Hackwood Park, DE3

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

The nearest shop is a convenience coop on a neighbouring estate 5 mins drive away - nothing really within walking distance. There are a few pubs/restaurants within walking distance - especially now hackwood farm has expanded to also be a restaurant. I don't think there is a particularly close bus stop - I image you'd need to walk towards mickleover, we've always taken a taxi into town if we don't want to drive - about £10 fare. Parking availability is good - most properties have drives for 1-2 cars plus a garage and on street parking also available. There is a primary school at the entrance to the estate which is very useful if you have kids, however it is a nightmare getting in or out of the estate at pickup/dropoff times due to all the cars trying to park close to the school. It would be helpful if a system were set up or parents not asked to park on the estate.

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

I was expecting all the walls to be white but they are actually a pale yellow. I would have preferred white

What is the best feature of your home:

Open and bright hallway/landing or the visual appeal of the externals

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

We live on a quiet street with good neighbours. We are a corner plot so our front garden has a visibility concrete strip going through it which is pointless.

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

Ensure you have everything in writing from millers and take lots of photos on the walk round.

What is the best feature of your home:

It's OUR home and we will continue to develop it to make it our own.

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

Houses are a nice distance apart which makes the estate look less cramped than other local housing estates. Looking forward to the Hackwood farm development to be completed.

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

How long it would of taken to finish the garden ie level and grass before we could let the kids out.

What is the best feature of your home:

The hallway which joins all the of the living spaces together.

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

No shops, no GP, park has only just opened. Road quality is poor, full of mud. No transport links. Hackwood farm is quality but that was there before housing was built. No problems with people living here or the council. Just the developers

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

Land quality re drainage Road closures nearby School parking situation - twice a day it's dangerous

What is the best feature of your home:

Looks smart from the outside and we have made it look nice. Quite economical with heating.

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

Shops, restaurants and bars can all be accessed only if you have your own transport as it's a stretch of the legs to the nearest bus stop for Derby proper/or into Mickleover itself. Entrance to estate extraordinarily congested early morning/afternoon as their is a school but no car park access so parents park all over the first few roads as they wish. Bin collections on time and efficiently done. Very little traffic noise.

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

I wish I'd known how dark the downstairs hallway is......if all the doors are closed downstairs then the hallway is more than a touch gloomy.

What is the best feature of your home:

The layout upstairs and the wall around the garden.