Hereward Housing

I'm having my first experience with Hereward housing in the next couple of weeks and I fear it is going to be awful.

I bought my first house around six months ago on a new Barratts estate. Apart from the usual inconveniences involved with buying a new house its been wonderful, years of saving and my girlfriend and I have ended up with our dream home. Building work started to pick up near my home on the estate recently and due to my work taking me to various building sites around the country I have a bit of knowledge on new developments. The vast majority of sites that are still building are doing so because Hereward housing have bought a load of plots, with this in mind I happened to ask one of the builders working across the road what was happening with these houses. It turns out my fears were right and they are Hereward housing.

Some might be wondering why I am so worried but I happen to live near an estate that has had several houses bought by Hereward housing and a close friends parents live there. This estate has been over run by travelers and turned into a disgusting mess. The crime has gone up, the streets are covered in all sorts of rubbish. Generally not a nice place to live. This seems to be a growing trend in the area and I am furious. I made the point of asking when I bought the house where the Hereward houses would be and they were nowhere near the house I ended up buying.

Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? I would write a letter of complaint but the likely outcome will be that all plans are only indicative and that are susceptible to change. I'm sure there must be something that can be done.

This is when you know you're getting older.

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:This is when you know you're getting older.

bit harsh really id be worried as well if i spent a load of cash moving somewhere and then you know when some properties are being built it might go to crap. Youll understand one day i guess little child

degoose wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:This is when you know you're getting older.

bit harsh really id be worried as well if i spent a load of cash moving somewhere and then you know when some properties are being built it might go to crap. Youll understand one day i guess little child

You pay your money, you take your chance. I don't understand people who complain when their investments go down, do they not understand the risk that is inherent in investment?

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

degoose wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:This is when you know you're getting older.

bit harsh really id be worried as well if i spent a load of cash moving somewhere and then you know when some properties are being built it might go to crap. Youll understand one day i guess little child

You pay your money, you take your chance. I don't understand people who complain when their investments go down, do they not understand the risk that is inherent in investment?

When was the investment ever mentioned? It was more to do with the quality of living.

Hime123 wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

degoose wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:This is when you know you're getting older.

bit harsh really id be worried as well if i spent a load of cash moving somewhere and then you know when some properties are being built it might go to crap. Youll understand one day i guess little child

You pay your money, you take your chance. I don't understand people who complain when their investments go down, do they not understand the risk that is inherent in investment?

When was the investment ever mentioned? It was more to do with the quality of living.

Your quality of life is what you make it, and has very little to do with your surroundings.

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

Hime123 wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

degoose wrote:

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:This is when you know you're getting older.

bit harsh really id be worried as well if i spent a load of cash moving somewhere and then you know when some properties are being built it might go to crap. Youll understand one day i guess little child

You pay your money, you take your chance. I don't understand people who complain when their investments go down, do they not understand the risk that is inherent in investment?

When was the investment ever mentioned? It was more to do with the quality of living.

Your quality of life is what you make it, and has very little to do with your surroundings.

thats rubbish, there are crap areas and good areas of all cities, surroundings are always important.

degoose wrote:
thats rubbish, there are crap areas and good areas of all cities, surroundings are always important.

Why should you allow other people to affect your quality of life? They have very little to do with it, IMO. Your quality of life is YOUR responsibility, and yours alone. Hell, I've lived in some right shitholes, around the world, and managed to get on perfectly well.

Traveller's are people too, apparently.

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

degoose wrote:
thats rubbish, there are crap areas and good areas of all cities, surroundings are always important.

Why should you allow other people to affect your quality of life? They have very little to do with it, IMO. Your quality of life is YOUR responsibility, and yours alone. Hell, I've lived in some right shitholes, around the world, and managed to get on perfectly well.

So people breaking into your car, vandalizing your home, etc wouldn't affect your quality of life? That is what has been happening around the area.

I can't understand why this is so hard for you grasp.

Merry Christmas, Noobs! wrote:

degoose wrote:
thats rubbish, there are crap areas and good areas of all cities, surroundings are always important.

Why should you allow other people to affect your quality of life? They have very little to do with it, IMO. Your quality of life is YOUR responsibility, and yours alone. Hell, I've lived in some right shitholes, around the world, and managed to get on perfectly well.

Maybe your just happy with living in gooseberry fool holes. Me on the other hand i like a nice area to live. When you leave your house and your in a nice area it doesnt make things so bad. I lived in Middlesbrough for a year biggest gooseberry fool hole ive ever seen in my life and made me pretty depressed .

Bumped to get the opinions of the work crew.

*Awaits being told by Drunken Master to enlist the help of JCVD*

Hime123 wrote:Bumped to get the opinions of the work crew.

*Awaits being told by Drunken Master to enlist the help of JCVD*

Damn straight. You need to disappear into the Thai wilderness, find an old man with a fit niece, kick down a few trees, have a few drinks and a dance and then you'll be ready to kick Ton...traveller ass.

I can completely understand why you would not want travellers moving in near your house. Sometimes, MCN, you really are a complete waste of space on this forum. Do you just go around attempting to cause arguments over nothing?

Hime123 wrote:I'm having my first experience with Hereward housing in the next couple of weeks and I fear it is going to be awful.

I bought my first house around six months ago on a new Barratts estate. Apart from the usual inconveniences involved with buying a new house its been wonderful, years of saving and my girlfriend and I have ended up with our dream home. Building work started to pick up near my home on the estate recently and due to my work taking me to various building sites around the country I have a bit of knowledge on new developments. The vast majority of sites that are still building are doing so because Hereward housing have bought a load of plots, with this in mind I happened to ask one of the builders working across the road what was happening with these houses. It turns out my fears were right and they are Hereward housing.

Some might be wondering why I am so worried but I happen to live near an estate that has had several houses bought by Hereward housing and a close friends parents live there. This estate has been over run by travelers and turned into a disgusting mess. The crime has gone up, the streets are covered in all sorts of rubbish. Generally not a nice place to live. This seems to be a growing trend in the area and I am furious. I made the point of asking when I bought the house where the Hereward houses would be and they were nowhere near the house I ended up buying.

Does anyone have any advice on what I can do? I would write a letter of complaint but the likely outcome will be that all plans are only indicative and that are susceptible to change. I'm sure there must be something that can be done.

Is it a Social Housing Trust? and they're building new units near your private estate?

Exactly the same thing happened to me at the top of the road. Luckily these are nice houses and the trust moved some nice families in there (though they dont have much sa.. allocations polices are run by the local councils and the trust has to house a large proportion as directed).

I was very opposed it but since I've worked for that trust for several years now I think my perspective has changed a bit. It is rubbish if your neighborhood gets ruined by bad tenants, awful but I guess we need this housing and we have to put it somewhere. Good neighbourhood management is the key, our trust works very hard within the communities to help stop them turning into a mess like that.