Owning your own home

I suppose if nobody has claimed it, it could be regarded as belonging to the Parish Council. Nobody has yet applied for it to be registered as having rights of common over it, but do feel free to bring your flock so long as they don’t eat the hellebores.

We might look into putting in an application to be the registered proprietors as that will simplify a future sale (our mortgage lender struggled to understand and accept it).

@ReekBlefs That seems quite expensive, if you are in East London I could recommend a surveyor that friends, family and fellow Lfgss’ers have successfully used for way less

Morden is pretty nice, good schools and close to lots of lovely green spaces. I will definitely make an effort to make sure it sells for a good price

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Our side access is jointly maintained by me and my neighbour. Which in reality means fully maintained by me (I made wooden gate toppers for the front gate and for both back gates as all three were rotten. I also fixed the metal gate as it was hanging off the wall and I wanted a bit more security, and I fitted a battery PIR security light on my wall which I think probably needs its batteries replaced come to think of it). Which I'm fine with as I use it most for getting my bike and any garden/building bits in and out. I wouldn't mind if she picked up 50% of the fox shit, but it's not something I'm going to complain about. Also happy for my neighbour on the other side to use it to save him dragging stuff through his house.

Possibly to dig a hole as this is a possibility due to the high radon gas in the area, a radon sump might be needed. Yap the current owners have never done a test and nothing has been done about it and they have 2 yong kids!!!

IIRC Radon is one of those things that sounds scary but really isn't when you get into it. Even if you double the chance of a rare thing happening it's still very rare.

I think as long as the kids aren't heavy smokers they will be fine. I certainly wouldn't be paying the Radon industry £xx k to install a woo-woo box.

I certainly wouldn't be paying the Radon industry £xx k to install a woo-woo box.

Everyone wants their share, remember?

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Is radon a common problem? Is there a register somewhere, for affected areas? Like there is, for example, for mining subsidence.

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Thanks for the link.

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What sort of numbers are you seeing at your prospective house?

If you read the details, it strikes me as alarmist if I am honest. Action Level if there is 1% chance of levels exceeding 200Bq/m^3.

1%

I think if that figure was realistic and not overly conservative, we'd all hear much more about it.

Also, it's only about £2k to sort

Then sort it yourself. I do not think you will have success convincing a seller to pay for this.

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you can see an extra pipe pointing all the way to the sky

wood / multi fuel burner flue

Sure, but that doesn't really mean anything in this context.
They can choose to sell to someone else who doesn't care about this issue.

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At the same time, don't cut your nose to spite your face. It's about choosing battles, sometimes*, when buying a house.

*all times

I'm confused by that map. My childhood home is 10-30% of Maxmimum Radon potential but no idea how that relates to the absolute figures showing what the risk is.

That means there's a 10-30% chance of readings exceeding 200Bq/m^3.

It's woolly AF and hurts my Engineering brain!

Doesn't look like it's a legal obligation so they can just tell you no if they want.