Garden backs onto supermarket car park - would you bother looking at house?

[AngryFeet]

Just seen a good sized house in a good location and was planning on looking at it but looked on google maps and the garden backs onto the far back corner of the Waitrose carpark. Would this leave us more open to burglaries? They don't lock the car park at night and it is a fairly quiet location.

How handy when you run out of milk though! I know someone who lives just behind a tesco and you don't hear any noise, its so handy they can use it like a corner shop, just nipping in for the odd bits and when they have a party there's loads of parking! I'd def have a look - maybe go on a saturday so you see it at its worst too.

And being waitrose, you'd get a better class of teenager doing donuts in the car park when its shut ;-)

Definitely have a look, I wouldn't write it off straight away.

I think you'd be safe in a Waitrose area and it's be very handy for shopping. If they don't lock the car park it's probably an indication that they haven't had any trouble.

What's the boundary like? Like MrsMagnolia said you can always use anti climb paint or plant something large & prickly.

I'd steer clear of a Somerfield, but a Waitrose is fine

try and find out if they have deliveries all night, could be noisy

It's not in New Malden is it???!! I got the details for a house that backed on to the corner of a Waitrose there. Bought elsewhere in the end.....

I wouldn't rule it out. Like others say, go and take a look.

Where is it?

I'd always go an look. there are lots of factors that all combine to make the best house for you at the time.
We have a busy road at the front of the house, and a railway at the end of the garden. What it meant was we have a MUCH bigger house than we could have afforded without those "negatives", but, to us, on balance, the extra space, (and all the other positives about it) far outweighed what some people woul see as ngatives (that don't actually bother us much).

just don't be tempted to go and buy milk in your pyjamas ....

... seriously - I wouldn't rule it out - but I WOULD visit at all times of day and night and check out noise levels

It is in Surrey (near to Croydon but the nice bit).

Presumably you can't view the house at 3am to check the noise levels?

well, you can park up in the street to see if all is quiet.

presumably the price will be adjusted a bit?

I'd make the decision depending on my assessment of VFM

Have you got a fence, or a wall between the car park and the house garden? How high? And between house garden and neighbours?

I wouldn't be surprised if they had security cameras, too.

Have a think about traffic on the local roads as well, and I'd try to drive past at several times of the day and night, including weekends. They will probably have early-morning delivery trucks.

If its Waitrose you'll spend a fortune nipping in for odds & sods!