FREE homecheck

vickijh32

Planning on moving home? this is great for checking for flooding, subsidence, pollution, landfill sites, schools, crime rates and planning information in your neighbourhood.
http://www.homecheck.co.uk/hcf/Welcome.do

P.S Not sure if this is the right place to post it, please move if neededThanks

lilyann1

Great website .Why did it take my solicitor 4 weeks to get the environmental report from the council then????
Can't they use this???

Manchester_Lucy

Wow what a good site.

Although it says that the house we're buying is in an area potentially affected by flooding!! I can't see why as the nearest water is a couple of miles away in a canal. Oh well I'll see what the sol's searches come up with.

Whits

Same here, the house I looked at is 400 metres from a canal, and over 100 metres above it

:username:

Great site!! Thanks for the link!!

A_Nice_Englishman

Not sure about the accuracy. I did a check on a postcode i used to live in and got

The centre of the postcode BS21 5HJ is within 500m of flood defences.

The centre of the postcode BS21 5HJ is not within 500m of an area benefiting from flood defences.

Is it or isn't it?

vickijh32

A_Nice_Englishman wrote:

Not sure about the accuracy. I did a check on a postcode i used to live in and got

The centre of the postcode BS21 5HJ is within 500m of flood defences.

The centre of the postcode BS21 5HJ is not within 500m of an area benefiting from flood defences.

Is it or isn't it?

My area says the same too, we do have a smallish brook about a mile from here, which I suppose could overflow although it never has since I've been here, 11 years! maybe thats where they think the risk is from
The website is only meant as a rough guide you can ask your solicitor to do the full searches if needed.
Acorrding to the Environment Ageny website that postcode sure has a lot of water around it :eek: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/

seven-day-weekend

Quite accurate for my area.

A_Nice_Englishman

vickijh32 wrote:

My area says the same too, we do have a smallish brook about a mile from here, which I suppose could overflow although it never has since I've been here, 11 years! maybe thats where they think the risk is from
The website is only meant as a rough guide you can ask your solicitor to do the full searches if needed.
Acorrding to the Environment Ageny website that postcode sure has a lot of water around it :eek: http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/

It is technically within the flood plain of the River Severn, though I lived in the area over 30 years and it certainly never flooded or even came close in that time.

Manchester_Lucy

I've just checked on that website and it has the shade of blue all over our current house but our new one which is just down the road isn't covered by the blue but is within 500m of the blue if that makes sense.

I don't know what the flooding would be caused by around here, I guess there must be natural springs around.

Where I work which is right next to a canal has no blue shading anywhere near it, very strange.

Maybe I should get a load of sandbags and that will be my very own flood defence!!

littlejaffa

lilyann1 wrote:

Great website .Why did it take my solicitor 4 weeks to get the environmental report from the council then????
Can't they use this???

4 weeks is good! i have freinds who waited 12months!! it depends on the council and there's very little you can do to speed things up