Dennis Morton meets Garforth locals and businesses to discover why the Leeds suburb has been called ‘one to watch’ in 2025.
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00:00Hi, I'm Dennis Morton and today we're in Garfith, the Leeds town that local estate agent Mark Manning recently called a place to watch in 2025.
00:10Let's have a wander down Main Street and see what the locals have to say.
00:14It's quite vibrant now, we've got quite a few independent bars, we probably could do with a few more restaurants maybe.
00:19But yeah, there's a lot of charity shops and coffee shops.
00:23There seems to be a lot of shops closing down at the moment and it's not looking as affluent as it did.
00:29I moved here when I married 53 years ago. I liked the old Garfith with the nice little country type shops.
00:37But yeah, we have to move on, don't we?
00:40I came here in December 1968. It's fine, it's got good communication, so M1, train service into Leeds is excellent, to York.
00:50In those 20 years that you've been here, how has Garfith changed in your eyes?
00:55It's changed massively actually. It's quite a generational thing with customers, but we're getting a lot of young people now.
01:01There's a lot of houses being built.
01:03And where do you see the area going in the next five years?
01:06It's just going to move forward 100%, like Ross said. More houses being built, there'll be more footfall on the street, more people walking down Main Street, shopping the local shops.
01:13It's a little bit more like a town Main Street than maybe a village Main Street like it maybe used to have been.
01:20There's quite a few housing developments around here, so it is a busy place. It can be a bit rough on traffic at certain times of day.
01:28Our needs actually are satisfied. We come into Garfith to the greengrocers, the butchers, the coffee shop.
01:37When I got married, I had realised when I bought my house how close I was for schools, the Main Street. I'm two minutes away from everything, so I picked the perfect house.
01:48There we have it. It's fairly evident from speaking to local businesses and local residents that Garfith is an up-and-coming place.
01:55I think it's fair to say that it is a town to keep an eye on in 2025.