I know people who live on Mereside, they are not scummy, or alcoholics, they just happen to have bought a house on a council estate and have made a nice life for themselves, and keep themselves to themselves. I have worked on plenty of homes on there too.
It is a council estate and every council estate in the country has undesirables living on it, but on the flip side , they have nice people on them too.
To put it in perspective, id rather live on there than say in Layton or the Central Drive area.