would you buy house next to Pub

Fruittea

I house sit in a house next to a quiet country pub and even that can be a pain. The pub put their smoking area right next to the wall. So on a summer day the smokes wafts in.
Loads of people take their dogs and they poop on the paths nearby. It's canal side so busy on summer nights and a fight broke out one night and they threw furniture in the canal.
The landlords change all the time and some have been a bit of a nightmare - I've also found glasses in the garden. So unless it was staggering wonderful I wouldn't buy.

cyantist

Lazarus_Blackstar wrote: »

I'm guessing it's this one?

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-63607772.html

Given that that house is no cheaper than others a few roads away I'd be looking at one of those instead. To put up with that location I'd expect to pay 10% less than other similar (but not near pub) houses, and even then I wouldn't consider it unless I was desperate and couldn't afford anything else.

tensandunits_2

Another 'no' from me! Having lived in an area which has more pubs per square mile than anywhere else in the country, I know what it's like to be woken several times a night, several times a week, by people going past the house squealing drunk. We were very glad when we eventually managed to move to a better area.

paddy's_mum

Another no from me too.

I once lived opposite the pub in a large and busy village. It was fine all the time it was only local folk using it but then it was bought by a restaurant chain and converted to a steakhouse.

They were still taking food orders at midnight and chucking out sometimes went on till 2 in the morning. Earlier references to 'weeing up the fence' would have been the least of the disgusting things that drunk and rowdy people can do when your side access path/tiny front garden was the nearest place not lit by the street lights :eek:

So bad did it become that the local magistrates were on the point of withdrawing their licence. We sold to a young couple who thought such proximity was simply great but never again did we go within a mile of a licenced premises.

It's almost my biggest no-no - I'd prefer to live next to a pig farm - at least I can make an educated guess as to the worst they can do!

AnotherJoe

Absolutely not.
Both because it would be a nightmare to live next to, and a nightmare to sell when i was fed up with living there.

StumpyPumpy

I'm another one who would never buy near to a pub as a general principle for the reasons stated by others. Additionally, a quiet local pub in our village got a new landlord a couple of years ago and put an open marquee type tent on what was a lawn to hold live music events. I assume it was all above board as they still have it, and use it regularly. I am just about out of earshot but sometimes they turn it up to 11 and you can feel it through the walls.

You may think it is great to hear live bands from next door for free but that only applies if you and the landlord share the same taste in music. One of the regular groups was on last Friday night. They are called something like "The Bavarian Stompers Accordion Quintet" (not quite their actual name as I don't want them finding out and serenading me in the middle of the night, but you get the idea).

As far as the specific one you are considering, I assume it is the one currently marked Sold STC? If not then ignore this, but if so, I think the pub is one of the lesser problems. For instance, the road looks very busy and has speed measures as well as parking restrictions (not immediately obvious on Google streetview as I guess it had just been resurfaced), the pub is open until midnight Fri & Sat and the fact that it has had 3 different names in the last few years makes me suspicious, most pubs around here only change their name in a vain attempt to stop a reputation following them around. It is also known as a live music venue (see above for my thoughts on that)

Chiltern Mills is open 9:30am-5:30pm and the Mecca is open from 11:30am kicking out at around 10pm meaning there will be a constant and changing stream of people most of the day and night using the car park. Also, being surrounded by dual carriageways would be an immediate "No" for me: if the noise doesn't reach you the pollution will.

Being close to some local shops is a plus but I'm not sure quite how many tattoos or haircuts a person needs (to be fair, the shopping centre has much more useful shops as long as you ignore Brighthouse).

But it all boils don't to how well you know the area and how much you think it will suit you, it is a mistake to base your purchasing decisions just on whether or not you can sell on. By the time you do, markets may have changed or you may decide it is your "forever home". As someone who doesn't know the area, if I were considering it, I'd park up in the pub car park on a Saturday night and get a first hand view of what it might be like living there and base my choices on that.

SP

hazyjo

Looking at that link, you'd get a lot of racket just from people chatting around cars, shouting across the car park to their mate in another car or by the pub entrance, music up loud and engines running while they defrost their windscreens...


I remember reading something from someone who lived on a main road by traffic lights. I think they'd presumed it'd be quieter as cars would slow down, but they had the constant sound of music from people's cars. I'm so much more aware of the occupants over shops/in houses along a main road now when I see them with their music blaring out and windows or roof down, and bibbing of horns - don't forget that. Many still toot as they drive away from friends!


Jx

glasgowdan

No chance...Listen to drunk smokers hollering every night? No ta.

tim9966

I do at the moment live about 150 yards from a pub, but I'm now moving I've made sure my new place is about a mile from the nearest pub.


It has a garden, so in the summer months you get people sat outside, but this time of year no one sits outside, but the first warm evening in April I'll come home to hear lots of noise. This normally stops when it gets dark.


Sunday to Thursday it shuts at 11pm, so is fine. Friday and Saturday it opens to 2am, although I think sometimes it closes earlier. You do get a bit of noise with people slamming taxi doors, and shouting good night to others. The last time there was a big fight outside was back in 2015, but since then it's been not too bad again.

Mickygg

I lived next door to a pub years ago. Never had any problems. After a few years the pub was turned into houses. It was a village pub though, I wouldn't live next to a town pub.