Buying more garden - Where do I start?

silvercar

You need to pay decide who pays the legal costs; you definitely want the change of boundaries registered to avoid problems on sale of either plot.

Poppy9

I bought a plot of land that was at the end of my garden from the council in about 1999. We didn't really want to buy it as our garden is big enough but another neighbour had approached the council to buy it and they wrote to give us first refusal as it was directly behind our garden.

We didn't want the neighbour to have it as it would have affected our enjoyment of our garden.

We paid £500 plus ours and the council's legal fees. All in about £1100.

The land was overgrown with mature trees and I is about 35ft long and about 40 ft wide (the width of my house and drive) but it's not square it's a sort of triangular shape.

If we landscaped it would add value to our house but not much more than £5k as some people might view the garden as too big.

SquatNow

Poppy9 wrote: »

If we landscaped it would add value to our house but not much more than £5k as some people might view the garden as too big.

There's no such thing as a garden that is too big.

Seriously, plant some f**king vegetables or fruit trees or something.

In the coming depression, having room to grow you own food will make the difference for some people between eating and feeling very hungry.

Poppy9

SquatNow wrote: »

There's no such thing as a garden that is too big.

Seriously, plant some f**king vegetables or fruit trees or something.

In the coming depression, having room to grow you own food will make the difference for some people between eating and feeling very hungry.

Of course there is a too big garden. If you are working you want to enjoy your garden and not spend hours more mowing & maintaining etc. It's bad enough doing our current back garden (which has two lawns) and our front garden.

We love the trees and wildlife. Lots of different birds spotted there and I'd miss my owl that hoots away at night!

We do get a tree surgeon in every couple of years to prune the trees and we've cleared all the nettles etc. but it's like a small wood (it used to be part of the woods before they built houses in the 1950s.)

p.s I've already got fruit trees in my original garden. Blooming pain they are too. Stupid crab apples which fall on the lawn and ruin it. Next door has a cooking apple tree with branches that come into our garden. With their permission we scrump them to make apple pie

waddy80

Thanks for all your replies. After looking at the plans on the land registry it's clear that this bit of land would definitley not be of use to anyone else. Next door could only really incorporate a third of it so it really is only of value to us and the current owner.

However the property that currently has the land is only a small 2 bed cottage, and even if we took the additional land, it would still have a rather large garden for a property of that size on that street. I also know he can't extend as planning was refused, so the size of the garden would never decrease.

I'm going to have a few more days pondering (and also get a valuation / professional advice)

Captain_Mainwaring_2

Gorgeous_George wrote: »

You need to decide how much you want to pay. Or how much you do NOT want to pay.

Somewhere in between what is too much and what is the least you hope to get it for is the area for negotiation. Start at the bottom of the negotiation area and see what he says. A developer is likely to know the true value and will proobably want top dollar. OTOH, he may need some cash quickly and might settle for less.

30m2 is 30m by 30m which is a huge plot (900 sq metres).

30 sq metres is 30m by 1m (or 6m by 5m etc.).

Is it really 30m2? If so, I would happily pay a five figure sum if it was at the back of my house.

30 sq metres would be worth just a couple of grand to me.

GG

Is it George?

Now, I thought that 30m2 Was about 5.47722m x 5.47722m , give or take a bit

whereas the other ambiguous measurement used could imply 30m x 30m.

silvercar

or 3m x 10m or even 1m x 30m, unless it has been described as a square plot of land.

waddy80

The actual plot is triangular. It's roughly 10m x 3m

Captain_Mainwaring_2

waddy80 wrote: »

The actual plot is triangular. It's roughly 10m x 3m

that ain't 30m2. depending on your measurements it is about half that

Captain_Mainwaring_2

silvercar wrote: »

or 3m x 10m or even 1m x 30m, unless it has been described as a square plot of land.

Yes, quite, let's get people into the swing of working out areas first.