Would pylons put you off a house?

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Seen a lovely house but noticed a large electricity pylon about 200 metres behind it. I don't mind how they look, that doesn't bother me at all. But I'm a bit confused about possible health risks. Can't seem to find anything conclusive. There is no noise from it as we've stood right by it to check. Would it put you off?

Yes it would put me off

as a runner it's no distance at all 🤷🏽‍♀️

I would be concerned about resale value, but 200 metres is quite a distance and it depends on just how much I could see of it from the house.

Whether you can run or not it’s still not at the bottom of your garden you ‘nana!

Around here there has been court cases of cattle dying on farms because of pylons. I wouldn't be comfortable having my home near one.

I seem to remember that one of the electrical mags ran a big article/series of articles a fair few years ago on health issues associated with them - maybe he had read that? I stress that I know nothing about any health issues one way or the other. But wouldn't buy because of resale issues where the "facts" whatever they may be are less important than what many folk, the potential market, think. I did once pass on the possibility of a house because of a pylon very close. Never actually looked at house - just road-checked.

I wouldn't want a house right by them but we have them nearish and doesn't bother us. No resale issues either.

We live near pylons and I was very apprehensive before we moved but now I don't really notice them, they are part of the background.

I do hear the hum if I walk near/underneath them in rainy or humid weather.

There's no evidence that they're harmful to anyone's health. If you like the house and it's a good price and you want to stay there for a good while then go for it!

No. We bought a house with them near by (really close by) and then a few years later...they buried the lines and removed the pylons!!! Total result for us.

Over the road and half way down a field in not that close. Any chance you could post the listing? Could you see it from any windows?
I would cautiously consider if it's far enough away - wouldn't buy a house with one super close

Thanks everyone, I really appreciate all the replies.

@BewareTheBeardedDragon I don't want to share the link but basically it's a beautiful house surrounded only by fields as far as you can see. Oh, and pylons 🤣🤣

So they are visible because it's just an open landscape. But I couldn't hear anything at all when I went and stood by the nearer one. It also appeared further away when I was there than it looks in the photos. But I'd still rather it was more than 200 metres. I'll just have to give it more thought.

The price is cheaper as people are scared of cancer.

Im sure the was a link associated with electricity that was proven in the 80s or something but it would be good if there is any more up to date advice but like you I’ve not seen anything recent.

Me neither.

I live near one and I don't notice the sound but other people do when they visit

Yes. Definitely.

Round here most houses are within view of a pylon. Ours is in the field next door.

I grew up in a house which had a pylon at the bottom of the garden. It’s still there.

it’s a very family area and there aren’t any leukaemia, cancer or other illnesses compared to areas without pylons.

even if you aren’t near a big pylon you’ll be near multiple smaller ones you just don’t notice.

eventually they’ll put all the cabling underground anyway.

i wouldn’t worry about it. Our area is reasonably desirable, if people want a house, they get a pylon within a few hundred metres.

OK thanks everyone 🙂

I do wonder about homes in suburbia or town/city centres - the electricity gets there somehow, so we must all be very near electric cables and electric moving from place to place all the time. How is is any different to a pylon suspended very high in the air? Safety wise I mean.

First I have heard of that one, any actual references?

I'm not sure it is. The taller pylons are carrying higher voltages than the smaller ones (or the poles when the supply is all above ground, as it is some rural areas). If the high votlages lines are underground instead, I'm not sure it would be 'better' in any way, given they will be much closer to the surface (i.e., where we are as humans) than the overhead lines are to ground level. I'll ask.....

It's actually less efficient in power to put the higher voltage grid lines underground- it's more 'lossy' because the lines don't keep as cool. So that's a cost to the environment. And costs a lot more as a rule.

I actually quite liked the hum.

Yes, I wouldn't even view it.

I wouldn't buy a house near pylons as it will be harder to sell on

Also, they're an eyesore and in the cold weather you can hear them buzzing and crackling

It would put me off because of the resale value (and eyesore). And the hum - DH has misophonia and it would drive him crazy.

Wouldn’t be overly worried about the health risks.