How much would you pay to live in Parkhill?

[Honeycomb]

Or a skag head

[heeleyrachel]

Oh yeah.... i'd love to get money for living there. How much do they pay?

 

Oh, sorry! They want people to pay them to live there? Sorry but knowing that, ive lost interest

[chem1st]

The potential is huge - large flats near the city centre. If they put some decent shops, cafes and bars in it (which they plan to do) it could be the next big thing property wise. No good if they just move the same 'problem' families back in of course.

 

The building work hasn't come to a stop; in fact the builders seem to be working quite quickly I'd say.

 

Odd that some people won't walk past these flats once whereas I've walked past them nearly every day for the past 14 years with no problem (and I'm not a chav or a gangster either).

 

In all fairness the area ain't that bad. I have walked through their myself at all hours, in groups and on my own. Even when you used to get the very large gangs hanging around the main arch dealing about 5 years ago now, they might ask you if you wanted to buy drugs, but they didn't cause people passing through trouble.

 

You be surprised at how many professionals used to use the carparks there and walk into town too.

[miaowwoof]

I would not want to pay £100,000 for a flat there for a toerag to be housed next door for free.

 

 

EXACTLYwhat I was thinking.

[Vague_Boy]

So you want to buy a nice flat in town for you/and your family. You might need 1, 2, 3 or so bedrooms.

 

There's a 1000 to choose from, at Parkhill.

 

How much would you be prepared to pay and for what.

 

If they paid me a million, I "might" consider it for a few weeks.

[*_ash_*]

I would not want to pay £100,000 for a flat there for a toerag to be housed next door for free.

 

To be fair, you could pay 100,000 in a private block and live next to a toerag.

 

However, based on probabilities, 100,000 would be an illogical amount to pay for such a risk, hence I would agree with this post entirely. And I wouldn't buy somewhere on there for that price.

 

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As for the OP question, I don't think paying even 25,000 to buy would be worth the risk of living next to some of the crap that society has [often unnecessarily] created, unless the property is sellable. Anyone who disagrees probably hasn't lived in a council property like what I lived in, where constant noise was inevitable.

 

I just can't see them selling. It's a much safer option to buy a terrace in a semi-decent area for the same price, as of which they are likely to be (i.e I can't see them pricing less than around the 100k mark).

[ultracynic]

I would not want to pay £100,000 for a flat there for a toerag to be housed next door for free.

 

I wonder if any owner/occupiers actually agree with the social engineering policy that is mixed tenure housing.

[Paul2412]

I currently live in a flat in town, and the only way I'd move there is if they offered me a large reward.

 

1) The position isn't that good. You have good views on one side and that's it

2) Currently to socialise / shop its about a one minute walk. Park Hill is on the fringe of the city centre so doesn't offer me this

3) It's still in a notorious crime hotspot. I know someone who lives close by and they constantly see drug dealers and dodgy characters

4) It still looks awful, even the cladding

5) The half decent plans for it have all but been scrapped, replaced with cheaper alternatives

6) I wouldn't particularly like to pay £130K+ only to be housed next door to someone who are "problem tenants" of the council

[Lady Star]

The structure is incredible, very impressive and when you think of similar buildings outside the UK, they still look great as they weren't left to the devices of local councils who would just throw anyone in them and await their destruction... Similar flats on the seafront at Zandvoort in The Netherlands still look amazing, and are worth a fortune... Once Parkhill has been redeveloped, I'd pay up to £200K to live up there - no more, as the area is run down in general, although I am guessing that the development will be made quite secure...

[Lady Star]

I currently live in a flat in town, and the only way I'd move there is if they offered me a large reward.

 

1) The position isn't that good. You have good views on one side and that's it

2) Currently to socialise / shop its about a one minute walk. Park Hill is on the fringe of the city centre so doesn't offer me this

3) It's still in a notorious crime hotspot. I know someone who lives close by and they constantly see drug dealers and dodgy characters

4) It still looks awful, even the cladding

5) The half decent plans for it have all but been scrapped, replaced with cheaper alternatives

6) I wouldn't particularly like to pay £130K+ only to be housed next door to someone who are "problem tenants" of the council

 

The council used these flats for these people in the past, but I very much doubt they'd be allowed to now... People will be paying good money for these flats now, and the pound is mightier than the pleas of the council... Someone else will be getting all the dross that the council doesn't know what to do with now...