Local paper - £500K houses, half of estate possibly bought by housing association

RabbitMad

Realy wrote: »

Now that is rubbish (I think you can tell by the picture it is hardly small), we have a new house and it as two large cupboards by the front door (the size of double wardrobes) and an under stairs cupboards (again the size of a wardrobe but twice as deep).
Going that she as 5 rooms upstairs she may well have near that down stairs. If she is on her own she would have plenty of storage.

Sorry that should be Rabbitmad quote.

I never said it was a small house. I said it wasn't a nice house.

I looked at these houses as I was bored on eafternoon and felt like having a drive and a nosey, the show houses had no storage and the plans for all the properties showed no storage.

I'm not dennying that your new build might be nice, but this estate in bishop's cleeve has future slum written all over it. The fact is bigger houses less than 10 years old, with more garden were selling for less in nicer areas of cheltenham not next to a land fill.

Lotus-eater

I think you will find a very large percentage of people use their garages as stores as they are too small. When I was 13 my parents were building a double garage, even I could see looking at the plans that it was too small, so I nagged until they made it wider and it was great, easily get two cars in there.

We still used it as a store :rotfl:

Realy

RabbitMad wrote: »

I never said it was a small house. I said it wasn't a nice house.

I looked at these houses as I was bored on eafternoon and felt like having a drive and a nosey, the show houses had no storage and the plans for all the properties showed no storage.

I'm not dennying that your new build might be nice, but this estate in bishop's cleeve has future slum written all over it. The fact is bigger houses less than 10 years old, with more garden were selling for less in nicer areas of cheltenham not next to a land fill.

That is fair enough but your statements were sweeping.

ginvzt

I haven't said that you cannot have more than 1.6 parking spaces. The local authorities usually request there to be 1.6 per house (or more). So, you have 2 spaces, someone else on the estate will have 1 space. Or the developer decided to be generous and give 2 spaces for everyone! Just squeeze the houses a bit.

mewbie_2

Our garage is full of baked beans, water bottles and bottled gas. Two tin hats and a latrine shovel complete the picture.

neverdespairgirl

ginvzt wrote: »

I am yet to see a garage in the newbuild that it used to park a car (where a car easily fits and you can get out through the door, not the boot. If you go to view a few year old houses, you probably notice that the garage is used as the storage and cars will be parked in front of the house and on the road.

95% of all garages are used for storing old bikes, broken radios, dried-up paint tins, and an old fridge.

RabbitMad

Realy wrote: »

No i have 2 parking spaces (well space for 4 realy) and a double garage! (not showing off but the poster is wrong.)
Each plot can have a alocated spaces + Garages.

Sorry if I've offended you, I assume you've bought on this estate.

I'll stand by my comments as when I viewed the show home and looked at the plans that is what I saw, maybe the developers changed the plans (Given peoples feedback) as only the 3 show homes were complete when I looked and I was horrified that only the 5 bed houses had more than one parking space.

Realy

ginvzt wrote: »

I haven't said that you cannot have more than 1.6 parking spaces. The local authorities usually request there to be 1.6 per house (or more). So, you have 2 spaces, someone else on the estate will have 1 space. Or the developer decided to be generous and give 2 spaces for everyone! Just squeeze the houses a bit.

Sorry my reply was not to you(I was not having a dig it was just a sweeping statement). A development depends on the guidlines and area. I looked at some small developments (just 4 houses) and you could get 4+ cars on the drive, never mind the garage.

Norma_Desmond

mewbie wrote: »

Our garage is full of baked beans, water bottles and bottled gas. Two tin hats and a latrine shovel complete the picture.

:rotfl: I can beat that; my garage is 100 yards from my house and it's a total ruin - some largish animal is living there at the moment and it's welcome to it! :eek:

Realy

RabbitMad wrote: »

Sorry if I've offended you, I assume you've bought on this estate.

I'll stand by my comments as when I viewed the show home and looked at the plans that is what I saw, maybe the developers changed the plans (Given peoples feedback) as only the 3 show homes were complete when I looked and I was horrified that only the 5 bed houses had more than one parking space.

Look I am not offended. It is just that you made a sweeping statement on all new builds thats all.
I have no problem for that estate as you know as you live near it, but that is not representative of the whole country.