Is it worth building a fence around front garden?

cepheus

There are other houses nearby of the same design which have a fence, I know there is a limit of around 5ft, but I'm basing it around what a few other nearby houses of the same type have. The neighbours get upset if it's bigger than 4ft.

Of course the entire garden doesn't need to be fenced off, some people have fenced of 2/3rds to avoid a gate to the footpath. Next door proper have a small 2ft brick wall and gate which sort of closes of that side, as much as 2ft can.

Perhaps I should check the deeds just to make sure there is nothing specific to this property.

I got a gardener to remove a lot of shrubs about 5 years ago because cutting them was killing my back. Mowing the damn lawn is bad enough especially around the edges.

cepheus

The deeds state

"No building structure fence wall or erection other than the dwellinghouse garage and outbuildings (if any) being erected by the Transferor shall be erected on the said property without the consent in writing of the transferor

so in plain English, does that mean I need planning permission to erect a fence?

jules888

We were lucky ,my father in law did our fence for just the cost of materials £240 and some beer!
Saved us a bit as spent enough already on house and getting new bolier and rads fitted in few weeks time!

lincroft1710

cepheus wrote: »

The deeds state



so in plain English, does that mean I need planning permission to erect a fence?

No, it means you need the consent of the builder of your house.

Waterlily24

lincroft1710 wrote: »

As this is a modern house with open plan front garden, have you checked to see if there is a restrictive covenant prohibiting fences.

Hedges are very nice, but require frequent pruning.

We bought a new house in 1984 and weren't allowed to build fences in the front gardens so agree that it's best to check.

Davesnave

lincroft1710 wrote: »

No, it means you need the consent of the builder of your house.

However, if the estate is finished and the builder has no more houses to sell, their interest in the subject may be marginal, or even non-existent.

cepheus

Davesnave wrote: »

However, if the estate is finished and the builder has no more houses to sell, their interest in the subject may be marginal, or even non-existent.

I guess that's the case, to be honest the estate is littered with stuff like washing lines which are illegal according to the deeds. I have another small lawn as well across a walkway which an occasional idiot parks on.

teddysmum

The estate I live on is 40 years old and there is something in the deeds prohibiting fencing to the front of properties (and also commercial brewing, as the land once belonged to a brewery).

There are a few properties with walls (a couple of brick courses with ornamental ironwork), now, and they seem to be getting away with it, but I do know that while the estate was being built, someone put up a similar wall and had to have it demolished.(my father worked for the builders and was asked to do the job).

Yorkie1

lincroft1710 wrote: »

As this is a modern house with open plan front garden, have you checked to see if there is a restrictive covenant prohibiting fences.

Hedges are very nice, but require frequent pruning.

In addition to any restrictions in the deeds, I think you need planning permission for a fence more than 3' high which borders a road i.e. at the front of the house boundary.

moneyistooshorttomention

Perhaps you could get some large boulders to place on your boundaries? Wouldn't help with dog questions either way, but would stop car-owners of the selfish persuasion trying to use your garden as a public carpark.

Place "something" or other large and of a nature that would damage their car if they drove into it at the boundary and that would probably deter them if they knew something that would "hurt their car" would be there. They would have no right to complain about anything in your garden scratching their car (no matter how bad the damage was), as you could just reply in faux innocence "Cant think how my item could have done that to your car, as it was sitting in my garden and OBVIOUSLY no-one would try and park in someone else's garden would they?" (do work on keeping a straight face whilst saying it).