The "have a look at this!" thread II

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I do feel sorry for them.....

Don't be. As was pointed-out about 10 posts ago, the Local Plan was available for all to see long before they purchased. The site was already blighted and the price they paid would have reflected that.

Coming from the area, I know just how much growth the outskirts of Chippenham have experienced. No one would need Mystic Meg or a Local Plan to predict the likely outcome on those fields!

Dandie89

Do you prefer your bungalow rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57425957.html .......with shrubs?

.........or without? rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39257793.html

WeAreGhosts

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

How something this big and so current and relevant to their property did not turn up in their searches I wouldn't like to speculate, unless they chose to ignore them of course, and now think they can get someone (anyone) to give them some compensation.

Do Local Plans/Development Frameworks show up on searches?

I nearly had the same issue a few weeks ago. Stood in a house looking at the lovely fields around it, put in an offer that got accepted, did a bit of research that same night and found (after much Googling and to-ing and fro-ing) that the Local Plan shows the lovely fields are ear-marked to be built on. Pulled out the next day.
Can't believe a solicitor would wade through all the carp I did to find the map which was buried in loads of files.

WeAreGhosts

Dandie89 wrote: »

Do you prefer your bungalow rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57425957.html .......with shrubs?

.........or without? rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39257793.html

Here ya go

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-57425957.html

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-39257793.html

Fuzzyness

Deleted_User wrote: »

Let's do the timewarp again...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53125864.html

it looks like its been used as a drug den.

Rambosmum

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38174496.html

pic 9

robatwork

Rambosmum wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38174496.html

pic 9

Not to mention Pic 3.....

Davesnave

Rambosmum wrote: »

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-38174496.html

pic 9

I guess some Christmas guests just don't know when to go home.

Davesnave

WeAreGhosts wrote: »

Do Local Plans/Development Frameworks show up on searches?.

No they don't, although any solicitor worthy of the name would be aware of them via all the press & media coverage in the years/months prior. Another good reason for using a local solicitor, I suppose.

I think this particular story is a bit of selective journalism by a publication well-known for it, but there are less dramatic cases where much needed housing or other facilities do cause genuine problems for existing residents. They wouldn't sell newspapers though.

For example, where I live, a couple have been unable to sell their barn conversion in a similar but much smaller development situation. One can feel sympathy for them, because they bought two years before the parish council decided that the field next door was to become home to 35 new houses.

Lummoxley

Deleted_User wrote: »

Let's do the timewarp again...

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-53125864.html

All I could think of pic 22 was a sad elephants trunk. Which made me laugh. :rotfl: