What a shame! Dream house next to nuclear power station

[MikeyT]

Surfing around the other night I came across this property - we're thinking of moving to the west somewhere when the youngest heads off for University in a couple of years.

This looks really nice - the outside anyway - the insid needs a bit od updating maybe and one or two things but for me it has a nice gouble garage for the Mustang ad a bit of land and looks like it has fallen off a jigsaw puzzle!

SO I was a bit disappointed when coming out a bit on Google maps to find it has a power station within spitting distance over the back fence

Also, I have tried to find this place on Google maps but I can't see it from the aerial view (on the right road/lane etc) and I can't come across it on Streetview ... there don't seem any tress round it to hide it and yet I have failed to find it! Last changed hands in 2001 for half the price it is now.

Ah well, back to the search

[mfmman]

If you search 'Shurton Lane, Shurton'. Zoom straight in and it is slightly to the right and up from the balloon at the centre of the map, not the first house but the second one you come to as the crow flies. Has a trampoline in the garden and a white van on the drive (all right, it might be an estate)

[Puggit]

Pah - I've stood on the roof of the reactor core in there 20 years ago, I'm still here!

(OK, it will look hideous...)

[Davi]

Puggit said:

Pah - I've stood on the roof of the reactor core in there 20 years ago, I'm still here!

yeah but your typing this with the third arm you grew...

[MikeyT]

mfmman said:

If you search 'Shurton Lane, Shurton'. Zoom straight in and it is slightly to the right and up from the balloon at the centre of the map, not the first house but the second one you come to as the crow flies. Has a trampoline in the garden and a white van on the drive (all right, it might be an estate)

Ah, got it - cheers! How the bloody hell could you get to it though in the car ... ?

[chris1roll]

At least you know you won't end up with the fields around you getting built on, as they aren't allowed to increase the housing density beyond what is already there.

Plus, every time we go out there for a stroll the access road is deserted Perfect for testing if your latest tweak to the carbs has worked?

Wouldn't bother me TBH, it might get a bit busy whilst they build Hinkley C though...

[Dogwatch]

MikeyT said:

Ah, got it - cheers! How the bloody hell could you get to it though in the car ... ?

Drive along the stream bed by the look of it!

[tr7v8]

I did quite a lot of work at that site in the late 70's early 80's. Some nice cider houses around there if I remember correctly.

[thinfourth2]

nuclear power station or council estate

I'll take the power station every time as there is far less chance of nasty genetic mutations

[BoRED S2upid]

Thats a nice house providing theres no earthquakes you will be fine living next to a nuclear power station go for it.

[Munter]

thinfourth2 said:

nuclear power station or council estate

I'll take the power station every time as there is far less chance of nasty genetic mutations

I'd say you'll hardly notice it from that house. But the only way to find out would be to visit.

[shimmey69]

you can barely see the power station from the road to the north of the house, go onto google street view and you will see!!

[Simpo Two]

That looks lovely. Re-sale might be tricky because everyubody is terrified of growing three heads, but I'd chance it.

[OwenK]

As an aside, does anybody have any tips on finding such lovely places? We're currently house hunting and are pretty flexible on area and price but on all the big property sites every search is just flooded with hideous 70s boxes in those bizarre grotty-yet-expensive town/suburb locations, with the occasional gem every 15 pages or so. Is there any secret method of whittling it down, apart from simple local knowledge of where the nice areas are?

I'm happy to live next to a nuclear power station or a wind farm if I can have a great house!

[andrewrob]

At least its not as bad as this one
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6456028/Fis...

[carreauchompeur]

andrewrob said:

At least its not as bad as this one
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/6456028/Fis...

I find it hilarious and virtually unbelievable that the estate agents managed to exclude the power stations from any of the photos! Must have been some, erm, interesting angles...

[carreauchompeur]

But I'd definitely buy that house. Looks lovely and you'd have the added benefit of regular armed police patrols within yards of the house...

[Simpo Two]

carreauchompeur said:

But I'd definitely buy that house. Looks lovely and you'd have the added benefit of regular armed police patrols within yards of the house...

And free power if you have an extension lead. Bet a nuclear power station has loads of 13A sockets on it...

[CatherineJ]

Where is the house positioned in relation to where they are going to be building the new reactors?

[MikeyT]

OwenK said:

As an aside, does anybody have any tips on finding such lovely places?

Not really - as you say on Rightmove you're stuck with all the boring square boxes which all look the same .... and you have to wade through pages and pages of them to unearth the odd gem. I had ticked the character box on Rightmove's filtering system and I had drawn a rough area in Somerset as a guide - it then threw up this gem that I am talking about.

So pure luck really. And it was at the limit of the budget so was in the first one or two peoperties. Jaw dropped when I saw it as it looks fantastic. Just a pity we're not ready to move by a couple of years or so!

I went looking for country properties yesterday on Google as I thought that would throw up a few more quirky ones and all I got was £20m 22nd century houses in Surrey - is Weybridge just ONE big estate of these behemoths complete with cinemas and indoor pools?

I drew an area to search on Rightmove in weest Wales and it seems EVERY place there has at least five acres of land, but is stuck in some 70s timewarp re interior decor. And it rains. A lot.