About David Wilson Homes

Brooklands development is well laid out and beautiful. Houses well spaced out, street lights lit and working properly, I live in a house but I can see that the green areas and the lovely parks for children are well maintained. Safe pedestrian walkways, underground passes where necessary for cycling and for kids on scooters which makes it very safe for a run or cycle, or to go on long walks with your kids. Behind the development, there is a long stretch of walkway with green areas and rest benches that is so nice as you are walking parallel to the M1. The Traffic noise while walking is not unbearable at all. I love it.

Kingsbrook wasn’t for us unfortunately. We chose the development because of the marketing stressing how wildlife friendly it was going to be. However, once we were there, although Barratts had done what they said they would do, that was the end of the story. There was nothing to engage people and involve them. The wildlife initiative was just a paper project with no reality.
We thought the build itself was poor and had a lot of snagging. It was very difficult to get anything done about problems, took many hours of chasing round and trying to contact people.
We didn’t like the actual layout of the estate. We didn’t like effectively having no front garden and that people, if they were so inclined, could come right up to our front window and look inside. The back garden was overlooked all round by a cluster of surrounding houses. It seems that nowadays many people want huge houses and don’t care about gardens. This is the exact opposite of our priorities.
We didn’t like the detachment from the local authority for services that are part of community charge on traditional residential property. The service charge felt out of our control and an unknown factor for the future.

Rushed buildings leading to major issues, missed flooring and carpets install ahead of inspection leading to delayed move in but still forced to exchange on the same day and wait. A rude and unhelpful sales person, despite it being her error that the floors weren’t in. Promised the house would be cleaned prior to us moving in in May2018, we had our sparkle clean in September 2019 After we moved in it was slow response to snagging complaints likely because of the volume they are dealing with from everyone across the estate. We had personal damages incurred through major damp problems that took months to sort out, to eventually find a hole in the roof lead. We are paying maintenance for a development that only looks after the very front near the sales office, our road has drains that are higher than the water puddles around it, only late summer was turf actually put down. Everyone has the same problems and experiences across the development, and although the community are coming together I’m yet to come across someone who hasn’t had significant issues.

The development is a typical David Wilson design, with a wide variety of styles of houses which is lovely to see and is pleasing to stroll through. There are no specific facilities as yet, although a park is due to be built before they finish the development, which will be great as it will give the many children from the development a place to play and meet. The grounds maintenance is not the best, as there are broken railings and dead trees around the site, but hopefully these will be sorted before the builders leave the site and we have to start paying maintenance fees.