The UK town so cheap homes sell for £10k even though it's right next to the Lake District

The glorious landscapes of the Lake District loom implicit Cleator Moor (Image: Andy Commins)

A tiny municipality with stone bottommost location prices contempt sitting successful the shadows of stunning Lake District mountains is opening to registry connected the radar of spot investors from down south.

As you locomotion on the main roadworthy done Cleator Moor successful Cumbria you are wrong a stone’s propulsion of the breathtaking scenery of what’s often dubbed the UK’s astir beauteous nationalist park.

But sitting betwixt these legendary landscapes and the Cumbrian coastline are houses with bargain basement prices among the cheapest successful the UK. 

Rightmove has three-bedroom terraced properties listed successful the municipality with usher prices arsenic debased arsenic £10,000.

Even the mean terms that properties person sold for successful the past twelvemonth is conscionable £150,511 which is drastically little than the existent UK mean of £292,294.

Gary Youdale, 59, has tally The Card Shop and Newsagents successful the municipality centre for 37 years. He says helium is Cleator Moor calved and bred and has 2 grown-up children.

Local nonmigratory and store proprietor Gary Youdale (Image: Andy Commins )

He told Express.co.uk that the municipality is hopeless for concern and is hoping that £40m-plus promised by the erstwhile Conservative authorities volition materialise and marque a difference.

Before the caller alteration successful government, Cleator Moor secured a Town Deal worthy £40.9m with £22.5 cardinal coming from the Government’s Towns Fund and a further £18.4m from funders promising to lucifer the investment.

Gary said: “At the infinitesimal it’s astatine the bottom. There is £40m acceptable speech [from the Government]. They’re conscionable trying to benignant it out.”

The shopowner says that cheaper properties are being bought by landlords looking to marque a profit. He said: “I archer you what I person noticed - Duke Street was ever a quiescent street, older radical person passed distant and the landlords bargain up [the houses].”

However, helium says that the landlords aren’t ever responsible, saying “they enactment undesirable radical [in them]” and that he’s noticed a emergence successful men successful their thirties hanging astir drinking and taking drugs.

Bethany Hully has lived successful Cleator Moor each her beingness (Image: Andy Commins)

He adds that the champion happening astir the country is the assemblage spirit.

Gary added: “The radical are brilliant. I person been to antithetic parts of the satellite and this takes immoderate beating. The radical bash instrumentality together. The radical moving successful from elsewhere - that’s wherever occupation comes successful my view.”

Bethany Hully, 40, works successful a municipality centre opticians and is from Cleator Moor. She lives with her spouse Jonathan Bennett, 34, and has 1 lad - Byron, who is 20.

She said: “I was calved present and person lived present each of my life. It’s a truly bully and adjacent knit country and if you’re having immoderate problems everyone comes around.”

Bethany has noticed that a batch much Airbnbs are springing up successful the area. She added: “That goes backmost to the bully surroundings specified arsenic the seashore to seashore walk. 

"I bash deliberation it’s a spot with a batch of potential. This [government] wealth could truly assistance if they utilized it sensibly. At elections promises [are made] and thing happens.”

Cleator Moor has earnestly inexpensive spot prices (Image: Andy Commins)

A cashier moving successful a municipality centre supermarket, who travels from Whitehaven, says that though helium noticed that “people person moved present from the south”. But helium added: “Police are present each the clip [due to people] kicking off.”

Andrew Dunsmoir, 45, owns Kirkland Carpets connected the borderline of the municipality centre with his brother. He is joined to Jacky, who is 46, and says that the adjacent atomic works Sellafield is simply a immense leader successful the area.

He said: “The biggest happening astir present is the Sellafield plant. That’s wherever radical are employed and that’s wherever the wealth comes from.”

Andrew besides talks astir what helps gully radical to the country specified arsenic “the Lakes, the beaches and the harbours” and says that southerners are taking notice. He gives an illustration of a antheral from Portsmouth who bought a vacation location for £80k.

Andrew added: “They travel up present and bargain a spot for £100k - immoderate to unrecorded in, immoderate arsenic vacation lets and immoderate to fto out. They merchantability their properties down determination and travel up present millionaires.”

Locals accidental that concern is urgently needed successful the town. (Image: Andy Commins)

His member Alistair Dunsmoir, 50, says that the municipality is “a small spot near down the times” compared to the much affluent adjacent towns of Cockermouth oregon Keswick. He says that Cleator Moor erstwhile had “lots of shops, banks, a thriving market” saying that “online does termination municipality centres.”

But helium says it’s not stopping investors buying properties. He said: “I enactment for each kinds of radical including radical who person relocated. They merchantability their location and person got wealth successful the bank.”

Express.co.uk approached Cumberland Council for remark connected the £40m concern successful the area. A spokesperson for the assembly said that advancement is being made with Cleator Moor’s investment.

They said there’s a task to make “an endeavor campus” connected the Leconfield Industrial Estate which is an £50m economical regeneration inaugural led by Cumberland Council and different partners. Works are owed to commencement successful aboriginal 2025.

There is besides an purpose to summation enactment and footfall astir the Town Square “by bringing vacant and under-utilised buildings backmost into progressive usage portion creating an charismatic caller nationalist realm” and that works are owed to commencement successful aboriginal 2025.

Existing sports and leisure proviso volition besides beryllium enhanced, accidental the council. Planning support is expected precocious November 2024. It added determination volition besides beryllium a strategy to “deliver a high-quality integrated and sustainable transport web which improves connections betwixt employment, education, amenities and leisure and transforms the accessibility and attractiveness of Cleator Moor”.

Local concern proprietor Andrew Dunsmoir and woman Jacky with household members (Image: Andy Commins)