A recent online poll saw Peterborough voted as the “worst place to live” in England – the third year running the Cambridgeshire city has “won” the title.
Yet since its creation under the new town reforms of 1967, Peterborough has gained a reputation as being a boom town. Between 1971 and 1991, its population grew 45 per cent and now stands at more than 200,000, as the town has proved successful at attracting investment from commercial and residential developers.
Last year, an application to build a new “employment-focused university”– run by Anglia Ruskin University – was approved, and there are plans to extend and expand the city’s railway station to accommodate a growth in the number of people commuting to London for work.
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