power cables running over my house

kinger101

OP.....the covenant is what it is. Accept it or don't buy. Without any idea of what you're intending to build, and not having seen the property, we cannot know if it's a problem.

Davesnave

These are 132 000 volt lines supported by large pylons. There is no chance of them being diverted, or the restrictions on the property being lifted, within the forseeable future.

bouicca21

I would not even consider buying such a property. Some people think overhead cables are a health hazard. I'd be more concerned about how unsightly they are.

Dan-Dan

Where i like to run, when you go under them you can quite clearly hear the buzz of them, not for me

AdrianC

I'm just boggling at how you think the cables will be moved if you ask nicely.

132kV cables supply large areas. They obviously aren't going to just be removed, because the residents of the town they supply quite like getting electrickery. If they're moved... where to? What if the person whose house they then go over says "Umm, excuse me?"?

davidmcn

Davesnave wrote: »

These are 132 000 volt lines supported by large pylons. There is no chance of them being diverted

I'm imagining the OP using some of those wooden props you get for washing lines to shift the wires over to the neighbour's side of the fence...

lemontart

personally would not touch it with a barge pole especially if you want to extend, as the rules re building near power lines are very strict to say the least. and as for getting them moved - that will run into thousands and that is if they say yes. and with out knowing where the cables go and come from would be difficult even to guess at.

Davesnave

lemontart wrote: »

as for getting them moved - that will run into thousands and that is if they say yes.

Let us be perfectly clear here; there is no possibility of the lines being moved.

HouseBuyer77

that will run into thousands and that is if they say yes. and with out knowing where the cables go and come from would be difficult even to guess at.

Davesnave wrote: »

Let us be perfectly clear here; there is no possibility of the lines being moved.

Even if that possibility did exist I would expect moving a 132kv transmission line is tens, if not hundreds, of thousands.

GDB2222

"Garden is rather large and I am planning some extension."

Could the OP supply some dimensions, please? size of the garden, and distance from the house to the cables.

Personally, I wouldn't buy this, as I feel uncomfortable under HV cables. It's partly silly - thinking what happens if one of the lines breaks - and I'd soon get over that. But there's a hum, and a feeling of static in the air, which i don't like. The house is presumably cheap for a reason. If this were the only way I could possibly afford to house my family, I might have to put up with the downside. But, just for a bit more space for the money, I wouldn't buy it. Lots of people think the same, so it will always be hard to sell.