North facing garden

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Need advice please. An interested in a new build plot 10 but garden is mainly north facing slightly North/east. Based on plan can anyone tell me what kind of sub we will get.

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Sorry that would be a deal breaker for me. The area within 20-30ft of the house will be in permanent shadow.

Depends how long your garden is and how tall your house is.

In winter we get hardly any, only down the sides where the house isn’t creating shadow.
In summer it’s fine as the sun is overhead.

@SpikySara

Sorry that would be a deal breaker for me. The area within 20-30ft of the house will be in permanent shadow.

It’s only about 5ft for us, I’m sure. Maybe 10 if I’m being very pessimistic.

The houses to the left of plot 10 seem to be set further back than yours, which means more of the sun that would have reached your garden will be blocked.
North facing gardens aren’t usually a problem for getting the sun in summer as long as they’re not a lot smaller than the height of the house.
At the height of summer the sun sets in the northwest anyway so you find north facing gardens get more evening sun at that time of year.

Will the garden be big enough to get sun at the end of the garden? So you could set up a patio area there.
The advantage of a north facing back garden is that the front of the house is south facing making the rooms at the front bright even on cold days.
Also if you have young children they can play out in the shady back garden on hot sunny days without getting burned.

I have north west facing and like it. North East would be a deal breaker for me. The sun rises in the east and sets in the west. So north west gets evening sun (subject to trees and neighbours). North East the house will shade the garden in the evening.

Morning sun you'd get but your garage will also out part of the garden in shade too during this time. You'll get sun in the top right hand corner of the garden in the afternoons. But that's right next to the pumping station. You might want to read up to see how noisy they can be.

We have a north facing garden and get plenty of sun all summer - just not right by the house. Certain bits of the garden get sun all day and evening and I use those to grown sun loving plants - but have found we can grow plenty throughout the whole garden tbh.
Don't get sun right by the back of the house, but that's never been an issue for us. Means we get a nice shady place to sit during the summer.
No real sun during the winter.

Cannot get the British obsession with south facing gardens.

Our garden is north/north west facing. It is approx 70ft.

The sun in the summer is high enough in the sky that, at some point, every part of the garden is in the sun in either the morning or afternoon, and there's a good portion of the day where the garden is all in full sun.

There is probably 3-4 weeks of the year where all of the garden is in shade, and then the sun starts to creep back from the end of the garden coming down towards the house.

We only really use it in the summer so don't find it so much of an issue, but we're lucky that it's quite long.

However, it makes you use your garden in a slightly different way. We have our main sitting area at the end of the garden as that is in the sun the most throughout the year.

It's also worth considering (if you have a patio by the house) what type. The previous owners had brick paving just outside the house and, due to all the joins and the fact that it is the part of the garden in the shade the most, it gets full of moss every year! We are planning on changing this to decking.

So it doesn't have to be a deal breaker by any means but it depends on how big the garden is (as the house will cast a shadow on it some of the year) and it makes you reassess how you use it

We live in a two storey semi with a North facing garden, this time of year the shadow is about 10m but in the summer normally 1- 3 meters is in shade.

You need to consider how tall your house is and how close the neighbours are. We moved from a house with a south facing garden and find this garden much more usable as there is always some shade.

I'm 80m from a pumping station and can hear the machinery at night.

I sleep well and it becomes background noise after a while, but if you're a light sleeper, it might not be for you.

Our garden faces NE and gets no sun at all for a month or more in midwinter. This makes it very hard to grow a half-decent lawn, and a lot of plants that get blazing sun in the summer cark it in the winter when they'd probably survive in a sunnier spot.

On the plus side, it's a lovely cool green oasis on scorching summer days.

I have a small North facing garden (also new build house) and I love it. the sun reaches from across the top then at a diagonal angle down towards the house so I can either sit in the sun all day or find some shade. We put in two patio areas, one at the top and one at the bottom so again got sunny and shady areas and with regards to plants and flowers I've just selected specific ones for where they are in the garden that compliment each other. It can work!

Mine is a small garden in a new build. It's NNW facing. I get lots of sun for eight months of the year.

Our garden is all the way around and the North side is definitely cooler and more shady, and the window frames need more regular maintenance. But we do get some sun and successfully have our vegetable beds that side.

If you have a large garden that you could put a seating area at the bottom of then yes. Otherwise definitely not!

Our garden is small and we can't put anything at the bottom because of the layout and we can very rarely sit outside past late afternoon unless we want to sit in the shade. It's a source of annoyance every summer and we are in the North so not blessed with endless sun.

I'd be more worried about the pumping station

Thanks for all the replies the house is standard two storey so not town house garden is around 12m long.

I’ve notice a lot of comments about the pumping station the site office told us it was for drainage and wouldn’t be pumped every day, perhaps they were just saying this to try and get us on board. Does anyone have any experience with living so close to one? Based on the plan it’s has to be within 25m of the house.

The pumping is almost certainly for foul water. Not land drainage. Modern developments usually use planting and design called SUDS for groundwater.

Pumping is necessary to get foul water up to the sewage system. They are often automatic and work when needed. Don’t take the developers word for anything. Ask the local water company who will have improved the scheme.

Personally I wouldn't pick that plot - as well as the north facing garden, having your garage to the west and your neighbours to the east set further back this will add to the shadows. Also the pumping station will be quite noisy - like PP said it becomes a background noise but I'd bet the sales team have been prepped to say it probably wouldn't be all the time, honest