Buying a house near a planned gypsy site

Smodlet

I live the other side of a wall from the Chav from Hell. She attracts every lowlife in the district. We have had drunks outside her house shouting at her to move out. Even the scum want the scum gone.

That's one person, in a house, not a whole bunch on a travellers' site. Until/unless her LL finally gets around to evicting her, no-one in the immediate vicinity is going to get anywhere near the true value of their house, should they try to sell.

OP, do what you want and take the consequences if the myriad warnings already given are not enough for you.

victoriavictorious

rach_k wrote: »

I thought travellers were considered an ethnic group so a lot of the comments here are pretty horrendous. OP, if you're going to agree with that kind of thinking, why not ask about Croydon's racial make-up too? Lots of opportunity for discrimination there to keep people happy.

First prize for deliberately ignoring the elephant in the room. You know jolly well that this is not about racism and to suggest otherwise is disingenuous to say the least.
So presumably you would have no hesitation in spending several hundred thousand pounds on a house with a proposed travellers' site close by, and furthermore would be happy to advise OP to do so?

Stubod

..me..I would run a mile and keep going....but that's just me...

missprice

I wouldn't buy it, I wouldn't be given it free unless homelessness was the other option and even then I think I would prefer to be homeless.

It's not even wether my house would be burgled, after all that could be coincidental.

Having had them move in on an estate I lived, minor crimes increased. Nothing could be left in the gardens, parcels stolen when it had never happened before, feeling under threat, when I had to walk through the camp it was pretty scary.
If for some reason one of these camps was proposed near me, I would sell up.

gardner1

Stubod wrote: »

..me..I would run a mile and keep going....but that's just me...

You me and most people who have commented on this thread but the OP and a couple of snowflakes seem happy to live near them
People keep saying its only a small minority who cause the trouble.........well all i can say is there must be a hell of a lot of them because i haven't met an honest one yet

betsie

My sisters house is now surrounded by gypsys. They have bought up small pockets of fields (for horses!) and put mobile homes on them. On one side she has a proper gypsy camp with caravans, loads of dogs and kids and men in white vests (I drove into my mistake one day and was terrified).
They do attract trouble, there have been 2 shootings in the camp. They also throw rubbish into her field and she even had to remove a dead horse they dumped.
On the other hand they don’t tend to nick stuff on their own doorstep so to speak. Other than the rubbish she has had no trouble from them personally.
I would say my sisters house would be hard to sell unless it was very cheap.

I also lived in a house opposite a field which was taken over by travelling gypsies. They left loads of mess the kids walked around without nappies and poo’d all in my front garden (which they used as a playground) and when the council finally got rid of them the last thing they took was a load of stolen tools they had stashed in the bushes. We sold up straight after that.

I would not buy a house anywhere near a camp however much I loved the house.

z1a

Gypsy camp, probably OK. !!!!! camp, never in a million years!

Site didn't like P1k3y!!!

Eilis

Like any human race there is good and bad.However, from experience they will rob your blind and swear on their children's lives it wasn't them.

Without sounding to frank, walk in fact run away right now. If it does not bother you, ask for a massive reduction on the property because it will be unsalable afterwards.

I'm sorry this is happening to you but best you know now than after signing on the dotted line.

Cheeky_Monkey

Maybe rach is one

Cakeguts

If the house appears to be good value for money for what it is then the current owners know about the possible gypsy site and are getting out before it is built. There is no such thing as a bargain property. If something appears to be cheap then it is because it has got a problem of some sort.