Would you buy a house next to a...

[Birdies]

'Waste management' site. A big one. Skips are hired out to building sites and domestic customers and returned and sorted at the site. Inert things like rubble and plastic.

We've seen a house that looks ideal but did a Google map satellite view and the site is right next to it. Is it even worth viewing?

I did, and I still do. It’s about half a mile outside the village and it’s quite bad. I’m neurotic about recycling and not wasting things and I use real nappies coz living near it I know how bad it is and how much less shit we need to be putting in it. Ideal scenario would be Amazon fined ten grand for every item of cheap plastic or polyester tat they sold coz a lot of it is that. Gulls are loud and arsey there are rats but I’ve got semi feral cats to counter that. There are days you’re never quite sure if you’ve got a gas leak or if they’re running off excess. You can complain all you want to sepa, environmental health, defra, council, mp etc and they do the three wise monkeys routine. See no evil hear no evil speak no evil.

Sorry everyone, no link as we kind of know the owners (albeit only very vaguely as friends of friends but still, I'd feel bad for some reason!!).

I do appreciate the replies though and have been on the hunt for something else. But nothing new is going on at the mo 😫

@HighlandPony that sounds awful. Is that an a landfill site? Every kind of rubbish dumped there?

If the site you're referring to is Mullaneys. then smell isn't an issue. Noise during the day and the skip waggons up and down the road are a bit of a pain though. Lovely location.

The site near where I used to live smelt a lot more at the weekends. I assumed they were less worried about the cooncil on those days.

I wouldn't choose to live near one.

Nope!

It is. Also white goods recycling composting and it produces gas for our village and a couple others but sometimes there’s too much and they have to release it. I was born here, I grew up here and I swear since online retailers like Amazon and fashion places like primary and H&M etc took over and celebrations like and Halloween and Christmas and Easter went bloody American it’s got worse. When we were wee your milk and juice came in glass bottles, your fruit and veg wasn’t plastic packed and nobody was buying that much clothes or crap it was nowhere near as bad.

I've found that house on RM - £845k !

I would be worried about the toxic gases

In case they poisoned our asses

The worst thing for smells with waste isn't food waste, it's plaster. The smell when it gets wet and decomposes is horrendous.

No, noise and large lorries with cranes putting skips in and out and also potential smell in summer. You would have no peace.

Might not be so bad but the council run tip is riddled with rats. The buildings on site are becoming structurally unsound due to tunnelling. I feel for the residents who live close by.

We looked at a house near a recycling site and we were also advised that some lenders etc are nervy about properties near waste sites as there can be issues with ground contamination and the property becoming valueless.

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