Living near Electricity Pylons

Diamonds_2

jburfot wrote: »

What are peoples thoughts on this?

We have had an offer accepted on a house. Down the same street someone has a pylon in there front garden.

now the house we have had an offer accepted on is about 150-200 metres away and no cables run over the house/garden.

I am just unsure if we are a safe enough distance away, i know there has been studies etc but i am very cautious

any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi, there are quite a few pylons in a certain spot in the town I live in.. we've been househunting for ages now (found somewhere) and we viewed 2 houses near them and you get alot more house for your money that's for sure. I couldnt' live with them I'm afraid just because I felt intimidated by them looming over us. The houses nearby seem to take ages to sell aswell. So it's a thumbs down from me.

jburfot

in answer to lorians questions its picture A

but i must stress, its not in any line of site of the house, its in the front garden of a house 200 metres down the road. I wont see it at anytime unless i drive past it, i am only concerned whether its too close or it would put people off even at that distance

Diamonds_2

LOL @ picture B :rotfl:

I think you're trying to convince yourself that it won't be a problem either to yourself or a future sale - the houses we viewed near the pylons were flipping perfect for us but I just couldn't live with them.. I would have been able to see one of them from the lounge window so bit different than yours. Also, my 11yr old son took one look and freaked out!

epz_2

i would personally not buy one purely because i would feel like a complete twonk if got cancer just to save some cash on a house, i would qualify this by saying i am talking about the massive pilons not the little power lines.

OT a little but if a place really was vastly cheaper you could probably line the walls with a fine metal mesh to form a faraday cage and insulate the place from any EM field. nice way to save a fortune if you dont mind not being able to make phone calls indoors.

Lorian

jburfot wrote: »

in answer to lorians questions its picture A

but i must stress, its not in any line of site of the house, its in the front garden of a house 200 metres down the road. I wont see it at anytime unless i drive past it, i am only concerned whether its too close or it would put people off even at that distance

Ok, well it's a high-voltage then. I can only give you my personal opinion, based on "pylon A" being in a house 200M away and not in my view.

Would I be worried about health concerns? Not unduly. I would if it was in my garden.

Would it effect property prices? I would think so, or we wouldn;t be having this conversation, but presumably the price you have agreed to already factors that in, and TBH I couldn't put a figure on the difference.

Would I buy the house? If I liked it lots and there was nothing else to choose with even more compromise, then probably.

In my experience finding a house there have always had to be compromises. I have no mains drainage for example, and I know that would put a lot of people off. I agonised over this for a couple of weeks before the purchase, and yet it doesn't cause me any problems on a day-to-day basis.

jburfot

the house price is no cheaper, its basically the average for the area. i dont think its affectnig our potential house whatsoever i just wanted to gage other peoples feelings based on what i have said

alfiesmum

We looked at a house a few years ago, and the surveyors report pointed out that there were pylons nearby, and suggested we research it further. The little boy that lived in the next door house had recently developed cancer, a very sad story (I'm not saying it's related, but his parents seemed to think so). If something like this were ever to happen to our kids or ourselves - whether connected to the pylons or not - we would never forgive ourselves. So we passed on the house....

charlies_mum

I live on an estate where there are pylons around - in fact, I can see one about 400 yds in front of the lounge window. We bought the house knowing about the pylons, and to be fair, they have never bothered us - you can sometimes hear them humming if you get close.

I think our property would probably be worth more without them, but apart from having one in my garden, it wouldn't put me off.

We did have someone round last year saying there was about to be a big expose about the problems they cause, and they asked us to fill in a questionnaire, but we didin't have any of the symptoms linked with pylons, and to date haven't heard about the expose.

Houses sell well on the estate, so it doesn't seem to cause a problem when reselling.

As has been said before, it depends whether it is going to bother you once you move - if you have any doubts at all, walk away.

Gorgeous_George

I bought my first home in 1985. I had reserved a house on a new estate even though pylons passed quite close to the rear garden.

Over the next few weeks I read (before t'Interweb) that dairy cows gave less milk when they grazed in fields with pylons. Not necessarily a problem to humans but it got me worried. I revisited the property on a damp day and could hear the pylons buzzing.

I decided to buy elsewhere - away from the pylons.



GG

silvercar

in a good market a house near a pylon will sell, though they may be an effect on the price. In a bad market the house won't sell.

You need to consider the likelihood of further research between when you buy and when you sell.