Moving to Truro

[Wailywailywaily]

From a long way away with no local knowledge.
We have a 14yo and a 5yo. Where would you recommend as a good location to live within about 5 miles of the city or in the city? Budget is about £275,000.
Pirmelocation and zoopla are great but not helping with local knowledge.

That sounds exciting Waily

if your business is going to be in town you would maybe have to accept you would need to drive to school if you couldn't get your DC into St Mary's.

Gardens in Truro are problematic- we generally don't have big ones. But that said many of us have dogs and certainly if you are the lemon st side of town there is a good park ad a dog walking park so the need for huge outside space isn't so great.

I will have a look in the paper and DM you as not all,properties local are listed on the websites.

Really happy to help so please ask me anything - as I think I said I had invaluable local help during my move to Truro and happy to pay it forward for someone else doing such a big move

Just another thought... Bungalow living might not sound like your thing but you will have the best chance of a good garden size if you want to be in Truro itself

Quick search...

Much bigger than it looks, close to dog walking park but has decent size garden, quiet location but many families (close to Daniell Rd)

Pics don't illustrate but although only 3 beds there is good space downstairs

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-32009976.html

4 bed on Daniell road
Backs onto park

zoopla.homesandproperty.co.uk/for-sale/details/34122926#K33iMpQ5Zy3Sjdsx.97

Wild card... Location is better than it looks on the map. Right side of town for kea and a quick cycle to town for work. Also v close to cycle track that runs to hospital.
www.strattoncreber.co.uk/buy/property/5-bedroom-detached-house-in-truro,tr1-ref-3001879/

Thanks for those. I like the last one, it is priced high but by the photos it may have been on the market for quite a while.
The middle one is sold STC
The first one has a lovely kitchen and large bedrooms, it is also in budget so wins there. The photo of the garden look weird, like they have photoshopped in the furniture!
We have had some storm damage so have some work to do now before it can even go on the market . Appart from that all the plans are falling into place very easily which is always a good sign.
Iquite like the idea of a bungalo, DH on the other hand would take a lot of convincing.

Ooh following with interest. We left Helston a year ago to live in Hants short term and are preparing our move back to Cornwall to time in with the summer hols. We are selling up Helston and buying in Truro purely for the above points of access to amenities, clubs, activities, and not having to spend sooo much time stuck behinds tractors trying to access anywhere. Great for hopping on a train to Ply or Exe too. Properties wise Playing place / Kea are still uber popular but with that comes the extension of the Feock price tag, north of Cornwall if you like that area (ie Grampound Road / Idless / Shortlandsend etc you do on average definately get a lot more for your money. Good luck!

Chicinwellies Hi!
I looked at Grampound road, Probus and Shortlanesend but have been advised upthread that they are a. a pain to get into town from and b, a little bit dull for a teenager.

I am currently looking at the new development Pen an Dre (Peter Andre DH calls it) but I NEED a south facing garden and currently only small houses seem to have that there

Good luck with your search!

PS the first house is our friends (at Culdrose), amazing location but is very small.

Completely agree re location, and tbh its why we are selling up from our beautiful village into Truro. The children dont appreciate the creekside views and the forest access they want friends friends and socials / clubs for which the (often 40 minute with traffic) drive into Truro isnt great. We are now looking at Kea and Playing Place too, just because we love Fal too, and these are kind of inbetween both. Daniell Road / Treworder Road / Kenwyn are all gorgeous areas, and then its down to finding 'the' house. We too are looking for a sunny aspect garden. Good luck!

There is a three bed bungalow in Playing place with a giant mature and lovely garden! Outer limit of our budget though and a bit not my taste house wise.

All this looking is helping to hone in on what I actually want in a house will I compromise the house for the garden?

Late to the party but we moved to Falmouth from Oxfordshire 5 years ago and have never looked back

Can't really add anything helpful about where to live in Truro except that I go to Truro College (near the hospital) on a Wednesday morning and the traffic IS grim on the Chacewater Road towards Truro - my normal 20minute journey can take up to an hour!

Wailywailywaily I may have to stop talking to you although you sound so nice we may end up wanting the Same house :o)

Hi badRoly, it is all useful info for me :) its mainly because I hate traffic that I want to live within cycling distance of town and schools.

Chicin, it seems like yes have been chatting to EAs today and they are giving me lots more ideas too.

DH put our house on the market today - in other word he has had a for sale sign printed and stuck it on the drive I have given him two weeks before I take over and do it properly.

Chicin, we can rick paper scissors over the house of our dreams if you like?

Hello Everyone! Waily how is the house hunting going? Agree the PP one looks good but you have to be careful out there with run off and damp- top of the village seems ok but down at the bottom properties seem to be ever so damp.

Hey Bad Roly - how's college going? Have you ever tried turning off at Ponsanooth and cutting across that way, there is a good road that brings you out by tomperrow behind the tennis club. It's a nifty short cut the can save oodles of time.

Hi Fairy,
I have a very good idea of what I want and where I want it but no further than that yet :). I have started to pack my house up onto boxes also. Someone iil did warn me about damp in older cornish houses, something to do with the lack of mains gas for central heating. Its one of the reasons for looking at new builds.

Hello Fairy, it's all going well, how's things with you?

I go off at Bissoe and end up in Threemilestone now - still queue through the village a bit but I'm hitting the roundabout from the 'right' direction now and I'm generally in College just after 8.30 now

Waily we have an old house and damp is more of an issue than it was 'UpCountry' but I think that's more to do with the environment than the house itself. It is warmer here and wetter (as my Mum likes to point out as if it's always dry and sunny in Yorkshire ) which makes it easier to have damp.

We have 2 dehumidifiers and are slowly replacing our wooden sash windows so that they will open (they swell shut when it's wet) and I can air the house properly.

We also have mains gas (and electricity and even Superfast Broadband ) so have gas central heating but especially in Spring/Autumn, it doesn't get cold enough for it to come on which might also contribute to dampness?

What you are saying basically is don't panic Cornwall did make it into the 21st century

That is a relief as, despite having grown up in a ceturies old farmhouse, I have grown used to some comforts - I have got nesh!

Well some parts of Cornwall have made it to the 21st Century...

Cornwall is damper than most of the country, you just get used to it and use vacuum bags for storage. We have an Aga which, being on all the time, provides just enough background heat to counteract the damp in half the house at least. I am sure you will love it here, we moved 25 years ago when the DCs were tiny. Don't dismiss the villages. Ours is about 15 minutes outside Truro (20 maybe in rush hour) but the village school is less than half a mile down the lane, there is an admittedly infrequent bus to Truro and secondary school buses run from all over the county. That said the DCs have now flown the nest so we are relocating to Gloucestershire sometime in the summer when our smaller house there is renovated. It is a great county to bring up the kids.

Watching with interest as planning on relocating to Cornwall from the east coast and looking at Truro/ St Austell. Trying to get our heads round the logistics of searching and moving from a distance.

Hi Row, the logistics are a bit mind boggling aren't they? I'm trying to do it in small steps not as one great big project, hopefully it will all come together.
Last week DH stuck a homemade for sale sign in our hedge and we have already had four viewings and one family coming back for a second viewing. I'm surprised to say the least as the house is very lived in scruffy and not on a main road for traffic. Every one who has come round are either looking for a bigger house in the same neighbourhood or needing to live nearer their parents who already live close by.
Next step I think is to get a solicitor. For the house sale, house purchase and business purchase - a lot of work there so you'd think they would call back when they say they will

If it helps, when we moved, Dh and I came down for a weekend without the dc to gauge distances.

His job was in Falmouth so we narrowed it down a small area around Falmouth.

Once our house was sold, we came down with the dc for a week (school authorised the absence back then as it was 5 years ago). We booked into a holiday cottage and spent the week looking at our shortlist of houses (3 a day) that I'd found online, seeing what there was for the dc to do and visiting schools.

We hit lucky in that a house we'd seen and liked online was as good (if not better) as we hoped so we made an offer as soon as we got home.

Well, I know a really pretty 5 bed for sale in Mawgan (TR12) if you know anyone soon to be moving to Culdrose. A fair trek from Truro though. Good luck x

This thread has made me feel so much better! All that info on schools and areas to live Truro was amaze thekitchenfairy

My husband has just accepted a job near Truro and despite agreeing to the move, I'm still having major wobbles as we have a 5 month old baby and I've made a lot of baby friends in the past 9 months who keep me sane!

We are planning to move to Truro at the end of the March/April - could anyone recommend some good baby activities/ clubs inTruro where I could meet other new mums?

How is everyone getting on - LittleThing14 and Waily?x