devonshire street area

[jaysay]

Originally Posted by lindsay ormerod

You will find yourself surrounded by lots of the Accy cricket team then, there are several living in that neck of the woods, including our newly arrived professional!

Whats SHE called linds

[lindsay ormerod]

Originally Posted by jaysay

Whats SHE called linds

Think you will find it's a bloke Jaysay, hence me putting professional not pro....... duh.

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Restless

Hi

going to look at a house to rent around the devonshire street area(near the bottom near aldi)

Anybody live in this area/know what its like????

the area has gone totaly to crap, vandalism is high and there is a high burgulary rate , a lot of houses in that area are now rented whos tennants attract trouble

the top end is better than the bottom end of the area but its a far cry from what it was

examples of problems with the area

you stand a good chance of getting mugged if you walk alone towards the just drinks off licence, i now of 4 people that have been held up at knife point

plenty of kids drinking in the church and school grounds who are most likely resposible for the scratched cars in the area and and other vandalism including smashing bottles against houses and cars

aldi carpark and malt street are used as drop of points for drug dealers and you can expect to have junkies peeking over your back wall while they wait for their drugs to be dropped off to see if you have owt worth nicking

if your renting then at least you can move if it gets worse but i wouldnt advise buying in that area anymore if you can afford elswhere

sayingthat most of accrington has gone to crap , run while you can and look elswhere

edit:

i just noticed you mentioned you are looking to rent atteh bottom

i sold my house at teh bottom of that area because i got fed up of the alcholics, smackheads, gangs ,drug dealers and muggings that were occuring

[Restless]

thanks accyman this is why i asked for advice like this... and yeah most of accy has gone to crap... but i had heard rumours along these lines

[accyman]

Originally Posted by Restless

thanks accyman this is why i asked for advice like this... and yeah most of accy has gone to crap... but i had heard rumours along these lines

lived in that area for over 25 years and can quite safely say that anything bad you have heard is probably true or worse

[cmonstanley]

thats why i moved away.when i first moved onto orange street it was a nice little area.a nice patk area at the end of the street with a nice scenic tree ,nice neighbours.first a guy hooper bought the house at the end of the street leaving it empty ,its been empty for 8 + years complained to hyndburn borough council said they couldnt do anything wrong areathen the school chopped the tree down and erected a fence that resembled a prison,the the rent a mob moved junkie scum and a polish invasion with about ten living next door complained to rent a scum said they couldnt do anything the owner was abroad and is polish.so you see most houses are now owned by one polish person who dont give a flying ..... accrington is a disgrace let down by the councillors mp etc.........thats the reason why i came back up to sunny scotland......

[Restless]

i am renting near to where i lived nealy all my life - near steiner street... But this is turning out to be a bit of a nightmare too...doubt ill be there long