Flying freehold problem?

Stevieboy118

FINALLY heard back from the site supervisor, he had to talk to his manager, who had to speak to legal, who had to get more details from the land registry, etc.

They had an exact measurement for the frontage of our building, and it turns out the party wall is even further to our side than previously though! Measured things out and the internal wall lines up with the black basket hanger in this pic.



And things have gone from "reasonable" to they're refusing to let me use the scaffold (the roofers, nothing to do with the housing association) and having to use the same scaffold firm (other firms wouldn't tie into somebody else's structure), which would megabucks as they would need to do a full size span over my porch to let me get up to where I need to work.
And they're also refusing to let me reinstate the panels after the work is done. Fun.

So I need to wait for them to put their scaffold in the right place (they can't get to the party wall on the mansard as the scaffolding is in the wrong place) then I can see what access I have.

Would never dream of using their scaffold to get my ladder up on the roof (it's not like their scaffold is over my garden or anything...)

Planning on putting the two panels on top of my porch, maybe even sort out a tracker to try and up the morning output.

Mossfarr

I had a similar problem with a Buy to let property I own. It is a former council house and the house next door is still local authority owned. We noticed when we were buying that the fence between the properties appeared to be about 2 foot over on our side. It had been put there by a fencing company many years ago when both properties were still council owned. It was done like that because there was a downspout going down the wall into a drain located exactly on the dividing line between the houses. A bit further along was a huge sycamore tree which was also exactly on the boundary. We weren't too bothered because the house was always going to be rented out and our garden is so huge it really made no difference to us.
A few months after I bought the house the local council began a programme of replacing all fences and boundary walls to their properties so I pointed it out to their surveyor when he was in the area. He was really surprised and promised to get it sorted. I was amazed when we came back from our two week holiday to find the drain, downspout and fencing had been moved two foot over to their side. They had also removed the huge tree which was a bonus as it was a real nuisance to us.
To compensate us for the 'inconvenience' they had also built us a front garden wall and replaced our old wooden gate with a lovely new metal one. How lucky was that!

chris_m

Now you know where your Council Tax goes ;-)

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm wondering whether its all rather irrelevant anyway as to where the exact boundary lies - in that, it would appear the boundary line has been in the same position for over 20 years (ie the legal questionnaire that vendors fill in is asked specifically whether any boundaries have changed in the last 20 years).

That being the case - I would have thought that whether the boundary is in the right or wrong position is now totally irrelevant - ie because it has been at that place now for over 20 years. So it is what it is right NOW iyswim.