Would you buy a home within a mile to tip/recycling centre?

[CalifornianScotland]

Just wondering how bad it could be or if it would put other future buyers off?

Yes. A mile is a long distance! Within a hundred yards, maybe not.

Agree, right next door no, but a mile - yes, ours is and it’s a godsend when you need to go to the tip!

We've just bought a house within a mile of a council recycling centre. The current owners are moving to a house which is actually nearer to it. Can't say that it was even on my radar, other than it being quite handy to be near to it in these days of minimal rubbish collections.

We live about a mile from the tip/recycling centre, it’s quite handy.

We are currently renting just by one and don’t even notice it. If it’s a council run one they tend to be pretty well run and never smell. It wouldn’t bother me unless I looked onto it.

Ours isn’t just under one mile away and it is absolutely wonderful! I can’t imagine having to travel any further than that now.

I wouldn't. There's a really beautiful stately home in my area that's next to one. You've only got to read their wedding reviews to see that if the wind is blowing in the wrong direction the smell is awful. People's big days have been ruined because of it so I wouldn't even consider moving anywhere near one for that reason.

Yep. It's really useful having it so close!

It would be a right pain to live miles away from it

I’m within a mile and love it.
I definitely wouldn’t like any composting business to be going on though so check that and also the operating hours.

Yes. I’d live even nearer our local one tbh as it doesn’t smell, it’s not got food waste

Think it depends if you mean landfill site (no) or recycling centre (yes).

Do you mean a recycling centre where people drop off their recycling/waste or a recycling plant? Recycling centre absolutely no problem, wouldn’t mind living near/next to it. Recycling plant would depend how much I like the house but probably wouldn’t put me off.

OP are you talking about a council run one or one of those ones which are in the news every so often which people campaign about

I think we’re around that to our local tip. It has literally zero bearing on anything regarding our lives. other than handy waste disposal

My DP owned a place three streets over from a tip. He is not particularly daft or unaware, but when I said we should take some stuff down there he insisted there wasn't a tip in the town...

Think you'll be fine OP, wouldn't even cross my mind.

I live within about half a mile, and I’ve never given it a thought really, except when I need to take something to the tip and it takes about 5 minutes 🤷‍♀️

Drive past on a summer Saturday afternoon and check what the traffic is like. Our local one causes absolute chaos when it’s busy, with cars queuing way back along the road.

A mile away should be fine but I’d still check it out.

Our local Council recycling centre takes a lot of green waste and it truly stinks in hot weather.

DH is always there after doing DIY at home so I'd find it handy really!

Ours is under a mile away and is right beside the school. Can't say I've ever noticed it, no smell and it certainly feels far enough away from my house to notice it ! In not sure I would want to live right next to it or across the road purely because it's not the nicest view but nothing else would worry me at all wouldn't even be on my radar if it was a mile away

Our tip used to be 500 yards away. That was fabulous. It wasn’t the landfill though, just the collection centre.

Mine is 0.5 apparently i thought it was about 1 and a half, obviously i cant judge distance well

No problems here.

We live less than a mile from our local one. It’s a small town about 2.5 miles from one end to the other so it’s hard to be too far away from it. Never even entered my radar apart from it being handy.

Olive within a mile from one now and it's fine . Very handy for getting rid of rubbish.

Our last house was within a mile of a sewerage works. That was also fine.