A guide to living in Bedfordshire

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

We're situated in the beautiful village of Meppershall, where we have a village shop with a post office, a village pub that serves food most days and a fantastic village hall which has a vibrant social club running many events both during the day and of an evening. Friends have commented on how quiet it is and it's nice that most properties have parking spaces, so we don't have too much street parking on our development.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Wish we had thought more about some of the locations of the sockets. In particular, the TV socket in the kitchen we would have liked higher up and know from our other requests, that this would not have been a problem to Davidsons had we requested it at the point of choosing our options

What is the best feature of your home:

The spaciousness of our property, the general design and hopefully in time, the view from our property

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Overall very pleased with the location, we wanted a nice village location with countryside walks on our doorstep. The development is experiencing anti-social behaviour from children living in the affordable homes which is a shame.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

I wish I understood how the development would be left ‘finished’ as mentioned above the green areas are just weeds.

What is the best feature of your home:

I love the style with its big windows letting in lots of natural light

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The occupants of the affordable housing have, at times, acted in an antisocial way resulting in multiple complaints raised to the police.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

How to expedite rectification of the snagging list.

What is the best feature of your home:

The large garden attached to my property is the main feature.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

The village is lovely. The local social club & village hall has lots to offer with events, games rooms and a space for children to play. One local shop with high prices, but as you’d expect being the only one around. Local pub is quite nice. No issues with bin collections and the council seem very communicative. Closest town is Shefford and is best for food shopping, pharmacies and pubs / restaurants. Quite a lot of anti social behaviour in the village and in this development. New, empty houses have been vandalised, some small fires set around the village, stolen property including cars and more. Main road sees a lot of speeding and has caused a few issues such as damages to cars. Immediate neighbours in the development are lovely and a real sense of community. No issues with parking. The odd noisy car / motorbike but otherwise traffic noise is low.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

probably what the communal areas would be like and what the maintenance costs go towards. Costs seem high for what’s ‘maintained’

What is the best feature of your home:

The house is well insulated so keeps warmer during the winter, feeling more energy efficient.

Please tell us about the good and bad aspects of living in your local area:

Shefford is very near and has excellent facilities - shops, doctors, dentists, opticians, physio clinics, restaurants and takeaways so we have everything we need on the doorstep plus local well stocked shop and post office, pub, baker plus village hall with many activities. There are many beautiful walks surrounding us with amazing views and well kept pathways. It is very quiet and peaceful with little traffic noise but some cars speeding regularly on the estate due to very low speed bumps which are totally useless. Our immediate neighbours are friendly and helpful and we feel there is generally a great community spirit but being spoilt by recent anti social behaviour with some culprits living on our estate - ie drugs, arson, criminal damage and general loutish behaviour- police are regularly visiting site. Parking is fine with most homes having more than one private parking space and open spaces are gradually taking shape - a pathway through the large open area at the back of the site would be much appreciated by all residents with a couple of benches to sit and enjoy the surroundings. Overall this is a pleasant and attractive place to live and we are very happy here.

Please share one thing (or more) which you wish you had known before you moved in:

Heating insufficient in en suite, no bat boxes or gap under garden fence for hedgehogs.

What is the best feature of your home:

decent sized plot with garage, carport and reasonable sized garden and surrounded by open areas