Just throwing this out to the knowledgeable masses on here.
Green is scrubland. Red border is our garage and below that our garden. Right of those is neighbours garden. Black box at the top is the house that used to own the scrubland.
There is an area of nature/scrubland behind our garage and rear fence, and situated between ourselves and the neighbours boundary - it used to belong to that house but the was sold off 15 years ago when the original owner was refused planning permission to build on it. The owner of it recently cleared it out with the intention to build. That in itself is fine, but having had it cleared out, we think that our boundary extends a foot into this former "nature" land. The demarcation of the adjoining boundaries from houses on our street show a clear line.
We just happen to have the garage situated a foot inside this line, and so the trees/bushes/scrub naturally just grew against our garage, and when we moved in we put a new fence in as the old one was rotten and falling apart, and we had to follow the line of the garage due to trees on the other side.
The person who owns this land is a thoroughly unpleasant chap, and he's not going to entertain the idea of losing a foot of it, especially since he has repeatedly been refused planning permission (5 times!) because the plot is basically too narrow to build on.
Do I seek a solicitors advice? Looking on the land registry, it isn't 100% clear, other than all the adjoining boundaries line up, and so taking it at face value I'm sort of hoping we should be able to claim that foot of land.
Hohum, just came across this: https://www.gov.uk/your-property-boundaries/apply-exact-boundary-determined.
Has anyone done this before? Is it really worth the hassle? Ultimately we hope he gets sick of being rejected for planning and sells us the land. But I doubt we'll get that lucky.
Green is scrubland. Red border is our garage and below that our garden. Right of those is neighbours garden. Black box at the top is the house that used to own the scrubland.
There is an area of nature/scrubland behind our garage and rear fence, and situated between ourselves and the neighbours boundary - it used to belong to that house but the was sold off 15 years ago when the original owner was refused planning permission to build on it. The owner of it recently cleared it out with the intention to build. That in itself is fine, but having had it cleared out, we think that our boundary extends a foot into this former "nature" land. The demarcation of the adjoining boundaries from houses on our street show a clear line.
We just happen to have the garage situated a foot inside this line, and so the trees/bushes/scrub naturally just grew against our garage, and when we moved in we put a new fence in as the old one was rotten and falling apart, and we had to follow the line of the garage due to trees on the other side.
The person who owns this land is a thoroughly unpleasant chap, and he's not going to entertain the idea of losing a foot of it, especially since he has repeatedly been refused planning permission (5 times!) because the plot is basically too narrow to build on.
Do I seek a solicitors advice? Looking on the land registry, it isn't 100% clear, other than all the adjoining boundaries line up, and so taking it at face value I'm sort of hoping we should be able to claim that foot of land.
Hohum, just came across this: https://www.gov.uk/your-property-boundaries/apply-exact-boundary-determined.
Has anyone done this before? Is it really worth the hassle? Ultimately we hope he gets sick of being rejected for planning and sells us the land. But I doubt we'll get that lucky.
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