About Bovis Homes

Once other facilities such as schools, doctors, retail are within the development it will significantly enhance the experience of living here but these things need to happen sooner rather than later.

The management of properties and aftercare from the developer is poor. Communication is not great and a lot of the properties seem to have been rushed to completion.

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

Local facilities are generally good with Rushden Lakes on the doorstep. The development is still missing key facilities within it, such as retail, school, medical etc which many people expected to be in place by now.

Transport links are excellent with train station on our doorstep and good routes in/out of the development.

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

We wish we’d have known the logistics involved in living on a working site. Once the section where your house is completes, that doesnt mean you wont have a lot of noise and mess for quite some time after.

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

Yes they have responded to issues raised but the communication is poor and the timescales to resolve issues leaves a lot to be desired.

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

We love living in wombourne we are a short walk and drive away from local convenience stores, coffee shop and restaurants. We love living on our street our neighbours are lovely. Some people have moved in behind and they have had a few gatherings and they have disturbed our daughters sleep but other than that we love living in the area.

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

If we had known about using a snagging company before we moved in we would have got them in as soon as we moved in like one of our neighbours did and they have seemed to have had their snagging issues addressed sooner, as the snagging issues found initially are dealt with by the site and not customer care.

What is the best feature of your home:

We love our kitchen/diner and the house seems bigger than our old 4 bed detached house even though this house is only 3 bed.

Facilities

Currently, the county park is still under construction due to the delays caused by the pandemic. But once it’s complete we should have access to the county park with play areas for kids, ponds, playground and a river. At the moment, there is access to the Lakes a few minutes walk away.

Building & property management
The team at Bovis have been very attentive and timely in addressing issues as reported. As expected in any new built, snags and cracks do appear in the first few months.

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

The good – we have the rural feel, lots of woodlands for walks, a river and lakes. There’s plenty of areas to enjoy nature by the doorstep and for free. Very peaceful and quiet neighbourhood and already a community even though it’s still new. Rushden Lakes, new and modern shopping centre is 7 minutes drive away and a choice of supermarkets within less than 10 minutes drive. Only 30 minutes drive to Milton Keynes for more shopping, and a short walk to the train station where the train is under an hour to London.

The bad: Though we’re 3 miles from the big shopping centre Rushden Lakes, restaurants there still don’t deliver to our area. I hope this will change as the development grows.

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

I wish I had known that the master bedroom wardrobe does not have mirrores sliding doors

What is the best feature of your home:

Kitchen/diner definitely is the best feature for me

Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:

Charlton Hayes is brilliantly located for amenities. We have a choice of 3 large supermarkets all within a 5 minute drive as well as some new local supermarkets that were built as part of the development. Transport links are acceptable with the addition of a new train station being proposed. Streets are relatively tidy on the whole but bin collections are regular. Hardly any traffic noise but there is some anti-social behaviour mainly caused by younger teenagers. On the whole there is a sense of a growing community as the development nears completion.

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

I would recommend new purchasers do further research into who manages the affordable houses that all new developments have to fill a quota on. It also became clear that houses that weren’t initially advertised as affordable houses were quickly being sold to the housing association rather than private owners. I’m assuming because they weren’t being sold quickly enough.

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

Yes and no. Some things have been addressed but smaller issues are yet to be seen. There are mitigating circumstance, however, as we moved in during lockdown.