A couple’s dream home has turned into a nightmare as passing lorries on a nearby road cause the house to shake.
Jackie McCormack and her husband couldn’t believe their luck when they bought an “absolutely beautiful” three-bed new build for £350,000 in Coleshill, near Birmingham.
But as soon as they moved in, traffic from the busy A446 Lichfield Road – just nine feet from their home – meant they were constantly rocked by passing motorists.
Mum Jackie has likened it to “living next to a motorway” and said the air is also full of vehicle fumes, with lorries heard between 5.30am and 8.30pm every day, reports Birmingham Live.
And they didn’t notice the proximity of the road when they were looking at the place? Really? This si like the people who buy a house under the flight path out of Heathrow and complain about the aircraft flying overhead of those who buy a nice little place in the country and complain about the church bells on a Sunday morning.
I must say, If I’d been that daft, I’m not sure I’d splatter it all over the newspapers.
Jackie has called for immediate action, suggesting the speed limit should be dropped to 40mph for the 800m stretch near her and her neighbours’ homes.
Right, so a speed limit on a major highway because she didn’t do her homework. The very existence of such a major road so close to the property – along with the sellers dropping it by £25k should have told her everything she needed to know, but no, other people must now be forced to adjust because of her. I don’t think so.
Exactly what I thought. Caveat emptor.
Surprise motorway lol
Reminds me of the Jasper Carrot insurance claims. I was driving along and a tree jumped in front of me.
Did they reroute the A446 since they built her house? no, its been there years and its used by hundreds of bloody great lorries all day and night since it was laid, what did they expect, or are the hoping if enough fuss is made the builder will erect a 12/15 ft woooden fence along the whole road section to help cut the noise…which is what’s being done all over the country where fields are being concreted over for houses right up to the edge of motorway standard roads, why would you buy a house beside a motorway standard road.
Whilst on a rant, i happen to live in Northamptonshire which together with East Warwickshire has become the default distribution hub of the country, vast swathes of previously green land and forest have been cleared to make way for either houses shopping areas or vast warehouses which will, like all the others, be rammed to the rafters with Chinese made tat designed to last 5 minutes…obviously the parts of the counties affected are not where the people who own the counties live.
Deer and other animals that used to roam freely haven’t anywhere to go now, what the hell is wrong with us, why do we need so much useless tat.
Thanks for allowing me that small rant.
Agreed. I vote for expanding Santa Pod Raceway. 🙂
Call that close to a road? Pah, amateurs! When I was a kid I lived in a house that was literally right next to a main trunk A road. We’re talking look out the window, trucks going by at 60mph about 3 yards away. And guess what was on the other side of the road? The Bristol to Paddington main railway line. On a socking big embankment so the trains were at your bedroom window height. And not just during the day, at night the freight coal trains used to trundle past to Didcot power station and the whole house would gently shake. We got used to it, eventually you didn’t even notice the trains and traffic at all. In fact when we moved away no-one could sleep for ages because it was too quiet…….
Let’s assume they got a big mortgage, so it’s the banks money that paid for it. A valuer went there and decided it was suitable security at the purchase price and that the bank should take it onto their books. The valuer would have stuck in a bit about the proximity of the road affecting future saleability in the valuation report, so they should have been formally informed on the poor location.Anyway from the banks point of view, if it all goes pear shaped they can flog it without a loss, which is probably the biggest consideration.
I wonder why there was no traffic when they viewed?
It’s not difficult to do your own property searches these days before even viewing. Google street view, planning applications, Magic Map, Listed buildings, Historical maps….
Agree there. When my wife and I moved house we checked everything from flood risk, current planning applications and planning and usage covenants (we didn’t want to find that we were banned from having radio antennas or anything like that) right through to the possibility of the house being subject to Church Tithes before we signed on the dotted line. These whiners cannot have failed to see that there was a road nearby and that it was a busy one. It’s quite obvious that they failed to do their homework and research before buying and that’s nobody’s fault but their own. I agree with Longrider, this isn’t news, this is an exhibition of this buyer’s stupidity.
rather stupid people
Reminds me of a man I used to work with.He lived near a big Pub and used to complain about the noise at closing time, especially on Saturday nights.He then moved close to Birmingham Airport and began moaning about aircraft noise.
When I was learning to fly somebody bought a house right on the airfield perimeter called ‘Touchdown House’.
Immediately after moving in they started an (eventually successful) campaign against aircraft noise.
I think it goes to show that there is a genuine case for removing the right to vote from some people, on the grounds that they are so utterly fuckwitted as this woman is
She should walk a mile in my shoes before complaining. We just left Roehampton (A3, Heathrow flightpath, parrots, non-indigenous music) for the Surrey Hills, and ended up with a flock of sparrows in our hedge that are louder than a 777 on final approach. Seriously, those little buggers are LOUD. And then I thought we had rats in the roof only to find out those little buggers do formation dancing over the roof tiles in hob-nailed boots. I cannot believe that something so small can make so much noise. Can I have nice road please?
+1 on noisy sparrows. I used a hose & water to make them relocate
Birds in general are sleep disruptive, I’ve always dreaded waking for a pee when dawn chorus in progress. Infuriatingly, the new white LED ‘eco-friendly’ street lamps seem to make birds randomly wake up and start singing
Are LED street lamps deliberately designed to be crap compared to their HID sodium predecessors?
PS I lived near Heathrow and the aircraft never bothered me – Feltham then Hayes
Pcar, I read something regarding blue LED’s. Apparently they emit a wavelength of light similar to dawn light and can trick the body into thinking it’s time to get up. Perhaps the street lights do the same.