Dream home, but it is on the corner of a junction

letsbetfair

As you've seen from the replies, people have very different views about how much of a problem this is - and only you know how much of an issue it is for you. One other thing you might consider is whether there's much risk of the woods being developed into housing in future.

cogrady

letsbetfair said:

As you've seen from the replies, people have very different views about how much of a problem this is - and only you know how much of an issue it is for you. One other thing you might consider is whether there's much risk of the woods being developed into housing in future.

Very true. I guess if everyone was bothered about living next to a busy road then no one would live in those houses  
The land behind the house is partly made up of a wooded area (the area behind the house), and a large open field. This field a number of years ago was bought by the local council to build an elderly care home, which I don't mind. All trees in the woods are tagged to be kept (I checked) so I won't have any intrusion to my privacy if that development was ever to go ahead. There is a path through the woods, but is about 25 feet from the house boundary and is very overgrown, so I have little concern in regards to security. 

Mgman1965

hazyjo said:

cogrady said:

Haha yes the post box is handy. I took a walk there this evening along the road and there was about 3-4 cars every minute. So I guess to some that is busy road, but to others that's a quiet road! 

You might want to check outside of the current Covid situation. There'll be a lot more under 'normal' circumstances.

This definatly ^^^^

Saw a cartoon of an estate agent talking to a couple 

"So you want peace and tranquillity, i have the perfect property, its set between two large pubs and opposite an airport".

cogrady

Mgman1965 said:

hazyjo said:

cogrady said:

Haha yes the post box is handy. I took a walk there this evening along the road and there was about 3-4 cars every minute. So I guess to some that is busy road, but to others that's a quiet road! 

You might want to check outside of the current Covid situation. There'll be a lot more under 'normal' circumstances.

This definatly ^^^^

Saw a cartoon of an estate agent talking to a couple 

"So you want peace and tranquillity, i have the perfect property, its set between two large pubs and opposite an airport".

Haha 

MovingForwards

I've previously lived in a house, where buses would go by the front garden / drive and the house would shake every time, the buses had a 'whine' to them and even in the garden they could be heard. That's before I even talk about the general noises of traffic. The house was near two junctions, with a decent sized garden.


I very recently purchased and live in first floor flat, over 100 years old, on a commuter road to the city with a Trainline at the end of the garden somewhere. The village has a 20mph speed limit.
The set up is main road, path, front garden, flat back gardens, embankment, train, unused ground, water. Less than 700m from road to water.

First night I spent here I was woken up by a motorbike hurtling through at 4am, as this village road is long and great for opening up the throttle 😉 I've the commuter coaches go by, the boy racers with their dump valves and exhausts, occasionally someone pulls up and leaves the stereo blaring (be ok if it was decent music), lorries and vans making deliveries to the shops, but as it's a middle flat I do not 'feel' any of this. Nor do I feel the trains going by or anything from the huge metal factory across the water.
I know I do not live in a quiet village due to it being a commuter belt (I'm here to earn my money in the city, but spend most of it in my village and will admit I purchased for the water / mountain views / garden and knew it was the right home for me based on the EA photos, before even looking at earth / maps etc and wanted to move to this village for a few years).

I can barely hear the trains when inside, I hear 'something' from the metal factory but couldn't say what it is, obviously I hear the traffic and people, more so when the windows are open.

The garden spans about 160m, all the flats have its own garden. The train is like wind whistling through trees, the metal factory had some kind of press going and as I know where the sound is coming from its no longer a puzzle, I don't hear the traffic.


I agree with others, it's not your dream house as you wouldn't be posting here. 

amandacat

I grew up in a house right on a busy main road, it was noisy but as a child I was just used to it. If anyone remembers those musical car horns from the 80s, I could hear them a lot. Fortunately they aren't about these days! I also agree about the house shaking when a bus went past.  I wouldn't live near a main road again personally as the noise isn't comfortable. Also you could never have cats on a main road. Mind you the house was a Victorian terrace right on the main road, depends how close this property actually is. 

zagubov

I also grew up in a house right on a busy main road connecting a big city to a small city; it was noisy but as a child I was just used to it. 
Now live in a quiet village but the church nearby rings its bells every 15 minutes all day and all night. I presume it does, as we don't notice it and sleep through it. And before anyone says, maybe it's just not happening during the pandemic, church bells have been automated for decades.

onwards&upwards

Looking out the front of my house is a quiet suburban street, manicured lawns, a 20 mile an hour speed limit, very little traffic, kids on bikes, neighbours chatting as they garden or wash their cars etc etc. 

At the back, right behind the fence at the bottom of the garden is one of the busiest A roads in the region, a dual carriageway, I'm about 150m from a major junction with the road that leads to the motorway, it gets very very busy in the morning rush hour.  Less so in the evening. 

I honestly never notice the noise from the road.  You get used to it so quickly.  And its not actually the kind of noise that's disruptive or bothersome because its fairly constant hum, rather than lots of random, sudden, disjointed noises.  WhenI used to work nights, if it was warm and I need to sleep with the window open in the day then I moved to the back bedroom because it was actually much harder to sleep with the sounds from the quiet peaceful suburban paradise than with the sounds from the road!  That's because the sounds from the front were random and unpredictable.  Kids playing, car alarms, dogs barking, people doing DIY or using power tools in their gardens, delivery vans parking up and leaving their engines running, loud conversations across the street, teenagers talking at their teenage volume etc!

Mickygg

Personally I wouldn’t take the risk. It is obviously an issue as you have posted on here and surely if you were to move in it would be on your mind the whole time. 

My main issue wouldn’t be so much the passing noise but the standing traffic at the junction. For pollution and noise of accelerating.

I live fairly near a main road and I can hear it in the garden but it doesn’t bother me. A neighbour lives on the main road with the garden running along it. They have struggled to sell for years. It’s a lovely house and if it wasn’t on the road I would have bought it, but the trouble is that’s been the feedback over the years, great house wrong location. It’s on a bend which doesn’t help as traffic accelerate and of course some put their foot down and create a lot of noise.

I really wouldn’t contemplate buying it until I could see for myself the traffic at rush hour post Covid 19. The fact that this isn’t possible would make it a no for me. 

royalmike

At the moment I am renting in a small market town but on the corner of the main road out, ok for a few months but would never buy in this sort location, traffic wakes me up 5am every morning don't need an alarm clock.