To buy a house that has traffic lights outside?

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Everyone I've spoken to says avoid, there is parking for 2 cars at the back, in a great area, no need to change schools, under budget and affordable.
Am I mad for considering?

I said literally 10 posts up that it doesn’t and has never flooded.

Has never isn’t the same as will never.
I still wouldn’t buy a house that close to a river

Well you are missing out because those lakes are designed specifically to take overflow, the whole area by the river is marshes that have never been built on. Even if it did flood, the marsh and gravel pits absorb the overflow. The river in the Lee Valley basin, everything around it is on much much higher ground.

Unless you mean the new river at the back of the house which isn’t actually a river at all, it’s more of a man made diversion to carry drinking water to London. I don’t believe that has ever flooded because i understood that it’s flow can be altered, but OP if you want to check, the website is here and it shows no risk for areas of potential flooding.

flood-warning-information.service.gov.uk/river-and-sea-levels?location=Enfield

Its a lovely area, the whole of north and east London would be empty if no one lived by the Lee. It only runs for 16 miles before it meets the Thames, so it’s well defended.

@IamPickleRick thank you! 👍

I think the second one is lovely, no nothing at all about Wormley ( Scottish!) but much prefer the second one and the garden is small but a perfectly blank canvas, could be beautiful. Go for it!

Aw my grandma lived near there and other family still do. Second house looks nicer than the first but what is parking like?