A guide to living in South East London

Great and modern design, amazing and ample communal space, communal space has air conditioning which is greatly appreciated under this hot weather. Staffs are nice and reachable throughout the day. Shout out to Ferhan, which helped us from Day 1 viewing to us getting the key. However, I must emphasise the fact that having 1 fob per household is really inconvenient. If you are not living by yourself, someone will he forced to rely on the NSP phone app, which is slow and insanely unreliable.there is no internet in the car park, unless you sign up and pay for their official Glide wifi network, which is unreasonable. Speaking of Wifi, yes if you don’t join Glide’s monthly plan, there is no wifi at all in the communal area including the Co working space. Otherwise I must emphasise again the rest of the things are great here. I hope the management could listen and make improvements!

The design of the Royal Arsenal was exceptional. Some real positives were the decision to manage car ownership through parking restrictions - the area is very pedestrian friendly. In addition, it is well landscaped and the grounds are looked after. The concierge facility is very helpful and the staff considerate and go the extra mile. The management provided by R&R is good, however, the service charge we pay is high and service levels are commensurate with these. Berkeley Homes do need to be careful of over development, the site is going too high rise.

Rendall and Rittner are dismal. They spend large amounts of money without managing to achieve substantive improvements. One example would be repeated issues with access to car park spaces as the barrier which is meant to control access has broken and become fixed in position. The green spaces are usually brown dead grass, unless it’s rained hard.

A very nice place to live, amazing amenities, very close to the station, 15min to London Bridge, and friendly staff members. I would highly recommend Bale and Anchor, good community and good place to socialise and make friends! if you are new in the UK and looking to enjoy I would recommend this development.

This building had so much potential to be nice, and it feels like they cut corners on everything that made the building incredibly disappointing. We lived there for approximately 18 months, and I think every single month that we lived there, something was broken: - water supplies - lifts were broken (usually at least 1 broken at any given time, multiple occasions where all were broken in a 34 story building...) - no access to the parcel room - a washing machine broken in the flat - windows unable to close Just to name a few of the issues we encountered whilst we were there. The front of house staff were largely helpful with most of our issues (management actually got considerably better as our tenancy progressed. It was really poor service when we first moved in, but lately I would say the front of house have been a lot more communicative on certain issues), but the building management just seemed very poor. The flat itself was okay for a one-bedroom flat. I would say it's a little expensive for what you get in the area, but we were lucky to have some nice views from the window and the space was fine. It definitely could do with a lot more storage and just a higher quality finish to everything, as everything felt a little cheap. The flat also got incredibly warm in summer, and the building offers no form of aircon, which really, in most modern buildings, I think should be a default. When you're on higher floors, the building gets very, very hot, and there's no real way to ventilate this. The Homebox service used for bills is incredibly hard to use and I believe it is expensive for bills. It would be much better if you just had controls over your own bills in the property. In addition, you're locked into the Wi-Fi that they provide, and the Wi-Fi service is very poor. The default option is incredibly slow and constantly cuts out, and there are multiple times where the service dropped entirely whilst we lived there. Again, we had very little that we could do to improve this. The communal areas were overall quite nice. The rooftop views were very nice, and we had booked the dining spaces a couple of times, which were very pleasant to take people to, albeit quite expensive to book. The games room was another example of things just feeling quite disappointing and having very little thought put into them. There was a pool table where there is no room to lean around it, so it's effectively useless. There was a shuffleboard table with no sand put on it, so it's just completely scratched and you can't play. It feels like these items were just put in the room for aesthetic purposes rather than being something that anyone would use. I overall would not recommend this property to anyone unless you're just looking for a quick and easy short-term rent. It's worth noting that they also offer incentives for people to leave good reviews on this website, so I would take many of the positive reviews here with a little bit of a pinch of salt.