Vocal Voices

Son and D-i-l are in the throes of buying a new house having sold their present house have to move out in 2 weeks (as the buyers who are living with their Parents have to move out as that house has been sold.)

Yet to find out when new house will be available( so moving in with D-i-l's Parents) ,the developers told them a few weeks that Japanese Knot Weed has been found on the site (200 houses being built).

Now been told that it doesn't affect their property BUT it may be a case of unexploded ordinance and radio active paint that has been found on site !!!!
it is an ex military airfield from 2WW

Good grief! Sounds like they ought to buy a nuclear bunker rather than a house, Vic .....

When I was working, one of our clients, a civil engineering contractor got a contract to move waste from a site in East London near where the Olympic
Stadium is now built. Several soil were taken which should many nasty chemcals as well as radioactive materials. The contractor did not take the work.
It was from a factory which had been on the site for WW1 production.

Must be a lot of sites like that.

I think you are right Cruiser. Next to Wakefield Trinity's ground there is a site that should have been developed. It hasn't been because they have found that it is contaminated with heavy metals, probably from the Victorian period.
Then there were the houses in Bradford built next to a disused landfill site. New houses, now worth precisely nothing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-54464159

I hope they get it all sorted out Vic, they need to be careful though.

What do their lenders say about it?

Osc wrote:What do their lenders say about it?

I’d be querying that too.

Osc wrote:What do their lenders say about it?

Ah, now that is a good question, and what about the conveyancing? Didn't that raise any questions?

Cases such as the ones mentioned show us precisely why building on brownfield sites is not the answer to the housing problem many of us would like it to be. Many of them are only fit to be repurposed as alternative (light) industrial units or retail / office parks.

Sorry to hear this!

Mortgage lenders appear not interested
Insurance will have to wait until they can move in