Park Gate, B26

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

The good part is easy bus routes into city centre via x1 or x2 bus stops. 5 minute bus which takes you straight to birmingham airport. Parking is a joke. They rent out all the spaces and make you pay more money on top of your rent, or its a fight for back wall parking until the new development next to park gate is built. Which will be privately owned.

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

Car parking situation, no handyman on site, lifts always broken so if you're old or disabled you have no chance!

What is the best feature of your home:

The mordern so called look even though mould gets through easily. Radiators and heating is shocking.

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

The good thing is location and transport, the bad thing is everything else parking is limited refuge area disgusting had reception and got got rid off the staff lifts always broken residents make it messy every where food every where sick every where rubbish bags dumped everywhere, parcels always getting robbed. Security is rubbish

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

Very poor can't get hold of them raise prices and remove benefits no management visit site to resolve issues

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

The future as when first moved in was good loads services clean now it's a mess

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

If you live by the horse shoe lane there are occasionally noises from the street on if you keep the window open you can hear the data center machines running

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

They were great through the process of buying, i had a issue in the flat at the beginning and they fixed it still waiting for my freezer door to be fixed since a year ago

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

That the building would not have guest parking

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

Lovely staff, always clean, friendly, kind,

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

Never had any issues with the landlord so we never had to talk.

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

We wish we moved in earlier so we could have bought a car parking spot

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

Starting with the positives, the location is absolutely amazing - there are several shops which are all walking distance. There's also a Tesco right in front which is open until 12 am. In terms of transport, there's bus stops right in front of the flats. The buses are not as frequent as I would like but they go directly to the City Centre! The closest train stations are Birmingham International and Solihull, and there's buses running to each of those train stations. Bins are located outside in the car park so there's no stink inside the building. There are also letter boxes in the lobby. The roads are very busy and due to the location of my apartment, I'm able to hear the traffic inside the apartment. It's but very bad but you definitely can't ignore the noise. Like mentioned, there's been some antisocial behaviour because a landlord had been renting out their flat as an AirBnB. This has been stopped now but every now and then, you can hear some ruckus in the hallways.

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

I've contacted Peter and he's been helpful but there's only so much he can do.

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

The sky high electricity bill and how bad the Internet provider "4th Utility" is.