Would you buy a house near a sewage works?

westv

westv wrote: »

15 minutes walk? That's about a mile isn't it?
So nowhere near the house then.

Orpheo wrote: »

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This.

The OP has confirmed the works are actually 0.3m from the house so I assume they must walk very sloooooowly!

TBeckett100

Astro75 wrote: »

Thanks for your replies. You can't really see it, it's in a fairly leafy area, well hidden in trees. I do agree that if we're having to think hard about it we would struggle to find buyers when we came to sell it.

leafy as it is, a !!!!!! in the woods can still smell.

leap31

There is a sewage works in Essex that is literally right on top (5 mins away?) of a fairly new build housing estate. My friend has lived there for a few years now and the smells are so awful at times - even on cold days during the winter! She has to keep her toilet lids shut as the smell also comes through the toilet apparently(!?).

The A12 also runs alongside this same sewage works and there is often an arguement in my car on 'who let one go!':rotfl:

lincroft1710

There must be many villages where all the houses are within 15 min walk of the sewage works and a town I lived in, about a third of the houses would be within a 15 min walk.

Davesnave

No one has indicated what size this sewage works is. Often villages have them tucked away and hardly anyone remembers they're there.

However, here is a nice large one I know at Saltford, between Bath & Bristol

http://www.multimap.com/s/yl2a7iUm

This works is NE of Mead Lane by about 300-450 m and I can assure you no one has problems selling their houses there. It's an expensive spot.
And yes, the prevailing winds would carry any smell away, but I've been on this site & didn't find it that smelly, except when standing directly over the inflows. HTH.

wodgerdodger

leap31 wrote: »

There is a sewage works in Essex that is literally right on top (5 mins away?) of a fairly new build housing estate. My friend has lived there for a few years now and the smells are so awful at times - even on cold days during the winter! She has to keep her toilet lids shut as the smell also comes through the toilet apparently(!?).

The A12 also runs alongside this same sewage works and there is often an arguement in my car on 'who let one go!':rotfl:

I know exactly the one you were talking about , outside Chelmsford near the Boreham interchange. We lived the otherside of the A12 about a mile as the crow flies from it and I can honestly say we rarely ever got a whiff from it but did when driving past on the A12.

I should add it didnt stop the brand new housing estate built around it from selling fast though!!