New build social housing

Our next door neighbours are social housing tenants. They do awful things like take in parcels for us, offer to help us sort out our front hedge with their trimmer and chopped down a tree close to our boundary that we were worried would damage our house with absolutely no arguments. Monsters!

On the other side we have renters. Don’t get me started on how they nicely allowed our builders to drive a micro digger through their yard without being awkward when we were struggling for access, or how they kindly lent DH a jack to change a car wheel last week!

Incidentally, the absolute worst neighbour we’ve had here by far is a guy who backs onto ours and has owned his house since the 80’s.

You just can’t predict how the neighbours will be!

Opposite for me and all my friends/family that visited, they could tell straight away where the social housing was despite them looking like all the others. I guess it’s a game of luck or where in the country you are.

Speaking from personal experience, I would avoid any homes close to social housing. That’s not be being snobby, that’s me not wanting my children to grow up next to drug dealers and houses that have police outside of them all the time, ever again. I moved house because it was that bad. The best case scenario is you’re going to be living next to people who are messy and blare loud music.

So you're a massive snob then. Do all the social housing tenants a favour and go and buy a house near Hyacinth Bucket.

I was puzzled by this too.

I think @anonqrtb was making the subtle suggestion @mrsclaus1984 should undertake drone surveillance of back gardens as well as measuring the grass on others' front lawns?

Who knows, though, as someone who was dragged-up in council housing I'm far too stupid to understand the reasoning of my betters. 😉

I grew up on a massive council estate on the South coast of England,loads of high rise tower blocks and other flats.you had older people, families young single mums all living side by side getting on it was lovely people getting together the summer barbeques growing up everyone was polite and said good morning to each other.

It was said to be one of the most deprived areas of the country but I met some great people who I'm even with contact with today.

I live in a beautiful waterside development now it's very quiet and lovely but I will never forget my roots.

I can’t see the connection between social housing and owning a trampoline. It that some sort of class marker? 😁

The council estate I live on is perfectly civilised, though I would guesstimate that substantially more than half of the homes have exercised the right to buy.

My impression, partly from all the tradesmens vans that are parked up in the evenings and leave early in the mornings, is that people here are some of the hardworking 'backbone of Britain' trying to earn an honest days' living.

The most antisocial behaviour I've witnessed is those charmers who don't pick up after their dogs.

Having said that, I have heard some shocking stories of antisocial and criminal behaviour through working with social tenants at various local councils. The misery suffered by neighbours is persistent and awful.

It is so difficult to qualify for social housing these days that often it is the most underprivileged and vulnerable people living with complex challenges who are granted tenancies. Support for their needs and for their wider local communities has been decimated by cuts to local government funding.

Yes, I read your op. I read the part that says you are reluctant to buy a house near a road with social housing. Yes, you said that you were sure that there are many people in social housing who make great neighbours, but you then added the bit about how those properties come with problems at times and that you would absolutely hate to live close to any issues. You made assumptions about social housing tenants that you didn't make about privately owned properties, even if the people living there are also tenants.

I live on an old estate now In a council house and it's lovey and quiet. In the summer there are a couple of inconsiderate people but I imagine you would get that anywhere.
I downsized from a big house on a new estate. The neighbours I had made me suicidal. They were the neighbours from hell. I would definitely have a drive around and maybe ask about as to what the community is like. It was my forever home and I couldn't wait to leave. I am just glad I had an asset the council wanted.

I live in new build estate with a percentage of social housing. I can't tell you which houses are which.

Move in quickly OP, every neighbourhood needs a Hyacinth Bucket to tell the scum how to live. Don't stint on the nets or the candlelit suppers. And the After Eights. They'll love you, everyone needs- entertainment.

Wow.

you sound lovely, op

do the people in the social housing a favour and find another house away from them. They don’t need your snobbiness

i would avoid. made that mistake myself and now living in a lovely new build 3 doors down from someone who murdered his own mate and opposite his other pal who plotted it with him (both social housing) :) so think i am pretty biased but if it were me? avoid avoid avoid

the issue is it can go from 0-100 fast. our area was totally fine for a good 2 years and now it’s grim, police here all the time always the same houses causing bother and it’s not ‘minor’ bother either. just avoid, don’t worry about being called a snob. i’d rather be a snob than live somewhere potentially rough

What an unkind person you are. Glad you don’t live near me. That post made me gasp

I'd be more concerned about why the current owners are selling up if it's only a year old. Could be a genuine reason but it's a red flag to me.

Nope. We happened to both be on the thread started by the poor disabled woman who wasn’t looking forward to the upheaval of a new kitchen in her HA property. You were supercilious and unkind about those who live in social housing. In fact, funny enough, I was embarrassed for you and your inaccuracies and snobbery.

I lived in a ‘very good’ area in a lovely house. Some of the neighbours were antisocial, unpleasant and generally OTT. I now live in social housing (well for the last 17 years) and the area is not good and a lot of the homes old and scruffy. Just like in my ex very nice area/home there are a lot of antisocial, unpleasant and generally OTT neighbours. In both there are also quiet, considerate and pleasant neighbours.

It's just how you're coming across. Your post sounds very judgemental of those of us living in social housing.

I would be more concerned about having an HMO next door with tenants shoehorned into it and an absentee landlord.