The development is very modern looking and has great facilities for relaxing, hanging out with friends and exercising and wellbeing. It is kept very well clean around the grounds and outside. The location does sometimes mean that wind tunnels can occur and high winds can sometimes happen.
The gym is well sized and has a variety of gear within, as well as classes and an outdoor pool.
The building management team are very kind, helpful, quick to action and timely in their response. I haven’t yet had a problem that they couldn’t help out with.
Blackhorse Mills also has bookable private dining rooms in case you have a party and want a bigger space to host it. These are brilliant for having guests around or even a change of scenery when working from home.
Flats can be quite expensive with 2-bed flats going around £2.2K a month.
My biggest gripe with Blackhorse Mills is that the bin chutes are working less than 50% of the time and sometimes mean that I have to leave the building and go outside to take the bins out, which can be often due to the small built in bins in the flats. This seems to be due to the other residents throwing large pieces of cardboard and glass bottles down the chute which can break them.
Please tell us what you like and dislike about this area:
The immediate area has a coffee shop, The Willow Tree that slightly expensive but is a great place to grab a small bite or just hang out with a coffee. Another bar/restaurant is being built on the complex site and soon looks like it will be open. Food trucks from a service called Fooddisco arrive 3-5 times a week for a great dinner/evening meal
The area around Blackhorse Mills include a barbers, a local co-op, few smaller restaurants, another coffee shop and a classic pub by the Wetlands. All of these have great service and quality, highly recommend using them all. Definitely can recommend the local barber, Dre Fades.
Transport links are great as the development sits right next to the Blackhorse Road tube station on one end of the Victoria line and the Overground. There are also plenty of bus stops nearby.
Parking is limited unless you have paid for a space at Blackhorse Mills. There have been some reports of anti-social behaviour and bike theft reports but the all of the buildings themselves are CCTV’d and have key fob locks on them.
There is also construction works going on across the road to build another block of flats. They seemed to have been quieter lately but the noise they can make is excruciating and they have been known to work outside of normal hours, as early as 7am and as late as 1am (not on the same day though)
Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:
The construction noise seemed to be minimal when we went to view the home. But over time, it kept getting worse until we decided to move to another building in the development.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
They have been able to offer temporary fixes to the chute but it doesn’t take very long for them to break again.
