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We offered to buy the back garden years ago as it was once part of our house but they declined. He's a businessman and wants a fortune for the property and outbuildings/gardens.TheGardener wrote: »What about offering to buy their garage?0 -
Thank you. Our council told us they had no notification that any work was going on. In the very least listed building consent should have been sought and we should have been notified, but they lied to us about what they were doing. At least you were honest.I can't add much to this mountain of advice;
... other than that although I live in a conservation area, albeit not in a listed building
....I have recently converted a garage into living space; with windows, added insulation, new suspended floor, central heating and an ensuite shower room/loo
... and because in MY conservation area, our Council has chosen not to introduce an 'Article 4 Direction', which removes some permitted development rights, we didn't need palnning approval.
We did require Building Regs approval; which I applied for, and after 3 inspections during and after the work, was given.
So it might well be that what your neighbour did was fine?
Although I did thoroughly consult mine- if not least because they had builders vans and skips cluttering up my forecourt and our (unadopted) street for a couple of months so it would have been inconsiderate not to.0 -
We noticed loads of work going on. It's just one brick between us! But when questioned they said they were keeping the garage and just building storage. They lied.<shrug> So they can object to the retrospective planning application, if it doesn't come under permitted development.
Odd that the OP hasn't even noticed until the EA details have shown the work's been done, given the disruption...0 -
cookie7209 wrote: »We thought if a just a garage was attached to the house it was still classified a detached house.
The garage has to be your garage. The house isn't detached if it has got a part of a neighbouring property attached to it.0 -
The garage has to be your garage. The house isn't detached if it has got a part of a neighbouring property attached to it.
If it joins via the garages then it is "link-detached".
If the garage therefore becomes a room, this would make it a semi-detached.Should've = Should HAVE (not 'of')
Would've = Would HAVE (not 'of')
No, I am not perfect, but yes I do judge people on their use of basic English language. If you didn't know the above, then learn it! (If English is your second language, then you are forgiven!)0 -
This "classification" is in the eye of the beholder, no more than that.cookie7209 wrote: »We thought if a just a garage was attached to the house it was still classified a detached house.0 -
cookie7209 wrote: »We offered to buy the back garden years ago as it was once part of our house but they declined. He's a businessman and wants a fortune for the property and outbuildings/gardens.
did they also own "your" semi detached house in the past?0 -
Have I got this right?
The OPs house has a garage belonging to next door attached to their converted coach house. But it is not attached to the house being sold.
So the OPs house looks like it has a garage and looks detached but in actual fact the garage is not theirs.
So now the vendors of the house next door have apparently converted the garage into a living space.
OP is concerned that s/he will now have residents attached rather than a storage space.
Am I getting the picture correctly?
If that is the case, I don't blame OP. What was a storage area for bits and bobs and presumably cars etc. may now become a granny flat or some such, unattached to the other house at all.
It would concern me. But I still cannot fathom how OP purchased a property with a garage attached that did not belong to their title deeds.
I would pursue the conversion of the garage into a living space and see what the Council have to say. Seems that it looks like a garage from the road, but it is far from that inside!
Best of luck with it all.0 -
No they didn't but the neighbours on the other side did.getmore4less wrote: »did they also own "your" semi detached house in the past?0
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