New housing estate social housing

nickyg2000

I'm in the process of buying a 2 year old home on a new build estate. NOT a home my gifriend and I would go for but location and size etc are great and there's nothing else (South east). Anyway there's a far bit of social housing on the estate 5 houses next to mine, and you can tell crappy gardens with crap left out. My question is should I be worried? Or am I being s snob? It's just you don't want them to think them and us etc get a dog poo through the letter box etc! It looks like Young family's as well

Peter333

What is the percentage of social housing? An estate my friend has bought a house on, has about 30% social housing and he hates it there; nothing but problems and trouble and gangs of yooves everywhere.

I would NEVER buy on a new estate that has loads of social housing.

It depends on the amount/percentage of course...

libf

This thread has been done to death.

If social housing and noise are problems for you, then don't go any further in buying this house. You'll only regret it.

teddysmum

I would not buy, especially as it actually looks bad.

nickyg2000

Yeah it's in a village. It has a far bit but it's local connections with little kids (2-6 ages) not yet old enough to sell crack but still :-)

leveller2911

Next road down from us there are 19 SH properties and 2 privately owned and the worse gardens (bar a country mile) are the privately owned ones.

At least Housing Associations have the power to force tenants to clean up their gardens but homeowners have a free rein to do whatever they like.Just because a person owns a house doesn't make the Sociable or clean, I've worked in private houses where I've begrudged putting my clean dustsheets down on the filthy floors and many times I have left the houses cleaner than when I arrived.

Makes me chuckle when people buy on an estate and whinge about noise. Children have played outside houses for centuries but some people seem to believe they should be seen but not heard so If people don't want noise then buy in the middle of the country.

There are good and bad tenants just like there are homeowners.

dekaspace

It's all about context, I live in a ex council estate that has empty properties even though 20 years ago the council decided to throw out all the problem tenants and refurbish all the flats so they are better than many private lets I have had and over £100 a month cheaper to rent if not more (i.e the more run down ones are less than £200 a month for a 2 bedroom unfurnished flat)

In the part of the estate that is Polish there is more overgrown gardens than tidy ones because what happens is the single nice garden is used for parties, they are all workers by the way. Where the council flats are on estate the grass is a few inches high at most so looks a little untidy at most but not overgrown.

So workers area overgrown, social housing area nice, doesnt say much for stereotypes.

Like anything some people take advantage they are the ones with the best stuff and the genuine ones are the ones who will be quiet and you dont see getting less than they are entitled to.

PasturesNew

nickyg2000 wrote: »

... crappy gardens with crap left out. ...

This stuff replicates quicker than the sprog droppers indoors. If there's cr4p now, there'll be 10x the cr4p in 2 years' time and 100x the cr4p when you want to sell.

Cr4p is lifestyle evidence. Culture evidence. This is not a lifestyle or a culture you wish to be part of.

Norman_Castle

nickyg2000 wrote: »

I'm in the process of buying a 2 year old home on a new build estate. NOT a home my gifriend and I would go for but location and size etc are great and there's nothing else (South east). Anyway there's a far bit of social housing on the estate 5 houses next to mine, and you can tell crappy gardens with crap left out. My question is should I be worried? Or am I being s snob? It's just you don't want them to think them and us etc get a dog poo through the letter box etc! It looks like Young family's as well

Friends of mine who are owner occupiers recently had a skip provided by their inlaws because they couldn't believe how much crap was in their crappy garden. I live in social housing. There's no crap in my garden. I also know the difference between young families and "Young family's".

"It's just you don't want them to think them and us".It sounds like you're doing that, not them. Please don't judge others by your standards.

If you feel living near these people is beneath you then do them a favour and live elsewhere.

TBeckett100

I'd give it a miss.

If they work they'll tend to be shift workers and therefore clunky old cars or vans will Fire up. In summer they'll have their kids in the garden or hanging about when there are older and one will have a yappie dog.

Also you'll be up going to work in the dark seeing their curtains drawn knowing your tax is paying largely for them to live subsidised in the same house as you.

Avoid at all costs. Social housing should just be built in areas away from private homes

discat11

At least you are seeing the area 'warts and all' it could be worse.

The first home I ever bought ended up with us and one other neighbour paying what was top dollar at the time for our homes and the rest being flogged off to housing associations -i.e. another 12 houses.

It was quite a shock as whilst most neighbours were fine a few didn't care how much noise they made (I worked shifts and they were in their houses 24/7 so it was inevitable I guess!) or if their kids climbed over the fence and broke it (which they wouldn't admit or pay for).

I wouldn't buy another 'off plan' house because of this regardless of how nice it is since even posh 5 bedroom houses can be bought by HA's.

You can see the area you're buying into -I would suggest it's market value is dictated by the fact it has 'issues' just as a house that needs a complete rip out will sell for less and appeal to less.

I'd strongly disagree that social housing should be segregated from private -that's just making 'ghettos' but I do feel there should be a) a restricted percentage of estates used and b) far more regulation on how occupants are allowed to behave -although the same could be said of private tenants for that matter!