Persimmon PLC

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

Parking spaces are very tight. There are only markings on certain properties. It is a quiet neighbourhood. It can get messy when windy as the bins go flying around. The neighbours on the development don't really care and expect other people to clear it. It's not a caring community type of development. There is a strong smell over by the canal.

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

I wish I had raised issues sooner with the developer. There are certain residents who have not stuck to the agreements in their contracts.

What is the best feature of your home:

Having 3 toilets in the property was heaven when you have a family.

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

With our a doubt the estate is one of the ugliest estates I have ever lived in - bland housing design, area is lifeless poor maintenance of the surrounding area. Location is quite good but public transport is horrendous. It never looks clean, houses look dirty - It’s classed as old at melons for purpose of paying higher council tax. Persimmon and Remus combined are an absolute shambles to deal with - poor quality home build and even worse maintenance of the estate.

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

How bad persimmon were - wish I knew about their reputation as a cowboy house builder

What is the best feature of your home:

Nothing -poor poor quality - hidden fees that are just a ploy to extort money from its residents

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

Really close to Shirley and Solihullb as well as great access from the M42. It's very quiet here and a great place for families

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

Very quickly and offers as much help as possible all the time

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

There is still a lot of building work going on on the estate

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

Close to retail park, good catchment for schools. Traffic noise low considering by a main road. However, anti social behaviour is an issue by council housing tenants.

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

They have completed issues when raised. However the time frame could of been quicker

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

Council tenants that live opposite was not made aware in which we receive anti social Behaviour.

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

Ok so we have quite a bit of anti social behaviour here with some neighbours and police turning up quite often. Traffic noise is fine, but we are a cut through so can be very busy and cars do speed around here. Like that we have the village facility but would love a local shop on site, I think that will do really well as there are a lot of families here. There is a bus number 5 about 5 min walk and then the number 6 is about 15 min walk. So not too bad. Parking is good as we have 2 spaces on our drive.

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

So my smoke alarms stopped working and they came out and sorted it pretty much straight away

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

How busy the road is as it’s a cut through Be prepared for bedrooms to be small and the garden Living room is a good size, kitchen and dinner are a good size too Great echo building and very warm which is a bonus