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bmlynch92
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Hi all,
My partner and I are currently looking at a help to buy new build flat and found one we really like. We have made an offer, had it countered and settled on a contribution to the stamp duty plus white goods. However nothing is signed yet or the reservation fee made.
Having looked over the development plans we realised that to one side of the flat (ground floor) are the bin and cycle stores and towards the back is the lift shaft.
Should this present alarm bells at all? Does anyone have experience of this kind of setting?
Many thanks in advance.
My partner and I are currently looking at a help to buy new build flat and found one we really like. We have made an offer, had it countered and settled on a contribution to the stamp duty plus white goods. However nothing is signed yet or the reservation fee made.
Having looked over the development plans we realised that to one side of the flat (ground floor) are the bin and cycle stores and towards the back is the lift shaft.
Should this present alarm bells at all? Does anyone have experience of this kind of setting?
Many thanks in advance.
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Can you tell how far away the bin store will be?
Personally, I would not want to live in a ground floor flat next to the bin store mainly because of the smell in the summer:eek:0 -
Cheeky_Monkey wrote: »Can you tell how far away the bin store will be?
Personally, I would not want to live in a ground floor flat next to the bin store mainly because of the smell in the summer:eek:
As far as I can tell it will be part of the building so right next to the flat (sharing 1 wall I believe)
That was my concern as well, although my partner mentioned the waste will be in bags then in bins and with a wall in between. Still slightly sceptical!0 -
I live in a flat higher up which is 2-3 metres from a bin store.
Smell has never been an issue, but noise can be - you may be up and out by the time the waste collectors do their rounds, here it is anytime between 06.45 - 07.45 (and sometimes later for recycling) twice a week. We also had issues with the lock which meant some people dumped waste outside; and before the lock was replaced some non-residents used it for recreational use.
Have you spoken to other residents, have you visited at different times of the day?Free thinker.:cool:0 -
Have you checked the service charge for the block? You mention a lift and they can be costly to maintain, even when you make no use of it.
The apartment blocks near me have the big commercial bins. They are smelly but also noisy, you'll hear each time they're open and shut. It wouldn't be for me.0 -
I'd have said "no no no" for a lot of reasons.... noise, nuisance, fly tipping, late and early comers using the facilities etc.
But, I do know somebody who bought a house opposite a brick built bins shed used by a block of flats and they have had not the slightest issue whatsoever with nuisance/fly tippers...
Personally I'd not wish to sit at home knowing/hearing that all-comers were coming and going back and forth a few feet away ... potentially doing something they aren't supposed to be doing, or doing it noisily. I'd end up becoming anxious over 1-2 people's behaviour and 'fearing' every noise that "it could be them doing it again"....0 -
BorisThomson wrote: »Have you checked the service charge for the block? You mention a lift and they can be costly to maintain, even when you make no use of it.
The apartment blocks near me have the big commercial bins. They are smelly but also noisy, you'll hear each time they're open and shut. It wouldn't be for me.
This flat seems to have the lowest service charge of the block, it is a low rise development (4 floors) and the one we are looking at has it's own entrance.PasturesNew wrote: »I'd have said "no no no" for a lot of reasons.... noise, nuisance, fly tipping, late and early comers using the facilities etc.
But, I do know somebody who bought a house opposite a brick built bins shed used by a block of flats and they have had not the slightest issue whatsoever with nuisance/fly tippers...
Personally I'd not wish to sit at home knowing/hearing that all-comers were coming and going back and forth a few feet away ... potentially doing something they aren't supposed to be doing, or doing it noisily. I'd end up becoming anxious over 1-2 people's behaviour and 'fearing' every noise that "it could be them doing it again"....
It is a brick build bin shed with a key/fob entry we have been told by the developers/sales people. For that reason I don't think I'd be too worried about fly tipping, but as you said the comings and goings in general near to you is beginning to put me off.
Thank you for the advice.0 -
Having looked over the development plans we realised that to one side of the flat (ground floor) are the bin and cycle stores and towards the back is the lift shaft.
Should this present alarm bells at all? Does anyone have experience of this kind of setting?
Let's turn this around shall we? Why don't you list all of the advantages of living next to the bike shed and the bins....
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Really, there aren't any?!?0 -
OP - we live in a new build flat also with bin store and key fob similar to the situation you are describing. I wouldn't like to live on the ground floor - in the summer the bin store and all surrounding areas including the communal ground floor corridors STINK of bins and are swarming with massive flies.0
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in my block I find my fellow residents just heap their rubbish next to the bins once they are full up. They're not too good about putting the right stuff in the right bins either which means that sometimes the council refuses to empty them. I am very glad the bins are on the opposite side to my flat. Mind you they are normal domestic wheelie bins rather than the skip type that more modern blocks get.
Much depends on how far the bins will impinge on your life. Will you have a window so you actually have to look at the things, and smell them if it all goes wrong? Will people and/or the council refuse collectors be traipsing past a window, impinging on your privacy and being noisy? Will operating the bins be noisy in itself?0 -
I absolutely would not move to this flat. You'll be listening to lifts and bin lids slamming all day long plus the bin collection chaos.0
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