'Ive known Parklands from the time it was just a large stretch of bush I used to ride my bike through so I have seen the development there and as a property investor i have paid fairly close attention to it
parklands was supposed to be a Garden Cities development, lots aof parks and greenbelts to stroll down with the dogs and a pram, the whole development was supposed to be very community based.. so instead of one big mall there are sporadic centers which serve communities and then the rest of the community is held together with the churches, community halls and those greenbelts, that was all well and fine but there was one big problem, the houses that were developed were quite cheap, cheap mainly because it was a new outlying area that nobody really wanted to move to, so they made it attractive, and attract they did, people started buying 2, 3 sometimes 4 apartments which had 2 rooms in a security complex, so the problem was that it became a buy to rent area, and with that went the community and how the development was structured
That being said there are some good and bad parts of parklands, PM me the address and ill give you my thoughts.
Personally, i would only buy in Parklands if i was going to rent it as well, if you are planning on moving into the area I would rent for a year 1st then decide..