{"id":16651,"date":"2017-03-03T17:07:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2017-03-03T17:09:36","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T17:09:36","slug":"barry-postcode-is-best-place-to-live-in-wales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/barry-postcode-is-best-place-to-live-in-wales\/","title":{"rendered":"Barry postcode is best place to live in Wales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An area in Barry has been named as the best place to live in Wales, according to a new study.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The east of Barry, including Cadoxton and Palmerstown, was crowned Wales&#8217;s most desirable area.<\/p>\n<p>The study by the Centre for Economics and Business Research ranked areas based on a number of factors, including\u00a0good schools, affordable housing and access to green spaces.<\/p>\n<p>Central Cardiff, including Cathays, Roath, Splott and Adamsdown, was in 2nd place.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Do you live in one of Wales&#8217; most desirable postcodes? More than half of them are in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cardiff?src=hash\">#Cardiff<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ee8eaAtXeh\">pic.twitter.com\/ee8eaAtXeh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardiff Broadcast (@BroadcastCJS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BroadcastCJS\/status\/837625371621150720\">March 3, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>More than half of the most desirable places to live in Wales are in the Cardiff area, compared to just two in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The CEBR say the increase in Cardiff postcodes is due to &#8220;shorter working hours and shorter commuting times as well as access to better local schools.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But Penarth, which was ranked 3rd two years ago, has dropped out of the top ten.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers examined a number of data sources to arrive at the final rankings, including the 2011 Census, the General Land Use database and releases from the Office for National Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>The full top ten in Wales:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>CF63 &#8211; Barry (incl. Cadoxton and Palmerstown)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CF24 &#8211; Cardiff (incl. Cathays, Roath and Adamsdown)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SA1 &#8211; Central Swansea<\/li>\n<li>SA5 &#8211; Swansea<\/li>\n<li>SA72 &#8211; Pembroke Dock<\/li>\n<li><strong>CF3 &#8211; Cardiff East (incl. Rumney, St Mellons and Llanrumney)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CF62 &#8211; Barry (incl. Barry Island, Rhoose and St Athan)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CF5 &#8211; Cardiff West (incl. Ely, St Fagans and Llandaff)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>CF11 &#8211; Cardiff (incl. Pontcanna, Grangetown and Cardiff Bay)<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>SA6 &#8211; Morriston, Swansea<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An area in Barry has been named as the best place to live in Wales, according to a new study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[577,959,26,475,1299,390],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16793,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}