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trying2010
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We are in the process of buying a house coming up to 10 years old. it is freehold no communal areas and the estate agents have said as far as there aware there is no annual maintenance charges.
I noticed there are trees and shrubs to the front of the house. would that be the councils job to keep these maintained?
I noticed there are trees and shrubs to the front of the house. would that be the councils job to keep these maintained?
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trying2010 wrote: »We are in the process of buying a house coming up to 10 years old. it is freehold no communal areas and the estate agents have said as far as there aware there is no annual maintenance charges.
I noticed there are trees and shrubs to the front of the house. would that be the councils job to keep these maintained?
Depends if they are on your land or not. Be careful, trees and shrubs if planted too close to the house can cause subsidence and drainage problems. Hope you got the house for a good discount with or without the trees.0 -
des_cartes wrote: »Depends if they are on your land or not. Be careful, trees and shrubs if planted too close to the house can cause subsidence and drainage problems. Hope you got the house for a good discount with or without the trees.
Whether they got the house for 'a good discount' or not has nothing to do with the question they asked, so stop pushing your crash,crash,crash agenda into completely unrelated threads.0 -
If the trees and shrubs are on Council owned or Highway Land the Council should maintain them.
If on your land, it is up to you.
More likely to be your responsibility. If the trees have a preservation order on them you cannot do any work to them without the Council's consent.RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0 -
I used to live on a modern estate about 10 years old. The householders were responsible for their own front gardens, but there was quite a large strip of land planted with low maintenance trees & shrubs by the developer alongside the road which was the highway verge and adopted by the council when they adopted the road. You need to find out the exact boundary of the garden, and who has responsibility for any other area of land.
The obvious place to start is by asking the vendors.0 -
The land registry deeds will show the boundary hence whether the trees are yours or not. You can get the deeds for £4 from the LR, or ask your solicitor if you're using one.0
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thanks for the responses. this is the strip of land on street viewI used to live on a modern estate about 10 years old. The householders were responsible for their own front gardens, but there was quite a large strip of land planted with low maintenance trees & shrubs by the developer alongside the road which was the highway verge and adopted by the council when they adopted the road. You need to find out the exact boundary of the garden, and who has responsibility for any other area of land.
The obvious place to start is by asking the vendors.0 -
I reckon the council adopted that bit if its similar to around my way -
However back at my folks that would be private (especially given the brick "road" to the drives) and there is a LTD that each of the houses has a share in and have to pay £150 per year for maintenace and sink fund.0 -
Ask your solicitor about it and he will either be able to give you the answer or will have to ask some more questions/obtain more documents etc to tell you.
All we can do on the forum is speculate about likely possible answers. Your solicitor will be bale to find the actual answer.RICHARD WEBSTER
As a retired conveyancing solicitor I believe the information given in the post to be useful assuming any properties concerned are in England/Wales but I accept no liability for it.0 -
trying2010 wrote: »thanks for the responses. this is the strip of land on street view
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=hereford+close,+ashford&um=1&gl=uk&resnum=1&biw=1276&bih=627&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=il
Total waste of time looking at this - only the deeds will answer your question.0
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