Gedling borough has been named in the top 50 best places to live in Britain in 2020, according to an annual survey.
The Halifax Quality of Life survey ranked the borough as the 29th best place to live, factoring in the area’s employment rate, earnings, housing affordability, health and wellbeing, education, traffic and crime rates.
Gedling was one of only three areas in Nottinghamshire to make the list and one of five listed in the East Midlands.
Deputy leader of Gedling Borough Council, Michael Payne, took to Twitter to celebrate the result.
He tweeted: “Proud to see Gedling in UK’s top 50 places with best quality of life. Gedling is 29th in the UK, 4th best place for quality of life in the East Midlands and 3rd in Nottinghamshire.”
The Quality of Life reading for each local authority was created by summing scores across 26 variables within eight broad groups.
Each local authority district is given a score out of 10 for each variable contained in the index. Scores within each of the broad groups are averaged and then the eight group scores are summed to create an overall Quality of Life score.
Here’s the full list of the top 50 best places to live in the UK:
1. East Hertfordshire, East of England
2. Fareham, South East
3. Hart, South East
4. Horsham, South East
5. Maldon, East of England
6. Selby, Yorkshire and the Humber
7. Hambleton, Yorkshire and the Humber
8. Babergh, East of England
9. St Edmundsbury, East of England
10. Wokingham, South East
11. Ryedale, Yorkshire and the Humber
12. South Derbyshire, East Midlands
13. South Cambridgeshire, East of England
14. Tonbridge and Malling, South East
15. Rugby, West Midlands
16. Runnymede, South East
17. Wychavon, West Midlands
18. Orkney, Scotland
19. Woking, South East
20. Warwick, West Midlands
21. South Oxfordshire, South East
22. Rushcliffe, East Midlands
23. Huntingdonshire, East of England
24. Newark and Sherwood, East Midlands
25. Rushmoor, South East
26. Forest Heath, East of England
27. Elmbridge, South East
28. Wiltshire, South West
29. Gedling, East Midlands
30. North Dorset, South West
31. Rutland, East Midlands
32. Tewkesbury, South West
33. Rochford, East of England
34. Winchester, South East
35. Bracknell Forest, South East
36. Cherwell, South East
37. Central Bedfordshire, East of England
38. Charnwood, East Midlands
39. Forest of Dean, South West
40. Vale of White Horse, South East
41. West Berkshire, South East
42. New Forest, South East
43. North Warwickshire, West Midlands
44. Guildford, South East
45. Swindon, South West
46. Lichfield, West Midlands
47. Suffolk Coastal, East of England
48. York, Yorkshire and the Humber
49. Basingstoke and Deane, South East
50. Erewash, East Midlands
