To buy a house so close to a motorway

Oh no that's grim reading right there

There's an air pollution website you can use, you put in the postcode. Ours is terrible and we're not near a motorway!
https://addresspollution.org/

It would bother me because of the noise, the air pollution, and my cats. I think only if you are a very indoors family would it be ok (but you’d need triple glazing).

You might also get vibrations and dirt - we got that from a nearby railway line. Often had to repaint near windows and rehang stuff.

Not a motorway but we previously lived near a busy road.
i wouldn’t say I regret it but the noise and pollution got to me, increasingly, until I could no longer tolerate it. I never enjoyed being in the garden.

I’d pull out now if you possibly can.

YABU not to share the Rightmove link!

What won't be a problem?

The noise is caused by tyres on tarmac and air turbulence - not engines

The pollution is largely from tyres and brakes - at least half anyway. So the air quality may improve somewhat. Regardless, we're probably 20 years away from most cars being electric and a lot longer for HGVs etc.

The thing that will solve the issue is better public transport - not different types of cars

I live in on main road. House is set back off the road due to the front garden. No houses opposite me and on the other side of the main road is a major A road. It can be noisy but you get used to it. Hardly hear it in the back garden and can’t hear it really when in doors.
Id say the main a road it’s about 30/40ft away from my front door.

I'm very sensitive to noise and thus would bother me. The pollution even more so. When I look at grimy buildings sometimes I imagine the lungs of the people in that all day. Its well documented that kids in someone the polluted inner city area have 'brain damage' from toxins. Id also inaginevit affects fertility too. Life is a balance of risks, rewards etc but I'd feel what's the point of packing a healthy lunch, getting children to clean their teeth etc if my kids are breathing in shit.
Of course you could gamble on us all ditching petrol/diesel in the next few years so the impact won't be so great

I think depends on your circumstances and how the house otherwise meets your needs, assuming it is priced to reflect the location of the motorway

If you are say a family of 4 and could only afford to buy a 1 bed flat elsewhere, but this is a 2 bed house with a garden then yes, I would consider it.

If it is just a nicer version of a house you could afford elsewhere, then no.

Big executive detached for just under a million are being built near us right next to a hugely busy A road. I don’t understand it. I can’t think who will buy them but I know somebody will. We certainly wouldn’t. I think it madness.

That's very optimistic. Electric hgv?

Ah ok, then that would put me off but in reality the price will reflect it so you will get more house for your money due to its location.

We used to live next to the M1 and I never properly noticed the noise until after lockdown ended. We then moved to a cottage in the middle of nowhere pretty swiftly! I would advise that you don’t do it. Noise is one thing, the other is pollution - our dog used to be sick all the time after going in water, she’s been fine the whole time we’ve lived in the new house. My eczema has cleared up. We all feel generally ‘better’. (Maybe anecdotal but I’m certain the M1 was a contributing factor!)

I would not buy it.
It's a concern which isn't going to go away,now it's on your mind it will remain until you walk away.
do it now before the paperwork begins.

I wouldn't because I know I'd never be able to tune out the noise.

Constant noise (like traffic) has been shown to increase the risk of heart attacks.
There is a recommended safe noise level (in decibels) and even inside a house close to a motorway is likely to be in excess of this. Outside will be unusable and weather conditions eg cloud cover can really affect how the sound travels.

You don’t get used to it (the noise). If it bothers you enough that you wouldn’t want to sit in the garden or open a window then don’t do it.

we bought a house about a half mile from a dual carriageway. “We’ll get used to it” we said. Every time we go for a walk we bitch about the noise and how lovely it would be IF ONLY there wasn’t the main road just over there. Luckily the house is far enough away that unless the wind is in a really specific direction we can’t hear it from the house. Would drive me mad if we did.

and that’s before you consider the pollution

Won’t be a problem soon with electric cars 🤷‍♀️

We live pretty close to a major motorway. Some days the noise is louder. Most days we don’t notice it. In summer you can’t really hear it at all.
it didn’t put us off buying and to be honest pollution is probably worse in most towns than it is here (rural aside from the motorway) if you love the house I’d go for it

We lived a similar distance from a busy motorway, it was ok, like a pp said it was almost like white noise. We lived there for 12 years and by the end of it barely noticed it

I lived pretty much on top of a very busy coast road. My view was spectacular but the noise drove me to despair. If I'd continued living there, I'd've become a basket case. I really don't like noise. If it's niggling you now, that'll probably get worse if you move there.

https://naei.beis.gov.uk/emissionsapp/

You can search pollution types via the property postcode here, I found it helpful when house hunting!

I wouldn't raise children there, no.

Probably wouldn't be so bothered for myself as at my age it's going to take a while for any effects to show up