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Help with neighbours extension plans please!
quietheart
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We've recently moved into a link-detached house. Our neighbours have just shown us plans of their proposed single-storey extension. They currently have a lean-to type garage area which will be extended right up to our wall.
Will our house still be classed as a link-detached? What other things should we be concerned about?
Thanks in advance
Will our house still be classed as a link-detached? What other things should we be concerned about?
Thanks in advance
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Out of curiosity, what is a link-detached house?FREEDOM IS NOT FREE0
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Why does it matter?rovers wrote:We've recently moved into a link-detached house. Our neighbours have just shown us plans of their proposed single-storey extension. They currently have a lean-to type garage area which will be extended right up to our wall.
Will our house still be classed as a link-detached?
That your neighbours complete the work properly and comply with all the rules of doing things like this.rovers wrote:What other things should we be concerned about?A house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
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Link-detached: Adjacent detached properties which do not have a party wall, but which are linked by the garage(s) and so forming a single frontage.0
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The property value for a start, detached is gonna achieve more on this road than semi. Secondly noise, thirdly there could be a light issue, etc etc.BobProperty wrote:Why does it matter?
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Anyone in the know out there?!0 -
I'm not sure on this. But, when the houses were built, I expect they had easement rights for a lean-to covering. (In the old planning books at the library, where I found my house, it was called a Motor Shed). Any extension on to this e.g. additional length would probably not be included in the original easement rights and probably could not be attached to the neighbours wall. Don't know if this is relevant in this case, just putting it out for information.FREEDOM IS NOT FREE0
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When you sell it the EA will come up with the best BS description of the property they can get away with. If it is link detached now, it will still be described as link detached when you sell it, unless you attach it to next door by a habitable room which isn't going to happen without you and your neighbour's agreement.rovers wrote:The property value for a start, detached is gonna achieve more on this road than semi. Secondly noise, thirdly there could be a light issue, etc etc.
Anyone in the know out there?!
Noise will hardly be a consideration. This is a domestic house not an industrial process occurring. Light, you don't have much rights except in terms of being overlooked into a habitable room IIRC.A house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.0 -
this may be leftfield, but have you considered extending yourself and sharing the costs with your neighbour? adding sq footage is more likely to increase your own property's value."enough is a feast"...old Buddist proverb0
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They'll possibly need to comply with the Party Wall etc Act 1996 - i.e. they should serve you a Party Wall notice of their intention to carry out the work. For clarification of the PW Act have a look at the RICS website https://www.rics.org to see if what they intend to do comes under the Act.0
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