A Guide to Living in Nottinghamshire

Please review your development:

The development is very attractive, there is a nice walk way around the estate that is perfect for a dog walk. It is relatively quiet and the roads are spacious and houses don’t feel cramped. The only downsides is that there are no amenities on the estate. No shops and the closest supermarket is an over 30 minute walk. There isn’t a play area either yet. There is nothing to do apart from walk around on the actual estate so it would be nice to have a shop and a pub and a play area.

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

I wish I had known that they had been saying that there will be shops for a long time and nothing has yet happened. We have no idea when we will get one.

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

Fairly promptly. There were a few snags that weren’t sorted before we moved in but they were fixed up on asking

Please review your development:

Local shop over road from estate.

Near lake easy walks.

Aware that would be living on building site.

Some houses have poor finish to brickwork.

Should have been my dream home. customer services terrible.

Nothing else to say.

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

Needed to view property at least few weeks prior to moving not day before.
Kept reminding them of issues. They do not care.

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

Very poor, state will visit then do not arrive. They think should be home all day when need to be at work.
Site visit 2 days after moving In too soon as lots of defects that they state then cannot report.

Please review your development:

The property itself have been designed lovely, great space, great use of areas. However since moving in we have encountered many issues such as door handles breaking down, our window locks siezing up, cracks and so on. We have been able to rectify these but not really what we should be replacing 2 year into a new home.

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

I wish we had known that our side garden would not be fenced off or made private as we now encounter issues of neighbours dogs littering on our grass.

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

Some of our issues were dealt with but some of the issues we raised have been things we have ended up resolving ourselves. For example when the building management came for a final inspection I made them aware of our window not locking and not opening correctly and becoming stiff. We were told this would sort itself as time went on due to the temperature, eventually our window would not close and we ended up spending money on this being fixed.

Please review your development:

Houses designed well in plenty of space, any niggles corrected pretty quickly, very quick transaction time and stress free – part ex and was in the house within 8 weeks perfect when your expecting a baby, even thought the estate is still being built construction traffic and noise is managed well and away from house

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

Pretty much everything is the same as when sales sell it to you, best advice is to go and find the house you want to view on another site if there isn’t a show home of that model nearby

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

All problems have been fixed in a quick efficient manner or they have sent a contractor to deal with it