Maidstone in the top 10 most desirable places to live in the UK

12 January 2012

Maidstone Borough has the best quality of life in Kent.  The annual Halifax Quality of Life Survey tracks where living standards are highest in the United Kingdom by ranking all 405 local authority districts based on jobs, the housing market, education, health, low levels of crime, relatively good weather, traffic flows and broadband access.
 

Maidstone came eighth in the UK and the highest in Kent, ahead of Tunbridge Wells which was twelfth and Ashford, twenty seventh.  Other Kent towns in the top fifty were Sevenoaks (38), Tonbridge and Malling (46) and Gravesham (49).
 

The report has been welcomed by Maidstone council’s cabinet member for Economic Development and Transport.  Cllr Malcolm Greer said: “This is good news and confirms what many residents will know already, Maidstone is a very desirable location to live.  But the council will not be complacent and our top priorities for the borough will remain economic prosperity and quality of life.” 

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