Active discussions

Meet the Other Phone. Only the apps you allow.

Meet the Other Phone.
Only the apps you allow.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Talk
AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

Original poster

AIBU to be worried about social housing?

330 replies

thegreenlight · 13/04/2019 13:57

Have found our dream home on a new estate - looks out over green to the front. Lovely lay out, super excited. However, we went to look at the one we wanted to reserve (80% finished) to find that half the garden backs onto a small row of 3 social rent houses. I feel awful to be worried abou this but I am! The other houses it backs onto are small private houses. I now don’t know what to do. I don’t want to make the wrong choice for our family. What if there’s trouble? It’s seriously making me reconsider. There isn’t much social housing on the estate (minimum amount I guess) does anyone have any experience?

OP posts:
Flockingflamingo · 13/04/2019 13:58

Are you having a laugh?

multiplemum3 · 13/04/2019 13:59

This reply has been deleted

Message deleted by MNHQ. Here's a link to our Talk Guidelines.

LizzieVereker · 13/04/2019 13:59

What is it that you are actually worried about? What do you foresee happening?

Original poster
thegreenlight · 13/04/2019 14:02

I used to live on a terraced street and we had lots of trouble from the houses that were lived in by social tenents- I understand being called a dickhead. But I quick search for similar threads on here brings up a catalogue of comments advising you to steer clear, that you won’t resell, that you’ll be broken into. I was looking for positive assurance I suppose.

OP posts:
daisypond · 13/04/2019 14:03

Why would you be worried? I don’t get it. Why would it matter? Directly at the back of my small garden there is a social housing house whose garden backs onto mine.

BadPennyNoBiscuit · 13/04/2019 14:03

I live in social housing on an estate, HTH.

daisypond · 13/04/2019 14:06

I’m in a terraced street as well.

BeeFarseer · 13/04/2019 14:06

I thought this was going to be a thread about the declining social housing stock, and the need for more...

Oh well. Always nice to have a reminder that people still think like this.

NaturatintGoldenChestnut · 13/04/2019 14:08

New builds are shit unless they're custom built, that should be your real worry.

Wheresmyvagina · 13/04/2019 14:08

What's wrong with you?!

DowntonCrabby · 13/04/2019 14:09

Goodness OP how have you been able to function as an adult up to this point in life with your head so firmly up your own arse??

Confused
Riversguidebook · 13/04/2019 14:09

2 or 3 bedroom social homes will be allocated to families with children.

Also, criminals don’t rob off their own patch.

SoyDora · 13/04/2019 14:09

Because people on a low income are anti social criminals?

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 13/04/2019 14:10

I live on an estate and it's fine.
I will concede that some estates do have a problem with anti social behaviour and I did feel it necessary to do a bit of research first. T
here's a quality to estate life where its almost like a village or an enclosed little world so you do want to get the right one.
Your not even talking about an estate though. Your talking about 3 buildings on an otherwise private development. This will make very little difference to you.
Yes, you could get unlucky with your neighbours but that's a chance you also run with owner occupiers or private tenants. At least if social housing tenants kick off, the housing association/council will have a process for dealing with it.
I would go ahead.

Bobbindobbin · 13/04/2019 14:10

New estates SHOULD have an social housing element, it’s far far better than going back to building all social housing estates. People in social house don’t have the plague.

fattylawmaker · 13/04/2019 14:12

I live on a new development that has a housing mix, there are 300 properties ranging from small 2 bed/row of 3 social housing to 5 bed detached. I’ve never lived in a new build or on an estate before but I love it, it is a proper little community and very friendly and safe.

EggbertHeartsTina · 13/04/2019 14:12

I’ve had trouble with neighbours in the past. All private renting / owner occupied. The type of housing you live in doesn’t make you more likely to be a problem neighbour.

unlimiteddilutingjuice · 13/04/2019 14:12

I disagree Bobbin At least on my estate we're all allowed to use the same playground. And we don't have to enter through a "poor door"
That's not always on mixed developments.

DesperadoDan · 13/04/2019 14:13

I get you op, they will chuck their filthy stained mattresses into your garden instead of chucking them in their own front gardenWink
If you live on an estate, any estate whether private or social housing you are going to be dealing with people living within close proximity to you, dogs barking, trampolines squeaking, babies crying, evening BBQ’s that go on into the night. I believe all the above happens on private estates as well as social housing ones.
I really wouldn’t worry about this, if it bothers you that much whack a massive fence up at the back of your garden and plant some trees.

Willowtreecottage · 13/04/2019 14:13

My god op
I expect you’ve lived an amazingly ignorant existence till now...
How can you have typed what you just did?
😡

TheQueef · 13/04/2019 14:13
Biscuit
Moondancer73 · 13/04/2019 14:14

Have you any idea of how much grief people in social housing get from people in private housing via their housing associations for the slightest thing? My friends life has been made a misery but her dickhead neighbours - who are absolutely awful, and own their home.
Think yourself lucky you can buy and maybe try to make friends with the neighbours? Just a thought?!

Bobbindobbin · 13/04/2019 14:15

I can only go on my experience of living on a new build estate with social homes. The social houses are pepper potted around the whole estate so not clumped together. It’s a very quiet nice place to live.

Gin96 · 13/04/2019 14:18

We live in a mixed estate, social and private housing, I have to say the friendliest street is social housing, a friend who used to live there has just bought a big house on another estate and she finds it quite lonely

MrsGarethSouthgate · 13/04/2019 14:18

I did a follow up visit last week on a single lady with health conditions who left an abusive relationship.

Last time I spoke to her, she was struggling to find somewhere she could afford to live as she was limited to how many hours she could work. She told me she had been allocated a one bed house on just such a new build estate. Can't see how anyone could reasonably object to that.