2nd thoughts about buying house with swimming pool next door

[WiseGreyShark]

We have found an ideal property for us but the next door neighbours have a swimming pool in their garden. It's built into the ground, not a inflated pool.

I am having second thoughts incase the pool floods or there are other problems. My wife loves the house and it ticks all the boxes.

The houses are detached if that makes a difference.

Any thoughts? Thanks

Also, I was there and saw the water pouring through the fence, over the garden like a river and over the retaining wall like a waterfall. And it didn’t happen all along the entire property. It was definitely just in that section in line with where their pool was. I tried to find something I could use to block the water coming under the door or divert it away from the house but really didn’t have anything that would work.

Actually what you should think about is where the pool pump is situated. I was driven insane (not literally obviously but it really bothered me) by my neighbours' noisy pool pump right on our boundary.

Moi? Do you know me?

Agree pool pumps range from 60/80bd. Not in itself loud but when it’s constant really just too much ( older ones are worse)

However as Labour have now relaxed rules on the location of heat pumps (which can now be right on the boundary) which run at 60bd approx it seems it’s not just pool pumps that are going to be driving us all mad now.

No! I meant OP 😂

WE occasional get sudden torrential rain, and it causes problems because it doesn't soak in, it runs across the surface, gathering into streams according to slight differentials in surface height. In your situation, I would expect that the water from the higher level was following a route that took it across your neighbours garden and hence all into your garden.

If anything, the swimming pool may have improved matters, as there'd be a few cm of empty space at the top of the pool to hold rainwater.

Phew!

@Pickandmixmood I would be really worried about noise and a garden full of screamers, so I was surprised to see the objection was flood risk

Apparently we are not nice to object to that 😀

To be fair, if you like a dip in the summer this is a valid point!

My parents have a swimming pool and the neighbours all come round in the summer all the time, usually totally uninvited. My parents like it, but it doesn't go unnoticed they do not get reciprocal invitations and the spontaneous visits curiously stop in the winter...

To answer the OP's question about flooding. This is not an issue.
My parent's pool has had leaks a couple of times (they've been in the house 30 years and the pool was 10 years old at least when they moved in), but it's always just a slow drain that has absolutely no effect on the surrounding ground - we only notice if the pool level is going down faster than normal (it's normal for a bit of water loss in summer from evaporation as the wind / sun takes it off).
I can't imagine anything catastrophic happening at all. In the winter the level can get pretty high but even with my parents' pretty neglectful approach (they just leave it to it) the worst that could ever happen is the rain takes the level over the top which is no different to normal wet weather as the water from the pool stays in the pool due to, er, gravity...

The noise effect is worth considering - my parents are in the 70s but the primary users of the pool are their grandkids. Everyone behaves much more freely and noisily than you would a public pool.
Also as someone else noted, the heat pump & pool pump they have is pretty noisy. It's basically the same as people now have for houses though it's annoying as it's on in the summer when you're outside, whereas heat pumps for homes are on in the winter when you're inside.
Unfortunately it's the wrong time of year to be able to suss this out.
But maybe the property is far enough away it wouldn't be an issue- and in which case, flooding definitely isn't an issue either :)