Thank you all for your replies which I’m now assimilating.
A couple of points about my situation:
I’m resuming film development after a massive gap from my teenager days, so I thought I’d ask before buying the necessary equipment and chemicals. I’m restricted to film processing since there’s no opportunity for a darkroom (space and keeping the wife happy!), hence scanning only.
I’m not restricted to HP5 and happy to try different films as mentioned above. Camera wise, apart from a number of film cameras, SLRs and a RF, I have a rather a nice Pen F and I’ve made a note to use it more.