Home in Aylesbury near HIS MAJESTYS PRISON

[ashmead]

Hello,

We are looking to buy a property in Aylesbury, close to HMP. I am slightly confused reg the area and have my apprehensions although the house is beautiful.
Can someone advice me reg the pros and cons of the area and if any danger being close to prison location, around 0.5 miles.
Do they house criminals on parole etc once they are free.
We have a house in Hayes but for Grammar schools, Aylesbury seems a good option.
Please shed light reg the area and living near prison area.
Thanks.

Don't know the specifics about Aylesbury but we live near a higher category prison and it's never been an issue. Housing people on leaving prison is a major issue (linked to general housing crisis) but that could be anywhere not necessary near the prison.

Not Aylesbury but genera info, family live near a high security prison and have never had an issue. We live in an affluent suburb with a halfway house on the next road. I'd rather live near the prison tbh.

Op, not to be snarky/ bitchy, I work in the system . You'd be surprised at how likely it is that you have already lived near/ worked with/ are friends with that have left prison, are on licence or on an order. There are no places that are cordoned off for non criminals.
You can Google where the local approved premises are.

I used to live virtually next door to an open prison. No problems.

I've since moved away and am about a mile from a Cat A infamous prison now. You wouldn't even know it was there.

@OldTinHat the universe is telling you something. Come work in the prison

I did actually volunteer for a charity that worked with ex offenders before covid 😁

I live near Aylesbury. It's fine. It has its problems like most towns in the UK (vastly underfunded, no youth activities, homelessness) but there is honestly no problems with the prison. I forget its even there to be honest!

I lived in London, for 50+ years not far from Wormwood Scrubbs, and visited the areas of Brixton, Holloway, Feltham, Pentonville frequently. As have thousands of others. Most of us will never have given this a second thought, you will be perfectly safe. Just remembered there's a prison here, about half a mile away. The government closed the usefully situated police station next door to it and sold the land which is now home to a development of 'desirable luxury apartments with extensive countryside views across the ancient city'. I don't know what the new buyers think of the neighbours next door but I'm sure they don't need to worry. It's not a problem.

Nobody ever posts about buying a house next to an Approved Premises - where prisoners are housed on release, as they don't know where they are.

Yet there are recurrent posts about whether buying a house next a prison is dangerous - a giant facility with walls, barbed wire, masses of CCTV and round the clock officers guarding the place.

There are over 12 million people in the UK with a criminal record. We all definitely know ex-offenders in our daily lives.

This thread is nearly a year old, so I'm guessing the OP has probably moved by now.