church bells / house purchase.. agent failure?

googler

So they just assumed that the Church was permanently quiet, and didn't do any research on it? Didn't speak to the Vicar, any Church members, any locals...?

Enterprise_1701C

I read a story recently that someone who moved in next to a school asked for the noise at playtime to be toned down! That is way OTT as far as I am concerned.

I personally am totally fed up with people moving into areas and expecting those areas to adapt to them. If you move to the countryside then it will stink from time to time, if you move next to a church then the bells will ring, if you move near an airport then there will be noise from planes.

We had a problem recently with a group of people wanting a specific building knocked down and another to take it's place. We managed to block planning permission and they were narked to say the least, the planning permission was blocked because the building would have been very out of place where they wanted it, and the current building is locally listed and in a conservation area. The group replied by saying that another building was totally out of place - the other building having been there for about 200 years!

If you move into an area you have to accept it as it is!

smileytiger

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

I read a story recently that someone who moved in next to a school asked for the noise at playtime to be toned down! That is way OTT as far as I am concerned.

I personally am totally fed up with people moving into areas and expecting those areas to adapt to them. If you move to the countryside then it will stink from time to time, if you move next to a church then the bells will ring, if you move near an airport then there will be noise from planes.

We had a problem recently with a group of people wanting a specific building knocked down and another to take it's place. We managed to block planning permission and they were narked to say the least, the planning permission was blocked because the building would have been very out of place where they wanted it, and the current building is locally listed and in a conservation area. The group replied by saying that another building was totally out of place - the other building having been there for about 200 years!

If you move into an area you have to accept it as it is!

Exactly ...

girl_withno_name

I have to admit that I sympathise with the buyers to a certain extent - although I'd say this was more buyer failure than estate agents failure (as others have pointed out, a wander around the area and chat with locals would've helped to avoid the situation).

I moved to the city (so not looking for the "village life") and didn't do much research because we were new to renting and this sort of thing simply didn't cross our minds like it would now that we're looking to buy! So, turns out that the cathedral is about 1/4 mile away from the house and the bell ringing drives me nuts... viewed a house recently which backed onto a church and didn't consider it for a second longer!