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Bracknell Property Ladder is Worth the Climb for Location, Location, Location

16/10/07

Popular Channel 4 property programme, “Location, Location, Location”, featuring Phil Spencer and Kirstie Allsopp, is filming in Bracknell town centre this week it can be revealed.

Helping homebuyers identify and secure their perfect home, Phil and Kirstie are household names thanks to Channel 4’s hit programme. Due to air next spring, this episode of Location, Location, Location sees property specialists Phil and Kirstie help a homebuyer get their foot on the ladder in Bracknell, looking at properties in Binfield, Warfield and Bracknell.

According to research by estate agent Spicerhaart published in the Metro (7 September 2007), Bracknell is 6th in the top ten hottest property areas in London and the South East, where house prices continue to rise thanks to these pockets of hot property activity.

Helen Barnett of Bracknell Regeneration Partnership (BRP), the developer who is delivering a 750million regeneration programme in Bracknell, comments: “This is great news for Bracknell Forest! In choosing Bracknell for this episode, Location, Location, Location is proving what we have all known for a long time, that Bracknell Forest is a highly desirable place to live and it is only going to get better, with more homes to be built and our massively exciting regeneration programme which is set to enhance the town centre. It is no surprise that Bracknell is one of the hot pockets of property activity in the South East.”

The regeneration will introduce fantastic new leisure facilities, retail space, homes, cafes and restaurants and open public spaces which will make Bracknell Forest an even more attractive opportunity for prospective home owners in the area. The regeneration will also deliver highway and public transport improvements, and new public buildings, including a larger town centre library, which will really add value for all Bracknell Forest residents.

Bracknell town centre has always had a convenient and varied shopping offer, mixing high street brands with local niche retailers. It is served by the Princess Square Shopping Centre, which boasts Bentalls as its anchor department store, and shops along the High Street and in Charles Square. Even before BRP rejuvenate the town centre through the regeneration project, confidence in the town is growing and more and more national brands are recognising its potential. In the last few years, Bracknell town centre has welcomes great new names such as Thorntons, Bay Trading with Dolcis, Miss Selfridge and Principles.

Enviably located between London and Reading, Bracknell is easily accessible by road and train. With up to 40% of Bracknell Forest identified as nature conservation areas, as well as 1,000ha of Crown Land and 60 parks, there is lush, green open space for our residents to enjoy all their leisure and activity time here. There is also the highly regarded South Hill Park regional arts centre and numerous other arts and leisure centres.