Found out builders office/ yard has moved next door to a house I am planning on buying

user1977

LLM000 said:

LLM000 said:

user1977 said:

It's *possible* that it has planning permission with conditions about hours of use etc, but I wouldn't expect there to be any "rules" beyond whatever levels of noise etc being so outrageous that they constitute a legal nuisance (or would cause Environmental Health to step in).

If you choose to buy next to commercial premises such as this, you do have to take the risk of their practices, hours of working etc changing.

Thanks, I will see if I can find any planning permission online. Such a shame as it is a lovely area/ house ruined by a horrid builders yard in the middle of it all!

Or it was a long-established industrial site ruined by having some houses built next door!

Equally unhelpful - the area is fully residential with local schools a short distance away. I would think most residents agree a building yard does not fit the mould.

Unsure why you have felt the need to make unhelpful comments such as these. I was just after some genuine advice from people who are kind enough to offer their genuine helpful thoughts.

I have provided genuine helpful advice, free of charge, but if you don't like it I shall withdraw it. I was merely pointing out that it's not always the case that the "bad" neighbour has arrived later. If you know more about the local history than I do, fair enough.

LLM000

user1977 said:

LLM000 said:

LLM000 said:

user1977 said:

It's *possible* that it has planning permission with conditions about hours of use etc, but I wouldn't expect there to be any "rules" beyond whatever levels of noise etc being so outrageous that they constitute a legal nuisance (or would cause Environmental Health to step in).

If you choose to buy next to commercial premises such as this, you do have to take the risk of their practices, hours of working etc changing.

Thanks, I will see if I can find any planning permission online. Such a shame as it is a lovely area/ house ruined by a horrid builders yard in the middle of it all!

Or it was a long-established industrial site ruined by having some houses built next door!

Equally unhelpful - the area is fully residential with local schools a short distance away. I would think most residents agree a building yard does not fit the mould.

Unsure why you have felt the need to make unhelpful comments such as these. I was just after some genuine advice from people who are kind enough to offer their genuine helpful thoughts.

I have provided genuine helpful advice, free of charge, but if you don't like it I shall withdraw it. I was merely pointing out that it's not always the case that the "bad" neighbour has arrived later. If you know more about the local history than I do, fair enough.

Apologies this was in reply to another user, not you! 

lincroft1710

LLM000 said:

macman said:

You are 'planning on buying it', but you are also 'in the process of moving house'. So which is it?

Not a very helpful comment and totally unrelated to my post. If you are actually curious to know - we are in the process of buying it but are still in the phase where we can pull out. So both of those statements read correctly.

LLM000 said:

user1977 said:

It's *possible* that it has planning permission with conditions about hours of use etc, but I wouldn't expect there to be any "rules" beyond whatever levels of noise etc being so outrageous that they constitute a legal nuisance (or would cause Environmental Health to step in).

If you choose to buy next to commercial premises such as this, you do have to take the risk of their practices, hours of working etc changing.

Thanks, I will see if I can find any planning permission online. Such a shame as it is a lovely area/ house ruined by a horrid builders yard in the middle of it all!

Or it was a long-established industrial site ruined by having some houses built next door!

Equally unhelpful - the area is fully residential with local schools a short distance away. I would think most residents agree a building yard does not fit the mould.

Unsure why you have felt the need to make unhelpful comments such as these. I was just after some genuine advice from people who are kind enough to offer their genuine helpful thoughts.

Not all comments made on this forum will be necessarily "helpful" to the poster who started the thread. They may however be helpful to other posters who are trying to picture the situation. 


Just because the yard is surrounded by houses and has nearby schools does not mean it is unlawful. It may have the correct planning permission and/or existing user rights. In many urban areas with streets of Victorian and Edwardian houses there can be a variety of workshops, storage premises, builders/plumbers etc yards (even small factories) to the side and rear of these houses. All extremely well established and lawful.


It is like buying a house next to a pub. On the day you buy the house the pub could be a sleepy "geriatric watering hole" 6 months later a new manager could have turned it around, attracting a younger, noisier crowd, with the pub garden being full of screaming children and later in the day raucous groups of just legal teens. If you don't want the nuisance of a builder's yard, don't buy next to one - it may be reasonably quiet today, but tomorrow...........