Seen potential property but electricity generator next door..

Debt_Free_Chick

There must be thousands of people in the country living next door to a sub-station.

Surely, we would know if there were real risks?

ccygirl

MCHU6AM4 If you contact the electricity company responsible for it. It usually has a sign on it as to which co it belongs to. Then search their website with EMF and my one gave a phone number for the dedicated dept. The people are really helpful and arranged the survey in a couple of days. I think if the substation is across the road it probably wont affect you as the EMF tails off quite quickly and these substations tend to be lower in voltage than Pylons.

jburfot

I was in a similar position a few weeks back. We had an offer accepted on a house and no more than 70 metres away on the same side of the road was a huge electricity pylon. Although the wires did not run over any part of the house or garden I was still very concerned.

After spending the entire weekend worrying about it I pulled out. I read a lot on the net about it and consulted friends and family and the general feelign was that you just dont know whats to come out about these things. If you can live there and no have a worry about it then ok but I would always be living on a knife edge worrying if a damaging report were to come out which would see the value of my house plummit.

Take a look at the link on the home check website about overhead pylons.

http://www.homecheck.co.uk/hcf/Welcome.do;jsessionid=EE0FDC6B6F79EA23B7F7977277832C0A