Scarborough tops green towns study

A new study has revealed the greenest locations in Yorkshire – and Scarborough has topped the list.

The study revealed that Scarborough is the greenest town in Yorkshire with residents benefitting from fantastic air quality, a large forested area and a very generous average garden size.

The only area the town didn’t score highly for was access to public green space, which it ranked worst for out of all locations analysed.

Elsewhere in Yorkshire, Barnsley ranked best for access to public green space with residents only 280m from their nearest park or playing field on average.

Hull ranked worst for air quality with residents facing almost twice as much CO2 per square kilometre than residents of Leeds and 23 times as much as residents of Scarborough.

Hull also scored lowest for average garden size while Wakefield only narrowly missed the title of the best location for those searching for a property with a large garden.

In terms of tree cover, Sheffield scored incredibly highly while Huddersfield had the lowest forested area. The list is as follows: 1 Scarborough; 2 Barnsley; 3 Halifax; 4 Harrogate; 5 Rotherham; 6 Huddersfield; 7 Wakefield; 8 Sheffield; 9 Doncaster; 10 Selby; 11 York; 12 Leeds; 13 Bradford 14 Kingston-Upon-Hull.

The study is by office planting specialists Exubia.

A spokesperson for Biophilic Design Agency Exubia, James Mayo, said: “We chose these factors as they are the most representative of what most people think of when they think of a ‘green’ town or city.

“In total, we analysed 14 locations. For each factor, we ranked the cities from first to 14th, combining the total ranking across all factors to devise our list.”