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Persimmon is one of the UK’s largest residential developers, building over 13,500 new homes a year in more than 350 locations across the nation. The company was founded in 1972 by Life President Duncan Davidson, and is now made up of a network of 31 regional operating businesses, with headquarters in York.

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53

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3.58 Rating

Rating (based on 835 reviews)

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18.80%

Very Good

42.51%

Average

28.02%

Disappointing

7.07%

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3.59%

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Living in Perry Park View

My Perry Park View home design and facilities –
Bright and spacious open plan living/dining room, Good-sized kitchen, double bedrooms throughout with large spaces for wardrobes. It has a large ensuite shower room with toilet, a visitor’s toilet and a Family-sized bathroom with modern fixtures and fittings.
There is a large fenced garden at the back and garden in the front with communal green space areas around the estate.

The building management and property management is by Persimmon homes and there is regular maintenance as required. However, the customer experience needs improvement. The building management and property management is reasonably priced with an annual fee.
Living on the street is a good experience with the free parking availability, regular bin collections, good neighborly behaviors and minimal traffic noise

Perry Park View is situated in the Perry Barr area just north of central Birmingham. This sought-after location offers a selection of houses and apartments. Perfect if you’re looking for your first home too with government help to buy scheme. There is easy access to Birmingham, Solihull, Royal Leamington Spa and Coventry with excellent links to the rail and road networks and motorways. So it’s convenience with the availability of transport links.
This development is an ideal setting because it is just over 3 miles from Birmingham city centre, Perry Park View has everything you need for modern living. Within a short distance of this our stunning new development, you’ll find a good number of everyday amenities including shops, newsagents, restaurants, and takeaways.

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Perry Park View is close to plenty of open green space including the Sutton Park. Perry Hall Park is 1.4 miles from the development with grassland, hedgerows, wooded areas and trees. You can try a spot of fishing at Brookvale Park or take a lakeside stroll at Witton Lakes Park.

It has varied range of quality of local shops, restaurants and open spaces. It has good number of everyday amenities including shops, newsagents, restaurants, and takeaways.

There is easy access to Birmingham, Solihull, Royal Leamington Spa and Coventry with excellent links to the rail and road networks and motorways. So it’s convenience with the availability of transport links.

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Perry Park View is close to plenty of open green space including the Sutton Park. Perry Hall Park is 1.4 miles from the development with grassland, hedgerows, wooded areas and trees. You can try a spot of fishing at Brookvale Park or take a lakeside stroll at Witton Lakes Park. This development is an ideal setting because it is just over 3 miles from Birmingham city centre, Perry Park View has everything you need for modern living. Within a short distance of this our stunning new development, you’ll find a good number of everyday amenities including shops, newsagents, restaurants, and takeaways.

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

Yes, the building management responded to the problems and issues we have raised sinece moving in. It’s still ongoing. The building management and property management is by Persimmon homes and there is regular maintenance as required. However, the customer experience needs improvement. The building management and property management is reasonably priced with an annual fee.

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Good ideas for a community, poorly executed.

When I first moved in there was lots of things wrong with my property with the bin stores not even being set up, which I later found was in breach of the leasehold and I shouldn’t have moved in but the pressure and bullying from Persimmon was bordering on disgusting. I was given my keys and a tour and the carpet fitter was still laying the flooring! Not to be deterred it all worked out ok in the end and I’ll give Persimmon the benefit of the doubt on this one but the planning was shocking.

My snags weren’t too bad so I’ll consider myself one of the lucky ones as there are some horror stories!

There are currently no facilities apart from a shop being set up opposite but the other two retail spots are empty, although we were promised they would be filled eventually (I’ve been here nearly 3 years)

I can’t comment on building management because our block (Block 3) is still not handed over meaning the internal communal area for the 4 flats hasn’t been cleaned in nearly 3 years! This is absolutely shocking and really the carpets and stairs need replacing as they’ve gotten so dirty due to the neglect. I don’t know who is ultimately responsible and I understand we as residents aren’t currently paying but my goodness it’s unacceptable and when we are expected to pay we will be pushing for a complete refit at the management companies cost as you can’t polish a turd!

The external area is generally well maintained with grass being cut consistently.

The design of the area isn’t great with roads being narrow which is probably bordering on the minimum limit as I have lived in other Persimmon properties and the roads are equally as small, probably to maximise profits at the expense of the residents as per usual.

As my title will suggest, it’s a good idea with the location being great and some lovely countryside walks but the execution has been sub-par. Persimmon had the opportunity to turn this community into something great but their carelessness and lack of responsibility has left a sour taste in the residents mouths with little problems manifesting into large ones.

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

Good:
– Good location
– Good sense of community
– Bus route right outside of my property which is useful
– People are generally very nice

Bad
– Bins aren’t collected at regular intervals, it’s almost like they forget our apartment block
– There’s been plenty of anti-social behaviour recently with cars being broken into and homophobic abuse being shouted at to name but a few incidents
– The proposed changes to parking is absolutely ridiculous. I live in the apartments across from the convenience store and they’re planning to turn all parking into retail parking. I have guests visit and stay regularly so where are they meant to park? It’s a convenience store not a supermarket, surely some parking needs to be for residents as they only allocated one spot for the owner.
– Traffic noise is ok
– There should be a pub where the old Unicorn Inn is located, this would give the area a much more friendly and sociable dynamic

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

That Persimmon were a bunch of bullies who will go to any length to get you to move in on their terms. This is no doubt to fill their quota by a certain deadline but why should corporate greed make the working class suffer like we have? We understand that the finish isn’t going to be perfect but come on they can at least take pride in their service and work tirelessly to resolve the issues

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

The building management haven’t adopted Block 3 just yet so it is hard to make a comment but I do know residents in other blocks and their communal areas are lovely and clean and any issues are seemingly sorted

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Pretty Good!

There are a few large green spaces which is really nice, and the garden sizes in at least our phase have been quite generous for new builds!
The roads could have done with being a little bit wider as we have issues reversing into our drive when people have parked on the road opposite, but thats not a huge problem as we know people need to use the space for visitors, etc!
The one thing that we were really disappointed with was the last of internet connection when we moved in, as with everyone else who moved in at the same time as us! The infrastructure wasn’t set up and we were without a proper internet connection for months after we moved in, also through the pandemic when we were all told to work from home, it was almost impossible! We were compensated afterwards, but it was very stressful!

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

Walking distance from local co-op, pub and school
Bus stop close to the estate, but doesn’t run very late, however there are Zipp scooters available
If you live at the front of the estate, you will more than likely hear the cars that like to race up and down the new roads through the night as the sound echos, which isn’t great, but quiet on the actual estate itself.
The estate would benefit from dog poo bins as there have been a lot of issues with people letting their dogs foul on the green spaces and not picking it up, adding these possibly could improve the problem.

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Poor mobile signal! Signal is fine outside the house, but for some reason non-existent inside!

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

We moved in just before the pandemic, so we had issues getting our snagging list fixed, one minor item was on there for over a year.
However, we had a window crack randomly and it was responded to and fixed very quickly!
We were visited frequently enough (not so much it was annoying!) to check how we were getting on and people working on the site are generally very considerate and helpful

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Great place to live once finished.

All houses seem to have different layouts, which keeps the estate looking the same. Only issue I would say is lack of privacy. Due to the gardens backing on to each-other, you can never truly have privacy in your own garden.

I also don’t understand the way they build. Their number one priority is getting houses up, but they are leaving a lot of streets missed. The roads are awful and need completing, but they only have done that down some roads. They need to fully complete an area before building more houses. I’ve been here a year, and randomly we just got our road sign last week.

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It’s great that we have our own cooperative on site, don’t know what we would do without it sometimes! And an extra treat is having a dominos!
Due to the location, it’s good that these are here otherwise nothing is exactly close.

I love my street, great neighbours and everyone here seems really friendly. Well designed too. However having to pay £160 a year for ground services to me is a joke, especially when we pay council taxes too. I’ve not seen one gardener since moving in (a year ago) and everyone seems to maintain it themselves, so that money annoys me. Especially when they demand it in January, just after the Christmas payments!

Bin collections was weird as well, when I moved in no council wanted to own my street, so half the estate is central Bedfordshire, and some is Bedfordshire council. Make sure you ask a neighbour before you apply for your bins!

Parking is good, but I wish we all got lines and designated parking. I know I have two,
But my neighbour has three cars and takes a lot of room. If there was lines we wouldn’t have this issue!

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

I wish there was more show houses to view, we went in blind. Still very happy but it’s a risk.

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

Every issue I have stated has been resolved by the after care team.

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