About Jones Homes
Jones Homes has been operating since 1959, currently building more than 500 homes a year in the UK.
First time with Jones not had many issues so far
Good: nice range of houses, most streets don’t have the same style more than once, if they do it’s 2 max. Even within the same style, thought have been put into different touches that make them unique (different garage and front door paint, some have a Tudor style painted beams etc)
Bad: a bit narrow at points, only one way in and out is both good and bad. Good as avoids people using rat runs, bad because it means long detours to go short distances (thus not great for the environment)
Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:
Good: quick to get on the A57 if work outside of Worksop. Bus stop nearby but not had need to use it yet so not sure how frequent service is. Shireoaks train station is ~10 min drive away, Worksop station slightly further away (~11 mins??) can take a while to get to Sheffield if it stops everywhere between here and there.
Road noise not noticeable but currently this development is in active construction and will be for many more years so if you work nights or from home and easily bothered, that might be a problem for you. It isn’t for us. Good range of local big name shops
Bad: Still missing some big services (no Pizza Hut, only dominos, as an example). we are on an off shoot unadopted street so no street lighting except from our own property (extra cost) and have to walk the bins down to a bin area. Not big problems… Main issue is lack of room on the roads. If they were an extra 1m wide, it wouldn’t be an issue, but can be difficult when having people visit or unloading when moving in due to blocking the narrow roads.
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
I had asked about broadband and told we could have BT or Virgin and that virgin was installed in every room. It turns out there are aerial and virgin points in every room but no aerial is provided and the virgin point is there for the box to be installed and that’s it, basically. So you will have a useless blanking plate in every other room. Also, virgin still need to come and hook you up. Unlike some developments that have fibre to the premises included as part of the development. This one doesn’t. It’s copper to a local box and then fibre out from there. So the max speed you will ever get is 600mbps. Not slow, but in 2021 I am seriously surprised it wasn’t installed with fibre to the premises!
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
We are still waiting on half of our list to be resolved after 4 weeks in. When folks come there is no notice they turn up. The lads doing the work seem very good though and I’m sure it’ll all get sorted eventually. They keep following up on it but many bits are waiting for other outside vendors (star glaze for upvc for example)
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Design
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Location
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