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

Of course I've now saved it in my Rightmove 'favourites' to see if/when it sells!

Why on earth did the family do that?! He was dead... He would never have known!

Yes, it's legal as pp have said. It wouldn't bother me personally, although I think they could've sited the grave in a better place, ie, to the side and back of the garden.

I wondered about renting with the council too - it’s not something I’ve ever heard of

@UsernameFail

Err look at the picture of the garden... anyone else notice the brown soil that looks like a burial spot?

I was too distracted by the water feature, or whatever, that looks like a cock.

Funny I just saw a post on Facebook about this!

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

"MUM MUM MUM MUM look your pants have fallen off the washing line I bet they're on Mr Jones' head hur hur hur"

Only on MN would someone comment the toilet lid was up in the photos (hopefully ironically) when the place needs renovating and the previous owner is 6 feet under in the back garden.

No way would I buy that! I wouldn't want to walk on him and what if the rellies want to come and visit? You couldn't say no really! Very sweet that he waited to be buried there but not practical for the new owners.

Could a buyer have the body exhumed? I mean, surely it couldn’t be in the title deeds that the body must remain there.

There was a really interesting show on radio 4 about this some years ago, by a woman who buried her own mother. She made the point that most of us believe you have to be buried in a cemetary but 'As long as there are no restrictive covenants affecting the use of the land and no “nuisance” is caused a person can be buried in their garden or on other private land, providing that the land owner's consent and the consent of the local authority is obtained'. In the show the woman buried her mother in a field where a farmer let her dig a grave herself. She had also driven around to her mothers friends with her mothers body in a camper van so the friends could see her and say goodbye. It sounds macabre, but actually came over as a lovely thing to do and a way to respect her mother. So reading the details I dont think it has to be ashes (I dont think they would have declared that). It would not bother me, I think, just maybe make me think twice when digging up the garden.

We're near dead bodies all the time. In the UK they're bloody everywhere! Half the time you're not even aware of it. It's just a body...he'll be 6 feet below the surface and in a coffin.

Not like the dog's going to dig that bloody deep!

@LagneyandCasey

No way would I buy that! I wouldn't want to walk on him and what if the rellies want to come and visit? You couldn't say no really! Very sweet that he waited to be buried there but not practical for the new owners.

You're not 'walking on him' though. He's beneath the ground and in a coffin.

So what if the relatives did want to visit? You don't have to say yes. Or you could agree to one visit a year...that's not that much bother. Human kindness.

New owners (if they find anyone willing!) would probably have to put up with relatives popping round to visit the grave.

@Hurtandupset2

Yes, it's legal as pp have said. It wouldn't bother me personally, although I think they could've sited the grave in a better place, ie, to the side and back of the garden.

That patch of earth won't be his grave ffs. It will be in an unobtrusive corner. That's something else. Bit silly of everyone to get all childish about this.

Crikey, he's like a little path to the shed! Why didn't they put him out of the way a bit?

I'd be worried about the hygiene of having bodies so close to drains and water pipes. What about erm seepage.
It's one thing burying someone in the garden if you own chatsworth house or similar, but quite another thing in an ordinary semi.

@Krazynights34 pmsl that really tickled me.

On the plus side, you could pop a couple of cold frames over that dug up bit and your courgettes would be fucking amazing. Highlight of 2021 I'd say.

I don't really mind about the 'body in the garden' stuff but it's a bit of a dump of a house to end up buried outside. No offense. It just looks quite unloved considering how committed this bloke was to it.

If that is him under the patch of earth he may have liked to sit there by his shed.

I found the lonely slipper on the table/desk rather sad, and the little pile of sweepings that could have been left out of the bottom of the photo.

I wouldn't mind him being there, but the thought of having to deal with a local council would put me off. I would probably sit and chat to him.

I wonder if the chap expected his family to live there rather than sell up.

What is that in the front garden, near the wall?

We are all assuming the part of the garden is at the back...

I guess you could dig him up and bury him somewhere else but there’s a risk his spirit would be unsettled and haunt the house which would be worse.