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To ask the best places to live in Merseyside area?

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Relocate89 · 07/05/2024 14:47

We potentially may need to relocate to Merseyside area for my work. Would need to be able to commute to Liverpool city centre.

Aigburth has been suggested and Wallasey Village on the Wirral.

Would need a 3 bed and budget about £250,000.

Any suggestions?

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Tooshytoshine · 07/05/2024 19:54

FamilyAreEverything · 07/05/2024 18:13

Bebington, Spital, Bromborough, Eastham - all leafy commuter belt with great bus or train links to Liverpool City Centre.
Also within the catchment for Wirral Grammar, although the alternative non-selective high schools may not be brilliant.

Prenton girls is a lovely school and Woodchurch has a deservedly excellent reputation for SEND and inclusion

VanilleFraise · 07/05/2024 19:02

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 18:28

How is it misleading? No schools in Wallasey are part of that system, none require you to sit the 11+ and Wallasey isn't part of the system - if you want to be part of the system you need to tutor privately and send your child out of Wallasey if they pass - that's a fact

You can sit the 11+ where I am and buss your child to Birmingham but the town I live in is NOT part of the grammar school system!

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A more informative comment yo have made would have been "there are no grammar schools in wallasey any more".

Misthios · 07/05/2024 18:52

But you are looking at this wrong @ghostyslovesheets - Wirral has grammar schools. And comprehensive schools. Parents from Wallasey (and any other part of the Wirral) can put their kids through the 11 plus for grammar. If they choose not to do that, then they would go to one of the schools you mentioned. If they chose to have their children sit the exams and the kids passed, then they'd go to grammar schools.

That doesn't mean the schools in Wallasey are "outside the system". It just means that of the grammar schools on the Wirral, none are physically located in Wallasey.

Loopylouie · 07/05/2024 18:49

Budget might be a bit tight but for the Wirral Îd suggest West kirby, Hoylake , ( both have train straight to Liverpool ) Heswall and around that area.

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 18:39

Oh my goodness - look the OP asked about schools and I was simply pointing out that none of Wallasey's 4 secondary schools are part of the system so her girls won't need to take/pass the 11+ to attend

As with any area near to places that HAVE grammar school anyone can sit the exam and then apply if they pass - we are in Tamworth and there are busses to King Edwards from here - but our local schools are not part of that system and neither are Wallasey schools

crimsonlake · 07/05/2024 18:34

South Liverpool is definately the nicest and leafiest, however you wont find a 3 bed semi in the price range you are looking at.
You could pick up a 3 bed terrance in Allerton which is a nice area and I expect that is in the Calderstones High School catchment area. Similarily the Wavertree area which is closest to Allerton has similar housing.
Take a look at Mossley Hill, the Rose Lane end, which again is close to Allerton Road.
Gateacre is nice, which has some semi's just below the £300k mark, but there i think you would be looking at Gateacre Comp or Childwall Comp for schools.
Childwall itself you could probably get a semi just under £300k.

Maybetoofarsouth · 07/05/2024 18:31

If you were interested in grammar schools and being on the Wirral, West Kirby isn't full in Year 7.

Crabwoman · 07/05/2024 18:30

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 16:17

Wallasey isn't in the Grammar School system - and I wouldn't be too put off by Liscard - yes it's a typical sad, charity shop filled shopping area - like a lot of others but the areas towards New Brighton can be nice - I'd look around Earlston and Vale Parks and surrounding roads - New Brighton has a lot going for it - and they continue to develop it.

Wallasey definitely is in the grammer school system and we'll served for buses going to West Kirby/Calday and Upton/St.Anselms.

New Brighton is lovely.

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 18:29

Bus - obviously - sticky keyboard

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 18:28

VanilleFraise · 07/05/2024 18:21

That's quite a misleading comment to make tho isn't it.

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How is it misleading? No schools in Wallasey are part of that system, none require you to sit the 11+ and Wallasey isn't part of the system - if you want to be part of the system you need to tutor privately and send your child out of Wallasey if they pass - that's a fact

You can sit the 11+ where I am and buss your child to Birmingham but the town I live in is NOT part of the grammar school system!

florenceandthemac · 07/05/2024 18:27

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/143457785
Sorry can't do the link thing.
House in the link is in Newton-le-Willows (still Merseyside).
5 minute walk to the train station, and train to either Liverpool and Manchester in 18 mins.
Also direct trains to Chester and other cities

florenceandthemac · 07/05/2024 18:21

Newton-le-Willows

VanilleFraise · 07/05/2024 18:21

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 17:26

You might be able to apply for schools outside of Wallasey via taking the 11+ but Wallasey is not part of the system - went to school there and my mum taught there for years - all secondary schools (Mosslands, Weatherhead, Oldershaw and St Mary's) and not part of the system. You don't need to pass an exam to go there

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That's quite a misleading comment to make tho isn't it.

Sirzy · 07/05/2024 18:19

nomoresnacks · 07/05/2024 17:50

Have you looked at Lydiate / Aughton or Ormskirk - latter two are Lancashire but not far on the train. 30 mins. Ormskirk has a good high school

St Bedes in Ormskirk is very good, Ormskirk School less so now I know quite a few parents who have moved children out of there in the last few years. Ormskirk School was rated inadequate around 2019 and has now been moved to a MAT.

FamilyAreEverything · 07/05/2024 18:13

Bebington, Spital, Bromborough, Eastham - all leafy commuter belt with great bus or train links to Liverpool City Centre.
Also within the catchment for Wirral Grammar, although the alternative non-selective high schools may not be brilliant.

Fatbenelton · 07/05/2024 17:50

£250k might just about get you a 3 bed terrace in South Liverpool - Allerton/Mossley Hill/Aigburth so might still be worth a look. Decent schools for girls include St Hilda’s and Belvedere with a wider choice for mixed; Liverpool College, King David High School, Blue Coat, Calderstones. However spaces are going to be an issue so I’d check where the school spaces may be before and then search.

nomoresnacks · 07/05/2024 17:50

Have you looked at Lydiate / Aughton or Ormskirk - latter two are Lancashire but not far on the train. 30 mins. Ormskirk has a good high school

WalkWithMeSuzieLee · 07/05/2024 17:40

Formby's lovely.

muddyford · 07/05/2024 17:34

Formby, Crosby, Blundellsands.

WASZPy · 07/05/2024 17:31

I'd go Formby, or Blundell Sands (Crosby) if you want to be closer to Liverpool. I don't really know what the schools are like these days though.

MILTOBE · 07/05/2024 17:29

DailyEnergyCrisis · 07/05/2024 15:52

Heswall is worth a look as well.

Not for £250K it's not!

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 17:26

VanilleFraise · 07/05/2024 17:09

This isn't correct.
Wallasey definitely is in the Grammar school system.

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You might be able to apply for schools outside of Wallasey via taking the 11+ but Wallasey is not part of the system - went to school there and my mum taught there for years - all secondary schools (Mosslands, Weatherhead, Oldershaw and St Mary's) and not part of the system. You don't need to pass an exam to go there

Blahdymcblahdyface · 07/05/2024 17:22

Southport - get them into Greenbank

VanilleFraise · 07/05/2024 17:09

ghostyslovesheets · 07/05/2024 16:17

Wallasey isn't in the Grammar School system - and I wouldn't be too put off by Liscard - yes it's a typical sad, charity shop filled shopping area - like a lot of others but the areas towards New Brighton can be nice - I'd look around Earlston and Vale Parks and surrounding roads - New Brighton has a lot going for it - and they continue to develop it.

This isn't correct.
Wallasey definitely is in the Grammar school system.