Southmere Village, SE2

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Transport links are good, and traffic noise is low. The parking facility has become bad, and the building development effects the breeze, gets stuffy during summer. The anti-social behaviour is quite a nuisance.

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Repairs, take long to get fixed. Some neighbours , are uncomfortable to live with.

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There are no shops since the building started. There was a market before Christmas last year which was good but all stopped now.

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More insight in to tenants needs

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There’s always construction around this area, making it hard to focus. People in this area can be very obnoxious and annoying. They are gentrifying this area causing the people in the older flats to look much poorer.

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I wish I had known the local area before moving in.

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We have a Sainsbury’s round the corner as well as a Lidl but buses can get you to places with more shops within as little as 10 minutes to get to thamesmead town centre, 20 minutes to get to woolwich and 25 minutes to get to bexleyheath. All bars and pubs are being closed down in order to build new houses so none in the local area. Before the new flats and houses were built our parking was free and on a first come first served basis since then bein by Ilya we have to pay for a parking permit per vehicle (in addition to rent) which is hard for those tradesmen who use company vehicles for work but also own their own car for family use. We get people park up in their cars playing loud music and doing balloons and then emptying their empty canisters all over the roads and paths. Traffic noise is moderate considering we live next to a main road but can be blanked out once your busy enough.

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Paying for a parking space as a resident can be a pain in the backside especially if you need to be close to the entrance due to pregnancy, young children, disability or shopping

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There are a lot of places you can shop and a lot of places you can enjoy views. Parking isn’t an issue but for family and friends it’s near impossible. Noise is okay but be ready for kids playing. Bin collection has never been an issue, they do come quite early and because the area is so closed in, it echoes alot.

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I wish I knew about the area just a touch more. It seemed empty at first but the updated it quickly.