Lovely property, but do we buy?

Doozergirl

V.Lucky wrote: »

I live next to a school, although not by the entrance. It's noisy at playtimes, 15 mins am and pm, and 50mins at lunchtime. However, we are at work during this time and at night it's bliss, no neighbours and peace and quiet. Weekends too.

Yes. I forgot that. It was really easy to park because there were no houses on the other side of the road, virtually impossible to find in London.

And we weren't overlooked, had no neighbours facing us.

DKLS

Depends many buyers would love to be near a school, but I hated living near a school, noise wasnt so much of a problem but litter, graffiti, hedge diving etc was an issue.

Lotus-eater

DKLS wrote: »

Depends many buyers would love to be near a school, but I hated living near a school, noise wasnt so much of a problem but litter, graffiti, hedge diving etc was an issue.

At a private infants school? Hardly.

ILW

Landfill can have its advantages. It cannot be built on and can stop housing development and urban creep.

charliee_3

ILW wrote: »

Landfill can have its advantages. It cannot be built on and can stop housing development and urban creep.

yes i did just read about it actually.. once it stops being used as landfill they can make them into very nice green recreational areas...

and some landfills arent full of yucky stuff, just building waste etc and may not even be in use anymore, so may be worth visiting it to see how busy/stinky it is..

DKLS

Lotus-eater wrote: »

At a private infants school? Hardly.

It was a private infants school.

Lotus-eater

DKLS wrote: »

It was a private infants school.

Well I am extremely suprised, the infants school my DD goes to wouldn't allow anything like that to go on, absolutely not one bit of it. And a private school is normally much easier to police, they just tell them to stop it or they are out. Did you tell the headteacher?

metroman

Thanks so much everyone for your replies.

I visited the school today when the children were going to school and things didnt seem too bad.

4 big minibuses turned up and dropped the children off, and the parents that did bring their children (which really wasnt that many) were all gone in about 10 minutes and things felt very peaceful afterwards.

I ended up putting things into context in my mind by realising that where I live now, a car zooms up the road about every 30 seconds and you can get noisy disrespective people walking around after dark ... Where the other place is, is the last house at the end of a cul de sac and I am only going to get bothered by traffic and people from the school for a very short time in the day compared to what I experience now.

Ive yet to find out if the landfills that are supposedly within 500 metres are capped or current .. But the general opinion of people living in this area is that they are all capped.

As far as the greenbelt issue is concerned, I guess this is a risk I am going to have to take, because who knows, what with the demand for affordable housing, whether this could eventually be built on, but I think in this particular instance it would be quite difficult as the greenbelt is thickly forested and not an open green field.

Anyway, enough rambling on .. Ive decided Im gonna phone up the agent tomorrow and put in an offer )

Doozergirl

metroman wrote: »

Anyway, enough rambling on .. Ive decided Im gonna phone up the agent tomorrow and put in an offer )

Good Luck! :beer: