New Build: Neighbours Electric Meter installed in my carport

marksoton

davidmcn wrote: »

I'm not sure how the solicitor would have known about it, other than by personally going to inspect the car port?

Plans, schematics?

I've never bought new build but surely at this advanced stage if the buyer has access to this information their legal representative should too.

melanzana

Sorry OP, but I am so often amazed that someone would post a Q like yours here and not bother to seek the proper legal advice on the matter from your solicitor!

You are paying them for the Conveyancing and etc. Get them earn their money.

No one here really can advise legally. We can throw out a few options, but until your solicitor says NO it's in your court.

Best of luck anyway.

silvercar

What is the issue?

a) that the meter takes up space that you want to utilise
b) that the neighbour may want occasional access to read their meter?

If it is (a) and the meter means that you can't open the door of your car, then it is important.

If it is (b) then I wouldn't be too concerned. With the roll out of smart meters, access will be barely necessary.

If there are no covenants, giving the neighbour the right to access the meter, then its irrelevant.

davidmcn

marksoton wrote: »

Plans, schematics?

I've never bought new build but surely at this advanced stage if the buyer has access to this information their legal representative should too.

Even if they did, it's not part of a standard conveyancing instruction for a solicitor to check the electric circuits! They'll verify that someone has inspected the house to be compliant with building regulations, but there's not generally any reason for the solicitor to even look at the plans.

davidmcn

silvercar wrote: »

If there are no covenants, giving the neighbour the right to access the meter, then its irrelevant.

Possibly there are general rights giving them the right to run utilities through each other's properties with access for maintenance etc, which would arguably cover it.

marksoton

davidmcn wrote: »

Even if they did (and in this case it doesn't sound like the buyer had seen the drawings before completion), it's not part of a standard conveyancing instruction for a solicitor to check the electric circuits! They'll verify that someone has inspected the house to be compliant with building regulations, but there's not generally any reason for the solicitor to even look at the plans.

Then i stand fully corrected.

However i was working on the assumption this was a direct feed not a spur to each property.

Cash-Cows

silvercar wrote: »

The first thing I would be checking is whether you are allowed to put a secure door on your car port. By definition I though car ports were open, whereas garages had doors.

My thoughts as well. I would be checking that permitted development rights haven't been removed which is the case where I live. What would happen when a door gets added is people fill them up with junk rather than park cars in them and then stick a car in the road.

agrinnall

Cash-Cows wrote: »

My thoughts as well. I would be checking that permitted development rights haven't been removed which is the case where I live. What would happen when a door gets added is people fill them up with junk rather than park cars in them and then stick a car in the road.

Why bother to post your thoughts when the question was answered in post #7?

silvercar

Provided that the meter doesn't block you putting a car in the car port, or any other physical use you had for the space, I think the problem is more the neighbour's than yours. Your neighbour would be the one to be unable to read their meter not you.

45002

NickiPort wrote:

I am currently buying a new-build property from Avant Homes, I noticed a couple of weeks ago that my neighbours electric meter has been. Installed on my property, within my carport.

I have raised this as an issue, with e builders who have not come back with a satisfactory response, they say that the meter was on their drawings, which have been approved, that's where it has been installed and it can't be moved.

I will be installing s roller shutter door on the front of the carport to make my property more secure, what right do my neighbours have to enter my property to gain access to their electric meter?

The builders haven't built any other similar style house on the site - that has its electric meter within another properties boundary. I have raised this twice now as a dispute and they use the same argument tha it is there now and it can't be moved.

I don't want to inherit a problem before I have moved into the property, is there anything I can do to get this electric meter moved.

All the other houses on the sites meters are located next to their front doors, this one is located at the rear of the property approx. 10 metres from their front door, within our carport.

Has anyone come across this problem and can they help, I am at my wits end trying to get this resolved.

Hello NickiPort


Are you sure it's your neighbours electric meter, where is your electric meter installed then ?