Northcote by Miller Homes

Description

Northcote
Located in a convenient area with good links to the Midlands motorway network, Northcote provides a great suburban base. Northcote is a delightful new neighbourhood with local shopping facilities a short walk away and Birmingham city centre just a five mile commute.

Outdoor activities
Northcote is adjacent to Brookvale Park, a large recreational space with a boating and fishing lake. Once a reservoir, it has now been refurbished to create a delightful leisure amenity and a popular local focal point. The park includes tennis courts, a bowling green, a high-quality play area for children and a sailing club. A path from the far end of the park leads along a short walk to Witton Lakes, a nature conservation area and a popular venue for model boating. Sutton Park, around three miles to the north, is a National Nature Reserve offering 2,400 acres of wilderness and mixed terrain with many sites of archaeological interest.

Sport and leisure
The Stockland Green Leisure Centre, just half a mile from Northcote, is open in the evening and at weekends, and includes a gymnasium, pulse point gym, sports hall, netball and badminton courts, cricket nets and a drama studio. It also hosts a wide range of activities, coaching and social events for adults and children. Virgin Active Star City offers a fully equipped gym, cardiovascular suite, aerobics studio, sauna and steam room and a 20m pool, as well as a separate children’s pool, a kid’s club and a crèche.

Entertainment
Hollywood Social Club, one of the area’s live music venues, is around half a mile from Northcote. Other attractions in the Erdington area include the Aston Manor Road Transport Museum, where the collection of classic and historic vehicles is housed in an original tram depot. There is a choice of cinemas within around two miles of the development, and Birmingham city centre, with its vast variety of dining and shows, is in easy reach by public transport.

Shopping
There is a convenient newsagent and store situated near Northcote at the junction of Rosary Road and George Road, and a further choice of local shops, including a pharmacy and a post office, are a quarter of a mile away around the intersection of Fentham Road and Slade Road. The busy Erdington Centre, a local shopping area, is less than a mile from Northcote and offers a selection of food and drink retailers, speciality shops and high street chains, including Iceland and Co-op supermarkets. The Fort Shopping Park, with around 40 retail outlets, is just two miles to the east.

Transport
Northcote has good public transport links into Birmingham city centre, with the very frequent No 65 bus route passing along Slade Road, around 200 yards away. Gravelly Hill Railway Station, five minutes walk from the development, is served by the Cross-City line with trains into Birmingham New Street and onwards to Longbridge, or outwards to Four Oaks, approximately every ten minutes. And with the Gravelly Hill interchange of the M6 close by, this is an exceptionally convenient commuter base.

Education
There are seven primary schools in Erdington, including Erdington Hall Primary, around ten minutes walk from Northcote, which is a community primary school covering nursery, infant and junior education, with separate play areas for different age ranges and good parent support services. The larger of the two local secondaries is Kingsbury School and Sports College, a community comprehensive that has had Sports College status since 2003.

Health care
A health centre around half a mile from Northcote houses a choice of three GP practices and a dental surgery. All offer a full morning and afternoon Monday to Friday service, and the Reservoir Road Surgery, the largest of the three, is open on Saturday mornings. There is a separate large medical practice in Wood End Road and another dentist in Gravelly Hill, both a little to the east of the development.

Nearest schools:

• Slade Junior and Infant School - Primary (0.2 miles) 
• St Mary and St John Junior and Infant School - Primary (0.4 miles) 
• Stockland Green Technology College - Secondary (0.5 miles) 

Driving directions

From the M6

Leave the motorway at junction 6 (the Gravelly Hill interchange)
following signs for the A38, and then at Salford Circus take the first
exit to enter Slade Road. Pass the ATS Euromaster service depot on the
left, then at the next junction bear left into George Road. After
approximately 250 yards, the entrance to Northcote is on the left.

From Erdington Town Centre
From
Central Square roundabout at the end of the High Street join Gravelly
Hill North (A5127) following signs for Gravelly Hill and the city
centre. Around 300 yards on, take the first right turn into Fentham Road
and carry on for around 600 yards to the mini-roundabout. Turn left
into Slade Road then take the first right turn into Rosary Road. Stay on
Rosary Road, bearing right at the junction with St Thomas Road, then at
the crossroads turn left and Northcote is immediately on the right.

Satellite Navigation Reference
B23 7QH

Opening hours

Thursday to Monday 10am until 5pm. (1pm to 5pm on Mondays).

Call directly

Tel: 08008 408701

About Miller Homes

Our Background

We’ll keep it brief, because a lot has happened over the past seventy-five years. Around 100,000 new Miller homes, for a start. A lot of new ideas in building technology. Loads of awards, like Major Housebuilder of the Year, Large Housebuilder of the Year, Best Sustainable Development, and Private Housebuilder of the Year. That last one’s important because it’s from First Time Buyer magazine, so it’s about real people and their experiences. We won that one last year. Oh, and the year before.

But awards are about the past. The important thing is what you can expect from us in the future.

Listening to you

Four times every year, we ask an independent research company to find out whether our customers would recommend us to friends. Our current rating is 97% positive (2011 average).

That’s about more than great houses. It’s about keeping in touch, helping you find what you want, helping you buy it once you’ve found it, telling you how the building’s coming along (by email, SMS, or the post). It’s about listening, and being there if you have a question or a problem. It’s about our incentives, offers and assistance schemes (please check them out), and dedicated websites that help people in a new neighbourhood to get to know each other. Yes, we get excited by new ideas and technologies, but essentially we’re just old fashioned, home loving people.

Quality homes. In quality places.

Building homes is what we do, and we do it exceptionally well. Over the past 75 years, we’ve seen what people really like about the homes we build and, well, we build on that experience.

So you know that behind the kerb appeal there’s a structure that meets the highest professional standards. You know that the beautifully proportioned rooms are impeccably finished and decorated. You know that every detail has been checked, inspected (and admired). You know all that because of the way the door feels when you open it, the crisp clean edge of the paintwork, the way your whole home just works. That’s experience.

What you may not realise, at least until you have the pleasant surprise of seeing your fuel bills, is that we are also absolutely committed to the most environmentally friendly movements in homebuilding. This means we use low-carbon construction methods (even zero carbon on occasion) but it also means that our homes are highly energy efficient in everyday life.

And finally, location location location. Some people want country quiet, some want urban convenience. All we can do is try to find the very best spot for every taste. So we try to put urban where it’s also pretty quiet and rural where it’s also pretty convenient. And the views? Well, we can’t move mountains (and wouldn’t if we could) but we will try to make sure your new home is pointing towards one if there’s one available, and something else nice if there’s not.

Service is too small a word.

We think of it as a relationship. Even if it never gets beyond the electronic stage we’ll do our very best to help you find what you’re looking for, and do it as unobtrusively as we can. You choose the channels, and we go away when you ask us to.

When you visit one of our developments, though, we have a chance to meet properly and talk. We enjoy that. We’ll show you homes we think you might like (or ones very like them if they’re not finished yet) and tell you about special offers that might interest you.

If you decide to buy, we’ll help in every way we can. We can give you information about mortgages and lawyers if you want it, although we’re careful not to become too close to anyone working on your behalf because we don’t want any conflicts of interest. Then we’ll keep you informed as your new home is being built, and invite you round at the appropriate time to choose things like kitchen worktops and bathroom tiles. If you want to measure up for carpets and curtains, we’ll do our best to arrange things.

When you get your keys, there’s a meeting to go over all the important stuff like stopcocks and thermostats, and we’ll also leave you full instructions. But here’s the best part. We don’t go away. We’ll leave you in peace, of course, but if you need help or advice we’ll be on hand for as long as you need us. That’s the kind of relationship we like.