The debate of house barriers when you're looking to buy - fencing, hedges, panelling

googler

JustAnotherSaver wrote: »

There's no houses anywhere near where we live currently. It's brilliant

Yes, but surely someone owns the land around, even if it's the council or the crown .....

Slinky

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

I asked my vendor, whilst having my viewings, exactly what I do and don't own out of the boundaries. Hence, I know exactly whats mine and what isn't.

Always assuming the vendor actually knows which boundaries they own...... and you know what assume does.......

moneyistooshorttomention

True...vendors might get it wrong..but, judging by who did work on the boundaries, and that its obviously been accepted by relevant next door neighbour then I'd say its pretty conclusive.

The house is a relatively modern one and hasn't had many owners too, so I'd say there won't have been eons of time/many owners "passing under the bridge" and Chinese Whispers have had chance to mistranslate over the years.

I guess previous owners will be more or less concerned as to ownership. I viewed a virtually brand new house and neither they or the neighbour actually knew who owned the hedge between them...so there will be some who are pretty unaware.

grifferz

gazzabboi wrote: »

when your solicitor does his bits at exchange, you will be asked if the area on the red line plan is correct. On the red line plan it will say who is the owner of each fence/boundary.

This is sometimes the case. Other times the seller information form states which boundaries the seller thinks they own. The seller can be wrong as well. It can be a case of coming to an agreement with your neighbours.

OP is going to have to talk to some of them anyway as it's unlikely that OP owns every boundary fence.

Land_Registry

It is usually best to reach agreement with adjoining owners before replacing any sort of boundary feature. Please see our FAQs on Boundaries

JustAnotherSaver

Davesnave wrote: »

Surely you still have boundaries? The responsibility for those could easily be as vague or perplexing as those one comes across in settlements.

I've only lived in the countryside for four years, and I've already had more boundary issues than the other 35 years of house ownership put together.

Yes, we do. We own up to our fence & that's it. We can replace our fencing if we wish, we don't own anything beyond it. At the rear of the house is a road so we don't own that either. Everything from the back wall of the house to the fencing we own, anything outside of this, we don't.