Anyone know anything about this place, we've been offered a 3 bed but I don't know anything about the area, I know the Woodhouse shopping area, ie The Co-op etc but apparently Goathland is not that near to it, and when I've mentioned it to people it's been a case of oh my god "it's near Badger Estate", shock horror time. So anyone out there with knowledge or experience, please post and help us out!

Goathland is a sort of "extension" of the badger estate.

The housing iirc is mostly the vic-hallam houses a-la the badger/ scowerdons estates with a bit of new housing assoc houses where the old maisonettes were)

It's more-or less opposite the bottom of tithe barn lane, (which is the little windy road at the back of the shopping area and church that are in the village)
Iit's well served by public transport, the 52 firstbus runs a service every 6 mins to city/ crookes, and the yorkshire terrier runs their number 52 service in tandem with first. theirs runs every 20 mins.

There are a couple of secondary schools almost on the doorstep, Hndsworth Grange, (where my son went), and The City School. There are loads of primary schools.
*edit to say the 6 mins number 52 is peak/ daytime. sorry
PT

Woodhouse on the whole is a nice place, there have been some problems with younger kids on the Badger estate but then you'll find that eveerywhere in the city. If you walk around the area you don't feel apprehensive. Don't know whether the police are still readily visible certainly I used to see a lot of cars patroling the area, this I'm sure was to act as a detterent.
A lot of the properties are owned by a housing association and so are reasonably well maintained, the tennants get into trouble if they start removing fencing or similar.

FIT LADS MOVE ON SEVENSIDE!!! owls if pos

well that definitely seems a bit more encouraging than the response I've had from friends, but these people only "know of" the area and haven't actually lived there themselves. Oh the horror stories; cars regularly nicked and set ablaze, gangs of youths running amok, robberies at the local shops that sort of thing!!!! so to receive a little bit more info is more encouraging, but I've found out that the local school near there is Brunswick, so yet again if anyone knows "owt, good or bad", then lemme know ;-)

Originally posted by Cutglass
I've found out that the local school near there is Brunswick,
Brunswick primary? The victorian building is a training school for teachers.

Yeah, Brunswick Primary School, Station Road, on an education website says it has 600 pupils, so if its teacher training school too, then I assume it incorporates the training with the teaching?!?!?!?

Two separate buildings. Primary is modern, training college is an ex-victorian school. Opposite sides of the rd. 1/4 mile apart

well thanx for that, any news is good news, so they say!!
but seriously just happy that I've been able to receive some feedback from you lot, even been PM'd with info, so all info has been greatly appreciated!

CITY SCHOOL is better and if you take my advice brunswicks crap, i went there b4 city and city is well safe

went to view the property I was offered yesterday and OMG!! it was terrible! I'd only seen an outside pic of the property on the website and when I got there I was amazed. There were only tiny walkways between the front and back of the houses and the house itself was in a disgusting state. When the housing officer asked why I was refusing the property I used the excuse that it was because every single room was in such a state of neglect, she then offered me a decorating allowance and when I still refused, she asked if I'd consider accepting the tenancy it if the council decorated it!!! talk about desperate to shift the property.
So now I'll still here in Preston and still looking :roll:

I see the council are still struggling to get there act together when it comes to their housing stock. Quite a lot of the properties in that area though are off walkways rather than fronting onto a road.
I've always been a bit suspicious though of council propertiess that are boarded up with metal shutters as this doesn't fill me with confidence about the area. Unfortunately I've seen properties left empty and not boarded up which mysteriously lose their plumbing, heating and even wiring.If you get more properties to lok at give a road name as well as an area and you'll probably get more detailed info.
Good luck

wallbuilder,

the reason that the empty properties are shuttered up with the metal shutters is because, virtually no matter where the property is, if it is known to be empty, there's bound to be some scunbag who will want to "liberate" the central heating boiler/ radiators/other stuff in the house, or be wanting to smash the windows.

It has happened many times with properties I have taken on or have moved out of, whether council or housing association. The shutters protect the "valuable" stuff inside, which means that

"stuff *not* being liberated from council houses" + "council rents *not* going through the roof to subsidise what has to be replaced after theft = happier tenants, and happier housing officers.

simple equation.

it doesn't matter how nice the district, if the property is empty, and doesn't have the security shutters up, it's a potential target, vulnerable to idiots burgling it for the scrap value of the CH system.

the economics make sense, from the council's point of view; it's cheaper to put shutters up, than to replace the CH System.

PT

One of my friends was one of the first people to take on one of the Yorkshire Metropolitan houses on the Badger estate. As a result I got to know my way around there fairly well and if a house was empty whether that was council or housing assoc. they must of had a waiting list of people wanting to move into the area as the houses round there were never empty for long and so I can't recollect seeing the metal shutters.
This is something I find slightly odd, there are loads of people wanting council housing who are at present in hostels or B and B's but some houses have shutters up for weeks if not months. I can only assume then that some properties are in undesirable locations , so if I seemetal shutters I tend to think 'dodgy area' .

sometimes, when a tenant moves out of a property, there maty be so much work needs doing (not necessarily that the tenant themselves have damaged the place, but there may be things like asbestos removal, new central heating systems, possibly repaiors to decrepid kitchen or bathrooms -yeah we live in hope !!! - stuff like that, which renders the house "un-lettable")

this happened to me with aproperty I was offered, when the inspector came to sign the porperty off to me, he did his inspection, and discovered that , not only had the previous tenant had graffitti-ed the upstairs walls with obscene graffiti, but that there was asbestos needing to be removed from the place, and a new cH system was required, too
it was considered unlettable, and they had to offer me the property next-door-but-one, instead, which was also empty. I took that one. there was nothing like the work needed on hat as there was on the first property.

PT

Considering the price of houses nearer town compared to Woodhouse, and the excellent transport links (Train and Bus) then I think it is going to be the next up and coming area of Sheffield, i'd get in there quick.

There's the new oap development which should be starting soon and also the Waverly Development (not sure when they are going to start on that) consider also the planning application by Rotherham Council for more activities at Rother Valley and you're going to have a bargain if you buy now (or rent then buy).

Originally posted by Hels
the Waverly Development (not sure when they are going to start on that) Well theres already a landscaped bit with a lake you can see travelling from orgreave to big W, and something just off the new roundabout opposite said landscaped bit, that looks like it's already doing business.

I notice the house prices in Woodhouse have increased more than the townships the other side of Crystal Peaks in the last four years :thumbsup:

Looks like we made the right choice :D

Your are better off trying to get a house on Tithe Barn, closer to the village centre and has good transport links.

Well we all know how "easy" it is now to get a decent property in the area of your choice using the new bidding system :lol: however many points you have, you have to allow for priority, demolition and clearance bids before your own bid will be accepted, regardless of how much waiting time you've got. So all i can do is bid for the areas I want to live in and I'm not being fussy by restricting myself to just the one estate choice, I'm bidding all over the place. It just so happened that I bid for Goathland Drive because it was "in" the Woodhouse estate, it had already been refused 4 times before it was offered to me, but I thought hey give it a go, and took a look, but it's not quite the Woodhouse estate part that I had envisioned :(