Soldato
Afternoon,
Hypothetically speaking, if you were buying a brand new house and the neighbour's garage's roof, soffits, and guttering breached the property line, as well as the drain pipe for the guttering being within your driveway, what action would you take? It would seem to me that if it crosses your property boundary, it would belong to you.
dirtychinchilla
Edit, solution below in case it's of use to anyone:
As I didn't want to leave you guys hanging (see what I did there), the answer is in the Party Wall Act Section 2(2), which gives the owner the right to:
(h)to cut away or demolish parts of any wall or building of an adjoining owner overhanging the land of the building owner or overhanging a party wall, to the extent that it is necessary to cut away or demolish the parts to enable a vertical wall to be erected or raised against the wall or building of the adjoining owner;
In that case, you would simply have to serve notice on the neighbour. As it's your right to do this, they can't actually object. The only proviso is that you then have to make good the part of their property that you cut, which is to be expected.
Satisfactory solution, if not very irritating.
Hypothetically speaking, if you were buying a brand new house and the neighbour's garage's roof, soffits, and guttering breached the property line, as well as the drain pipe for the guttering being within your driveway, what action would you take? It would seem to me that if it crosses your property boundary, it would belong to you.
dirtychinchilla
Edit, solution below in case it's of use to anyone:
As I didn't want to leave you guys hanging (see what I did there), the answer is in the Party Wall Act Section 2(2), which gives the owner the right to:
(h)to cut away or demolish parts of any wall or building of an adjoining owner overhanging the land of the building owner or overhanging a party wall, to the extent that it is necessary to cut away or demolish the parts to enable a vertical wall to be erected or raised against the wall or building of the adjoining owner;
In that case, you would simply have to serve notice on the neighbour. As it's your right to do this, they can't actually object. The only proviso is that you then have to make good the part of their property that you cut, which is to be expected.
Satisfactory solution, if not very irritating.
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