Stoke-on-Trent revealed as the best city in the UK for gardeners

New research has found that Stoke-on-Trent is the most garden friendly city in the UK with 94.4% of addresses having access to private outdoor space. 

 The study by home cleaning and maintenance service company Fantastic Services analysed ONS data on private outdoor space in more than fifty of the biggest areas of the UK to determine the city where a property is most likely to have a garden.

The research revealed that Stoke-on-Trent has the highest percentage of addresses with private outdoor space at 94.4%. However, the average garden size in Stoke-on-Trent was found to be 169 metres squared which ranks as the eighth smallest garden size in the UK.

Sunderland came in second with 94.0% of addresses having private outdoor space. 66.9% of flats in Sunderland were found to have access to private gardens as well as 99.0% of houses having private outdoor space.  

Edinburgh offers the highest percentage of flats that have access to private outdoor space coming to 79.0% with an average of 5.5 flats sharing one garden.  

Peterborough ranked as the third most garden friendly city in the UK with 93.8% of addresses owning a garden. 71% of flats in Peterborough have access to a garden, the seventh highest percentage in the UK.

In terms of actual garden space, Bournemouth ranked highest out of any city in the UK with residents owning an average of 307.4 metres squared of outdoor space. However only 88.5% of addresses have private gardens within the city, the 15th highest percentage in the UK. 

Portsmouth has the lowest average garden size with less than half the space of residents in Bournemouth at just 115.90 metres squared.