Social housing on new estate - where do we stand!

newbian

I've just moved into a new build estate with social housing nearby, honestly if I'd not been told I wouldn't notice. Friends have lived in the same estate for 6+ months and not had any problems either. The families across the street I believe are social/affordable tenants, they are a very nice family with well behaved children.

The estate management is what you need to look out for. Ours does not have any on street parking without a permit and they WILL ticket you very quickly. There is a concierge office staffed 24 hours with CCTV all over the place. If there was a group of people congregating in the street it would be broken up very quickly. There are other places with a lot less oversight that people up to no good would rather spend their time. If the estate has similar measures then you should be OK.

teajug

ILW wrote: »

Look on the positive side.
You will not need to travel far if you wish to buy drugs or stolen goods.

If that is the case would you consider MP's and Union leaders as durgs dealers.

Also OP, I am sure social housing occupancy will not mind you living near them. therefore I would not worry about it. I would be concerned about people living in my estate if they had just left presion leving near me such as the LibDem couple that left prision yesterday they could also have friends living near you as well. :rotfl::rotfl:

teajug

Dan-Dan wrote: »

a drug dealing, staffie owning, tracksuit wearing, baseball cap sporting, unemployed thicko ?

That is the council fault they are not carry out their duty regarding their tenants. Council employees are a lazy. all that concerns them is getting their salaries at the end of the month and their large holidays and sick pay with their guarantee pensions.

They will not leave as they know they will not get the same deal in private section so they wait for their retirement.:(:(

Brallaqueen

dead thread has been resurrected

Claire212

We lived in a social housing area in a private rented house.

The majority of the street were good neighbours, including a couple who had 8 children living in one house ranging from 2 years to 15 years. Yes, they claimed benefits and didn't work but were amazing neighbours and became great friends to us.

Unfortunately next door was a different story, a lady in her late 40's she owned the property (checked on land registry when it all kicked off) but all seemed fine for the first 6 months.

It was only when her son was released from prison on tag that we experienced a nightmare. He played loud music till all hours of the night, sitting on his back garden with his mates drinking and smoking (not just cigarettes), during the summer when our windows were open the smell of the smoke came into the house. He even blew it directly into the kitchen, disregarding the fact that we had a 5 month old in the house. After 2 months we had motorbikes pulling up to and away from the house at all hours. Waking up both kids. He was disrespectful and violent towards his mother who started drinking and had constant fights with, often with him damaging doors. Eventually he moved into his own flat and peace resumed. His mother was so ashamed she sold her house and moved eventually (we have now moved but have been told by friends who still live there).

With regards to the OP. You just don't know who is living next door, regardless of where you live and the reality is that we have to accept it or move on if we can.

We are now living on one of the quietest roads in our town, with the majority being owned, in one of only 2 council houses on the street. Our neighbours have complained to the council that we are not maintaining our garden (we only moved 5 months ago) and stand on the street pointing at it with the other neighbours. Lol.

Don't know which is worse. :rotfl:

sinbad182

Why don't you stop LoL'ing and tidy your garden then?

Running_Horse

SuzieSue wrote: »

He didn't say the ALL were, he said they might be.

He actually said there had been no problems.

Can't see what the issue is here.

vuvuzela

Running_Horse wrote: »

He actually said there had been no problems.

Can't see what the issue is here.

She posted that 9 months ago...

Tancred

Interesting to read these comments. I think that the issue with social housing is not that all housing association tenants are troublemakers - far from it. However, a significant minority are much more likely to behave anti-socially that those who have shelled out £250k+ with a mortgage.

In my new build estate most of the affordable housing does not have bad people, but one small area is packed with kids aged 8-12 playing football at every hour God sends without any concern whatever by the parents. This would not happen if the parents were well brought up, educated and middle class. Unfortunately most of these 'blue collar' areas have parents who want the children out of the house as much as possible. One wonders why.

DaveTheMus

lukepugh wrote: »

We recently purchased a new house and one of the things that swayed us to choose the house we did is that the developer told us that there was no social housing nearby.

After being in for a few months it seems that there is a row of houses (about 5 or 6) that may be social housing on the next street.
As yet there have been no problems but having had problems with noise chavy neighbours in the past we are bit concerned.

I know how we need to deal with any problems if they arise but wondered where we stand with the developers.
When we were looking at buying we specificly asked about social housing and where it was on their plans and they told us there wasn't any .... it seems they lied.... if we do start to get any problems is there anything we can do?
I have heard stories of people taking developers to court?

Any advice wouldbe apreciated.

Thanks

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
join a boxing gym and maybe that'll give you some confidence...must be horrible wandering around, fearful.