- The phone socket is in the bedroom. My heating is not
good so it's inconvenient. Also cold in winter. Not
enough storage space
- Vandals destroying the back boundary fence which backs
onto Edmonds Park
- Drainage problem from Edmonds Park and neighbour's big
dogs leaping fence and digging up garden
- The price of power
- Traffic problem
- A water problem. Hot water pressure is not good
- Too much land
- Could do with a garage
- Floor on a lean, goes downhill
- Noise of Madras Street traffic
- Too much grass on land behind house never cut
- Driveway unsuitable
- Earthquakes caused by too much inappropriate heavy
traffic
- Difficult to get into because of traffic island
- Paying the rent
- It's a rented house and gets quite damp - clothes in the
wardrobe go mouldy
- A neighbour - I've caught him peering into my bedroom
window at 3.45am
- Wet ground. Our section was not built up properly when it
was first subdivided
- The dog next door barks continually. It wakes me late at
night and early in the morning
- Heavy smelly smoke from neighbours' fire. They burn the
wrong wood and bits of rubbish. Often I can't hang my
washing out
- Two bedrooms very damp. Can heat but very costly
- Plumbing, clunking pipes
- House shakes when buses go past
- Have to build up (traps?) - letter from city council -
been like they are since house was built - load of
rubbish!
- Back fence on lean
- Mice, drains are a problem. Lack of soil
- No garage
- Neighbouring trees shades property and drops leaves in
spouting and onto property
- Burglaries in the area
- Not a big enough section
- Neighbours' dogs a problem
- It's a shabby hole
- Need new outside gutters
- It faces the wrong way. If it faced the north it would be
cheaper to heat
- Neighbours and burglaries
- No clothes line
- Plumbing
- Footpaths not well maintained
- The rates are too high
- Garage too small
- Dampness
- Shared driveway
- Land drainage behind our section
- Dampness
- Too many high steps
- Spiders
- Condensation
- Water pressure
- Poor water pressure
- Too many town houses in too small an area
- Bathroom floor needs replacing
- Dampness
- Dampness in the room. Not built to the sun. No insulation
- Traffic noise on Sawyers Arms Road. Trucks vibrate house.
Working Mens Club noisy, late nights disturb us
- High water table in Bishopdale, Cotswold Avenue every
winter two inches of water in garage and entire section
and road
- Would like underground wiring of lines in street
- State houses in area not being looked after
- Council footpath - cherry blossom tree outside 54
Martbern Crescent has broken all our drains and destroyed
footpath
- Property difficult to maintain because of my age
- Have a swimming pool which will cost me $5,000 to fence
- No footpaths in Waimakariri Road
- No sewerage
- Not on city water or sewer - fear of losing green belt
environment
- Movement of house by heavy traffic in street
- The water. Drainage - it does not drain away. It's built
to council standards but it is not draining away well
enough
- Flooding outside on the roadway
- Telecom Tower too close
- Gardens getting too big
- Concern about next boor neighbour subdividing section
- Facing wrong direction. Not built for sun. Very cold
- Bank at the bottom of my property has fallen away
- Leaky roof
- Spiders
- Under runners. Water that comes down the hill and ponds
in our section
- Large section to maintain
- This house has 50 year old electrical wiring. It is in a
dangerous state
- Surface water and occasionally sewage drains from houses
higher up the hill. It seeps through my property and
sometimes blocks the pipes. Most pipes here date from the
1930's
- The power poles in front of our windows quite spoil our
view
- Our driveway exits on a corner. We have asked for a
mirror but council will not let us have one. They have
refused us permission to put one up if we buy it
ourselves
- Drainage and parking
- Needs an extra bedroom
- Haven't got round to fencing it and get some nasty winds
- People further up the hill over-watering etc causing
flooding in our courtyards
- Storm water drainage on the track and a lot of trouble
with sewerage
- Lousy water pressure. Council turned off water to fix
pipe and water pressure is now reduced to half
- The rates are too high
- Leak in bedroom
- Foundations are on old swamp
- Poor pressure from the water supply. No sewage collection
- Lack of good insulation
- Lack of power points
- Drainage problem. Gully trap too low
- Dampness in winter caused by water lying on large empty
ground (privately owned) opposite my house
- A busy street
- Culvert driveway too narrow - can't safely turn into
property
- Will move out after 20 years in Housing NZ flat to find
sunny warm place. This flat is semi-detached and gets no
sun
- Council pensioners flat. No garage, carport or storage
cupboards
- Situated on a busy road near Wairakei - Idris
intersection. Hard to squeeze into peak hour traffic
- The neighbour contacted the council about the down-pipes
on the garage discharging water onto his property. Their
letter said I had to do it within a month. Come and see
me! Where can I find $1000 in a month?
- It's been very badly built. We've had leaks etc. The
council didn't oversee it well and takes no
responsibility. The builders are getting away with too
much
- Bus stop right outside. No parking outside because of
shops
- It's got a house right on the adjoining fence
- Quite a few prowlers around here because it is a quiet
street and near town and it's quite a dark narrow street
with mixed housing
- Noisy neighbours
- Don't have enough space between people and dwellings
- Pollution, night air caustic. I want to shift out to the
country north of Waimakariri
- Not enough insulation in roof. Heat goes up and bills for
power bigger
- Windowsill needs repairs. Clothes line from last October
still not fixed
- Condensation, always running water. Window ledges
sopping. Window doesn't fit, can see daylight at the
sides of window
- Too dark and dingy
- Neighbours' trees encroaching our garden, driveway and
over the garage. We had to pay for branches to be cut and
they will grow again
- The garden is too large, we can't cope with it
- A big tree next door stops the sun coming in my flat.
Bits of it fall in my gutters and over the backyard
- Plumbing
- No water pressure and too low
- Driveway entrance and pipe council laid down middle of
driveway
- We don't really have enough section
- Problems like neighbours' smoke that comes over here
- Condensation. Windows (very bad)
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