New build next to housing association

[Happydove]

This will sound awful but I need opinions. Pearl clutching Boden wearing mumsnetters are who I want blunt opinions from here!

So new build development nice 4 bed house with big garden BUT it’s next to the housing association houses. As in they back onto the garden all along one side and end.
For this reason the house is affordable for us plus the garden is biggest on development.
This is a expensive town and certainly not a cheep house.
Be honest would you consider it? We are talking at least 5 LA gardens along one side of the garden.
I know it sounds horrible and snobbish but I’m worried about antisocial behavior would we have resentment/ a social divide that could cause a problem etc.
We are both professionals I’m public facing ( locally) DH is a high earner but not local. We have children also.

In our area the housing associations don't get to select residents for the new builds - they go to tenancies selected (off-loaded) from council lists - and these tend to be the more problematic tenants, not the decent ones. I wouldn't recommend buying next to these houses simply because of the higher risk of issues.

The new build estate we've just bought on has a chunk of affordable housing grouped at the start of the estate and are let by umbrella arms of the local housing association.

The rents are ridiculously high for what they are and certainly arent obtainable unless the tenants are in well paid jobs.

We looked into it as part of our own due diligence and dont foresee any issues.

Do your own research on the area, especially if you don't know it well.

It's becoming common theme round here to throw up new builds on green space in the middle of council estates that are like Baghdad.

True. I have been offered a new build '4 bed', although it's the smallest 4 bed I've ever seen. Basic open plan hall /front sitting room straight into kitchen and rear door, no patio doors, very basic layout. It's £840 pcm. The location is on the edge of the Cotswolds, so perhaps that's why it's quite high rent for housing association. Lower than private renting but a lot more than I expected for social housing. I had to pass an affordabilty assessment,minimum household income of £481 per week required. I've not officially accepted it yet, but I imagine that the neighbours will also have been financially checked. So definitely not for lower income families, I wouldn't have thought so.
I think newbuild housing association social housing can vary depending on the particular housing association letting them out. Not all bad but not all good either.

Honestly, as a ha tenant myself, no way. Some ha tenants are lovely and normal but some are hellish and you wouldn’t want to live next door, ime usually the ones who are getting HB, I guess as they’re not actually paying for it, they care less. It’s all very well saying that people can be evicted for as behaviour but that’s not a quick process, requires filling out time consuming logs etc and lots of complaints.

As a HA tenant, if I had the money to buy a house I would not buy right by HA properties.

FFS. If it bothers you don't buy it. You obviously aren't as good as you think you are if the house you can afford is slap bang next to the poor folk.

Currently sitting in my housing association property wearing Boden. As is my DD. While my DS is away at uni.

Maybe grow up & then think about your question again.

The people who have slated you most probably are the people you would want to avoid and most likely what the majority of your neighbours would be like, avoid avoid avoid. Keep your pearls and Boden frocks, don’t swap for noisy cars with faulty exhausts, neighbours who walk around the streets in PJs, Parents who leave kids to do as they want and make others lives a misery, being woken up by drunken ASB and fighting in the streets.
Thats my experience, I hope to god you did not buy that house.

No OP, because we had a bad experience with a a house walking distance from a council housing estate. Fine for 12 months then suddenly got a lot of anti social behaviour, possibly from a new batch of tenants. We had to move in the end, and wouldn’t put ourselves back in that position again.

I would buy if the price is really good and comparable to other sold flats prices (so there will be no problems reselling it) and you know this area. My DC went to school on a council estate and I didn't notice antisocial behaviour. There was one guy though who shouted smth from the balcony once - probably MH issues. But you can get it anywhere.

I personally would not buy it, is there anything else in the market?

Edit - Just noticed this is a post that has been dragged up from the dead. Sorry.

Jesus Christ. Just because you live in a council house doesn’t automatically make you a scumbag.
Where does this opinion come from ?

I cannot implore anyone enough not to buy a new build and to fight against every new build estate that they plan to build near you. I will try to not try an paint everyone with the same brush, but there is a significant minority of those in HA accommodation who you would not like to live near. They do need to house the undesirables somewhere.
It may just be 1% or 10%, but when you get a quarter of all new builds allocated to HA tenants, these numbers roll up to quite startling probabilities of getting awful neighbours. You get to spin the wheel of fortune every year too as people move around. You might be fine now but who's it going to be tomorrow? Let's spin that wheel!😉
If you're a homeowner or private renter, you usually have the self restraint to get an education, get a job, and then keep it (an insignificant minority excepted). If you're not, then maybe there's a very good reason why not.