House development on old petrol station. Opinions?

elsien

I bought a house on potentially contaminated soil. After contacting the council and checking the contamination levels and future risks. Now the whole area has been built on, I doubt there's that many people who are still aware that there used to be a battery factory down the road.
For me personally, the site being a former petrol station would not be an issue if I could see and double check the information that you have about current contamination levels.
In fact, it's possibly safer than houses built on brownfield sites a few years back when things weren't being checked in the same way. Whether other potential buyers would see it like that, who knows?

TBeckett100

It wouldnt bother me. It will probably be a footnote on the search and thats all.

What may bother me is until Sat Nav software is updated, you'll have every car, bike, lorry and coach pulling up looking for petrol :rotfl:

lincroft1710

A lot of petrol filling station and garage sites have been redeveloped for housing, so this is a common problem.

Double_V

TBeckett100 wrote: »

It wouldnt bother me. It will probably be a footnote on the search and thats all.

What may bother me is until Sat Nav software is updated, you'll have every car, bike, lorry and coach pulling up looking for petrol :rotfl:

He said they changed the postcode.
So I guess that is the reason they changed the postcode for the housing development.

silvercar

Provided it has been decontaminated properly it shouldn't be a problem.

I don't know whether people perceive the problem to be from fuel leaking into the soil or from the walls of the tank collapsing, but both should be covered by certificates.

dirty_magic

This wouldn't bother me at all. There's a development where we used to live built on a former petrol station and they all sold so there must be a fair few people who don't care!

TBeckett100

Changing the post code won't matter. It still points to that location