Neighbouring building advice

Doozergirl

The Teignbridge planing pages are awful. I really hope that they have better guidelines in place than that website shows.

Please, just phone the planning department and ask for a planning officer to come out asap and look and be prepared to tell you exactly what guidance is in place.

EssentialParadox

Thanks for the help guys, especially Doozergirl, it has been incredibly helpful. We feel like we have some sort of a case to back us now. I will keep you guys updated on what happens.

Doozergirl

Please let us know. Good Luck!

specialboy

I cant understand why you havnt been more proactive and moved the fence out to your true boundary, too late for the trees but at least you get your land back (can you prove its yours?)

stebiz

I'm really sorry that you are having to put up with this. It is a disgrace. Personally I'd be moving my fences and making an absolute fuss as I could getting papers involved, planners and councilors.

I'd be looking for a pay off and move house.

tberry6686

I suggest you start a thread on the garden law website as they (probably) have more experience and expertise in this sort of situation.

http://www.gardenlaw.co.uk

For what its worth, imho the house that is on your land will not be moved and I would be very surprised if a court ordered it to be moved. What will probably happen is that you will have a boundary dispute for a while until either you or the builder takes it to court. The court will then decide that (if you have good enough evidence) that the house is built partially on your land but that it would be unfair on the builder to make them demolish it so they will order the builder to purchase the land from you for a set figure (it probably will not be a large amount).

As far as the loss of light - that would need to have been dealt with at the planning stage.

olias

As above, however personally, I would not want to remain living there. I would be pushing for the building firm to purchase my property at the market value it was before they gained planning permission and started building.

The ball is well and truly in your court, as its highly unlikely that a member of the bublic would buy the house they have built over your property line with a continuing border dispute present, so they would be stuck with an unsaleable house.

Olias