Moving to Leeds - Advice Appreciated!

[Glade]

Hi All

PHer from South West moving up to Leeds in August. Enjoy going on runs with the South West reigonal PHers, so hopefully this will continue in Yorkshire.

Mrs has a Clio 182 as a daily, I have Westfield SEiW and a Passat for the daily grind. Also have a Suzuki SV650S but don't tend to use that since the Westy came along!

Mrs has a new job in Harrogate, I have one on industrial estate near the centre of Leeds. Looking for a house with a garage in Tinshill, Cookridge, Chapel Allerton areas - but the Mrs has her heart set on a newer build?

Can anyone point me in the direction of any new developments so we can target our house hunting.

Many Thanks!!
Tim

[johnanderson]

Welcome, and Chapel Allerton is a great area to live, check out Mansion Gate:

http://www.vrleeds.co.uk/leeds-virtual-tour2006/so...

Regards John



(edited: all the car meets are quite visible on this forum to anyone who may be interested - please do not push them too much)

Edited by burriana on Thursday 21st July 18:23

[balders118]

Chapel Allerton is nice, but is very close to some not very nice areas. As in you can walk five minutes and your'e suddenly in the ghetto; namely Chapeltown and Harehills. Roundhay is also nice, and close to Chapel A but suffers from the same problem. There isn't a lot of new stuff in Roundhay either. Mansion gate is a nice complex, I have a friend who lives in a town house there and it really is very nice.

Headingly is pretty studenty in terms of bars etc, but at the far end there is a nice new build estate linky

[soxboy]

Some good suggestions so far.

If the Mrs is working in Harrogate try looking at areas such as Adel, Alwoodley and Shadwell too. Handy for the ring road and getting out of Leeds, close to countryside and short taxi ride to bars and restaurants in Chapel Allerton and Roundhay.

With regard to Mansion Gate, it looks nice but it's a little too close to Chapeltown and Harehills for things 'disappearing' from your house and driveway for my liking. I'd be looking to the north side of Chapel Allerton rather than the south. There's not much in the way of new developments but there's this in Roundhay:

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/new-h...

[BlueMR2]

Pretty much all the new build stuff in the area you want involves taking a nice big old house, flooring it and building some ugly ass big block of chintzy flats with one parking space per flat, if your lucky.

If you want to live in this area you will need to go pre loved housing.

[BlueMR2]

Something like this would be good for you, and your close enough to lend me your Westfield , although i probably wouldn't fit in it .

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/prope...

[Glade]

Thanks for the feedback!! Will start following up some of those links tonight.

I should have mentioned... we will be renting initially.

[MonkeyBusiness]

Also look at Yeadon, Guiseley, Rawdon - around the airport.

[burriana]

Might be a daft question Tim, but why not live in Harrogate? Seriously, spend a few weekends or Fri/Sat nights there, it is a lovely place to live. Cool bars, cool restaurants, most things are within walking distance and, most importantly, it is full of, on the whole, really nice people.

Not many places where you can wander down into town on a sunny Sunday night, sit outside the pub and find everyone sat on picnic blankets on The Stray watching Gone with the Wind on a huge screen.

Oh, and you are about 5 mins from awesome roads that don't stop until you hit either the M6, the North Sea, or Scotland

[mybrainhurts]

Leeds..? Are you sure about that...?

They all have webbed feet, you know...

[balders118]

MonkeyBusiness said:

Also look at Yeadon, Guiseley, Rawdon - around the airport.

I live in Rawdon, and last year I lived in Yeadon . Both very nice, but I prefer rawdon. Guisely is a bit bigger with a bit more going on and is also a nice place to live. I rent, and there are plenty of place to rent around here too. Also there are a few new build places, I always thought this place looked nice when driving past it coverly rise

Thats right next to a park too which is nice, there is a morrisons just around the corner and a sainsburys a couple of miles away (which is where I go). Halfords very close by too, which is handy! Pubs and bars in Guisely are nice as well.

[balders118]

burriana said:

Might be a daft question Tim, but why not live in Harrogate? Seriously, spend a few weekends or Fri/Sat nights there, it is a lovely place to live. Cool bars, cool restaurants, most things are within walking distance and, most importantly, it is full of, on the whole, really nice people.

Not many places where you can wander down into town on a sunny Sunday night, sit outside the pub and find everyone sat on picnic blankets on The Stray watching Gone with the Wind on a huge screen.

Oh, and you are about 5 mins from awesome roads that don't stop until you hit either the M6, the North Sea, or Scotland

Agree with this, harrogate is very nice indeed, but you can add a few % onto the rent compared with the Guisely area. Worth it though if you can afford it, if I want a meal out with the Mrs I'll generally go to harrogate rather than heading towards Leeds as it is a lot nicer.

[MonkeyBusiness]

balders118 said:

Pubs and bars in Guisely are nice as well.

I was in Coopers last week. Rough as hell next day after all that real ale.
I'm up by Murgatroyds

[thetapeworm]

I'm in Leeds but I'd echo the comments about Harrogate - maybe Knaresborough, Wetherby and surrounding towns too but then you'd both have to commute.

Pool-in-Wharfedale is nice middle ground with good driving roads nearby and a large new(ish) build estate - I used to live on there and it was a fairly quiet place, good range of houses and the odd TVR dotted around too.

Alternatively you could save a fortune, rent in Beeston or Holbeck and spend the rest of the money on a secure parking compound for the fun cars

[balders118]

MonkeyBusiness said:

I was in Coopers last week. Rough as hell next day after all that real ale.
I'm up by Murgatroyds

Ahh some good fish and chips to be had from there, haven't been there since I moved to Rawdon though. Bayton Lane used to be on my commute to work, I miss nailing it down that little road at 6.30am on sunday morning! Pretty dangerous though for the less able, in the year and a half I lived there I saw at least 10, maybe as many as 15 crashes on that road including a focus upside down in a ditch!

[speed8]

Agree with most of the above.

I would be looking (and was a few months ago) at Roundhay (near-ish the park), Shadwell (maybe), Horsforth (train station to city and Harrogate), Guisley/Rawdon and Bramhope/Pool. Tinshill and Cookridge less so but thats just me having rented in Cookridge for a few months (I would take Cookridge over Tinshill though).

Chapel Allerton is nice for a meal or a few drinks but too close to Harehills and Chapeltown, for my liking, as a place to live. Mansiongate is right on the edge (the wrong edge). The northern side of CA is better though.
The Chandos, linked in an earlier post, is probably ok but I lived in an apartment nearby for a few years and forever had the local school kids ripping down fences and dealing drugs on the driveway.
There is still one or two apartments available at The Grove in Roundhay and there are new places being built up at Menston.

I'm up at Bramhope which is great, good curry, good chippy, decent pub, Horsforth train station 5-10 mins away and some great roads on the doorstep. Previously I was in Roundhay (5 mins walk from the park) which was also good.

No idea what your budget is but a quick look on rightmove shows up some places below to give you an idea of what you'll get for your money.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-to-rent/proper...

[Glade]

Wow amazing replies!

Only just got settled after work so will read it all...

[philmh]

Check out the new builds on the old high royds hospital site too.

[carl carlson]

As others have said check out wetherby and harrogate. You can get the odd new build in the surrounding villages and you will be well away from those Leeds ruffians with plenty of lovely open countryside to wander round.

[Guiseley]

+1 for Guiseley (did the forum nickname give it away?) or Otley which will make commute to Harrogate easier. Google menston for new developments as there's a huge development at high royds.