The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

.... they may want to ...

Turn it into a 12-bed HMO/hostel for ex-offenders, drug addicts and/or refugees.

Have you checked the planning portal lately?

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Turn it into a 12-bed HMO/hostel for ex-offenders, drug addicts and/or refugees.

Have you checked the planning portal lately?

:rotfl:

They're FTBs - a couple with two kids at primary school. The one thing I'd like to be reassured about it that I don't want them to do a garage conversion. If they did it would turn my house from a link-detached to a semi. I'm on the corner, and on one side my house is attached to next door's garage (that's where the moving is happening today) while on the other side my house is attached to my garage, which is in turn attached to next door's garage.

PasturesNew wrote: »

Now I've got the name, I googled it - not expecting any results - and found the two for rent there.

Both £1250/month.

3-bed EoT & a 3-bed mid-terrace.

One was for sale at £305k and the other £290k, so interested to see (if visible) what the selling price ended up ... which I should know by late October.

What were the others for sale at? And could you remind us how many there are, please?

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

What were the others for sale at? And could you remind us how many there are, please?

Just seen somebody moving into one. Maybe I missed the rest, but she took about 5 minutes to get one small box of random cr4p from her boot. Maybe she's the mother of the owner.... bringing their "random box of cr4p" they'd left at mum's.

She didn't "look the sort of person to be moving in" if there is a sort.... so I bet she'd turn out to be "...mum brought over my random XYZ...."

9 houses.
4-terrace: all 2 beds
4-terrace: 2x3-beds, 2x2-beds
1-detached: 3 beds.

Prices: £260k for mid terrace/2 beds; £265k EoT 2-beds; £275k EoT 2-beds with extra 9' strip of garden down the side; £290k EoT 3-bed; £305k mid terrace 3-bed; £335k 3-bed detached.

Gardens are about 14' square and one parking spot each.
1 visitor parking spot in total.

For "localised comparison" purposes, there are two 3-beds for rent at £1250, the local LHA rate is £820/month.

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

You two! :rotfl:

I thought tortoises were pies!

Surely not. The crust is folded over and crimped down - that makes 'em pasties, doesn't it?

PasturesNew

It's quite busy in the car park, with people moving small bits and pieces into their house.

Must be 3-5 residents' cars parked there... hard to tell who is still "site staff/developer staff explaining systems to people" and who is moving in....

Nobody's "making a big effort" - it's all just "shuffle to the car, taking your time, get one just 1-2 tiny hand items....and meander back" - no "this is a big removals van ... and we're unloading" going on.

I guess, with new builds, people want to get their hands on the keys and then plan their move ...so happy just to take "XYZ small bits and random bobs... have a look round .... and leave"

It'll probably be like Piccadilly Circus tomorrow morning.

LydiaJ

Next door is now empty - my friends are probably unpacking in their new place by now. No sign yet of the new owners next door.

PasturesNew

I was by an open window.... as you are when you "lurk a bit"... two women exited simultaneously from two non-adjacent houses and one said "OOOH ELLO!!!" - they obviously know each other.

So I heard the story of the "woman I didn't think looked like the sort to be moving in". The other lady asked if it's a house of a child of hers and she said it's her grand-daughter ... who is getting married in December. Her youngest grand-child.

Blimey ... grand-daughter buying a house. Although the woman was a lot larger than me I'd have put her down as my age.... I'm granny aged!!!

PasturesNew

LydiaJ wrote: »

.... No sign yet of the new owners next door.

They've been held up in traffic with the minibus as they had to stop by the local ex-offenders'/addicts/refugee hostel..... and load them up

Pyxis

Pastures, at least, with a single lady next door, it sounds like you won't have doofing against your boundary fence, or balls coming over into your garden from that house.



Lydia, I don't really know the ins and outs of planning, but I would have thought that any garage conversion would have to leave a space between your house and the conversion, for that very reason.

In any event, you would have very good grounds for objecting to a joined-on conversion, I would have thought. Suddenly giving you a party wall with noise coming through where there wasn't one before? I doubt that would be allowed.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

Pastures, at least....

I genuinely think the gardens are too small for anybody's kids to undertake riotous activities. They're fine for erecting a little den, or sitting and reading, or a little paddling pool ...but that's about it.

They've certainly not got "room for a pony" as Mrs Bucket likes to aspire to.... I think a toy My Little Pony would struggle.