To be furious at Barratts Homes.. we thought we had bought our dream home

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in a quiet location with working families and young kids. Is lovely, mid terrace, overlooking woodland, nice neighbours.. well in the houses sold that is.

Have now found out that the remaining properties including the 2 next to us (we are mid terrace) are sold to Housing Association as Barratts have been unable to sell them at the ridiculous prices they were asking.

THis means that the back garden is directly overlooked by housing association, with waist high fences. We already have so social housing here and have had some issues in terms out of control dogs, very loud parties, shouting and fighting etc. TO have that right next door as a possibilty is a real worry.

We paid a lot of money for our home and regardless of economic condition the value of the property will be affected by the fact that we are mid terrace with social housing.

I know i am likely to be flamed by some for not being politically correct but the fact is with socail housing there are often social issues and i didnt want to live next door to that. We saved for a long time to afford our home and now we are dreading the tenants moving in.

I have also been told that one of the women who will be going for one of the house is a well known drug user and that dealers will visit her...

and Barratts have really put us in the poo.

Haven't read the thread, but I'm a little at the OP! I'm a HA resident and work quite closely with the HA in different areas. Of all the estates I've been to I have never known them to be anything like you seem to suggest. One of our estates has very strict requirements about who can have it, how much they need to be earning etc. I know that my HA is very strict on antisocial behaviour and works closely with the police.

My particular estate is in a rather nice area; there are blue plates on a lot of the houses around here; if I don't plan on sending my children to private school I'm going to have to move!

It's rather unfair to tie all HA's or HA estates with such a brush.

I can't help feeling a but that anyone would think that buying a Barratts home guarantees an..ummm... 'trouble free' neighbourhood.

Money does not = class.

Aaargh...a 'bit', not a 'but'. Sorry.

Just that money is no guarantee of getting a 'decent' neighbourhood unless you earn so much you can afford to buy a massive detached property in the middle of nowhere!

All new build developments have to be a mix of private and social housing. No social housing no planning permission. It has been this way before the housing market went south. There is a development near us of 500,000+ asking prices, with shared ownership apartments and smaller houses in amongst them.
If you do not want to live on an estate with HA residents then don't buy a Barret Box et al. Barrets have not lied to you; you were naive when you bought. Next time do your homework.

pmsl at "it all started when I was licking the pate"

I know OP - why not go to a gated community and keep the phlebs out completely

I am going to show this thread to my dp who wants to buy a house on a barratts type estate. I hate it with a passion and he thinks I am being awkward.

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While we're being brutally honest about it

Barratts homes are naff!

I would rather live on a solidly built council estate than in one of those cardboard Stepford Wives gaffs with grim Ikea wall art.

Well...it's late and I have had half a glass of wine which has gone to my pregnant head

Cod that is exactly what dp says.

Where we live now there are no kids for dd to play with although she goes to lots of activities.

But we have not moved to the other end of the country to live in a box on an estate. I will try to find a link to the house.

Don't know if it is a snob thing , I just don;t like the houses. They are completely lacking in charactar.

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"lol at " smpb accusations" about anyone who questions social housing

but ok to slag off new hosues!!!"

But I am not having a pop at the people in the houses but the houses themselves, a big difference,

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Agree with cod

my mate lives on one of the worst estates in manchester and her street is full of kids

playing

on the street, on their own

it is lurrrrvvveeelllyy

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I am a bit of a snob about Barratts homes, I admit. I would never live in one by choice.

It's the paper thin walls and shite cheaply fitted kitchens and bathrooms all parading as something better and sold for extortionate prices. They're like fecking prefabs. They're 'orrible.

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New builds are a bit cardboard boxy. Nothing wrong with that if you don't mind them - each to their own.

lol I can't find it because all the barratts type houses all look the same.

could be this one

this is on his list too

as is this one, what is wrong with the man

I want this one and it has just been dropped in price, we are waiting to sell ours and go in for the kill. I know the selling ours bit is quite a hurdle.

I have had an education recently as I hated the house we are renting at the moment as it is a 70s build and lacking in any charactar. We took it because of the view and I now love it, infact we are thinking of contacting her about putting in an offer.

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All of you who live in an old place with character - your children give not one jot for sash windows, press cupboards, picture rails and wooden floorboards.

They want kids round about to play with, grassy bits and parks to meet up, to cycle round the block, to know their neighbours.

Children are so sensible