FTB advice. Would you pull out of house purchase?

davidmcn

mabalman said:

The trees are being retained, some are being removed but will be replaced elsewhere to offset the loss, there were plans to remove more trees but it was met with many objections. This is what I cannot understand from council plans, the entire area (less 2m of footpath which is current and will remain) is shown as a cycle path with small patches of grass around the retained trees remaining. I cannot understand how a cycle path could be that wide..

Maybe point us towards the plans and we can help.

Tiglet2

I live on a main road.  There is no cycle path, but there is a path and some greenery and it is used by walkers/joggers/runners and some cyclists, so we do have to be careful when exiting and entering our driveway.  We can turn round on our driveway so we are not reversing across the path.  I don't find it a problem to be honest and it wouldn't put me off the house.  

FTB_Help

It depends on the location.

I live in the city (London) there's a cycling path near me thats always busy with people cycling into work (in the City).
So trying to cross over is always a pain, where the cycling path starts (off the main road) I always see cyclist shouting "oi", "Heeeyyyy", "bleep, bleep, bleeepp" where I guess when people try to cross over or when cars turn in.

There is also a zebra cross near the path which every single cyclist ignore (ive have seen multiple people swerving on the zebra crossing at speeding cyclist).

Annoying many cycling paths here run behind a bus stop (in between the pavement and bus stop island) meaning if you're trying to catch a bus and you're on the pavement, you need to wait for the cyclist to give way for you to step onto the bus stop island. 

This is of course in the city of London where many hipsters and cyclists reside so if you're by the countryside i doubt you'll get the same issues as me

davidmcn

Of course many buyers would also regard it as a bonus to have immediate access to a cycle path, rather than having to first negotiate a non-segregated main road.