Neighbourhood and local area reviews for renting in United Kingdom

The neighbourhood is a hellhole. Do a search in the Liverpool Echo site for Lowbridge Court before you move here. Over the 5 years we've lived there there has been a £15 million drug bust down the street, a drug dealer living in the apartment opposite us on the hallway, a cannabis farm in the apartment neighbouring that one, and a drug dealing gang living in the next apartment block over which victimised us when they realised we were a same-gender couple with multiple public order offences and physical assaults all recorded with the police. The estate management company is obstructive to tenants in dealing with these matters and say they retain CCTV footage for only 7 days, don't recall footage on request of tenants (only the police, who usually take longer than a week to properly begin their investigation, they also ask the police to pay for recalling the footage). When we left this gang was openly dealing drugs out of the front gates and persistently loitering around outside their block causing anti-social behaviour issues with residents.
Additionally, despite it being against the terms of the leasehold, the apartment directly beneath is let out as an AirBnB style booking and has people coming and going causing noise at all hours of the day and having parties. Estate management has also taken no effective steps to remedy this at the time we left (Feb 2020).

Neighbourhood is fine however, if you do end up in a disagreement with them you can't really rely on the neighbours as they won't speak up, citing that it would be too much trouble, I suspect that the landlords set out to intimidate anyone who speaks up against them and because they are also cowards they will do this by playing games posting threatening letters before running away, or perhaps poisoning animals, as around the same time they were attending my new address or having their solicitor attend my address my dog suddenly became ill and died of kidney failure

Great student area. Good transport links, close to university, shops and gym. We moved properties but remained in the same area.

So close to uni you have no excuses for skipping lectures. We've had one break in and know lots of people in the area that have too. Not the safest, always dodgy people loitering around. But, it's pretty quiet and the neighbours tend to all be students.

Not the most fancy of neighbourhoods, but i never had any problem. Quiet, not too many people around.

NO CLOSE SUPERMARKETS BUT VERY CLOSE TO UNIOF NOTTS AND CLOSE TO BUS ROUTES AND TRAMLINKS, IDEAL IF YOU WANT TO WALK TO LECTURES (5-10MINS)

The area is okay, there are good bus routes to go to the city center or university. There are shops in the neighbourhood. However, there is a green area at the back of the house and at least once a week there are people burning things there. All the smoke gets into the house if windows are open.

Calm area, there is a Lidl not far from the household and bus stops nearby. The neighbors besides the house are sometimes noisy.

perfect central location, really the only thing the flat has going for it and clearly the reason it is so egregiously priced.

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