Take for instance this house
It's everything you want, nice location in a good area, good amenities, good school, private entrance to the front so no neighbours sticking a transit van across your living room window, nice big garden backing on fields and not overlooked, double garage for lots of motorbikes, and you got it for 30 grand less than other similar houses in the area. It ticks all your boxes.
The only compromise your going to have to make is those power lines behind it. They are in the next field, 180 metres away, and you have written confirmation from the National Grid, accompanied by various independent scientific research publications on the subject, saying that you are three times further away than you would need to be for there to be any heath concern. If you were within the distance for heath concern of 60 metres, or the scientists have got the research wrong, the concern would be double the risk of childhood leukaemia, from 1 in 24000, to 1 in 12000. Imagine you do have young children.
Experts say power lines within 75 metres have an impact on house values.
Would the power lines bother you enough to make you decide not to buy it?
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