Advice please! - new build easement issues

Pincher

If you try to lay out a whole development, especially if you need to squeeze in a design within an existing infrastructure, you'll see how they think. The sewage pipe probably has to run that way, because that's where the big drain is. They can easily designate it as reserved for services, but then they can't sell that plot for money. It literally is the table next to the toilet in a restaurant.

I visited an office conversion once. The sales agent told me she had a unique flat to show me. It was the last flat at the end of the corridor, and it was the stairwell ! They even kept the stair case, which goes up to a landing they called a bed deck. I must say, I though it was really efficient use of space, and perfect for a single person, or childless couple.

There are a lot of these awkward compromise solutions because the developer tries to sell something that is not quite right. You don't have to buy it.

marksoton

This infrastructure has to go somewhere.

I don't think people appreciate what goes into these schemes.

The budget on a new housing development of 1400 houses is £5 million. That's right, 5 Million just to get dirty water away.

venna

Pincher wrote: »

If you try to lay out a whole development, especially if you need to squeeze in a design within an existing infrastructure, you'll see how they think. The sewage pipe probably has to run that way, because that's where the big drain is. They can easily designate it as reserved for services, but then they can't sell that plot for money.

The drain turns down another bit of land/easement/protected strip adjacent to our house which they have said they can't sell to us 'due to access issues'. That sounds like the reserved for services issue you describe. It does make me wonder how come they have been able to sell, and give us freehold to, the exact same type of land within our garden but not the adjacent bit.


We can't find any suitable rented houses within commutable distance so looks like we have to buy this place, see how it works and then move on when we can ... with fingers crossed for a buoyant housing market.