{"id":621866,"date":"2025-12-09T09:24:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621866\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T09:24:22","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T09:24:22","slug":"midlands-town-named-among-best-places-to-live-in-new-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/621866\/","title":{"rendered":"Midlands town named among ‘best places to live’ in new study"},"content":{"rendered":"

It may be the perfect place to set up home<\/p>\n

05:40, 06 Dec 2025Updated 10:38, 08 Dec 2025<\/p>\n

\"solihull\"Solihull town centre.(Image: Sam Greenway LDR)<\/p>\n

A West Midlands has been named among the ‘best’ places to live in England in a new study.<\/p>\n

If families dream of the quiet and peaceful life away from the crime, traffic and pollution of the big cities, they should look no further than Solihull<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That’s according to experts who compiled this latest study.<\/p>\n

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They ranked it as the most peaceful place in England and the ideal location to raise a family, for those who can afford to live there.<\/p>\n

Experts at Sell House Fast<\/a> analysed a variety of factors including noise complaints, light pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and the number of sewage works.<\/p>\n

Solihull only had 2.7 complaints per 1,000 residents in the past year.<\/p>\n

It put it ahead of the likes of Wiltshire, Peterborough and South Gloucestershire on the list of peaceful places to live.<\/p>\n

Another Midlands area, the rural county of Shropshire, also made it onto the list in 8th place.<\/p>\n

Factors were combined to give each area an overall score out of 10.<\/p>\n

The experts said: “Solihull is the calmest area in England, scoring just 2.28 out of 10.<\/p>\n

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“Compared with major cities, residents here experience very little environmental disruption.<\/p>\n

“Noise complaints are among the lowest in the country at 2.7 per 1,000 people, and greenhouse gas emissions sit well below the national average.<\/p>\n

“Only 9.3% of land is affected by artificial light at night, meaning residents enjoy far darker skies than in most parts of England.<\/p>\n

“This tranquillity is set to continue as, according to Solihull Council<\/a>, over two-thirds of the area is designated as green belt land.<\/p>\n

“This limits large-scale development and helps preserve its quiet character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may be the perfect place to set up home 05:40, 06 Dec 2025Updated 10:38, 08 Dec 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,2671,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-621866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-solihull","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115688891015981118","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=621866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}