Would it bother you to buy a house near power lines?

This is where it was

If you look close you can see the pylon towards the top of the pic and his house at the bottom, you can just make out the cables running downwards.

[daveangel]

An ex-girlfriend had a pylon a lot closer than that to her one bedroom house, more like 20 metres away the cables passed right over it and the birds used to perch on the cables and sh*t all over her washing, windows and the cars. Never noticed any noises from the wires but still thought the builders and council who gave permission for it should have been shot. The landlord didn't mind charging premium rate for rent either.

Originally Posted by Biker Biggles

So the "experts" now say 60m is the danger distance?

Depends on the cable. That's for this type of 400Kv transmission line. If you want more info on it for any reason look at these links

http://www.emfs.info/

http://www.energynetworks.org/electricity/she/emfs.html

http://www.emfields.org/library.asp

Originally Posted by specialone

This is where it was

If you look close you can see the pylon towards the top of the pic and his house at the bottom, you can just make out the cables running downwards.

Yep, assuming his is the house with the cables running right over the top, that that pylon is 60 metres from the house, but underneath the cables which is what matters, and that looks like the same type of 400Kv transmission line, which is the highest voltage used anywhere in the UK.

http://www.emfs.info/Sources+of+EMFs...d+magnetic.htm

Based upon the research I've done into this over the past few days, I wouldn't live there myself, never mind bring up kids there. I'm surprised he needed to switch his lights on at night, look at this picture of fluorescent tubes below transmission cables, they are being powered by the electric field from the cables. Living in that house you'd have that electricity and a massive magnetic field coursing though your muscle fibres, possibly 24 hours a day if you worked at home. In Italy, Switzerland, Israel, Netherlands and Slovenia, those houses would be illegal.

PS: I wasn't worried about health effects, until one of our neighbours said they wouldn't buy a house down that end of the village because of the potential health effects of the cables, once they'd said that, I decided to do the research to see if there was anything I had to worry about, I'm not paranoid or anything.

[Fallout]

I personally wouldn't buy it because it's beyond your control. I'd rather buy a house with some problems that I can fix over time, than buy a house that will always have a pilon no matter what I do.

Wouldn't put me off for a second, Power lines much closer to my dads house than that. there is a development around the corner from us where they are building houses parallel to power lines which will be over the back gardens of the houses.

[tigersaw]

Thats not even close. You want them directly above so you can get free lighting.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Blen...&cbp=12,0,,0,0

Not my road, but that pylon is near enough behind our house in the footpath couldnt say how many metres away it is from our house but i reckon less than 20 metres from our garden fence and its pretty much hidden behind our trees, if you in the back garden and its damp then you can hear it buzzing but its never bothered us in the 7 years we've lived here

[NTECUK]

The thing is,You have though enough about it to go and post it on hear.
So what is niggleing you will probly niggle somone else.
Be other propertys in just as good areas with out that nagging doubt.
My self as its not directly adjacent or wires over the property it would not worry me.