Park Rise, M16

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

The area is great. Its just 1/2 minutes walk to Trafford Bar tram stop, which is well connected so you pretty much have Greater Manchester at your feet. We are 5 minutes from Chorlton on the tram, which has lots of bars andrestaurants, and there are a couple pubs within walking distance from the apartment. There is a small park behind the building which is great in the summer, and on weekend mornings you can hear teams playing football and people using the park, which is a nice, community-feel sound. I have lived here for 2 years and have had no trouble, so I think the area is relatively safe too.

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

The management team usually email back pretty quickly, but rarely follow up on their actions. The bin store is squalor, and I'm sure there is a violation of health and safety regulations there. The lifts never work, and the maintenance team say they will call out people to fix the lifts, but this rarely happens, and when it does, the lifts break again within a few weeks.

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

I would advise people to not move here. The upkeep of the building is really bad, as its so unclean. The actual apartment is nice but its not worth the state of the building.