About Berkeley Homes

A fairly recent development of some 500+ properties nestled a 10 minute walk away from Canada Water Station. The apartment types vary across the different buildings within the development, we have been tenants in two seperate buildings now, and both were very nice, modern and afforded us plenty of living space with wonderful views of Canary Wharf. The location is perfect for city commuters with a short walk to both Surrey Quays and Canada Water Stations. There is a small Tesco Express on site as well as numerous cafe’s, restaurants, a gym, spa and even a gentlemans barbers. There is also a 24 hour concierge, all of whom are wonderfully helpful. Marine Wharf is tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the main roads which you can walk to and hop on a bus into the likes of Greenwich. A little further a field, and on the way to the station is Surrey Quays shopping centre with many stores and a larger Tesco’s. Neither my partner or I, had lived in this area prior to moving here a almost two years ago. We moved for the close proximity to Central London and feel as though its presents the best value for location, anywhere that we viewed.

Building management has been an absolute fiasco as they outsource it to an external company. Design is very impressive and practical but it could have been slightly more considerate of the surroundings. Given it’s by natural Reservoirs, there’s a vital lack of insect nests or just the possibility of being able to integrate ones own to the balcony doors even! The option to choose the color scheme of the apartment from a sufficient list was great. I’ve looked around some other new developments that did not have Any choice for the color schemes so it definitely made a difference

Being in a new development, we have to unfortunately put up with construction of other houses around the area. There used to be an easy access getting in and out of the estate but due to the construction, you have to go through the long way. The construction traffic uses the road we live on to get in and out of sites. You can imagine the dust and dirt gathering on our cars and outside our houses. The construction workers also don’t have a designated place to park their cars when they come in for work. This is very annoying as they park on the pavements making the roads narrower and much more difficult for passerby to get through. I think the design of development was not thought out well. There are loads of houses on the estate however some houses only has one parking space and some non at all! As the development is a little bit on the outside of Bognor, people tend to use cars to get around and most of the people on this development are working class. Therefore, they should have at least allocated two parking spaces for each house. All the houses are so condensed and near to each other which makes you think there’s no privacy at all.

The development is well thought out with lots of green space, perfect if you have a dog. There is a real community feeling here and one of the main reasons I’d stay put. There are water features which are lovely when lit up.
In addition to this there is the concierge which is absolutely fantastic, most of the staff are pleasant and always willing to help. This development and the buildings feels really safe, you need a fob to get into each building and can only get into your building and floor with the fob.
The only negative side to the design of the development is you can easily see into your neighbours flat so it can be hard in the roasting summer months as you want to keep windows / blinds open.