When I lived in Cambridge a few years ago houses were built on the site of the old MPD, next to the station. The new residents started to complain about the noise of the trains within a fortnight.
The same happened at York on the site of the old Dringhouses Yard, the yard shut down and became derelict and was then surplus to requirements and was sold. Low and behold the site was covered in houses which just happened to be next to the East Coast Mainline and later what happens we have residents complaint about trains through the night keeping them awake and we are going to write to our M.P. and get them stopped etc etc.
Didn,t they do there research, if the yard had not closed then and land disposed of then there houses and they would,t be living there.
Always think before you buy and visit the area at night, what that train going past, why is there a bus stop on this road? where does that railway line go? and even though its rusty why has it not been lifted and will trains run again on it? All questions that need answering before you purchase the house.
Do your own homework first and don,t just take the solicitors word for what the searches have brought up, get out there and do your feet on the ground research into the area your buying in and at various times of day.
