Living on a corner

[CocoNutter]

Thinking of putting in an offer on a lovely house. It's detached and on a corner. Are there any disadvantages (or advantages) we should consider? Always lived halfway up a road before! Neither road is particularly busy.

Bump... I know this isn't the most exciting thread but any thoughts would be fab!

Whilst house hunting my dad had a thing about corner properties as he reckoned 'there was too much of an exposed area to defend'. You would think he was looking at living in a medieval castle with hordes of marauding enemy soldiers about! I live next door to a corner property and the one advantage I could see would be only one immediate neighbour (although I see you are looking at a detached house anyway). You would have a lot of fence to maintain I suppose and you may want to check it out on a friday or sat night to see if any groups gather on the corner?

We live on a corner and haven't really noticed any disadvantages. The only difference is on one side of our garden there are three gardens which back onto the side of ours, so when we replaced the fence we had to talk to all of them about it. We very occasionally get groups of kids hanging around on the corner, but they've not been any trouble. I suppose the only other thing that slightly concerns me is that our road can get quite busy with cars and they come around the corner quite fast so I worry in case one of the DCs ran into the road, but they are now getting old enough to know not to, and I guess that could be a problem anywhere with a busy road, not just a corner.

We just moved into a corner house. It has a bigger garden and more area to the side than other houses in the road. Also only having one neighbour (detached).

Thought a downside would be the snow as we are at the bottom of a hill on a corner, actually quite handy cos everyone helped to grit 'our' part of the road

Only lived here since October though!

I was one of those annoying kids who used to sit on the wall of a corner property and that would defintely put me off.
Don't know why they act as magnets to kids.
I would agree with Melfish's dad.

You will have more boundary adjacent to a highway so may have to get planning permission to put up a fence or wall in your 'back' garden. That's about the only downside i can think of

Thanks everyone; I'm getting in touch with the planning dept as one of the things we'd like to do is extend, so I need to know the likelihood of that! Comments much appreciated

We live on a corner and it's no problem in our area but I did check out the hanging around on corners (luckily there are far more appealing ones with wall elsewhere).

We like it as we only have one neighbouring garden and our other neighbours are across the road rather than next door so it's generally quieter.

We own quite a big strip which was outside the original rear/side garden wall so we asked the council if we could enclose more of it when we wanted to replace the old wall to gain a bigger garden. This was allowed but our council wanted 1.5metres in from the pavement without planning permission (with permission we could probably have gone all the way to the pavement but we wanted to retain a verge anyway). Fencing was expensive!

On a corner you DO need planning permission for any extension regardless of size if it is going closer to the highway (eg. a side extension rather than a straight rear extension).
Hope this helps