking my daughter from Bromley Cross to a School in Egerton, bottleneck it still is i'm afraid!
davoovad
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6:31pm Thu 4 Oct 12
davoovad
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6:36pm Thu 4 Oct 12
Jackfinlay wrote:Sorry i couldn't help noticing, it appears that i'm considerable richer than you.
BoltonX wrote:That was a joke. An observation! ¿Comprende?
Jackfinlay wrote:Envy, it’s a wonderful thing. No doubt if Family Investments did a survey of your place of residence it would be in the hundreds.
Yeah but only if drive a range rover and can give each other a high six!
I'm quite well off! I have to say 'lol' now..... Lol
Jackfinlay
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7:42pm Thu 4 Oct 12
davoovad wrote:Nice one.
Jackfinlay wrote:Sorry i couldn't help noticing, it appears that i'm considerable richer than you.
BoltonX wrote:That was a joke. An observation! ¿Comprende?
Jackfinlay wrote:Envy, it’s a wonderful thing. No doubt if Family Investments did a survey of your place of residence it would be in the hundreds.
Yeah but only if drive a range rover and can give each other a high six!
I'm quite well off! I have to say 'lol' now..... Lol
Jackfinlay says...
11:16am Tue 2 Oct 12