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HELP - Have I been mis sold my house?
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I'm hoping someone could please be kind enough to assist and provide some much needed advice.
After saving for 8 years, we bought our house 9 months ago in a rural town, and not long after moving in, we have continued to experience anti social behaviour from a car park opposite our house. This car park was put in place nearly 4 years ago, to ease the parking situation for the nearby football pitches.
Cars often arrive late at night (as late as 2am sometimes), playing loud music to the point our house vibrates, wheel spinning, doing donuts, doing drugs, littering. The police are saying it's a borough council issue, whilst the borough council are saying it's a police matter. We are still trying to get this resolved with both parties. We don't believe that any planning application was put through for this car park, so we also trying to question them if this car park was put here illegally.
Anyhow, at the time of buying the house, it was asked verbally if there were any known issues with this car park, but was told by the previous residents, that there's wasn't any at all. After speaking with some locals recently, it was discovered that this anti social behaviour has been going on since the car park existed (nearly 4 years ago), and it was alleged that the previous residents of our newly bought property made various complaints.
At the various times of viewing the house, we were just unlucky that we didn't see any of this anti social behaviour for ourselves, otherwise we wouldn't have gone through with it. We did our research on the area, but no red flags came up. We obviously didn't dig deep enough.
Like I said, this was only discussed verbally. I have looked over the TA6 document, and there is no mention of this anti social behaviour, nor does the document specifically asks for this information. It asks for disputes with neighbours, but doesn't specifically ask about neighbourhood issues.
Could it be possible to obtain police records of the complaints made by the previous residents under the Freedom of Information Act? This may give us the proof we need.
Could others who viewed the house have asked the same question about the car park? Could we approach the estate agents for assistance?
Where do we stand with this? At the moment, it's simply our word against theirs. Can we claim that this house was mis sold to us? Do we have a case?
Thank you for reading
Mr H
I'm hoping someone could please be kind enough to assist and provide some much needed advice.
After saving for 8 years, we bought our house 9 months ago in a rural town, and not long after moving in, we have continued to experience anti social behaviour from a car park opposite our house. This car park was put in place nearly 4 years ago, to ease the parking situation for the nearby football pitches.
Cars often arrive late at night (as late as 2am sometimes), playing loud music to the point our house vibrates, wheel spinning, doing donuts, doing drugs, littering. The police are saying it's a borough council issue, whilst the borough council are saying it's a police matter. We are still trying to get this resolved with both parties. We don't believe that any planning application was put through for this car park, so we also trying to question them if this car park was put here illegally.
Anyhow, at the time of buying the house, it was asked verbally if there were any known issues with this car park, but was told by the previous residents, that there's wasn't any at all. After speaking with some locals recently, it was discovered that this anti social behaviour has been going on since the car park existed (nearly 4 years ago), and it was alleged that the previous residents of our newly bought property made various complaints.
At the various times of viewing the house, we were just unlucky that we didn't see any of this anti social behaviour for ourselves, otherwise we wouldn't have gone through with it. We did our research on the area, but no red flags came up. We obviously didn't dig deep enough.
Like I said, this was only discussed verbally. I have looked over the TA6 document, and there is no mention of this anti social behaviour, nor does the document specifically asks for this information. It asks for disputes with neighbours, but doesn't specifically ask about neighbourhood issues.
Could it be possible to obtain police records of the complaints made by the previous residents under the Freedom of Information Act? This may give us the proof we need.
Could others who viewed the house have asked the same question about the car park? Could we approach the estate agents for assistance?
Where do we stand with this? At the moment, it's simply our word against theirs. Can we claim that this house was mis sold to us? Do we have a case?
Thank you for reading
Mr H
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