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Ingleby View offers a collection of 2, 3 and 4 bedroom homes and two bedroom bungalows in the thriving village of Saxilby. Also, each home benefits from allocated parking or garage, a private rear garden, integrated appliances and much more.
Ingleby View, LN1 Reviews
Write a Review Upload PhotosGreat area to live but needs attention
Ingleby view is a small development. But still do feel that builds are to close together, especially in back gardens as very much overlooked. We our also due to pay for property management for up keep of green areas such as our green spaces. At the time of writing nothing seems to be happening,And the estate looks a state.
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Saxilby is a great place to live. In a rural setting with plenty of pubs local shops and great transport links via train or bus. Lacking a delivery service with deliveroo.if wanted a Mac it’s breakfast.do feel the shared access should have been adopted to local highway, as property’s boundary is outlined on the shared access. For example neighbours feel they have the right to park on the shared access even though it’s inside my boundary line.also no options for green energy when buying. Solar panels come to mind
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Paying for maintenance to sites green spaces. And still looking like a crap hole.Also feel that all residents will won’t be respectful like driving over green spars and making a general mess.
What is the best feature of your home:
We live in a leyburn so having extra room for a utility and extra bathroom for when guests stay over
Development not looked after
Mixed feelings towards our development. We were promised things when we moved in that we didn’t receive. The roads are taking ages to complete. Maintenance of grounds and shrubs has been abandoned. Grass must be 3ft high and makes the development look untidy. Roads are left a mess after work people have gone.
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The local area of Saxilby is lovely. It has a range of shops, cafes and transport links. Our street is clean and has ample parking. There’s no traffic noise.
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How long it would take for roads to complete and that grounds are not looked after
What is the best feature of your home:
Location of our specific house is a good feature, we are not overlooked by other homeowners.
Wouldn’t buy again.
Disappointing having social housing through the centre. I couldn’t use my garden due to the drugs that were being used/smoked outside from the house behind me. It was disgusting. My daughter also couldn’t use the garden. It would also come into the house which was mega frustrating.
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Not great, not enough things to do. There is a train station and buses to get places though. Could do with more play parks for kids
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The amount of issue you give with the house. Waste of time buying a new build.
What is the best feature of your home:
The main bedroom size. This was ok considering it was only a two bed.
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The site is still unfinished mainly the communal areas but is now being used as a cut through by drivers who have no idea speed limits. Also a lot of people seem to be selling up a lot of the reason could be due to this I presume. Also the social housing area looks shocking bikes and toys bins left out and trailer full of rubbish.
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Saxilby is a very convenient village to live in and has good shops and amenities and is easy for me to get to work in lincoln.
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That the social housing was right In the middle of the site and the number of work vans that are on here. And the poor quality fixtures.
What is the best feature of your home:
Fixtures poor rusty radiator door handles coming off poor quality
I wish we knew how long the total build process was going to be.
When we viewed our house we fell in love with it, the layout, room sizes, separate garage, ample parking, etc. It had everything I had dreamed of.
However, we moved in while building work was still ongoing (2020), which seems to be neverending. All homes are now built and have been lived in for a while but not all the roads and paths are yet finished.
Lovell seemed to leave the site some months ago but the development is not complete and still loads of finishing off to do.
To be honest the estate looks a mess and we cannot wait to be finished.
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We love Saxilby, it has everything we need! It’s out of the city centre but not too far away meaning it’s quick and easy to get to Lincoln’s amenities.
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I wish we knew how long the total build process was going to be.
What is the best feature of your home:
The outer appearance, inner layout and room sizes.
Avoid anything built in the area by Lovell.
Unfortunately the developer, Lovell, are truly awful. This is my third new build and the lack of management, defects and general pride is workmanship by sub contractors is shocking. 2 years in and our roof finally no long leaks, 9 x A4 pages of defects upon handover.
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Overall a brilliant location to to live. Close to the city, quiet, easy transports access, good pubs.
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That Lovell couldn’t be trusted to build a property to standard.
What is the best feature of your home:
The location is perfect, rural, quiet and easy to get to.
The development is mostly quiet and you don’t tend to have any issues.
Traffic is becoming busier now the top and bottom entrance is open as people use it as a cut through, but living off the main road through the development, this isn’t an issue for us.
The site has taken a while to be tidied up and open spaces finished, but all road and path’s have been surfaced now and the grounds work is starting.
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Saxilby is a lovely friendly village with shops, cafe’s, pubs, take aways and a good Primary school. It has a train station which only takes minutes to get to Lincoln. There are lots of public footpaths to explore the countryside and a large playing field with a park.
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How long it would take for the grounds work to be finished.
What is the best feature of your home:
Large open plan kitchen/dining/family room at the back.
Excellent new build
A lot of effort and though must have been put into the design. The main selling points of the design were open kitchen/ living area, jack and Jill en suite and main en suite, double garage.
Received a good recommendation prior to the purchase from a subcontractor who had worked on the site.
Great finish, good build quality with exception of the plumbing, however these issues do appear to have been resolved.
Good experience from point of initial discussion through to the move.
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Lovely local area, amenities and community, with great access to surround areas via the village train station.
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That the roads on the estate would be in such a poor state for so long. This really is not acceptable and I dread to think what damage the unresolved ‘steps’ are doing to my car.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
All issues were acknowledged and most have been completed already, with a few planned in the near future, however some of these issues can take longer than desired to be resolved.
Disappointed
We love our development design and location. Just a shame the quality of horn built and customer service was not to a higher standard to match. Buying off plan is something we wouldn’t do again as the finish was to a low standard. We expected snags but it was evident due to weather issues and site issues our home had been rushed to finish for the financial benefit of the company and it showed. We ended up with wrong showers, additionally items we’d paid for being put in the wrong location and getting them to resolve their failings resulted in a lot of back and frowing for us despite it was admitted to be “an oversight” on the developers part. One tip for Lovell, if you mess up, own it, apologise and just fix it!
The most unforgivable thing of very many for us was our lounge carpets. They were terribly bumpy and we often felt sharp bits. We had a 5 month old and a 3 year old crawling and rolling around unaware of the dangers that lurked. We knew it would need lifting so called, they wanted the contractor out. We waited after phone calls and emails and we were waiting to our lounge furniture up. It was nearly Xmas!
We fave up waiting and did it ourselves and we’re horrified. The danger we had unknowingly put our kids in. We had broken Stanley knife blades, screws and generally rubbish and debris under our lounge carpet.
I’m no carpet fitter but common sense says “Who lays a carpet without sweeping!” We contacted Lovell. But rather than “that’s unacceptable, we will sort it now” it was a blame external contractors try and get them in, again for all the other carpets with lumps and bumps we were now worried about and no end of emails and telephone calls. Covid then hit and understandably everything stopped. And before we knew it, our time for sorting our plethora of issues was over and we’ve ended up sorting them ourselves. Which probably isn’t a bad thing.
Many issues were sorted that were easy to sort by Kevin the lovely guy who was a master of fixing botched jobs. But the bigger things like poor carpets and lumpy ruined underlay, we’re going to sort ourselves.
The list of issues is a joke, Lovell made everything a chore for us, and we wish we had got a fixer upper and managed ourselves as this turned into a pricey version of that anyway!
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We found the finish on our property poor and struggled with getting things sorted resulting in us giving up and sorting ourselves. We appreciate that covid made things difficult but there was no provision for this or for changes in staffing due to leaving. This resulted in a lot of hassle for us trying to find details and re sharing details and trying to get things resolved that should have been done as standard before the property was released to us to be honest. Generally overall a very dissatisfying experience on the whole. But we do love our home design, layout and location.
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How poor the quality of finish and customer care would be.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
Terribly but when we did get Kevin from customer care come and carry works, he did the very best he could in some awful rubbish situations. He was exceptional! A pleasure to have in our home, and due to the poor quality of our finish, he came a lot, which we never minded as he was a lovely, caring and hardworking chap.
Buy in haste repent at leisure
Design externally is poor, no thought of houses overlooking each other. Not enough parking and garages are too small to fit cars. Bins can’t be put in gardens we currently have 4 and despite vans supposedly not allowed on site, at weekends particularly, it already looks scruffy with vans parked around. Cars have to park on pavements as roads narrow, and after nearly 2 years roads and pavements are unfinished. Landscaping is poor and flood provision means uneven trenches of grass,an opportunity missed to make area pleasant to live, hide some houses from view and help environment. Internally finish is generally poor our upstairs floors are sloping, decorative finishes are slapdash with grouting and sealants faulty. Paint and sealants are poor quality and come off if cleaned. Every door, toilet, sink tap etc is not level. It takes months to get things fixed, and a succession of different trades until you get right person for job.
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Saxilby is well situated for access to Lincoln and has basic stores and very good chipshop. Bin collection is good but have 4 bins and no waste food collection.Very good for noise, but area is generally 20 years behind the times.
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Plastering is so poor that if you put anything on them large patches come off. Nails are popping through every ceiling. Expensive carpets and amtico flooring is not worth the money and poorly fitted.
How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:
Any issues are directed to customer services after a few months and they are hopeless.
