Neighbourhood and local area reviews for renting in United Kingdom

Area was fine gated complex on Brookhouse. House was good just last few months of landlady because she got desperate. Now after evicting us to sell property its up for rent.

The best part about this place is the neighbours. On the left is a awesome lady, great to talk to and I will miss her the most. On the right is a lovely family but they can shout time to time. The neighbours behind us are from hell. Honestly, I once accidentally banged a door and she started screaming threats through the wall about knocking our heads off. They scream 24/7 and have naughty kids and squeaky doors. So prepare to be disturbed constantly. There's also a school up the road. So everyone parks here. To pick their kids up, don't leave the house between 8am and 9:15am and then again at 2:30-3:30pm because you simply won't be able to leave the area for traffic. Kids over the road constantly stare into the house. So keep the blinds shut. We grew the hedge into an arch to help with this too and also grew it tall! Keep it tall! One of the neighbours have 5 cars. All parked on this road. So if you think you're getting a parking space you're wrong. We've had our space taken up for the past 3 weeks by one of her cars she won't move and hasn't moved in a while. We are fed up. overall don't bother unless you're broke and need cheapish digs (if the landlord puts up the rent it isn't worth it at all) sage yourself the pain of the neighbourhood and from Bramleys and don't bother.

Local area great place to live close to the city centre and lots of shops and transport options so in that regard recommend the area for living

We have some absolutely lovely neighbours and some nasty ones. The nasty ones are the landlords relatives and we're extremely rude. Walking distance from the school, nursery and shop although cars drive very fast up the lane where the house is which can be quite scary with a 3 year old.

Not an overly studenty area but had good bus links to both universities + city centre and there was a good choice of nearby supermarkets

The stanmore area where this property is located is great for students, a 25 minute walk from the university and about a 15/20 minute walk to the big Sainsburys, with little local shops only 3/5 minutes away.

Friendly neighbours, plenty of on street parking too. 20 minute walk to the university.

Selly oak is selly oak. Standard neighbourhood. Studenty, a bit Rough, but as you’d expect.

Area was in a useful location, but my tyred were slashed, a massive fire broke out at the end of the road, and I would often come across drug paraphernalia on my route to work.

Noisy dogs on street, bad neighbours, saw muggings happen from our window, felt quite unsafe in the house.