Surprise in your rose garden - Rightmove

[Chanandlerbong01]

Just browsing Rightmove earlier, glad I read the full description. Is this even legal?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76868103.html

I really don't think it's referring to scattered ashes a that wouldn't bother me at all. The location of a body in my garden would. Can you imagine having a bbq and everyone standing on the grave chatting?

Well at least the ‘neighbour’ won’t be complaining and will be quiet.
It’s certainly a talking point.

I don't believe you need permission to put the ashes in a private garden but you do for the burial of a body.

You would want that buggering up the footings of a new extension.

In principle it wouldn't bother me.

However, IF that muddy patch near the house is 'him' then that would bother me because I would hate to walk across him all the time & wouldn't feel ok about putting table & chairs,paddling pool etc there,

Also, I wouldn't feel ok about gutting the house & that's what it needs.

But in principle -no problem and no problem if they wanted to 'visit' a couple of times a year (as long as they could cope with changes I'd made to the house).

@Clawdy you’ve to read the written description! The previous owner is buried in the garden.

[quote Chanandlerbong01]Just browsing Rightmove earlier, glad I read the full description. Is this even legal?

www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-76868103.html[/quote]
Yes it is legal. My nana is buried in mum & dads garden. But there’s is a massive garden with a wooden hillside and nana is right at the top through the woods and well away from the house. I think this garden burial plot might be a bit close to the house for my liking!

Also what’s on the roof?

*wooded hillside

Oh my!! Just when you think you've seen it all.

Property is so cheap up North!

I'm sorry that the family have lost a loved one, but what happens when the house gets sold a few times and an unexpected homeowner digs up human remains

That is a high price for a run down house, even with added feature. The area is not very nice either!

Yes they do have to mention anything that might materially change your decision to view a property. Otherwise the agent risks getting sued.

This came up on James O'Brien's mystery hour last week - it is legal, as long as you let the authorities (environment agency?) know and accept that it will devalue the property. And if there is more than one grave your property has to be registered as a cemetery!

I’d live there. I’d concrete over him and only offer £10,000.
But I’m mean

If that is him, plonked like that in the middle.. why didn't they stick him somewhere a little more private.

If the new owners have kids they'll be playing on his grave

I think i could just about look over the fact he was there to make a profit in the future but the fact the garden is also partially rented from Leeds council is just weird. If he's buried on their side I wouldn't care and would stop renting it but if on my side Idk if I could

It isn’t ashes, it clearly says he is buried in the garden.

It wouldn’t bother me especially. Graves in graveyards are much deeper than I would ever be digging in the garden.

Over the millennia of human life we’re probably all pretty close to some deeply buried human remains.

Terrible photos. My estate agents removed all sorts of stuff from different rooms before photographing them. No excuses for the black bags etc in shot.

Plus the family will have to remove all the stuff, so why not do it before the photos?

That’s a sad thing: clearly they don’t really give a shit

Oh, and obviously let any potential buyers know...

"BOYS!!! how many times do I have to tell you to not put the wicket over Mr Jones! Put it at the top of the garden and watch the bloody greenhouse or it's coming out of your pocket money"

I like the way they seem to have just bought a garden fountain ornament and plonked it next to the mound of earth.

Also the artistic hangers scattered across the bed, making an interesting alternative to cushions or a throw.

Wouldn't bother me in the slightest, I wouldn't buy it but only because I'd hate having neighbours so close, to be honest I'd prefer a body buried in the garden to send detached living

@asquirrel that comment made me laugh out loud and wake the cat!

If that patch of earth is the grave, it's so strange to have buried the person slap bang in the middle of the garden, right near the house!

At least if they were buried by the fence at the back the new owner might be able to fence the area off a bit so it wasn't so obvious!

How on earth they think that house will sell now I don't know!

It wouldn't bother me if he's off to the side somewhere. It can't be him right across the middle, surely?! That's not ok.

Older houses will likely have seen both births and deaths. I'm not freaked out by deaths in my home as long as they are normal. I wouldn't want to live in a known murder or suicide house as my imagination would run away with me. This mans history with, and great love, for this house is sweet and a nice thing.

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

I don't believe you need permission to put the ashes in a private garden but you do for the burial of a body.

You would want that buggering up the footings of a new extension.

Extension! 🤯 I was pooping myself when we went down 2.5 metres on old chaple land. New patio anyone?

Why is part of the garden rented out by the council? As overflow burial ground?

Looks like they are under the path of where I would put my washing line or rotary drier.

So many questions.....