Berry Court, BH1

The development is a great location, and looks wonderful aesthetically (interior and exterior). A lot of things in flat needed repairs however, and to get a booking it could take weeks to a month. Also parcels have been getting stolen a lot so security could be better!

Building is not too good to be honest as we have been having lots of issues over past couple of years but the plus is that it gets really warm all year round really so we do not really have to use the heating in teh winter and obviously summer. It is ok.

The building is very ascetically pleasant I must say. The flat is warm and requires no heating during the winter, which has a very positive impact when it comes to paying bills. Unfortunately tho, the quality of the building is not great. Out of 3 lifts, only 1 or 2 work at the same time and the lights flick constantly.

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!!

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.