Nine kinds of tell. 66 sources. One PDF.
Every fact is a tell, and every tell sits in one of nine categories. The shape of the warnings becomes familiar before you read the words.
The same street — nine different stories.
Overhead
What’s flying over the roof.
Heathrow 27R approach. 41 flights/day between 6am and 11pm, peaking at 67 dB. CAA contours overlay the postcode.
Aircraft noise contours, flight-path proximity, helicopter routes and military low-fly zones. The kind of overhead noise a viewing on a Sunday morning will never reveal.
Downstream
What’s in the water.
Sewage discharged eighty-one times last year at the nearest CSO. Bathing water rated “poor” since 2022.
Sewage spills from combined-sewer overflows, water-company event-duration monitoring, river quality, bathing-water classifications and the drinking-water hardness band.
Town hall
What’s in the paperwork.
Council issued a Section 114. Tax band E with three planning enforcement notices live within 200m.
Council financial health (Section 114 notices), council-tax band, live planning enforcement notices, Article 4 directions, conservation-area designations and listed-building status.
Underfoot
What’s beneath the foundations.
Disused colliery shaft 200m beneath the kitchen. Radon affected band — testing recommended pre-exchange.
Coal-mining legacy, radon-affected areas, ground-stability risk and the soil class beneath the foundations. The things a structural survey can’t see from the kerb.
Next door
What the neighbours are planning.
Adjacent property granted a two-storey rear extension last month. Planning consultation on the corner plot closes in nine days.
Live planning applications within a configurable radius, recently-granted permissions next door and the boundary-dispute record where it exists in the public domain.
Catchment
What you’re walking to.
Primary catchment rated Good. Nearest GP accepting new patients; nearest dentist not.
Ofsted ratings and school catchments, GP and NHS dentist registration, transport-link travel times and the access-to-services index.
Freeholder
Who you’re renting the freehold from.
Freeholder taken to the First-tier Tribunal three times in five years. Ground rent doubles every ten years.
First-tier Tribunal decisions against the freeholder, Companies House filings for the freehold entity, ground-rent escalation and management-company history.
On the ground
What the street looks like in May.
Three properties on the street with To Let signs. Police.uk flags 14 antisocial-behaviour reports in the last twelve months.
Satellite-visible features (solar panels, extensions, outbuildings), Police.uk crime and antisocial-behaviour reports and the street-level density of let signs.
On the record
What the register remembers.
Grade II listed. Sits inside the Greenfield Conservation Area — Article 4 restricts permitted-development rights.
Listed-building entries, conservation-area boundaries, scheduled ancient monuments and tree-preservation orders. The constraints that bind every change you might want to make.
Long-form on each tell.
The ten most common buyer questions — flood, leasehold, planning, EPC, knotweed, radon, subsidence, conservation, noise, sewage — have their own explainers, written for the buyer who wants to understand what the register actually says.
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