A Guide to Living in North East England

Some of the bad aspects are: 1, that it is too expensive. The Forge is the most expensive apartment around this locality.
2. The property do not have balcony and we have our bins in the leaving room. This is not nice and it is not a very good design and decent having bin in the leaving room.
3. The water heater and to a large extenr the electricity bill should be part of the expensive rent.
4. Payment of car park is not the best.

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Thanks to the management and in particular Christina for the fatanstic arts and crafts event put up for our kids on saturday 9th September 2023.
It was awesome and the kids enjoyed theirselves. It was beautiful and well executed,kudos.
We appreciate it and the kids enjoyed it.

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Car park. Paying for car park is not fair. I didnt know there no car park while viewing

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

Very positive. The management has been very responsive to issues raised

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Very expensive for the size and quality of property. A lot of crime on the estate. It’s a noisy ugly building site with views of ugly factories. Our garden was flooded for all of the winter due to poor drainage and a giant mound caused by building work. Customer service is non-existent after you move in, and the representative for the area is arrogant, rude and completely bone idle.

They put the rent up forcing us to leave because we refused to pay a penny more for a tiny 2 bed on a building site. We were then hit with £2000 worth of false charges. They wanted new carpets, full redecoration, new doors, new lawn (due to the flood damage they did nothing about) amongst many other things (the property was new, we lived there a year). BEWARE. These people are criminals, struggling to rent and sell these homes. I would never ever rent from these people again, be very careful.

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I wish i’d known just how noisy the building site and factories would be. And that these people would invent more than £2000 of charges when we left… I’ve never experienced anything as awful.

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

No! We were in fact charged for these issues. Can you imagine?!

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The design of the properties are well thought out, with a variety of different styles around the estate. This adds a bit of character to the place, and there’s a lot of greenery that is beginning to grow and adds to the overall aesthetic of the place but inside, the execution of the properties are varied, some things such as overall structure and floor tiling is done well but other things like windows, toilets, plastering, central heating and the grass have all had issues

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buy spare parts when you can, things seem to break quite quickly

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

After the initial 50 days, they don’t accept responsibility for things

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Great location near good road links & amenities in both Ryton & Crawcrook. Estate looks great, will look better once the landscaping is complete, state finished now so Story no longer on site, roads now abridged, (a fence around the park would be ideal)

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Wish i’d had better knowledge in snagging and how to snag

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

No issues when first moved in, slower as the development grew