Those that live near a new housing development

Don't have any experience of living by a new housing estate but there are different types of affordable housing - Socal rented which is owned/ managed by a Housing Association (so what would have been council housing in years gone by) and shared ownership which is where the housing association owns part of the property and people buy the other part (so likely to be first time buyers etc now days) - sometimes shared ownership can be restricted to 'keyworkers' such as police officers, nurses etc. It is government policy for all new housing developments to have 50% affordable housing.

hope that helps a bit.

/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government/about/statistics

That gives a description of affordable housing, so it doesn't automatically mean "riff raff", considering the state of the housing market its a good thing that there are ways and means of people getting on the housing ladder. All developments have to accommodate affordable housing, so its something to get used to and look beyond the "looking down the nose" reaction which i guess can be natural but when you really think about, isn't really right.

Yes, building work does cause disruption but it depends on where site access is and other factors to the level of disruption you'll face. For a development of that size, it'll be a company of substance behind them and they will/should do an awful lot of local liason to ensure such effects are kept to a minimum.

I don't think you'll get riff raff at all, but you will get a lot of dust and mucky windows for months.

I was forever cleaning our cars and windows when they built close to me.

We've just had a new development of houses built near us. 27 new houses, along with redevelopment of an old mill building into flats.

The main issues we had to deal with during the development were:

Lax health and safety - they failed to properly fence off the area whilst it was being cleared, so you (or rather, my 3 year old son) could walk straight onto the building site. It got better once they actually started building (and after a few people complained to the HSE).

Lack of communication from the developers to the neighbouring properties. It all got sorted in the end, but they put everyone's backs up massively. However, it was probably worse dealing with the neighbours whose backs had been put up, than dealing with the developers, who did actually listen to reason in the end.

Noise - however, this was never before 7am, and rarely went past 4.30pm.

Dust - the cars and house windows were constantly coated with dust. But you learn to live with that (I'm not overly fussy about washing my car anyway)

Rubbish - probably the most irritating thing was rubbish blowing from the site and into our garden. This went on for ages because until everything was completely finished (bathrooms, kitchens etc) they kept producing more packaging etc. That and the remains of packed lunches presumably eaten by the various contractors. I spent ages picking it out of the flowerbeds.

I live on a new housing development which is still not finished yet. At the back of my house there are shared ownership housing and social housing (posh name for council houses). We have no trouble withe the shared ownership people, in fact I'm really friendly with most of them, however the peole who live in the social housing can be a bit of a pain, I'm lucky in that I don't tend to see or hear most of what goes on, but I have been told that whenever the weather is nice they sit in their front garden smoking, drinking and genrally being loud and swearing alot - I don't allow my children to go around to that side of the estate because of it.

The builders can be a pain, when I first moved here they used to park right outside my house even though they have their own carpark, I put a stop to that when one of the builders stripped down to his underwear right outside my kitchen window (my mother was not amused!!!). However they are starting to complete the build now and I now longer have to endure to noice of the trucks rumbling past the house at 7.30am. I will agree though that the dirt and dust is awful and my car is constantly dirty because of it.

I read recently that 15% of new developments had to be social/affordable housing. Is this correct and does it apply to every new development, or is it only those over a certain size, in certain areas etc?

We've visited a local consultation about this site today and they quoted 50% had to be affordable house, 20 % of these could be social housing and the rest shared ownership and 10% lower than the market value.

I think our main concerns are access, traffic impact on the estate - the spare land is in the middle of an established estate that already has parking problems. And schools - the local high school has just been closed down and I'm sure the school land will now become a housing development, with no local in a growing area.

We've had this happen where we live, and the main thing I have noticed is that the roads are more of a rat run, and we get more bikes and cars screeching round late at night than we used to.

We live opposite affordable housing, and most of the people are lovely, but we have had problems as well. One tenant has been rather problematic over the past 5 years (won't gointo full details but things like throwing furniture through his windows, abuse when drunk, cutting himself and running round spraying blood everywhere, playing music loudly until silly o'clock, to name a few) and my neighbour finally had enough and rang the management company who house him, only to be told that they could not lodge a complaint as they owned their house and weren't one of the tenants! The man oviously has problems, and I do feel for him, but it can be disturbing and disruptive to have teams of police swooping down with riot gear on, on a regular basis!

Generally though, it is still a nice place to live!

I live on a new housing development, and in a shared ownership (key worker) property. the whole development isn't completed yet, so there are lots of workmen around from around 7am but to be honest it doesn't cause too much bother.

in terms of what everyone else has said about affordable housing, in my row of houses we are a mix of shared ownership and social housing. we are all different sorts of people from different walks of life, but ultimately we have had no problems with any of our neighbours. we have all started to build up quite good relationships in fact. my partner (a teacher) and i had to buy a key worker property as we couldn't afford anything else in our area.

? Thanks for all your replies.