bloody bomb damage...gis mapping...........arghhhhh

boam

we are in the process of buying a house, our structrual survey is happening next saturday, but a friend of ours has done something with GIS mapping, he has access to it, and it has shown up that the particular road i am buying from had bomb damage during the war, now the houses on the printout he has given us has different colors per different house, what are these colors does anyone know???? the houses range from purple,red,yellow, and a few other colors? asked the person who got us the printout and they wasnt too sure

clutton_2

if they are still standing 62 years later - may i suggest that the damage must have been fairly minor - and why are you worrying about it now !!

pboae

clutton wrote: »

if they are still standing 62 years later - may i suggest that the damage must have been fairly minor - and why are you worrying about it now !!

That's what the surveyor said about the bomb damage in our house. If the cracks had been caused by something else I'd have been more worried.

Taadaa

I'll third that. Houses were built to last in those days, and if it's still standing now, it's not anything to worry about.

pcwilkins

Who knows, you could even make it a selling point when you come to sell it.

"House with free bomb damage", something like that.

If you hadn't asked your friend with the GIS to check it out, you probably wouldn't even have known.

Gold_Shogun

boam wrote: »

we are in the process of buying a house, our structrual survey is happening next saturday, but a friend of ours has done something with GIS mapping, he has access to it, and it has shown up that the particular road i am buying from had bomb damage during the war, now the houses on the printout he has given us has different colors per different house, what are these colors does anyone know???? the houses range from purple,red,yellow, and a few other colors? asked the person who got us the printout and they wasnt too sure

This MAY in fact be potentially beneficial to you.

I bought a "similar circumstances" property in Ramsgate in the late 1980s, and although there was no actual / physical damage to the property, the entire road had been Officially designated as "A bomb damage restoration / redevelopment zone" during WW2 under one of the archaic (but never repealed) Statutory Instruments of the time ....

... I can't remember the precise details of everything involved, but the nett effect was that ANY repairs, improvements, extensions, etc carried out to the property were Totally Exempt from both Planning Permission AND Building Regs provided the cost was less than the "modern day property equivalent" of £ 150.00 in circa 1945 ... This amounted to Several Thousand Pounds in 1980s terms after adjusting for Property Inflation, and conveniently allowed us to legally bypass all the Planning & Building Red Tape that would have otherwise been involved in building our Very Large extension (which the Planning dept. had pretty much guaranteed they would refuse IF we had needed to seek approval).


Some "clouds" do indeed contain a Silver Lining !!! :cool:

Cheers
Bob

Snow_Dog

;)Bet that pleased your neighbours

CB1979_2

Snow_Dog wrote: »

;)Bet that pleased your neighbours

the extension he's talking about was actually converting his neighbours house into his house as well.

they went out one afternoon and came back and were homeless, but shogun had a nice big house!

Snow_Dog

And three doors down were wondering where all their ancient lights signs had gone to. Mainly because of the 8 storey building that had sprung up.

charley1965

I don't think it's anything to worry about at all, but I did a search and found the following, it tells you what some of the colours refer to...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4655437.stm