I am pretty sure I read that they plan on upgrading the A14, and making it into a toll road too

They do plan on upgrading but don't hold your breath! The toll is still "being discussed" - yeah, right! I would actually avoid anywhere that relies heavily on the A14 if at all possible for the foreseeable future at least!

Thanks Quoll
Really useful

Good choice of areas -I lived in nottingham for a long time and loved it - the weather is drier and less damp than in the west. It's quite a buzzing town with lots happening. But it also used to be known as the 'stabbing capital of england' - place where you are most likely to get knifed! (and it's not a euphemism...)

Hi Marooned

Do you know much about the town of Southwell just outside of Nottingham. Looks great to me with good school, shops, pubs, sport facilities etc. Close enough to Nottingham to be handy but just outside shooting range....
The other place we were looking at is Bingham - again stacks up like Southwell but a bit further from Nottingham.

Both lovely towns - yes, as you suggest Southwell (pronounced Su-thull FYI!) is closer - more of a satellite town - but very pretty. Bingham has more of its own identity and is a very nice market town. Great transport links too. Can't go wrong with either one, in my opinion. And well outside the 'stab zone!@

Luv ya work marooned

Southwell is gorgeous in my opinion. It's one of the few places in Nottinghamshire I'd consider living. But property prices are high there.

Hi Editha
Any comment on Bingham?

Bingham is very near Radcliffe on Trent. We lived in Radcliffe for a while. Good place to live. I should think it would have a bit more going on than Bingham.
Radcliffe had good schools, shops, a station, buses into Nottingham.

I don't know Bingham.

We left Bingham to move to Australia, and i can't wait to get back there eventually, we lived in a few different areas within rushcliffe and none compared to Bingham, great for families, think it won some kind of family award last year voted top ?? in towns to live in the uk, (sorry i cant remember the number, but i'm sure there will be lots of articles on it if you google). I personally like
West Bridgford (but could never afford a 4 bed there),
East Bridgford (we lived there for a while, fab school, very quiet, and has a reputation for being slightly snobby, but we didn't find that at all),
Southwell (love Southwell, Minster school is great, a mix of posh and not so posh, lovely pubs and shops, my close friend moved to Bingham from Southwell and loves both, her parents own a farm there, and also have a rental property there, when we first looked at houses there we went in the estate agents and asked for 'suthall' as thats how my parents pronounced it, i just got a dirty look up and down and told 'do you mean south well', lol, it can be snobby, people from southwell and that side of town call it south well, from the other side of town its called suthall, which the people of southwell seem to hate)
Radcliffe on Trent (stuck there for over 5 years trying to sell our house, we found it rough compared to what we had been used to in the main street, we hated it, youths tend to hang around the shops there more than any other place we lived, we didn't live in the centre so I very rarely went as I just never got a good feel for it, parking was easy unlike BIngham and WEst Bridgford, but think thats because most people probably chose to shop in those two places rather than radcliffe, the secondary school at radcliffe has a bad reputation and even though we lived there sent our children to school elsewhere, think numbers got really low so they got children from the meadows to fill the places, on the estate we lived I dont know of a single person who sent there children to school in radcliffe, i'm sure there must have been someone but most went to west bridgford, bingham, cropwell, east bridgford or private)

There are lots of other great areas around there, also what I found with Bingham that most people have moved there from elsewhere, there are lots of southeners living there and people tend to move there with families because they've heard good things about it, but like anywhere theres a 'good end' and a 'not so good end', For value for money there are much worse places to live