Pylons near house

CherylMummy

We got someone recommended on U.K. Power Networks. They actually didn!!!8217;t want to come out because we were over 50m away from lines, and had to pay £375 to have a professional reading done. It was a waste of money really as everyone that had said that the EMF filed drops off completely at that distance was entirely correct. The chap that came to do the reading actually joked with me that his easiest money comes from Pylon Paranoia and that the false info and scare stories that you see online have given him so much business it paid for his new conservatory!

Red-Squirrel_2

Nasqueron wrote: »

A lot of people with no knowledge of science but an armful of nonsense they read on the internet have appointed themselves as experts over electricity pylons and the supposed links to cancer. Unfortunately due to these people, some members of the public wrongly believe living near a pylon will cause cancer so may affect resale. There is very little evidence of links between cancer and these pylons

https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-cancer/causes-of-cancer/cancer-controversies/mobile-phones-wifi-and-power-lines

There is research still going on, and I'm not convinced it won't end up being proved at some point in the future.

Its completely anecdotal but near where I grew up a big modern housing estate was built with pylons and power lines overhead, and the number of people on that estate who got cancers at an early age was enough to make me err on the side of caution. Some of them were odd, rare cancers too, like lung cancer in non smokers in their teens.

studentguy

Out of interest what type of pylons are they? I'm buying a house and in the field beyond the garden there are some power lines, but I think they're "normal" power-lines - this sort of thing:
https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/3542264/568531264/stock-photo-wooden-pole-mounted-electricity-substation-transformer-and-overhead-power-lines-uk-568531264.jpg
https://www.ukpowernetworks.co.uk/internet/asset/ceb5eba4-91a1-4a20-880b-61738894897G/Power+lines+to+be+removed+in+Abinger+Hammer.jpg

When you say pylons are you referring to this type or are you referring to
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/media/images/49643000/jpg/_49643471_pylon2_464.jpg
that type?

kinger101

There's no evidence they present any risk, but along with MSG, aspartame and all other kind of nonsense, Daily Mail readers and the tin-foil hat brigade believe these cause cancer.

For that reason, it will likely lower the value of the property. It reduces the number of people willing to buy, either because they own said hat, or a worried about the implications of selling on. It will be more of a problem in a slower market.

The question you have to ask yourself is whether that reduction in market value is reflected in the price you offered. There's a good chance it was already marketed at a lower price than a comparable property that wasn't near a pylon.

PasturesNew

If they weren't so close, the price would've been higher to you, making it unaffordable. Because of the pylons, you get "a better house than you thought you'd be able to get for your money".

I bet you viewed it and wanted it because "Wow, this is better/offers more than the other 6-12 for sale in our budget!.

savvysquirrel

Red-Squirrel wrote: »

There is research still going on, and I'm not convinced it won't end up being proved at some point in the future.

If future research did find a causal relationship with high voltage power lines and the health risks that are currently just anecdotal surely the national grid would have to remove them and re-route them underground.

savvysquirrel

studentguy wrote: »

Out of interest what type of pylons are they?

The last picture that you shared are the pylons I'm referring to.

They are approximately 175m from the house, you can't see them from the house but you can see the wires from the street.

Red-Squirrel_2

savvysquirrel wrote: »

If future research did find a causal relationship with high voltage power lines and the health risks that are currently just anecdotal surely the national grid would have to remove them and re-route them underground.

Loads of stuff is carcinogenic or otherwise harmful to health though that nobody makes much effort to protect anybody from, so I doubt it!

If the risk is ever proven it will probably only be a small increase, but because its a risk that is easily avoided with no inconvenience (unlike exhaust fumes or processed meat) people will be more likely to avoid it.

AnotherJoe

ACG wrote: »

I take the opposite view...
There COULD be a risk. As we only get one go at life, do I want to risk increasing my chances of cancer for something that can be easily avoided? Not really.

More so the fact that I have a little girl, do I want to risk causing her problems down the line? Definitely not.

It might cause health issues, it might not.
Obviously everything causes health issues, food, water, the air we breath, deodorant and so on. So you could take the view that its just another potential issue, or you could take the view that I dont want to add to everything else, I take the latter where I can.

A reasonable attitude, so, since internal combustion car emissions are for sure carcinogenic, plus cause (again no dispute) additional health issues in terms of asthma and the like (especially to children) , can i ask what electric car you are using ( in line with your cautious attitude, given the health risks from an internal combustion cars exhaust must be literally thousands of times higher than the wholly theoretical unproven risk from EM ?)

kinger101