Page 4 | Property - already a body in the garden here...

mindutopia · 29/06/2023 21:02

😂 I just remembered, we also looked at a property that came with an actual natural burial ground. There was a covenant attached to the house and land that you had to continue to operate the burial ground at a rate of like 7 bodies per year for the next 10 years as per planning restrictions. The things we actually considered in the COVID era panic to buy a house!

eatdrinkandbemerry · 29/06/2023 21:06

Wouldn't bother me at all as long as his family didn't come around on his birthday/Christmas ect to put flowers on his grave 🤷‍♀️

MadCatLady27 · 29/06/2023 21:18

Absolutely no way!

What's the grey metal looking thing in the front garden?

Piscesmumma1978 · 29/06/2023 21:21

Is there a tomb stone? How do you know where? What if you want to dig up an area and dig him up by accident?

LaLaRaRaRaa · 29/06/2023 21:30

My God what you can get for £125k in Leeds!!!

LaLaRaRaRaa · 29/06/2023 21:31

That’s a 3 bed property for less than £150k.

Body or no body, that’s amazing.

LobeliaSackville · 29/06/2023 21:31

skyfalldown · 29/06/2023 18:54

there are bodies everywhere you step so that part wouldn't bother me, I wouldn't want to be seeing a big ugly headstone every time I went out in my garden though!

Are you sure about that?

LobeliaSackville · 29/06/2023 21:33

Itsaloadofbollocks · 29/06/2023 19:32

It could well be the grave. It wasn't there in 2019 😆

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It looks like a bath tub to me! You know how you see them used as planters sometimes.

VeniVidiWeeWee · 29/06/2023 21:34

2bazookas · 29/06/2023 18:43

I'd happily buy it subject to being shown credible proofs of permits for the burial and given a legally witnessed copy to keep (in case I ever wished to sell).

Erm, what permits do you think are required?

skyfalldown · 29/06/2023 21:38

LobeliaSackville · 29/06/2023 21:31

Are you sure about that?

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certainly where I live! you can't dig anywhere without discovering a bone or two, the entire place is a one big plague pit

ZebraDilemma · 29/06/2023 21:40

VeniVidiWeeWee · 29/06/2023 21:34

Erm, what permits do you think are required?

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There’s strict laws on the burial of remains, look it up.

romdowa · 29/06/2023 21:42

I wonder If you have the body exhumed then are you responsible for financing another burial

bonfirebash · 29/06/2023 21:48

LaLaRaRaRaa · 29/06/2023 21:31

That’s a 3 bed property for less than £150k.

Body or no body, that’s amazing.

Loads near me for that price with no body

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/130793183#/?channel=RES_BUY

This 4 bed went for 120k, they bought at the right time

https://www.rightmove.co.uk/house-prices/details/england-126474185-6981673?s=48f0ca44ef8da8323ae403b25850ab8ca5ee7a9aeab8bb326f88b68fc3f86e91#/

Trinity65 · 29/06/2023 21:49

Piscesmumma1978 · 29/06/2023 21:21

Is there a tomb stone? How do you know where? What if you want to dig up an area and dig him up by accident?

😆

Soapyspuds · 29/06/2023 21:58

Have they just lumped them in front of the shed and chucked some top soil over them?

TimeToMoveIt · 29/06/2023 22:00

Soapyspuds · 29/06/2023 21:58

Have they just lumped them in front of the shed and chucked some top soil over them?

Thats what it looks like to me 😬

Brandspankingnewandshiny · 29/06/2023 22:08

Skatingwaiting · 29/06/2023 17:45

Personally I wouldn’t mind, I think there’s something quite reassuring about it, that the person had such a happy life there they wished to be buried there. I wouldn’t be digging around too much though .

I agree with this, I don't think it would really bother me. Different if it was something sinister

Mammamia2023 · 29/06/2023 22:09

Please be aware this property is being sold by family members as part of a relatives estate. It was the deceased's wishes to be buried in the garden as he was born and died in the house. This wish has been carried out and the property will be sold as is.

Clearly loved his home so might be pretty pissed the family sold it and come back and haunt whoever buys it 😬

CuteCillian · 29/06/2023 22:16

The basic law is this: it IS possible - and not illegal - to bury a loved one in your backyard but you must get the consent of the owner of the freehold of the land.
Kirsty Alsop buried her Mother in her garden in 2014.

Friends of mine have a child's grave in a small wood on their property and have a clause in their deeds that the family can visit once a year. The child died in 1931 and so far, no request.

Oioicaptain · 29/06/2023 22:16

Love the thread title! Esp the 'Already' part. It implies that the OP usually only puts a body in the garden once she's moved it and is indignant that there is 'Already' one in situ!

veryfluffyfluff · 29/06/2023 22:16

I would want to know the burial had been done properly- that looks like they've cut a diagonal ditch and dumped the deceased in it. I would probably also want to see the death certificate to prove the owner wasn't murdered

CuteCillian · 29/06/2023 22:16

Doesn't apply in Scotland apparently.

veryfluffyfluff · 29/06/2023 22:17

Oioicaptain · 29/06/2023 22:16

Love the thread title! Esp the 'Already' part. It implies that the OP usually only puts a body in the garden once she's moved it and is indignant that there is 'Already' one in situ!

I know :D that bit made me smile

veryfluffyfluff · 29/06/2023 22:18

CuteCillian · 29/06/2023 22:16

The basic law is this: it IS possible - and not illegal - to bury a loved one in your backyard but you must get the consent of the owner of the freehold of the land.
Kirsty Alsop buried her Mother in her garden in 2014.

Friends of mine have a child's grave in a small wood on their property and have a clause in their deeds that the family can visit once a year. The child died in 1931 and so far, no request.

Aw that's sad

megletthesecond · 29/06/2023 22:19

rom you could hardly leave the body out the front for the bin men 😁.