Browse Forums General Discussion Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of living next to a town centre ? 21Apr 28, 2009 12:23 am I think if your house was on the street facing the sports fields (i.e. backing onto where your block actually is), then it would be a drag. But you're removed enough from the traffic, the parking issues, and the general activity for it not to be a problem. We used to live 500m from a very busy secondary school and a fairly big park/playground/footy oval, with a shopping centre just the other side of the park, and it never bothered us at all. If we'd lived across the road I'd have been insane within the first week, but we were a street back and could faintly hear the school bell if we were out in the back yard. No traffic, no kids misbehaving, no trouble getting out of our street..... And we had the convenience of a 10-minute walk to the shops, a big open outdoor area we could take the kids to when we got sick of them hitting balls over the fence AGAIN, and somewhere for me to do sprints (or whatever torture was in my training for the week) - and when the kids got older, they had a 5-minute walk to school. It was all good. Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of living next to a town centre ? 22Apr 28, 2009 9:28 am Are they building a BIG Shopping Centre - eg Westfields? If not then I dont really see how you will even notice much of it from where you are. Will it be more like a collection of shops? Massive bonus imo! I dont think it'll be big enough to attract unruly teens to it though Cause of it's size it might even be uncool to hang out there still hehe. Our Blog! http://cityplantation.blogspot.com | Building the Havana 485 with Plantation Homes (Henley) Re: Advantages/Disadvantages of living next to a town centre ? 23Apr 28, 2009 9:49 am Ive lived close to two BIG shopping centres in my life and my only concern was the Airconditioners running 24/7. The ones at Casuarina Shopping Centre in Darwin (biggest centre in Southern Hem at the time) were especially noisy, however after a short period of time you actually never heard them...what you did here is when they turned them off for maintenace once in a while.......silence....... Riff raff were never a concern much. In casuarina I was on a suburban st one 3 house wide block from the shopping centre...only had local traffic to and from houses. Quiet vehicle and pedestrian wise. In Albany WA I was on Lockyer Ave the 2nd main thouroughfare into town...and I was in town...the CBD. Brand new shopping centre 300m away...plus woollies 200m away other side of the road. Weekend nights you got the drunks going past but never any major problem...maybe the Pitbull saw to that.....never any breakins...5 years...usually too many people on the streets for someone to vandalise the place or breakin. Plus the pitbull..... Advice...noise wont be a problem unless your ESPECIALLY SENSITIVE to noise. Louts will not be a problem as your far away from the centre enough for them not to be anywhere near you...why would they go down a court?..unless you have a pedestrian access path nearby...? And you will walk to the centre...kids near sporting facilities....LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION. And if your still worried...you can always sell it for a nice profit...as plenty of others will want it if you dont. Hi, have purchased a house with 2 single garage doors. The Centre pillar one side sits proud to the other. Can I change 2 doors into one. Please see picture. 0 6191 i imagine you also have another contract with an architect? and yeah, whatever other's said about special conditions and appendices 16 15820 Hi all I am looking to run a water line under my concrete footpath which is directly next to my home, was seeing if this is possible without cutting the entire section… 0 20029 |