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Berry Court, BH1

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Berry Court is a £27m housing development in Bournemouth's town centre, completed in August 2018. It consists of 113 rental properties, including one, two, and three-bedroom apartments, along with a new multi-storey car park offering 155 public spaces. Developed in partnership with Abri Housing, it was a 'build to rent' scheme targeted at young professionals. The development provides tenants with secure tenancy agreements, zero administration fees, and professional management.

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Overall

2.67

Facilities

2.33

Design

2.33

Location

4.67

Value

3.67

Management

2.33

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Hollie B (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

Beautiful flats and lovely area!

Hollie B (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

The development is very nice to look at and the flat themselves have a lovely finish. Sadly at the moment there is construction work going on. They are removing the cladding and balcony decking due to fire regulations which is very noisy but it’s not the end of the world as it’s only for a year. Overall it’s a lovely building to live in!!

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

It’s a perfect location! Your about 5 minutes walk into the town centre and incredible amount of transport links

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

Yes always respond to any problems/issues we raise

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

I wish we knew about the cladding what that entailed

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Upset Tennant (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

Stay away from Berry Court!!!

Upset Tennant (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

When we were viewing this building we were told that this building was mostly young professionals and families. Soon after moving in we found this was not the case, it is full of students! In of itself, that isn’t a problem, but as the building is so large, a few immature tenants have caused many incidents, including repeated bodily fluids in corridors and elevators, trash and feeces in stairwell's, loud parties, and cigarette and drug use inside flats. Other matienance issues include broken exterior doors, issues with receiving packages, and consistently overflowing trash cans. The building also has a issues with its utilities! Repeated outages of internet due to a poorly designed junction into the building. The hot water shuts off at least once a month, and has stayed off for up to 3 days! The hot water issue is BY DESIGN to shut off when the fire alarm goes off, which is tested every month!! The building is also currently undergoing renovations to fix improper fire cladding, so it’s been in construction for about 2 months, and will remain so for the next 2 years. The topping for all of this is the management company, they are horrible. Nothing like a massive rental management company to make you feel like a worthless number instead of a valued tenant! The have consistently ignored issues with the building, and pretty consistently tells tenants to ‘boil the kettle’ when the boiler is shut off. Lastly, the building is backed by a massive car park, which consistently houses rough sleepers, which by itself is understandable, but they have left used needles and drugs in the stairwells, and with the broken exterior doors have repeatedly broken into the block of flats and tried to get into apartments. The car park also tends to be loud friday and sat nights, so there’s that too! You also get all the noise from all the clubs on old christchurch road from wednesday to sat nights if you live on the back side of the building.

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

Easy walk to the beach and Town Centre! Wonderful for getting out and being social. Very near bars and clubs so in the evenings between Wednesday and Saturday it can get very noisy. Additionally any alarms set off in the public car park or town centre can easily be heard.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

For interior repairs to our flat yes, for building issues they are slow and consistently require multiple reports to fix an item. Fixed items are done shoddily and *always* re-break

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

Construction from 8am to 4pm every day. Not you professionals in the building, it’s students.

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Edda Di Giuseppe (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

Loving living in Berry Court

Edda Di Giuseppe (Tenant)

Verified Resident

Apr 2022

We are living for 4 years in the building, had been in used for a few months. I recommend to paint the common areas annually because in all that time we have never seen it do it . Generally always responsive when contacted by some problem or inconvenience.

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

The location could not be better, 4 min walk to the beach, 4 min the town 2 min bus stop. Only problem is the noise generated by rubbish collection, but unfortunately it is the location of the flat.

How has the building management responded to any problems or issues you have raised:

Except a big problem for two year with the heating I could say is good in general

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

I recommend the building. Nothing is perfect and the location is the best in Bournemouth

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