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

My mum buried her dad's urn in the back garden. They left it there when they moved house. Didn't tell anyone.

why am i reading this just before bedtime !!!!

I would have guessed the house were 1940s/50s, ok next door looks more 1960s looking at the style, but the brickwork and style of the deceased man's house makes me think 1940s, there are also quite a few pre fabs down that crescent which were built just after the war.

I shouldn't be reading this before bed either but its quite fascinating really. It seems for a garden burial there only needs to be 30 inches of soil between the top of the coffin and the ground surface - 2.5 feet isn't very deep is it?

Same article says Kirsty Allsopp buried her mum in their garden although as they took her down the garden on a tractor it suggests a rather larger garden than an average house. simplydead.co.uk/2018/11/09/garden-burial/

It'll be a late 1920s/early 1930s council house. About 90% of South Leeds seems to be made up of houses like this (minus graves in the garden).

I think I'd be more worried about that suspicious large stain on the living room carpet than the body buried in the garden.

@Diva66

Isn’t it that big white oblong tombstone in the front garden where he’s buried?

No, I wouldn’t buy a house with a garden burial. Especially in such a small garden. Too many potential problems.

Yes maybe it's a crypt in the front garden? Or a fridge freezer.....

Ok the minimum is 30 inches .... that makes it an absolute eww no from me. I have visions of a zombie forcing its way out...

It is the ultimate revenge on crap neighbours, get yourself buried in the garden to (possibly) devalue their house as well as revenge on ungrateful kids by devaluing their inheritance at the same time.

House on that street sell for less then 100k normally with a body that they have legal access to at all times they will be lucky to get half what they are asking

If you go back and look on street view in 2008 (and later) that white crypt box thing in the front garden wasn't there, so that could be it? Or maybe it is a fidge! Thinking about it, would a grave be in the front garden? It would probably devalue the houses either side too.

I thought it was the white box in the front garden...

i'd be pissed off if my neighbour did that.

Look at the roof...that seriously freaked me out....you see what it is eventually but I honestly went cold.

What is it Maves? I can't see it? Other than the Leeds United plaque!

Came on here to make me sleepy. It's not working 😂

It's not ashes. You can bury ashes on your own land with no one's permission and without even disclosing the fact that you've done it. It's unlikely any seller would need to divulge that information to an estate agent, and if that happens the agent would usually be professionally bound to pass it on. In any event, they'd have said his ashes were buried. The estate agent was hardly left with a lot of choice about being upfront with the situation, especially as it's likely buyers might ask about the bloody great brown burial patch spliced right across the back garden.

I'm pretty unsentimental about what happens to bodies after we die. I'd happily live beside a cemetery or funeral director with no issues whatsoever. But even if only for reasons of potential contamination, I think this would be a bit much even for me.

I can't see it? Other than the Leeds United plaque!

Yep, that certainly freaked me out too!

I imagine the new owner will have the body moved. Mind you, how much is it to arrange a burial elsewhere? Also, would you have to have family agreement?

For those worrying about a shallow grave, they are actually better for the decomposition process as there’s lots of heat and creepy crawlies about. Six feet under and and there isn’t such a lively ecosystem so bodies take longer to decompose. The only catch is making sure the burial is deep enough not to be scavenged or disturbed.

Yes you would need family permission to remove the body and then it costs around 7k to do so also the family don't have to agree and then it could cost an arm and leg to fight them on it

@EggyPegg

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

Property is so cheap up North!

It isn't where I live! You can't even buy a garage for £125k in Harrogate!

@Tryingtoslim

It’s the Leeds united crest on the front of the house for me

Thank you, I was beginning to think I was the only one who had clocked it.

@Mally2020

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

I think that's because you cannot legally 'sell' a body. So I think that patch of land must've needed to be sold to the council and then rent paid. Some kind of bureaucratic hoohah

@RainingBatsAndFrogs

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

I'm getting the distinct impression that there isn't any family....