House for sale.... Interesting extra in the garden!!

[Elderflower14]

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I think the risk would affect other houses in the street too, not just the one with the pylon. At least they can't hide it whereas the others you might turn up and find cables overhead.

@NinaDefoe

I wonder if this was on the developers site plan when the houses were built! Or did the new owners get a surprise?

@NinaDefoe is that South Yorkshire area but any chance?

£100k increase in 8yrs plus the addition of a pylon the current owner will have been completed for!

Literally zero upgrades and actually made the kitchen worse.

I wonder if they are mentally unwell!

And bedroom 1 doesn't have a window!

It would probably have had a view of the pylon

@ Cattitudes I think the risk would affect other houses in the street too, not just the one with the pylon. At least they can't hide it whereas the others you might turn up and find cables overhead.

Yes, if you look at the road on Street View, about 3 houses along there are some rather larger and rather swish (compared to the rest of the houses on the street) that have newly been built. With the cables right over them. I guess they didn't know. Or didn't care.

I wonder if the roof is lead-lined!

@SeaMeat

No mention of it in the description.

I was wondering if they get a fee for having it there.

We got about £5 pa for having a telegraph pole in our garden at our last house.

Oh I’d hate that!
Love how there’s no mention of it though, like maybe potential buyers just won’t notice 🤣

Their grandad, or maybe pet cemetery

@SeaMeat

No mention of it in the description.

I was wondering if they get a fee for having it there.

You do get paid if any pylons are on your land (in Ireland, anyway), but it’s a minuscule amount. Then there’s the added ballache of having to grant access if they need to do any work on it, etc. It really isn’t a fair deal at all, IMO.

I always felt like if you had one on your land then you shouldn’t have to pay an electricity bill 😅.

@Woahthehorsey
House prices in Southampton have gone crazy the last year. My daughter had an offer accepted on a 2 bedroom flat in June last year - it was on for £200k and she offered £195k. Unfortunately, the sale fell through and the flat is now back on the market for £230k - a 15% increase in less than 9 months!

I think it was already there and predates the house.

I'm wondering if Plot 59 was originally bigger to make up for it, so they divided up the plot and built the second house, hence 59A.

I dream of living on a house with a view for miles across the hills with visible wind turbines. (Maybe not in the front garden though)

Wind turbines are surprisingly large around the base when you get up close, and louder than the pylon buzz I reckon. I'm fully on board with the need for a massive increase and investment in renewables, but I wouldn't want one in my garden. They are very handsome structures. I love to look at the offshore ones that are visible from land.

@IsThePopeCatholic

I wonder which came first - the pylon or the house? I’d be terrified of that thing near my house.

It’s the pylon. National grid would avoid building them that close to a large extent, but once they ate built. It’s up to the planners. Looking at the style of pylon(I work in the industry) , I’m guessing it was built in the 50’s and the house in the 70’s. As for EMF induced cancers, the last research I saw was there were marginally higher rates of cancer a coupl of kilometres downwind of the wires probably because pollution particles get ionised by passing through the corona around the wires which makes them bind to your lungs. It’s been a long time since I read anything on it.

Oh god I would want to know! I've changed my username a couple of times but have been very open recently and would definitely be recognised if anyone on here knew me.

How the hell did I end up on this thread! Sorry! Tiptoes backwards

@PieonaBarm

With fuel bills going up someone with entrepreneurial skills could attach a couple of jump leads to it and then the others to the fuse box and hey presto, cheap leccy. I know a sparky. Might book a viewing!

It’s at least 132000 volts. You can give it a try but the emergency services will let you fry until the electricity board get a couple of engineers and a suitably qualified line team to isolate, earth and issue permits to work. They won’t hurry because you won’t have survived. The line team would probably recover the body as they know what they’re doing. Then it’s just a case of using a wire brush to scrub off any melted skin and fat deposits and switch it all back on again.

@Legalconundrums

It's about the right for the area, I'm not too far away... there will be wayleaves paid for having the pylon on the land

Not for pylons. Way leaves are a cheapskate way of getting an agreement. Pylons get an easement and national grid get the legal big guns out and fight like hell if you try and restrict access. They will move them but only if you pay and if you can afford to pay then you get a much better house, swimming pool and Swiss chalet for the money.

@BamberGascoine

As a child of the 70’s that grew up with this advert, that fills me with real fear

Yes! Shudder.

I remember once at primary school our headmaster was cross with us for some reason by way of punishment m gave an assembly using a similar cautionary tale of a child being fried to death climbing an electricity pylon. I remember it clearly to this day, I was traumatised!

My brother lives across the road to a house with a pylon in the back garden. It's weird because it's so close you don't actually realise it's there until you look up.

They are so creepy. They are like a Transformer ( you know, the film) in your garden.

I always rant to my long-suffering kids about these next to houses whenever we pass them and they roll their eyes. My favourite mum joke is "Oh look, a lovely view of the Eiffel tower from your front room"

First reaction was to check the EPC.

You'd at least expect that to be A rated, not D!!

Theres on like this about 2 miles away! So obv not a one off. Remember going on hols to a caravan and it had a pylon very close by .Felt a low level headache all week.

Looks like it's right by the motorway too - what a rubbish location!