Northamptonshire is a county in the East Midlands of England and is home to some attractive areas including Wellingborough with its lovely old buildings, Rushden with its many parks and lakes or Corby with its fantastic new-builds with modern amenities. The University of Northampton has an excellent reputation for teaching while there are top schools available all over Northamptonshire providing high-quality education for children aged 3–18 years old.
The design and layout of this Persimmon estate is pretty good and there are some nicely designed houses
We have a lot of restaurants and takeaways, including a lovely Italian restaurant and a good fish and chippy in Rothwell, plus a good butchers, a small Co-op and a small Tesco. There are a couple of small parks within the town ans some good field and wood walks close to our estate. There is a pretty good bus service with regular trips to Kettering, Corby, and Market Harborough, plus mainline railway stations in nearby Kettering and Market Harborough. BarnOwl Drive is nice and quiet and our house is just opposite a small estate green with trees and shrubs, we have good parking with a decent sized garage, and two car drive space, plus some visitor parking slots just close by. We have weekly bin collections and have not experienced any anti social behaviour in our part of the estate.
Please review your development:
The design and layout of this Persimmon estate is pretty good and there are some nicely designed houses, including our Blakesley Corner house, they have included some nice green areas, one of which is quite large and has two small water lakes in it. Unfortunately the completion of our house was delayed by about 4 months from the original estimated slot, due to both a shortage of materials and building folk. Some of the quality of the building work of our house was not very good and there were also a lot of snags. However, the local building management folk have generally been very helpful. Our garden is a nice size for a modern estate house and is not badly overlooked, but for some reason it has no real topsoil, just very heavy base clay with a really large amount of building rubbish in it, so creating our garden beds has proved very hard work.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
We wish we had known that the entry road onto the estate is to become a bypass for Rothwell onto the A6, it isn’t open to public traffic yet but will be soon, which is likely to substantially increase the traffic on the estate.
What is the best feature of your home:
The best features of our house are the good size of our kitchen dinner, and master bedroom with ensuite, good amount of parking and a decent size of garden.
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