12 bedroom house for 50 grand!

ever been to Burnley?

That looks a ..  not so nice town though. High unemployment, racially segregated, far right politics?

"Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 29,135 in 2011 .. is characterised by pockets of severe deprivation and some of the lowest house prices in the country."
"The racial composition of the town in 2011 was 57.8% White, 40.4% Asian, 0.1% Black, 1.5% Mixed and 0.2% Other .. The town is strikingly segregated: the Marsden ward, which in 2006 elected the borough's first British National Party councillor, is 92.6% White, while the Whitefield ward is 72.8% Asian or Asian British."
"59.02% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 are classed as economically active and in work."
"Another shopping centre in Nelson is The Victory Centre, although a branch of William Hill bookmakers is currently the only remaining store in it."

Not sure what you can do for such towns, in the real world.

if you were rich enough, you could buy up every property in the town...kick everybody out...and move a load of nice people in from bath. imagine how much profit youd make selling all the property you bought for peanuts!

No DHSS please

Send the house by DPD to a better area?

That would make a great TV show.
Relocation, relocation, relocation?

I suppose they DO move houses in the US but they tend to be made of wood.

Would be ideal to use as a bail hostel. What do govt pay you to house crims and druggies?   Three, four, five hundred a week?

is that just to store all your DVD's bob

In its defence Nelson has character and is surrounded by hills with magnificent border countryside right on the doorstep

The town centre has been very nicely renovated recently and a street market resurrected

Scotland road is a disgrace and there are too many down and outs around the place but its not that bad a town

Anyone wanting to move a cheaper area could do a lot worse

12 rooms at £60 a week from the DHSS. 
Got your money back in 18 months.

only trouble is it's not habitible.

Rent it out to a bunch of Romanians. Got to be worth 50k.

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-44243125.html

people still live on that street? Different world up there!

not bad. how much would the council have to pay you if they want to knock the street down?

And where do you live Hamsterdam ?

Most towns in the UK have there bad and good areas

East Lancashire towns are no different

I live in a very affluent and vibrant area of the midlands. You wouldn't get a two bed terrace for 12k put it that way! Most houses on my street are around 500k.

The problem with Nelson and Northern Mill towns is the grew from being a small place before the industrial revolution, to then becoming much larger due to industry.   Now the industry has all but gone and only thing keeping such places going is the state.

The "bedroom tax" caused this sale...............

Well that's very nice for you I am sure

I was brought up in a comparitivly wealthy midlands town myself as it happens

However there are areas in that town that are equally as drug ridden,filthy and run down as you could find in the worst of these old mill towns yet the house prices are twice as high

I agree sparrow but at least you can escape to the town centre/s for a bit of vibrancy in those towns. In Burnley I should their effort is really grim.

if you're looking at houses for 50k in Burnley you may as well just move to the Midlands & buy a cheap flat like i did

there's 1 beds down the road from me that sell for 38k

not the worst of area's either tbh , tons of shops etc for your quorn pies

"Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 29,135 in 2011 .. is characterised by pockets of severe deprivation and some of the lowest house prices in the country."
"The racial composition of the town in 2011 was 57.8% White, 40.4% Asian, 0.1% Black, 1.5% Mixed and 0.2% Other .. The town is strikingly segregated: the Marsden ward, which in 2006 elected the borough's first British National Party councillor, is 92.6% White, while the Whitefield ward is 72.8% Asian or Asian British."
"59.02% of adults between the ages of 16 and 74 are classed as economically active and in work."

I look forward to the Burnley fans coming to Goodison next season and singing "in my Liverpool slums"

I wonder if they sell a lot of Quorn in Quorn?

(It's actually a town in Leicestershire .. just along the road from Burger-King-Bean-Burger on the Wold )

oh god not Leicestershire , that usually means bloody Hinckley !!!

To be honest I am not too bothered about the vibrancy hamsterdam 

I guess I would not describe any of them as vibrant.Your right there.

What I would say is that wherever you go you see hills and a mile out of Nelson you are in open countryside.

Three miles you are crossing the Yorkshire border in to the wilds of the pennine hills

THe markets around here are excellent and many goods are a bit cheaper too so as regards quality of life it aint that bad,

Honest

Is Tex Axile still around on this forum ?

He was born and brought up in these parts and will give you a good sales pitch for East Lancs

there's 1 beds down the road from me that sell for 38k


Just think you could probably get a two bed flat in a nice part of Burnley for that price mcmoonbeam

yeah gutted

its fun around here .. mosques get bombed & sh!t

it sounds erm. yeah. not sure i fancy it much. i love where i live, its dead posh. but theres hardly any properties i could even dream of affording. theres a few studio flats listed between 80 and 100k and thats about it. the houses are silly money, cheapest ive seen anywhere near here is 160k and thats a rarity. theres more going for 2 million than under 200k

Don't mean to offend you but you have to swallow your pride bob

Sainsbury's & uni birds , do you really enjoy either , just move


I was , well half joking , mosques did get bombed last year , i live about a mile away , heard about 14 police/ambulance within the hour whizz by , but i hadn't got a clue what had happened , still don't , don't really care , nobody bothers me that's all that counts !

Most people are actually quite friendly for a not so well off area

The houses in my 'cul de sac' are worth 160-200k

I'd be happy living in an out of the way place like Nelson, especially with nice countryside, IF it was safe and not much hassle and people were just decent. I might just do that some day.
But if it had a lot of local chavs, small minded idiots, BNP types, racial tension (as indicated in the wiki article) I'd hate it, could imagine little worse.
Sorry if you're a local, Sparrow Hawk you sound a good lad :)

I'd rather move to Wales !!

any idea why it's "cash only"?

Because it's a sh!t house in a sh!t area and no financial institution would offer a mortgage on it!

Isn't this the same are, Nelson/Colne, where houses were being sold for £1.00?

I was surprised when i heard colne was labelled a sh1thole.  Went there a lot 20-30 years ago as my gran lived nearby.  Colne was where we went for shopping.  I suppose it was a typical grey northern mill town, but i didmt consider it a drug ridden hell hole.  And the surrounding countryside is beautiful.  Anyone know if it is really that bad now?

Colne is certainly not not a **** rob and has in fact recently won a Britain in Bloom competition

It has loads of 'northern' character and has been much improved in recent years.

I have friends staying next weekend and we will no doubt be enjoying a nice Sunday roast and a couple of drinks at the Wallace Hartley in colne town centre next week.

A couple of miles out of town you are at laneshawbridge and wycollar and the start of the bronte walk over to Haworth if that's your type of thing

There are also three theaters in town and some excellent restaurants

Politically the town and kits surrounds would be mainly tory/lib  and no BNP as far as I am aware Andrew Stephenson being the local MP

Its interesting also that there are very few Asians or other ethnics in Colne whereas there are of course loads in Nelson only a mile or so down the road

Maybe other locals on here could explain that anomoly

By the way I now live just over the border from colne in west Yorkshire but lived for some time near nelson

My gran lived in wycoller and later barnoldswick.   Wycoller is delightful, just needed a pub.