busy road - influence on house price

Nicki

I don't drive and I have young children. If I were house hunting and found a house on a nice wide tree lined road, with a doctor's surgery a few doors down and a big supermarket within walking distance, I'd be thrilled. You would be surprised how many people (particularly women) don't actually drive. If you're a driver yourself, you just automatically assume everyone else does, but a large number of my friends (all middle class mums so able to afford to buy a house) either don't drive at all, or barely drive.

As others have said, access arrangements will probably have already been sorted out and it is very unlikely that articulated lorries will be allowed down a residential street. I would be surprised if the volume of traffic increased suffficiently to register as a huge problem with a viewer who doesn't know the area (though you will probably notice a change having been used to it before). As for parking, do you have any off road parking available or could you create this? Otherwise, you may be able to persuade the council to adopt a residents only scheme? Finally, depending on where you live, 6,000 patients may actually encompass a very small catchment area, so you may in fact find that a lot of patients don't bother to use their car and just walk to the doctor

pinkshoes

Everytime I go to my local doctors surgery, my appointment always take much longer than an hour due to excessive waiting time, so I would suggest you and your neighbours invest in some wheel clamps and create your own wheel clamping company, then clamp anyone who parks in your street for even 1 second over the 1 hour time limit!

Could you ask the council to put double yellow lines on the road?

You definitely need some traffic calming measures too, or even a dead end road.

david29dpo

I can tell you from bitter experience a busy road will put buyers off. My house was on the market for 2 years, all feedback from viewers was the road. A similar house 100 yards away sold for £50k more in less that a week. I gave up.

tiptoes27

I have tried the uk planning link a number of times yesterday and today. it will let me into the correct borough, but when I click 'search planning applications' I always get 'this page cannot be displayed. I have tried to access it from the council website (Bromley) but there is not much information.

olly300

david29dpo wrote: »

I can tell you from bitter experience a busy road will put buyers off. My house was on the market for 2 years, all feedback from viewers was the road. A similar house 100 yards away sold for £50k more in less that a week. I gave up.

There's busy and there's busy.

Very few people will be happy to buy a property that is just off a junction of a A road, or a road that allows people to go at national speed limit.

There as people are quite happy to buy properties that are near facilities like supermarkets and doctors surgeries if there are proper parking restrictions and HGV restrictions in place.

oldandhappy

If it happens to be Station Road multi storey car park project Orpington put in Bromley planning 06/01277 and it should give you some info.

We lived in a Road that could be used as a through Road from one main road to another and before the new Asda was built nearby they tried several schemes and evenutally blocked one end..although going back there recently it is now a one way road. Shocked beyond believe though that a plot of land on the corner of our 'old' property that was tree filled and now it is a block of flats that tower the Road and look completely out of place. I cannot believe that building got planning...but it did.
In your shoes I would move now if possible the traffic I would imagine is going to be horrenous. We took to riding our bicycles for shopping trips the last couple of years at the 'old' property which was ok as at least it had no hills unlike where we are now!!!.....Mrs Happy

olly300

madcatwoman wrote: »

I have tried the uk planning link a number of times yesterday and today. it will let me into the correct borough, but when I click 'search planning applications' I always get 'this page cannot be displayed. I have tried to access it from the council website (Bromley) but there is not much information.

This is more convoluted but you will still get the information-

When I wanted to find out about when the parking restrictions on my road. I went to the council website and put in my road name.

I couldn't find any information except that they were going to be done in 2007. So I found an email address of the councillors for my ward. I emailed the one of the local councillors and asked him a question. He forwarded the question to the planning department and they sent me 2 pdfs of the parking zones and a date when it would be done by. I looked at one of the pdf s noticed some proposed of the parking spaces had lamp posts in them so I asked them if they had actually surveyed the site because of the lamp posts. They had but would come back and look at it again nearer the proposed date. The number of parking spaces doesn't actually matter because the adjacent roads all have parking restrictions and lots of space, it seems that some people are parking on my road to get out of buying a permit. (Talking to my neighbour I found out that the residents had been complaining about this for 3 years. )

So I suggest
1. google your town name followed by the word "tesco". Read any relevant articles and see if you have a question i.e. on parking restrictions, traffic calming measures
2. go to the council website and put in the word "tesco" in the search engine see if anything comes up.
3. Find a local councillor either on the council website or through http://www.writetothem.com/ (put in your postcode), and email them a question related to the articles you read on traffic calming for the proposed tesco's store and about deliveries i.e. what roads will HGV be allowed to use and what measures will be put on your road so they can't use it.
4. Wait for them to reply. (As it is the summer holidays they may take 2 weeks. The councillor I wrote to replied within 2 days. )

Then wait a week and repeat this for the doctor's surgery.