Gleeson Homes is a residential development company based in South Yorkshire. Founded in 1903, the company specialises in building low cost homes across the North of England. Gleeson Homes’ mission statement is to “change lives by building affordable, quality homes” and currently have over 70 developments across the UK.
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The design of the houses is good in itself, the execution is not so good IMHO. I would say that the builders need to completely review the way that the buildings are designed and built and executed, otherwise they will no longer be builders much longer. For example they use a cunning modern method of underfloor insulation but this is not actually executed properly, resulting in bad thermal bridges [at the door openings for example]. What’s more this insulation (which supports the Slab concrete) is also broken by a number of vertical walls to support the roof – another Thermal Bridging area.
No facilities were included on the site, being a small site. Unless you include drives and garages for each house. The latter are a minor problem because the garage is not used for the car and therefore most people park on the street, as available.
It became obvious to me that (for my house anyway) Quality Control was not present. So I did expect that the on-site inspection before final handover would spot these things but this was not so, apart from minor matters. I paid for a professional Snagger, who provided an excellent report; he said that the NHBC inspector had missed so many snags which in normal circumstances would have disallowed the Certificate. The management did their very best to ignore this snagging report (as with all the rest of it) but many months later did come round to some of it.
Readers may be interested to know that when I completes the purchase I was handed an EPC certificate, of course. Later inspection showed me that it was not for my house (the area was too small). So I was in course provided with the correct EPC but I wonder about this certificate, quite a lot.
This are of Sheffield is very well served by public transport, besides which the centre is easily walkable for most people. There are parks and mini parks all over the place, which is excellent. All necessary facilities are therefore available. Now that we are back to normal after Covid19 traffic is also back to normal: this is not paricularly heavy but it is noisy – dependant on wind direction.
Many people park on the street, which is a problem for eveyone. However soon enough people will catch on to the fact that petrol will become more expensive and private cars will become less acceptable (I hope).
High volume builders will spend a lot of time and effort in persuading you that you don’t know what you are talking about, everything’s fine and your house is exactly as it should be! This may not be true.
Starting with the Brexit thing where all the extraneous builders left the country, followed by the Covid19 disaster, all responses to problems have been severely delayed. However I did get the overwhelming impression that Management are not very aware of what goes on at the Cliff Face. More disturbingly they appear to live in a different place where buyers are very misinformed or ignorant and most importantly very wrong. Luckily for myself things appear to have improved a bit just lately and a new manager has been appointed to get things done [at last]. Some workers/contractors have been excellent – as many are – but in my experience a large number are not professional and are not to be trusted. On a site where Quality Control is assumed to be present when it is not, the question I often consider is “Should I forget the problems rather than risk having them Bodge it again?”
I have had a couple of snags with my property and for the most part of the property management services we are good. There is an online portal that you can use to report defects and the service level agreement is typically two weeks for completion of the repairs, depending on the size and scale.
The development is set a five minute drive from the local village centre, where there are plenty of amenities, such as bars, restaurants, shops and a decently sized supermarket. The bins are collected weekly every Friday without fail. Living on this particular estate can be challenging at times due to the lack of parking, you are quite lucky to have availability for two cars. A lot of people park on the roads, which can make access very difficult and sometimes parking on your own property, even more so.
I wish I had known about the parking situation. My drive is sloped and the roads are quite narrow, I was originally told that I would have two parking spaces except I have one parking space and a garage where a car cannot be stored because of how steep the driveway is. I have attempted to park my car in this, and I’ve come close to seriously scratching my bumper! The sloped Drive can also cause havoc in the winter, as it becomes quite slippy.
The best feature of my home is definitely the location. I was one of the first plots to be built and housed, and my plot is very secluded and private, overlooking a small field where quite often I can see various wildlife during the day and evenings. I’m also quite fond of the brickwork as my house exterior is made of reconstituted stone.
I have been living on this estate 4 years and we have only just last year had the road block paved which i think wasnt very good because it was dangerous the state they left the road in for 3 years and also the potholes everywhere were ruining peoples tyres . Whilst they have been building the houses and still are its been a nightmare because of the lorries coming to and fro and leaving mud everywhere . Our house was rushed to be completed and because the sale of our old house fell through we missed our chance to have extras so we couldnt pick our kitchen . Also the upstairs floor creaks alot in the back bedroom and you can hear people talking very clearly from downstairs . The plastering in the house wasnt v professionally done . We have no boiler cover in our kitchen and i think this should be a standard thing that should be already done – not an extra . The gardens should be lawned also when you move in and ours was a right state when we moved in lots of builders rubble left ! And also the fencing should also be done .we had to pay for ours which isnt v practical when you have a dog . There isnt enough storage space in this house so we have to put our hoover in the downstairs toilet . The bedrooms are v small and should come with fitted wardrobes at least in the main bedroom . The small bedroom is too small to use as a bedroom and the bathrooms are also too small and so arent v practical . Most people like a bath and a seperate shower but these only have a bath .i dont think i would recommend buying this style of house or even a newbuild . I dont like where they have put the park on this estate we have alot of older kids coming in that dont live on this estate and vandalise it and we have to pay to replace things which isnt at all fair .
Its bad for parking on our street . There are people who visit and leave their cars parked anywhere and block people in . The binmen just leave the bins on the road when theyve emptied them . It is mainly quiet where we live but we just get the odd one who occasionally like to throw noisy parties and act like morons but luckily its not very often . I do think they need a bus stop closer to the top of our estate for a barnsley bus route because i have a long walk to catch the bus to work .
I would think more about what style of house i would buy depending on your personal circumstances and what is the most practical style of house for you because sometimes you look around a showhouse and just see the fixtures and decorations but you dont always think practically .
I like my kitchen diner .i like the size of my kitchen and also my living room at the back its nice to open the french doors in the warmer months .
Design is not the best as we ordered standard wardrobes for bedrooms and they wouldn’t go up the stairs due to the low ceiling justcas the stairs start. It came with a furniture pack and we had to choose designs and colours before roof was complete. I thought this was odd but now I know it was because of the access from the stairs.
The snagging list was quite long as there were still outstanding jobs to be completed, we had a leak under the sink which took six attempts to repair before it was finally done. Site manager wasn’t the easiest to approach as he thought some of the jobs weren’t worth the effort. Assistant manager was really nice and I approached him more often than not. Not a lot of storage space either. Estate itself is nice but roads are horrendous until plots are cometed. Smoke alarms had to be replaced as they were going off for no reason, heating system was buzzing until valves replaced, then heating was on even when it was switched off. Cooker wasn’t set correctly and this was due to it leaning against a pipe at the rear.
It’s not a bad area, a decent.olished council plot with new houses. Still surrounded by social housing with one or two undesirable tennants
The community watch programme didn’t last long, we were able to alert neighbours of any suspicious activity but it was scrapped not long after we moved in. There are no emergency contact numbers for the weekend in case of emergencies.
Slowly very slowly, I felt once we were in all the attention turned to the houses still being built and snags were not a priority.
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