bought some new land need help with the agreement

constantsmiler

Hi guys, wee question, i bought some land behind my property when i was building it to extinguish a right of way through the property, I was totally shafted as the original price when the seller came to visit was £2000, and as he was a neighbour he said to build away and wed get the paperwork sorted. As a young green first time builder I took him at his word, and proceeded to build the house right up, about a month later he called up I expected him to have the agreement and welcomed him with a smile and he welcomed me with a price hike- £20, 000 telling me circumstances had changed and id built on away at the property, even though he told me in front of witnesses. Anyway, id just become single and was in bits only a week before and broke down, to cut a long story short ended up settling on £12,000 but he wrote conditions into the agreement which i made sure I went to solicitor with.

The solicitor advised just to sign as he had me over a barrel. the main one is that i am only allowed to build a double garage on the property.

it extends to well over an acre, the deal was done about 5 years ago, is there anyway i can get this clause removed? He is a well known property developer, and obvioulsy just did this to cash in in the future when i wanted to apply for a site or something.

I know i was in wrong for building on, then signing, but does anyone know a way to get around this old !!!!!!!??

many thanks

DVardysShadow

Housing buying selling forum http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=16 has the best expertise for this.

Reposted as https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4003107

constantsmiler

brilliant thanks