I was just wondering if you have problems with gangs of teenagers hanging around outside the shops at night? I nearly bought an apartment over a small shopping centre but this was one of the drawbacks.I live abouv a row of shops, most of which were empty when I bought the place. What you need to do is keep an eye out to see if planning permission is submitted, as someone else said certain types of businesses require it. Where I live the management company tryed to sneak a chipper into one of the empty units- us residents got mad with the management company, we now have a Euro saver style shop instead. We also got the mc to put it into each lease that delivery times be restricted.
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... Where I live the management company tryed to sneak a chipper into one of the empty units- us residents got mad with the management company...
This would be my biggest no-no and would completely decide me against buying anywhere that could potentially be in the vicinity of a business, plant equipment for air con and for refrigeration (which is pretty similar basically, they are all about moving heat from one place to another) is tooth-grindingly relentless and annoying. The permanent noise pollution from it would be significantly to the detriment of my quality of life since I have little tolerance for that sort of relentless, eternal background noise (curiously the trolleys wouldn't bother me near as much!). I know from experience that the first thing I do when I walk into a hotel room is simply stop and listen, if the noise level from plant equipment is tolerable it will do for the night, if not, I get moved as fast as I can because it disturbs my sleep quite considerably. If I was to be living there though, I doubt I would be happy to hear any such white noise at all as I wouldn't be leaving the apartment for a few years!... Also any premises that serve food require a big loud refridgeration unit, if your apartment is going to be directly above it object (they'll need pp) as they run 24hrs and the noise can be a bit much if you're directly above it.
I am assuming from this that you are talking about a seperate managing company for the shop units? How can this work? The managing company is surely for the building as a whole, ergo you would be part of it as you own one of the apartments?
This would be my biggest no-no and would completely decide me against buying anywhere that could potentially be in the vicinity of a business, plant equipment for air con and for refrigeration (which is pretty similar basically, they are all about moving heat from one place to another) is tooth-grindingly relentless and annoying. The permanent noise pollution from it would be significantly to the detriment of my quality of life since I have little tolerance for that sort of relentless, eternal background noise (curiously the trolleys wouldn't bother me near as much!). I know from experience that the first thing I do when I walk into a hotel room is simply stop and listen, if the noise level from plant equipment is tolerable it will do for the night, if not, I get moved as fast as I can because it disturbs my sleep quite considerably. If I was to be living there though, I doubt I would be happy to hear any such white noise at all as I wouldn't be leaving the apartment for a few years!
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