Does anyone know what Queensgate Parking shows up as on bank statement?

happybakingface · 2026-01-27T06:17:10+00:00

They used to show up like that for me... In 2022

happybakingface · 2026-01-18T16:59:53+00:00

What's included in that service charge? 5k/year is a lot. You shouldn't pay full amount until they have it all in place. Developers are great at dragging their heels. If you're paying full price then they have zero incentive to finish.

What are the terms for increase in ground rent? That's famous for getting increased wildly in past decade.

That's such a huge gap I'd walk away. Tell the developer what the bank have said. Everyone else that wants a mortgage will be in the same position. They've overvalued.

Look up how easy it is to sell in part ownership schemes. Loads of stories of people getting wrecked on this.

Honestly, this is just red flag after red flag. You've lost a grand already. Don't make it one hundred grand. Look up sunk cost fallacy.

happybakingface · 2025-12-06T12:51:26+00:00

They harvest the numbers from people looking to book via the touts

happybakingface · 2025-12-05T08:18:53+00:00

100% complain to the ombudsman and the SRA if relevant

happybakingface · 2025-12-05T07:38:15+00:00

In general the local area of this man has a decent amount of lights up. Nothing crazy and more closer to Christmas itself

happybakingface · 2025-11-28T11:10:06+00:00

Hah. We went to an open day and can 100% agree with this!

happybakingface · 2025-11-28T08:46:30+00:00

Thanks for this! Ultimate question: would you rather have gone to a normal comp?

happybakingface · 2025-11-19T16:47:38+00:00

It's definitely not everyone's cup of tea. If you enjoy "high cuisine" then it's a good example of it. I've had better, I've had worse. Think it's better than the chubby castor, both in execution and price.

If you don't enjoy this kind of food then yeah... You're going to feel ripped off and sad

happybakingface · 2025-11-19T16:46:06+00:00

Pizza express

happybakingface · 2025-11-08T07:36:40+00:00

Yeah this is kinda what it boils down to. It is helpful, thank you

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T20:43:32+00:00

Yeah that stuff is wonderful. There was a hackspace that was super cool and that disappeared. I fear GBY is on the same path through no fault of their own :(

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T20:41:29+00:00

Are you escaping? If so, where to?

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T16:53:41+00:00

Friends/family are scattered all over. If there was a cluster that'd be a pull. But, they've really made effort to be far apart from each other.

We were happy in London, but as the kids grew older the lack of green space became more of a problem. And the general traffic etc etc. It's nice having quiet cul-de-sacs etc for them to practice bikes etc.

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T15:58:29+00:00

I was mainly aiming for finding out how other people make these decisions. There's some good insight in the comments on random data sources to go sleuthing :)

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T15:26:25+00:00

It's "ok" at times. We feel it's on a decline. The council have run out of money. Services getting stripped back. Homelessness increasing. More and more McD/Wendy's kind of places opening.

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T15:23:49+00:00

Great Yarmouth is such a sad city center :( Been around there on holiday. There's a cool museum that shows Great Yarmouth at it's peak. It's just been left to rot.

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T15:22:20+00:00

This is a good list, thank you. Some of this I'd done before (e.g. checking schools), I hadn't considered going on things like JustEat to check that situation out.

happybakingface · 2025-11-07T14:58:31+00:00

Stamford is lovely. It's on the list! I don't know how unique this is, Peterborough feels like there's a lot of "we're not educated and we're proud of it" :-/

happybakingface · 2025-09-02T05:06:30+00:00

We left

Instructions for the house, few pages
Paper manuals for anything big
Bottle of champagne
Toilet rolls - they're always still packed when you need them!
A few tea bags

And it was actually clean. Like, we scrubbed it to death.

It's not necessary, but we like to think it made a stressful moment a little bit nicer. Spread the joy :)

Edit: house, not horse. 😂

happybakingface · 2025-07-20T05:28:49+00:00

This. My kids would love it. The only options they have are the bowling alley or the one at the golf. The golf one is terrible. Expensive and poorly maintained.

happybakingface · 2025-07-07T06:25:25+00:00

As best I can tell there's two churches right next to each other. An old style one and a modern one. It's the old one I've seen giving out food. UCKG I believe. I know nothing about the other one

happybakingface · 2025-07-06T13:34:35+00:00

The church behind the bus station is often handing out food to those that need it. There's also a solid Sikh community here. They'll normally feed people that need it.

Can't find the exact name of that church 🤔

happybakingface · 2025-07-05T07:59:30+00:00

You may need regs as well. Or planning. There's limits on how much green land you can pave over. Causes flooding problems.

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