As a major trading port travellers have been coming to Liverpool for centuries. Located in North West England, Liverpool is the sixth largest city in the UK. It sits within the county of Merseyside. Moreover, its status as a port city has contributed to its diverse population. Famous for The Beatles, world-class football as home to both Liverpool and Everton, it was named as European Capital of Culture in 2008. Read on to hear about some of the best places to live in Liverpool. Additionally, find out where to buy or rent in the area.
Good location but expensive and needing some love
The location is excellent, you are right next to everything! Everyone is always super impressed when they come to stay and you never have far to walk after a night out or after work. The area around the building is well lit, and security is pretty tight. It could do with some improvements, such as outside bins, a bit of a tidy up.
It would have been great if the courtyard was gated and they had left more room for grassed areas, more places to “hang out” which was outside and safe. The overall design of the place seems a bit like student halls and often gets mistaken for a student village. The building itself isn’t the pretties.
The cargo lounge is good, modern and a great place to study or work from home. We booked out the media room so we could do an important works conference from home but it turned out the media room is also the staff room so not very private.
Buidling 7 (road side) can be noisy and cold air from the sea. It is still the better building though. The view in the other two blocks is poor compared to building 7.
It’s handy having Tesco so close as well as the Baltic Fleet pub.
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The facilities in the flat are of a good quality, the balcony is a great added feature but very narrow. The window, finishes and appliances are of a high quality but then again we do pay £1850 a month so you would expect it to be good. The hallways, lobby’s and public areas let the place down, they look tired, uninviting, paint work is shabby and there’s often a smell of bin juice. We found the maintenance to be ok but get everything In writing. The concierge team are the golden star for this place.
The gym is great! Water pressure is good, electric is high (over £200 a month) as everything is electric/can get cold/hot in the summer.
The use of fobs is good and the flat phone to let people in is handy. The parcel and post service works well as does the cargo app.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
Sound proofing is really good in the walls but sound does travel through the floors/ceilings. Try to be higher up in the building.
Haggle the price of parking.
Since living here, the police have been called out many times for thefts in the car park. This often resulted in most of the bikes getting trashed, damaged or stolen. Cargo take no responsibility for damages or theft as they have posters up/have told us. There’s no cameras on the bike stores. Our brand new bike was trashed and they said it wasn’t their problem. Cargo have now added some melt plates to the car park gates which may help prevent this, but they can still follow cars in.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
Slowly, but we get there in the end. There’s sadly no incentive to sign for another year, if that level of customer service was raised there would be incentive to stay. There’s always people moving in and out.
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Facilities
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Design
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Location
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Value
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