A guide to living in Wiltshire

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Only a 10 minute drive from town, lots of baby groups locally too. A really lovely area, lots of green space for dog walks :)

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

The site developers unfortunately did a horrendous job with our back lawn, leaf living were very quick to respond and get to work rectifying.

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

I didn’t realise our address wouldn’t be recognised everywhere, a lack of insight on my own behalf

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Very short and easy journey into Salisbury where all amenities are available. The bust stop into Salisbury is based less than 100 yards from the estate. Private off road parking for one or two cars means the roads are very empty and not at all congested. Traffic noise the short distance aware from the road that we are, is negligible due to acoustically insulated buildings.

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

We're yet to raise any issue to them, but given their response times thus far, I imagine it will be very quick

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

Literally nothing. Every question i had was answered straight away. Their transparency throughout the whole process left me with all the information I needed before I moved in. My only critique is with our local authority not declaring waste collection days, but that is far outside the remit of Leaf Living

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Amazing you have the beautiful medals just down the road for beautiful walks. You have a beautiful pub with the river about a 1520 minute walk you have a local shop Chinese shop and chip shop 10 minutes down the road. It's very close to city Centre but far enough to chill and have beautiful walks too if you'd like to amazing place to live

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

Outstanding, very helpful and explained everything really well

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

I don't think there is anything else that we could've been towed we had outstanding treatment by a lovely young lady called Beth. She has explained absolutely everything and she said to us if there's anything else we can think of later on. We just send an email or give her a ring and she will be happy to help

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

The downside for the area is that I’m not registered on google maps yet so I’m having lots of troubles with deliveries coming to the house & also no waste collection, I also get taxis for work & they can’t find me. I love the area for the peace & quiet, i think it will be even better when there are some play parks & a shop around as I have a 4 year old so it will be nice to have things to do. It’ll also be nicer in the summer when there isn’t as much mud around from the builders still on site.

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

I logged a maintenance issue on Friday and they came out on Monday to repair the issue for me - I was very pleased with the service.

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

I wish I had known that I didn’t have any recycling bins or waste collection & that the postcode wasn’t registered with the local council as this has caused me lots of waiting to get things done and stress having things delivered & getting lost.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

TGV is located in a lovely area just on the outskirts of Swindon, with open spaces, lakes and wildlife areas. The transport links are adequate but one part of the village has quite a walk to the bus stop. There are four local shops - Sainsbury's local, a charity shop, a coffee shop and two hairdressers. There is no takeaway of any kind which would be very welcome in the village but apparently, due to planning regs because of the flats above, a takeaway would not be allowed. Most houses have driveway parking but, although there are laybys for additional parking, it is still not suffucient. There has been some anti-social behaviour in the village but other areas are worse. Trafic noise is minimal.

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

We wish we had realised how poor Crest Nicholson are at finishing off a development. We have driven over unfinished, uneven roads for many years now and the development is still not finished despite actual house building having been completed a long time ago. It's not always about your actual house builder but about the developer who runs the whole site collectively.

What is the best feature of your home:

Our home was built by Bellway Homes who are a five star builder and we have no complaints about them.