Environmental Report Back

lovelldr

Hi guys.

On our Homecheck environmental report, it shows that there is a landfill site which is within 250 meters of the New Build property we are buying, and it states on the summary sheet that we should contact the surveyor (which surveyor, the one who did our mortgage survey), to see if the location of the landfill has an impact of the value of the property. There are actually two landfills in the area, which aren't very big. One of them is land that has no intention to be built on within the near future (when last asked council about this two years ago), and the other now has houses built upon it already.

It also mentions that we should ask the surveyor about subsidence on the property, although further on in the document, it states that there is either a low, very low or no risk of any of the types of subsidences occuring. The property used to be a factory a couple of years ago. I don't know why they knocked it down, but am guessing it was just the usual moved on or went bankrupt. After speaking to the British Geological Survey, they said that this is common in reports if there has been a history of this sort of thing within 500meters of the area, so should be nothing to worry about, especially with having the NHBC guaruntee.

Finally, it also mentioned flooding within the area. On the map it shows, there was flooding within about 50meters of the property, which was "serious" flooding (or whatever terms they used), and it mentioned that there were no flood defences, or benefit from a flood defended area! However, as long as I know, there has been no flooding in that area for a long time, and there has been a lot of remedial work to stop flooding in the area in 1998 and 1999. The only flooding I'm aware of locally now, is about a mile or 2 away. And seeing as we are a little way up a hill, I forsee little problem. But am I wrong in this foreseeing?

Any help and thoughts greatly appreciated on whether these are things I should be worried about?! I feel as though I shouldn't be, but you always get nervous reading these types of reports!

(I should probably also note that I currently live about 50 metres away form the land fill sites mentioned at the beginning, for the last couple of years, and have had no problem).

Thanks,

David

alanobrien

Personally i wouldnt worry about it as long as it wasnt built ON a landfill site.

I know of a modernish estate locally that was built on one some 15 years ago and now several of the houses have subsidence which blights the whole (small) private estate.

clutton_2

re flood risk - this may increase your insurance premiums substantially. May i suggest that you discuss this with your surveyor

lovelldr

clutton wrote:

re flood risk - this may increase your insurance premiums substantially. May i suggest that you discuss this with your surveyor

well, I've had insurance quotes come through, and I've told them about the flood problems, and they stated that it's not coming up as a problem on their system, so no problem for me. Told them to make a note that I told them about the flood, so shouldn't give any problems with the insurance