Construction of affordable housing near a house Im considering

Cakeguts

I would agree with the comment about what sort of affordable housing. If it is rented with an age limit of over 60 sheltered housing you are going to have little or no problems I would say. Shared ownership should be fine but rented to families I would expect to be a problem.


The problem with rented housing association family housing is that it only takes one bad family with feral children to make everyone's life hell and if the housing association doesn't take notice about the quality of life of the neighbours but concentrates on the bad family's "problems" you are going to be stuck.

FTBAngst

knightstyle wrote: »

Affordable housing generally, IMO, attracts better neighbours than social housing and other rentals. So make sure the build is for buyers before buying. If the houses and flats are going to be rented run a mile!
For those who will castigate me for saying this, come look out of my window at the rented houses in this lovely close, neglected gardens with old furniture, toys, rotting rubbish, etc. overfull bins that never go out for collection and much anti-social behaviour in the school holidays.
In another part of town there is a row of very well kept affordable housing houses where my SIL lives, great neighbourhood atmosphere, wish we had bought there!

How do i find out if they’re going to be rented or sold?

Slinky

FreeBear wrote: »

Developers have just finished building a small estate of some 70 homes on a brown field site not far from me. Six months to demolish & clear the site, just one year to construct all the properties along with the road & landscaping.


Unless the OP's site going to have a massive skyscraper, I would have thought the developers would be done within a year.

And to give another experience, we've had 450 properties built by one developer in our village, it's been ongoing for 12 years and still isn't finished.

HampshireH

No offence taken at all. My original post at the top was more to point out that affordable housing isn't necessarily social housing in the rental sense and is more frequently a term used for homeowners using an initiative.

The development plans should specify the % and location of social housing I believe. Quite often these are colour coded depending on how advance the plans are.

The office should also be able to advise you.

lookstraightahead

what a strange thread.

Affordable housing tends to be for people with vocations who don't earn a lot but might save people's lives, might teach your children, or might volunteer.

And people who rent - well, they can be nice people too.

lookstraightahead

knightstyle wrote: »

Affordable housing generally, IMO, attracts better neighbours than social housing and other rentals. So make sure the build is for buyers before buying. If the houses and flats are going to be rented run a mile!
For those who will castigate me for saying this, come look out of my window at the rented houses in this lovely close, neglected gardens with old furniture, toys, rotting rubbish, etc. overfull bins that never go out for collection and much anti-social behaviour in the school holidays.
In another part of town there is a row of very well kept affordable housing houses where my SIL lives, great neighbourhood atmosphere, wish we had bought there!

I rent. I pay £1400 a month. I have an owner one side whose windows are so dirty you can't see through them, and owners the other side who have a house falling apart. Appears I'm in the same position as you, but from the other side.

Sweeping statement. Owners have mortgages. They're often in negative equity with debt. They just don't tell their neighbours.

Part_time_writer

If its replacing industrial units that aren't very attractive then the development sounds positive to me. We had a bit estate of council housing and shared ownership built on waste ground around the corner from us and it definitely only improved things.

Of course, when it was waste ground someone was stabbed to death with a screwdriver there so anything would be better than that...

Murphybear

Cakeguts wrote: »

I would agree with the comment about what sort of affordable housing. If it is rented with an age limit of over 60 sheltered housing you are going to have little or no problems I would say. Shared ownership should be fine but rented to families I would expect to be a problem.


The problem with rented housing association family housing is that it only takes one bad family with feral children to make everyone's life hell and if the housing association doesn't take notice about the quality of life of the neighbours but concentrates on the bad family's "problems" you are going to be stuck.

I can vouch for that. We live in a property like this, there are 33 flats and one large house (ours it was the wardens family house but now rented to tenants). I have seen a lot of the other tenants flats, they are all immaculate. The communal grounds are well kept and attractive and most of the tenants are as quiet as mice. The main problem we have is getting people to use the right bins. We have regular meetings with tea and cake to discuss any issues and problems are dealt with immediately or very soon.

MrsPorridge

After living in our house for 10 years with a lovely view onto fields I was horrified to find that the field had been sold for affordable housing. 5 years later it doesn't bother me. Even the building of it didn't really take that long and as I am out at work for around 9 hours each day and they didn't work at weekends there wasn't that much disruption at all.


The houses are all neat and tidy and well kept and the people are lovely.


I've even got used to the view of the back gardens (which are better kept than mine).


I don't think it has impacted at all on house prices in the area.

Alikay

It's happened to us: Bought our house with fields next to us, and now have a new housing estate of 500 homes being built there. The ones adjacent to us are 2/3 bed housing association ones, but you wouldn't know it from the outside - they're perfectly pleasant new builds, albeit a bit closely packed into a small area. The problem we see developing when the estate is fully built and occupied, is parking, which isn't specific to the Affordable and Social housing. There's just one allocated space per house in most cases, and from what we can make out no on-street parking due to layout.

If you like the house, and will have sufficient parking for your vehicles on your own drive, it shouldn't be a problem, otherwise maybe reconsider?