Locking Parklands, BS24

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

No shops etc built yet although the development has been there for years. Park has barely anything in it for smaller children

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

Shockingly always take ages to get back to us about any issues

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

Not to purchase with st Modwens as the sfter care is shocking

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

We have a few shops outside of parklands like co op .the pub and other shops are in the local village . There is now a bus service that comes in which is much better. We have a lovely green wooded area to walk around and great for dog walking. Parking is not great ...most visitors park on the pavement meaning you have to walk in the road. Bin collections are done with no problems . Its quiet most days in my street and a great area to live in

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

We had many issues with the building and were told that after 2 years we would get a building check and and issues they would sort out . This did not happen which left us very disappointed.

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

The quarterly charges were meant to go down with the mire houses being built but this hasn't happened and its gone up !

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

It’s great Need more bins

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

There great and go out the way to help want less work

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

Thank you

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

As a growing new development, Locking Parklands [set below the Mendip Hills] is a 'work in progress' in a fairly rural area with a couple of shops and pubs, post office, primary schools and with a new Secondary School and Health Centre off the starting blocks. A new link road has recently been completed which will bring with it retail units, some restaurants and hopefully a library. However, Weston-super-Mare is a few miles away with restaurants, beach & Playhouse theatre. Parklands has its own fabulous green open spaces with many beautiful protected trees. If you are a shopaholic Cribbs Causeway is but 20 mins away with all the big brand retailers with good motorway networks connecting to South West, Bristol, the North and East to London - just don't plan too much travelling on a Friday afternoon/evening! All properties have accessible own parking bays or drives and it works well if people park in their own spaces, unless they have more cars than spaces! We could do with more parking spaces for guests visiting friends and families.

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

Very helpful and co-operative. Positive response and resolved.

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

High percentage of 'affordable housing' across the development [Not shared ownership].

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

We love the development and couldn’t wait to get a home here. The houses are beautiful and well built. Noise can sometimes be a problem and people parking selfishly which is a shame. The communal areas are not as well maintained as they should be/used to be and trying to communicate with the management company is impossible. It will be a shame when our road becomes a through road for a cramped development on the field next to us (right next to the motorway) but we still love living here and this is our dream home. It’s nicely located in a quiet area outside of town but close enough to plenty of shops and not far from the beach etc so you have everything you could want/need.

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

At times they will respond/resolve a problem but other times it’s dragged out for weeks and only resolved when you send multiple emails and make numerous calls which is a shame.

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

How thin party walls are as we would have installed proper sound proof plasterboard to make life a little easier if we had known. We are also a little disappointed that our quiet street with dead end will become a through road for another developers huge estate in the field next to us soon.