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High Tension Lines over the garden of property (Electric Pylon)
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This is not the only house available to buy. Choose another one.
There isn't a single comment on here saying buy it, buy it, is there? None of the rest of us are keen to live under a pylon. You'll find the same thing when you want to sell.Make £2025 in 2025
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Hello all and thanks for your replies and guidance.
Agree that all the replies echo one thing, don’t buy house under Pylon.
I have done a lot of reading on other websites as well and found that people are divided on this topic, some says no health risks and some as posters over here say living under pylon is health risk.
However one thing is clear; selling such house does limit your market and make it a hard sell.
I don’t wanna buy a place which I will have difficulty to sell if I want to move on, for that very reason I will not consider this house as an option.0 -
Hello,
I work in the southwest of england for a electricity distribution company, in the wayleaves department as it happens.
Just to clarify, A wayleave is not a permanent legal document. It is terminable. Basically it provides rights for distribution company to install and retain their equipment , in this case overhead lines across land with annual payments being made to the landowner and/or occupier.
The wayleave document will contain the provision for termination on a six or twelve month notice subject to the electricity companys rights under the electricity act 1989.
A wayleave does not automatically transfer to a new owner or occupier upon transfer of the purchased property and/or land.
If you were to purchase the property, you will receive a compensation payment from the electricity distribution company on their annual rota. If you cash this payment you are entering a legal agreement that you are happy with the equipment on your land (These agreements will last a maximum of 21 years).
If you do not cash the cheque, you have to wait between 6-12 months before you can apply that electricity distribution company terminates the wayleave agreement, usually by letter. Unfortunatley, the electricity company has a maximum of 12 months to process this termination on a legal basis. Once the termination has been accepted the electricity company has a maximum of another 12 months to physically remove/relocate the equipment. (3 years in total).
If the land has an attached Legal Deed to it, then this is a different case as this is a permanent legal document and not a terminable wayleave.
I am by no means a legal expert, and i do recommend that you get professional advice before making inroads into purchasing the property.
Hope this helps in some way.**~Revenue is vanity, margin is sanity, cash is king~**0 -
The jury is out on whether there is actually any problem with being next to those things,
The jury isn't out on it, there's no proper evidence link HV cable to any health problems.
All that aside. I would look at how much there knocking off the price of the house compared to similar property in the same area. I'd want a good large chuck off as it will be more difficult to sell. Unless the pylon is directly on your in your garden most of the maintenance is done overhead rather than actually needing to go though your garden.
If you gonna start be scared about electromagnetic fields and radiation, there's field given off by your mobile, microwave, wireless internet, the electrical cables in your house, Tv signals, cosmic rays, back ground radiation, a lot people live in houses that are at high risk from radon gas with no protection.
And you brain doesn't just work of electricity its as much chemical as it electrical.0 -
mankysteve - I see your point but the fact is, most people won't touch a property like this (or the one my Mum was thinking of buying) for fear of repercussions.
As for the jury being 'out' I read up on it considerably at the time, and there are 'experts' who say it is harmful and 'experts' who say it isn't or there isn't any credible evidence.... That to me means the jury is 'out' - no-one can say for definite - there are two sides!0 -
mankysteve - I see your point but the fact is, most people won't touch a property like this (or the one my Mum was thinking of buying) for fear of repercussions.
As for the jury being 'out' I read up on it considerably at the time, and there are 'experts' who say it is harmful and 'experts' who say it isn't or there isn't any credible evidence.... That to me means the jury is 'out' - no-one can say for definite - there are two sides!
It doesn't mean that, it means you have to check the validity of the experts to see whether they are credible or not. Regardless of the answer, it will impact on future sale prices.0 -
We used to have a house near overhead lines and they did buzz when the air was damp. We actually had no trouble selling the house but the people who had houses below the lines are still up for sale years later
I used a special meter to see if there was any detectable em effect in our garden from the wires and there was none. The meter remained in the green zone. Get this in perspective, in front of the microwave and close to the washing the machine for example, the meter glowed bright red
I would not buy a house below high voltage wires if only because I know that I could not easily resell
ps. I am a physicist and I don`t have a bedside clock or anything electrical by the bed and I don`t have a dect phone either imo they are far more worrying0
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