Name change .

[postman]

Feb 1950 i was born .

My Dad told the Leeds Housing Office he needed a house due to changes (me)

He was allocated a Council house in Moortown Leeds 17 .


60 years later .Now .These houses which were bought on the cheap by long standing tenants .Are being sold after said people had passed away at a great age .

But suddenly due to Estate Agents Moortown has become Alwoodley .So adding thousands to the price .

Alwoodley is a different kettle of fish .

Moortown is ex council property .

Moortown and Alwoodley are not the same .

So why are Estate Agents allowed to change districts in advertising ?

 

[dellzeqq]

oooooooooohhh!!!!!!!!!11

'In the Triangle Conservation Area'

'There is no Triangle Conservation Area'

'Yes there is'

'No there isn't'

'Oh'

 

[Shaun]

That's interesting - I wouldn't have thought they'd be able to change the name. False advertising isn't it?

 

[vernon]

It's not unique.

It's a matter of self-deception.

Postman and myself live in the same street in an area that I've heard described as Moortown, near-Moortown, Meanwood, Carr Manor and Chapel Allerton depending on the social aspirations of the folk describing the area where they live. It's been going on for as long as I've lived in the area - 25+ years.

Buyers are not stupid - council houses are difficult to disguise and the area description has a smaller effect on the prices than the ratings of the local schools and supermarkets.

 

[Beardie]

In Swindon, there is West Walcot, mainly comprising 1930s semis, and Walcot East, comprising 1950s and 60s concrete council houses and flats.
In order to sell to snobby people with no understanding of compass bearings, estate agents have renamed the former as 'Old Walcot'.

 

[Over The Hill]

In my youth I rented a flat in a concrete block in Salisbury called "Cleveland Flats". I hated the sound of the name so I gave my address as "Cleveland Place" on all my mail and it still got to me ok.

 

[TVC]

I live in Aylestone, Leicester, my exact location is sometimes refereed to as Old Aylestone because it's were the original settlement was. I've now noticed that Estate Vultures have started to refer to the place as 'Aylestone Village' when no such place exists.

Equally perplexing are the quaint names given to new housing developments. The nearest one to me (Aylestone road behind Aldi for Leicesterites) is called Otters Bank. Now given that is an old factory site backing onto the Grand Union Canal, and the bank in question is actually concrete and steel. I'm not sure how many Otters really live there.

 

[Black Sheep]

That's interesting - I wouldn't have thought they'd be able to change the name. False advertising isn't it?

I currently live in Earlsdon, it's a nice area, to the side of it, there is an area called Chapelfields, there is little difference between the two except earlsdon has a tiny town / village centre where as chapelfields doesn't

many people in the area of chapelfields class themselves as being in earlsdon, many estate agents refer to the half of chapelfields near earlsdon as being earlsdon

its not as bad as the stoke area of coventry, stoke does NOT meet the city centre, that is charterhouse, upper stoke, lower stoke are not real, lower stoke is charterhouse.

 

[vernon]

Equally perplexing are the quaint names given to new housing developments. The nearest one to me (Aylestone road behind Aldi for Leicesterites) is called Otters Bank. Now given that is an old factory site backing onto the Grand Union Canal, and the bank in question is actually concrete and steel. I'm not sure how many Otters really live there.

Because the bank is concrete and steel it is perhaps acting like a storage radiator after solar heating and is a little 'otter than its surroundings.

 

[TVC]

Because the bank is concrete and steel it is perhaps acting like a storage radiator after solar heating and is a little 'otter than its surroundings.

Seriously NO DON'T.

 

[Moodyman]

It's not just estate agents, local politics is the same.

I live in, but at the outer boundary of, an affluent Tory voting ward. This adjacent ward is more Labour.

My street and nearest two or three streets are constantly being moved into different wards depending on who is in power centrally.

Re Moortown, you're right Postie, it's a pretty run down area and it surprises me the price of homes in that neighbourhood.

 

[XmisterIS]

Equally perplexing are the quaint names given to new housing developments.

Especially the ones where all the houses look the same, are entirely devoid of character and are inhabited by accountants who listen to bland music, wear beige and drive identical 4x4s. A case in point is a new(ish) development round the corner from me called "Regency Place", where the inhabitants reckon they're a cut above the rest of us round here, simply because we don't live in faceless mock-neoclassic houses on roads with faux-posh names ...

 

[Maz]

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I grew up in Bournville. You'd be amazed at how stretchy the border becomes to those who claim to live there.
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Definitely Bourneville? Sure it wasn't Selly Oak or Yardley Wood etc?

 

[ianrauk]

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I live in KT6. Officially a greater London borough.


The wannabes on my street will say they live in Surrey. I prefer to say I live in London.


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I live in Orpington, Kent not Orpington, London..

 

[asterix]

When I lived in St. Ockport, the residents were not 'appy about becoming part of Greater Manchester and usually continued to give their address as 'Cheshire'.

I think Cheshire is worse because I wouldn't want people to think I might live near a premier league footballer.