About Charles Church

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

Location is good walking distance to town and train station. Good parks and countryside close by. Some anti-social from a select few houses have cause a problem.

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

You are 100% stuck with fibernest broadband good speed but does cut out from time to time and you can not change providers. You get 0 phone signal in the area and have no landlines.

What is the best feature of your home:

Location is perfect for us, and we felt the price was reasonable

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

Good local shops, restaurants. Bus stop is very close .Living on my street is very good, Parking availability, bin collection is on time. No anti-social behaviour. Little traffic noise. After five months of living in my property, the area is still not shown on google maps. When my husband was dyeing, ambulance barely found my address. It is already 1,5 year since we moved in the delivery still getting wrong adress.

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

Get an independent inspection before moving into the property!

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

The builders come to have a look at the issue and then never come back to actually fix it. If they are fixing anything, it is breaking again very easily or they damage something else.

The development has some public areas, some of which have been left as wild meadow, and others have been laid to lawn. There is a large central area that we were led to believe would be laid to lawn as well but has currently just been prepared, so we will wait to see how this grows. The groundsman is quite rude, but we choose to avoid/ignore him, all the other employees of Charles Church have been lovely.

The small issues with the property have been mainly sorted within the first 6 months, with the exception of the rear fence to our property and our neighbours. However, overall the development is very nice.

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

The area is perfect with mainly independent shops and lots of restaurants and pubs. The development has adequate parking, rubbish collections by the local authority, and the neighbours are very welcoming and the area is very safe.

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

The development is in the grounds of a manor house which although developed into apartments, none have yet sold (bad design, too high price is my opinion). This property is now being sold as a whole and everyone is concerned as to what it will turn into. That combined with the lack of knowledge on the public grounds – lawn or meadow, just adds to uncertainty.

What is the best feature of your home:

The location is the best feature, the design and style is ideal for us. We have a bedroom suite on the top floor which means we can remove ourselves from visitors if we need to.

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

Quite where I live in the corner , a lot of dust from building site comes over windows always dusty .

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

Think one of the bad things is And it’s not just me let’s pick this up is the gardens they’re not level a lot of them go up a lot of them go down they should be really when you’re buying a house all levelled out

What is the best feature of your home:

The best feature in my home would be the bedroom because it is quite large