Housing Association residents disrupting quiet estate

tortoiseshellcat

I can understand op being upset..fairly close to where I live is a new estate of about 500 homes, they were originally marketed at about £500,000+ for 4/5 bed houses because of the nice location and sold well. Some of the smaller houses there are let as social housing and I'm sure most of the people that live there are very nice, working, law abiding people, but think IF there were families with anti-social issues (and I know from experience you can get them in HA estates) it would be horrible for the people who had spent x amount on a house.

Saying that I live in a HA house on an estate with a mixture of owned and rented properties and I take as much care with my house as if I owned it. Two houses close by me are bought and quite disgraceful with rubbish all in their driveways etc so basically all people have different standards. Hope that doesn't sound like I'm contradicting myself lol.

Johnnytwostep

sebtomato wrote: »

Hi,

I live in a nice private residential estate that has also two housing association buildings (as per the council rules around new developments). Some of their residents are leaving litter everywhere, writing on walls etc. The HA manager is not taking action to clean up the mess or move the culprits out.

Can the private owners take legal action against the HA, and force them to take actions? If it carries on, the property prices will suffer. If a few dozen private owners sue the HA for £20K or £30K each, maybe they will listen.

Thanks,
Seb

Did you get them thrown out yet. Hopefully the courts and HA will see in your favour as should be the case.

newbian

demontfort wrote: »

For example I got a friend who just spent £250k, yes £250k on a 1 bed newbuild in the quaintly titled Kidbrooke village. This is a redevelopment of the massive Ferrier council estate in a down at heel part of South East London. Good luck with that one. :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Are you against redevelopment? If London's population continues to grow, people need to live somewhere. No one would have thought they'd be building £1m flats in Elephant and Castle either.

I'm sure your friend's £250K would have gotten him a dank basement hovel in many parts of London. And no sense moving out of town when annual rail tickets cost £5,000 a year.