Neighbourhood and local area reviews for renting in United Kingdom

Great transport, close shopping and restaurants. The area is in a quiet and isolated area if that’s what you like.

The area was nice , I can’t complain about it. The only thing was that it took a long time to get to the centre.

Multiple drug dealings in front of property reported to police via myself and from members of street

The house is located next to a student house on the left and a 3 storey council flats on the right. There is a known crackhead living in the council house and the police would often be called due to men brandishing axes and occasionally chase people on the street. Police would often attend. There is also a guy who clearly needs to be 24/7 institutionalised as he likes to smoke right next to my ground floor rear bedroom window and stars in at a distance of 1.5m away from his garden. NHS contractors would often come to get him in a van and he would disappears for a few days.
There is also regular domestic violence heard from a couple next door and the police are often called out.

Area is generally nice and similar to rest of oldfield (it is a fair way up the hill though from lower bristol road). Fine if you're cycling/walking/driving, but is a 10-15 min walk to junction road bus stop for the U1/U2.
Neighbours in the adjoining house are lovely.
Some interesting neighbours with dogs from the gates of hades next door on the other side.

What a wonderful place to be <3

It is a quiet neighbourhood, I have never had any issue at all, I personally love the area.

I like the area, I feel happy there. The issue is the landlord and the property that has put me into the situation I am at the moment

Nice neighbourhood, safe, clean, some neighbours were very friendly, some not so much, but mostly holiday lets.
Coastal walks great though!

The house was semidetached so I was confident there would have been little chance of being annoyed by noise. Boy, was I wrong! (even the previous tenant warned me, but I was in a desperate rush to find an accomodation, in the nightmarish market situation, and having to live in student accomodations) The spanish couple living downstairs was so lousy and loud, they were animals. Constantly shouting and slamming doors (and I was in constant rage, a big toll on my mental health and no quiet at all, and they went on repeatedly for many nights, often until 3AM-4AM), no way a reasoning with them in a civil manner, not even stomping on the floor and shouting at them to stfu was enough. No way of calling the police on them (they were not playing music at max level, it was that grey area in which you're unfortunately not protected by the law, and you know.. The racist feudal lord has not been very helpful, or friendly at all). You may imagine how many times I wished I could have killed them, the constant rage of being powerless against some weirdos, I wonder how you can even have a job and stay up all night pretty much every other day, I even tried to retaliate, stomping on the floor and timing the laundry machine, and it was effective (that's how you reason with animals) for a bit, but then they started again and I lost it completely and instead of leaving explosives into their letterbox or just kicking the guy's ass to really send the message through (I'm not that kind of person, but with these primates that's the only thing they understand) I finally decided to just *ucking leave and change job and town. What a rollercoaster.