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  • fierystormcloud
    fierystormcloud Posts: 1,588 Forumite
    I am sorry to say this OP, but I think it's ghastly, and the whole area is minging. Looks like a huge prison block complex.

    I have seen quite a few new-build estates springing up like this in urban areas and the suburbs; absolutely hideous. :(

    "Chuck as many houses up as you can - preferably tall and narrow - into the smallest space possible, and as cheaply as possible" seems to be the rule of thumb these days.

    I wouldn't purchase a new-build like this for all the sand in the Sahara.
    cooeeeeeeeee :j :wave:
  • sunshinetours
    sunshinetours Posts: 2,854 Forumite
    I personally would keep on looking. The exterior IMO is the reason you are getting more for your money space wise as it will be hard to sell.

    The whole estate looks hideous IMO sorry
  • carefullycautious
    carefullycautious Posts: 2,464 Forumite
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    Where on earth would you park your car?
  • DaftyDuck
    DaftyDuck Posts: 4,609 Forumite
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    At high speed, straight into the front of it.
  • GwylimT
    GwylimT Posts: 6,530 Forumite
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    It would look much better if the plastic strips were taken off the windows.
  • catshark88
    catshark88 Posts: 1,099 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I might learn to live with the look, but it would always be horrible going out of your front door and walking straight into the garage wall...
    "Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful." William Morris
  • fierystormcloud
    fierystormcloud Posts: 1,588 Forumite
    catshark88 wrote: »
    I might learn to live with the look, but it would always be horrible going out of your front door and walking straight into the garage wall...

    I never could. It looks like a massive council estate in a big town.
    cooeeeeeeeee :j :wave:
  • sniggings
    sniggings Posts: 5,281 Forumite
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    fierystormcloud wrote: »
    I never could. It looks like a massive council estate in a big town.

    Never seen a council estate with that much open area.

    Agree the house in question is not that great, the rest of the place (around the field) looks fine.
  • fierystormcloud
    fierystormcloud Posts: 1,588 Forumite
    edited 13 May 2015 at 10:35PM
    sniggings wrote: »
    Never seen a council estate with that much open area.

    Agree the house in question is not that great, the rest of the place (around the field) looks fine.

    That much open area?! Many of the houses are rammed together, on top of one another, with little space, tiny gardens, and no parking.

    It looks like many council estates/sink estates that are in the county I live in.

    And to be fair, many of the houses are NOT near an open area, they are crammed in, and close to a massive A road, and a HUGE tesco.

    I would never buy there. Then again, I would never buy new-build. Many of them are overpriced, substandard tacky hovels. There are some SERIOUSLY ugly new-build estates going up around the UK at the moment. They are going to be classed as hideous carbuncles in the future: like high rise blocks of flats built in the 1960s are now.

    Apologies to the OP. It's just my opinion. I really dislike this style of new-build estate. Sorry if I am offending you...
    cooeeeeeeeee :j :wave:
  • I_have_spoken
    I_have_spoken Posts: 5,051 Forumite
    edited 13 May 2015 at 10:37PM
    It's in the Hampton township in Peterborough, nothing can be done to improve things. The entire estate is build on clay pits filled with fly ash from the brick kilns.
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