Would you live 300m from a motorway?

Doozergirl

I live about 150m from the M5 on the east side. I can't hear it at all most of the time and it isn't something that people would really notice I don't think at this distance when you can't see it. I think that the prevailing wind takes the noise most of the time to the other side as my MIL also lives about 200m away but without houses on one side and sometimes you can hear it very clearly whereas the vast majority of the time it isn't noticeable. When I walk the dog I get closer to it - it's only when I can actually see it that it becomes anything other than very dull background noise.

The whole town is surrounded by motorway and people still live here - it's handy if nothing else! People that live nowhere near a motorway are probably more likely to say they wouldn't but the reality is that if there is a sound barrier of some sort - housing then it isn't really a problem.

It isn't dirty here at all. I don't understand that comment. Most of the area around it is fields - it often is near the motorway.

poppysarah

real1314 wrote: »

I live about 340m (checked it on google earth) from the M60. Hardly notice it. The M60's in a cutting, banking either side, then a school field then some trees, then some other houses, the a bit of road then my house.
From the front of the house (faces towards m60) you can hear it, but it's just a background noise - a bit like rushing wind. It doesn't bother me. Cars on the A & B roads can be far noisier as they are closer.

The sound of cop cars is more annoying since they opened the police station at chadderton we seem to hear them a lot more often. (Or has the world gone worse?)

clockworks_2

mum lives 150m from an A road. you cant hear apart from at night. The noise is very soothing, and you only hear it if you leave the window open.

300m from a motorway , i would.

Ian_W

I live about a quarter of a mile away ( in old money) from a motorway. You certainly can't hear it in the house but can in the garden when the wind is in a particular direction but it's low background hum rather than anything really loud.
Actually the farmyard we back onto can be far noisier with the cows mooing at milking time and tractor noises at harvest time.
It's all farmers fields between us and the motorway so I guess the sheep and cows must get the dirt - we certainly don't.
Most people who've visited and stayed with us comment on it being a lovely peaceful spot.

I live about 150m from the M5 on the east side.

I'll wave next time we go to Cornwall!! :wave:

poppysocks1

Think so. My mum used to have a house right next to a train track, and in the end you just didnt notice the trains, and also I know when I was a student there was a train line at end of garden, and after a while you just dont notice the noise as you get used to it. So noise wise I would imagine it to be the same. I would assume the house has double glazing and 300m is far enough away I would imagine for the noise not to be really affecting the property.

anotherginger

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

No.

You might get used to the noise but not the dirt in the air.

i think you'll find that the air quality beside motorways is only a problem within about 20 metres, at 200 metres there won't be any effect.

ukmaggie45

poppysarah wrote: »

The sound of cop cars is more annoying

We get the nee-naas going past most days, it still startles me even though we've lived here for 36 years. Been getting more frequent recently it seems to me. Which is why we are hoping to move despite loving our home to bits.

I suspect a motorway not "horribly" close would be quieter than the suburban main road that we live on.

Maggie

tomstickland

Fire_Fox wrote: »

I wouldn't move out of a flat because of previous noisy neighbours and potential future noisy neighbours into a property that close to a motorway, no. Out of the frying pan ...?

It's all a matter of personal likes / dislikes. Some people would find the constant background hum of a motorway quite different from chavs jumping up and down, slamming doors and revving cars in the early hours.

Keith

We live near the M1, about 400m, and we can hear the motorway but it's not enough to make a difference to life, if it wasn't there then we'd hear something else

LandyAndy

I used to live about 4-500 metres from the M6/M62 junction in Warrington. Even in the dead of night there was always a low hum of traffic if you were outside or had the windows open. After a few days you tune it out. Even my parents, who live in the country, didn't find it a problem when they visited.