Buying part of my garden from Network Rail

fedupandskint

Hi,

I would be grateful if anyone had any advice regarding this matter

I live next to a railway line and part of my garden is Network Rail's land. They have more than doubled the rent of the land they got from the previous house owners and I would like to buy it from them. It can't be more than 60m long x>1m increasing to < 2m wide in a triangle/wedge shape. I love my garden and would be gutted to lose it because the rent is too high.

Does anyone have any tips or any experience with this?

bathgatebuyer

Here's a list of the contact details for NWR - http://www.networkrail.co.uk/aspx/1600.aspx

You may get lucky if they view it as a liability rather than an asset - they may be willing to consider a sale given that they are not doing much on the sales side at the moment and have had a few redundancies in property recently (which may, conversely, impact upon the speed at which you receive a response).

Given the shape of the ground, and the positioning of it, you may get lucky with NWR being willing to consider a sale. Phone them up and ask if they'd be willing to consider a disposal. A decision will be made by someone who has some degree of control over that area and the Property team would act accordingly. They will still, obviously, try and get as much money as you possibly can for it, but that depends largely on what uses it has to them (for example, if you didn't own it, could it possibly be used for parking maintenance vehicles on, or could it be used for storage of materials, could it be of future importance, are there any line development or improvements planned....................)

And you'll have fees to pay!