Selling Home + Keeping Part Of Garden?

internets_2

Thanks for your replies... selling a home, and keeping a small portion of the garden to live\ build on is possible, i'll let you know if it happens....

davidmcn

A new residence of any sort is going to need planning permission. Check local policies (minimum plot sizes etc), this may be a non-starter.

Slinky

Good luck with that. Who's going to want to buy your house and then look at you living in a shed in the garden?

internets_2

Slinky wrote: »

Good luck with that. Who's going to want to buy your house and then look at you living in a shed in the garden?

I know. Would be great if it could be a zero contact sale, then we could pretend we've been there for years. Anyway the plot we want to cut off is to the side (no windows), so they wouldn't exactly be getting a show.

Bonfire_Bride

Interesting.


However, I think you may cut off a lot of potential buyers with this proposal.

tidds

Curious idea. Slicing up land isn't that difficult and has been done. But you'll need to look into the legality and minimum plot size as said. Plus, consider if this is truly the right move for you...

G_M

Perfectly straight forward.

Apply for planning permission.

Find a buyer for the property and land you wich to sell.

Split the Title using form TP1.

Sorted.

oystercatcher

Remember all the trouble the travellers near Basildon had a few years ago ? They were doing exactly this but on a larger scale.
Eventually the bulldozers arrived and won.

I very much doubt you would get planning permission.

Person_one

So in the midst of a row of detached suburban houses with big gardens, will be a little strip of land with a couple of 'eco-sheds' on it and inhabitants somehow living without power or running water?

Can't see the council or the neighbours really going for it myself.

Are you teasing us OP?

G_M

internets wrote: »

.... even if the council OK'd it, I can't see the rest of the street being content with it at all, neighbours, nagbores...

Well you don't seem to really care about the neighbours, so if the council OK it, what's the problem?

TBagpuss

I'd suggest that you stat by getting some advice about the liklihood of being granted planning permission to build on the land (whether an 'eco home' or anything else.

Then if you are told that it is likely to be grnated, make the application and divide off the bit of land, then when you market the proprty ensure that the agents are aware of which bit you are selling.

You can then formally split the titles either once PP is granted or as pat of the conveyancing on sale, in which case make sure you use a real solicitor, not a production line conveyancer.