House Purchase - Help Asap Please!!!

courtjester

I wonder if people make too much of this 'south-facing garden is best' business.

In the Summer, it hardly matters surely as the sun is directly above (appreciating that the further north in the UK you are the more this may be relevant). With larger gardens and neighbouring homes further away, it makes less difference.

I'm not going to sit in the garden in the winter.

Our (small) garden faces East - but only if you take a relative view from the house. If I stand on the north side of the garden and look south, what direction is the garden really facing...?

During the Summer our 'east-facing' garden has the sun up until about 2pm before the shade starts to come round from the house - which is generally welcome. Late in the evening from around 6-7pm, the sun re-appears around the house on the north side of the garden just in time to light up the patio at the north-east corner for those evening G&T's.

If we are desperate to sit in the sun later in the afternoon, we take our deck chairs out to the front of the house and watch the kids play in the street and chat to our neighbours who also have their chairs out front.

During the winter our grass is generally pretty wet underfoot (was returfed a year ago) and looks pretty sgraggy but come Spring it will dry out and grass up, so this sounds normal to me, unless you have a severe drainage problem that could be sorted out with negotiation with your developer.