Bus stop outside house yay or nay?

Bluebonnie

warehouse wrote: »

Rubbish: People leave rubbish at bus stops. Often there was rubbish thrown into our garden. I caught one teen throwing a can into our garden once and scared the living **** out of him for the .

I doubt if this particular house will attract much rubbish.

People like to drop their crisp packets and cans behind garden walls, hedges or fences. Next door to the left will probably get a few behind their garden gate.

jk0

I like the 50's bathroom. I paid £250 for a basin like that a few years ago.

iammumtoone

I don't live near a bus stop but do catch the bus at a stop outside a house that has no shelter. People are always sitting on the wall of the house. I do appreciate you don't have a wall but that causes another problem I have a young child who gets very bored waiting for the bus and will run around the pavement. I could see if we were waiting outside this particular house he would be running on and off your drive (yes I would tell him off but others might not). I do think if it had a shelter it would be better as it gives people somewhere to wait, waiting on the road side means they are basically loitering directly outside your home practically on your property!

iammumtoone

purple-dub wrote: »

hmmm, speaking from experience - we didn't have a bus stop outside our house, but recently a private firm has started running a route and they chose our house to be the unofficial stop! Most of the passengers are older people going home from the supermarket, but we have people leaning/sitting on the garden walls, blocking our gate when I go in/out with my 3-yr-old, and some lounging about with cans swearing loudly. Add to that the bus noise and smell, and it nearly ramming into the back of my car when I'm waiting for a lull in the traffic to get onto our tricky drive.....I'd have to say not a good thing!

Can you not do anything about that? Is there not a kind of planning permission needed for a bus stop? If not there should be, to give people chance to object.

1886

Torry_Quine wrote: »

I think a bus-stop outside my house is a good thing and would be very handy when you need it.

My friend's mum just sold her house, one of the biggest issues was the bus route it was on. She lived right on a junction and buses ran from 6.00am - 22.00, over seventy times a day they'd pull up and then drive off

Something you could do without IMO

paulineb_2

I have a bus stop outside my flat and one on the other side of the road, never bothered me, the noise from the buses isnt terrible and as Im a regular user of public transport I like the fact I can go out for a night out and in a minute Im home. Buses go from about 5am till just before midnight, dont even notice it now.

phoebe1989seb

A few years back we bought a 4 bed detached Victorian house with 6' deep front garden bounded by a brick wall. On the boundary with the next property (the first of a row of similarly aged terraced houses) was a bus stop. We bought the house on the rebound having lost the house we really wanted the day before exchange.

It was a huge mistake - there was no off road parking (although we rented a garage opposite) as buses were always sitting out there with engines running, then noisily departing from the bus stop. It didn't help that we were also very close to a busy junction - but like I say we were rushed into the purchase, having accepted an offer on our house from FTBs who were hassling us to find somewhere. People sitting on the buses could see into the house - I hate net curtains but resorted to muslin ones for a while, but the noise and fumes were too much for us and we didn't stay there long - once we'd renovated the place we sold up

I realise the house the OP is looking at has ORP, but I wouldn't be tempted, even if it's a good price I'm afraid

m0t

Once a bus stop is outside someones house all the people waiting at it seem to think they have free use of the garden as well. I once saw a drunk man urinating in the garden of the house next to the local bus stop.

The owners had made an attempt to grow a large hedge to block the view but people had pushed it out of the way and damaged it so they could sit on the wall (which was falling down because of constant use as a seat).

harrys_dad

The downstairs bathroom would concern me more, might be worth moving it upstairs into one of the bedrooms and expanding the kitchen.

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