Finches Park, CO13

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

Living on the development is great, nice and quiet. Noise is kept to a minimum and everyone looks after their property.

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

They were building more homes on the development and the car park would be changing

What is the best feature of your home:

The layout and the garden size. Well planned out and lovely

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

Very handy location, short walk to local amenities, doctor and schools. Bin collections fortnightly. Railway station is a 5-10 minute walk. The street is friendly, quiet but feels safe, plenty of parking.

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

Need more storage, not enough kitchen units or wardrobes.

What is the best feature of your home:

Large south facing garden, efficient home and quiet.

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

The areas best asset is clearly the coastline and fresh air. With more people moving to the area, the range and quality of restaurants and pubs is improving a lot. Rail links into London are good, considering we are at the end of the line. Primary schools are good, but the secondary school seems to have some issues with its academy.

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

After the purchase experience, I haven’t bothered raising further issues. The fixes that were done were rudimentary

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

The fibre broadband speed is excellent. I have the top BT package, as I work from home and am on video calls all day, and even when the kids are home and on various devices, it never falters. We didn’t both with a Sky package, instead we just use streaming services.

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

The area as a whole is a really nice place to live. There is a one stop about 5 minutes down the the road which is really handy. As for restaurants there are two pubs about a 10 minute walk away which serve food and The Red Lion in particular is really nice with an outdoor seating area. There is also a train station 10 minute walk in the other direction which can take you to London. At the beginning of the estate there is a bus stop also. We have lived on our street since January and everyone has been really nice so far and have had no issues what so ever.

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

I honestly haven’t got a bad thing to say about the experience of buying and moving in. The finches park team have been really helpful throughout the whole process and still check in to make sure everything’s going alright and we are doing well which is really nice of them.

What is the best feature of your home:

I think mine and my partners best feature of the home is the garden because it is really big and when the sun has been shining we get it all day which is really nice.