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compensation???????

Hi i live in Folkestone and have a new academy that has been built about 200m from my front door, being right on a roundabout the traffic flow has increased dramatically,this with general noise from the students,rubbish etc,has changed a very quite area into a much more lively enviroment.? can i claim compensation from any body for the drop in property values all the estate agents have told me have occured,this is nothing to do with the general climate . the academy is less than a year old.?:confused:

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  • meester
    meester Posts: 1,879 Forumite
    woody_56 wrote: »
    Hi i live in Folkestone and have a new academy that has been built about 200m from my front door, being right on a roundabout the traffic flow has increased dramatically,this with general noise from the students,rubbish etc,has changed a very quite area into a much more lively enviroment.? can i claim compensation from any body for the drop in property values all the estate agents have told me have occured,this is nothing to do with the general climate . the academy is less than a year old.?:confused:

    no.

    you should have objected before it was built. And even then property prices are not a valid concern, you would have to have said the traffic was inappropriate for the area, or similar reason.

    Nothing at all you can do now.
  • poppysarah
    poppysarah Posts: 11,522 Forumite
    You need to work with the council to get the litter problem sorted out. You can ask them to look at traffic too if it's causing problems.
  • clobber_2
    clobber_2 Posts: 472 Forumite
    The proximity to the academy has actually improved house prices, because families with teenagers all want to live there now. As a result, you owe money to the council.
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,396 Forumite
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    If the authorities change the road (eg make it dual carriageway) you may me able to claim compensation. "Deleterious affectation" I think it is called.

    Free, but loads of hassle and don't expect to get the full amount that your property has fallen in price.
  • If the authorities change the road (eg make it dual carriageway) you may me able to claim compensation. "Deleterious affectation" I think it is called.

    Free, but loads of hassle and don't expect to get the full amount that your property has fallen in price.

    You are thinking of compensation under compulsory purchase rules, where there is injurious affection, but where the statutory body has not taken the enough (in laymans terms) of a property to be required to purchase the whole. I don't think the OP has lost any of his property, nor has be mentioned the statutory notices that would need to be served to formalise such a process. So, I'm afraid the answer would seem to be a NO compensation.
  • John_Pierpoint
    John_Pierpoint Posts: 8,396 Forumite
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    They don't have to take any of it physically.
    Just imposing noise, nasty yellow lighting, dust etc etc as a result of the development is enough to trigger a payment.
    You have to wait for a year after the development has been completed.
    It is really a sort of "hush" money that is dangled in front of people when a new road goes through an area.
    If a group of residents get together to make it worthwhile for a specialist firm of surveyors to take on the case, then those with a marginal affection can get some money.
    Some friends of mine got a few hundred from the Havant bypass (nasty job built in concrete) when they lived about half a mile away and you did not really notice it in their back garden.

    Just increased traffic on an existing road won't qualify. I doubt that the academy site is in itself generating enough noise etc. etc. to trigger any compensation and even if it did the householder probably has a theoretical ability to resort to law for abatement of the nuisance.

    The difficult to understand leaflet is here:

    http://www.communities.gov.uk/documents/planningandbuilding/pdf/147648.pdf
  • woody_56
    woody_56 Posts: 167 Forumite
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    thank you jim
  • Generali
    Generali Posts: 36,411 Forumite
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    clobber wrote: »
    The proximity to the academy has actually improved house prices, because families with teenagers all want to live there now. As a result, you owe money to the council.

    I think that's how things work in some parts of Spain (Valencia???).
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