A guide to living in Derbyshire

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

It’s a lovely quite location, nearby to supermarkets and local pubs in the area allowing for great convenience. The housing estate is surrounded by nature and overall ideal location. However there are some surrounding neighbours who present a very argumentative attitude towards dogs and proceeds to monitor when the dogs are on the garden. Long durations to get issues with property sorted. This site is also missing a park for younger children to enjoy.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

This one has been a mixed one for ourselves. The reason for this is because we have had a few issues with the house which has had range of quick fix and unreliable time frames. One example of this is an issue of flooding we had with the garden. We was given a date of repair which no one turned up for, then given another to which the same happened. Then finally on the third date they arrived a day late. This was spread out across an entire month! As well as the issue is still not complete as we have been waiting nearly two months for them to come and returf the grass from the damage of flooding! However some issues such as a tile not sat right on our roof was repaired next day!

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

One thing we wish that we had known before hand was the lack of broadband providers and in fact that the broadband hadn’t service cable from open reach hadn’t even been installed yet. We had to date of when they where coming and in fact it took 2 month before we had internet. This caused issue for my partner as she worked from home and found this very difficult in the first few month. It would have made it much easier and a lot less questions asked if they provided a date for which this was happening as she could have worked from her parents home for this time.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

No shops Building noise so loud Cars speeding Roads not finished Dust and mud constantly . Some noisy neighbours. No dog waste bins

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

Yes eventually but work is still outstanding with no end in sight Our drive is not fit for purpose the house next door is over the boundary we can't get bins past purpose car or push chair this is unacceptable for the amount of rent we pay .

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

I would not recommend these houses or the area Poorly constructed with no after care . The land they are built is a major issue

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Lots of local amenities nearby and close to the m1 so can easily access a wide range of places. Parking on the street can be difficult at times as each home only has 2 spaces and some people do not use their drives which causes issues in moving around the street.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

We had a problem with our fridge, we emailed the landlord as we couldn’t get the maintenance portal to work and they responded straight away and booked and engineer to come and take a look.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

New build homes can have snagging issues which we have found since moving in. As we do not own the property we do not mind but people should be aware that cracks and such will show up in the ceilings and joints of the home as it settles.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Lovely place just residents lowing the tone. I pay a lot to llive here not to have council folk out side revving up cars shouting and screaming out in the street.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

Im probably not talking to the right people because no one knows anything.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Just need someone around to tell us how things run work.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Parking availability good, quiet for the most part very local to shops and restaurants lots of transport links available

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

They fix the issue the same day and if they’re not available to come the same day they will come in the next few days

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

I wish we could have viewed the layout of the property before moving in