Next door think my garden is theirs....

rebecca91

Yes you read that right haha.

I bought a house a couple of months ago. It is a mid terraced house. Next door are the same layout house and size, however....

Next door built a small extention in their area of the back garden. The back gardens are not fenced off, and next door have right of access to a small alley down the side of my house.

My house shows on the land registry that I own the back garden, and they own (what was) their back garden before the extention was built....

Next door rent out the house and have told the people living there that the garden is "shared".

I spoke to my solicitor who says "100% the land is yours don't worry"

... But I am worrying. They still say it's shared.

Any advice?! :money:

societys_child

Show them your deeds?

kinger101

Knock on the door. Inform the tenants they have right of access only, but the land is yours. Show them the land registry documents. Explain you want to be a good neighbour, but your garden is yours, and trespass is not acceptable.

Write another letter to the owner saying obviously the tenants only have a right of access, and you'll make that clear to every tenant who occupies the property.

enthusiasticsaver

Why are the gardens not fenced off? Is it possible for you to erect some sort of boundary fence to define where your land ends?

G_M

This is a full-scale double-chocolate with pistachio nuts afternoon tea problem.

With to hand a copy of

* the Title document to your property
* the Title Plan of your property
* the Title document to next door's property
* the Title Plan to next door's property

(£3 each from the LR).

Followed by a friendly letter to the owner/landlord.

melanzana

A fence is the only solution here really. So go put one in!

Do your neighbours on the other side encroach your open garden also?

I'm also curious about the alley, is it just down the side of both houses with access to your back doors, and the rest of your (unfenced lol) garden is open? I'm thinking T shaped access.

Anyway, just me but I could not live without a fence separating me from my (lovely BTW) neighbours. It's a privacy thing.

I'm sure you have heard the expression "high fences make great neighbours!"

rebecca91

It's such an odd one with the layout.
Imagine 2 houses attatched, you look out the windows to the garden and next doors back door goes onto a path which mine does go onto also.

Then there's a raised back garden running my house length and theirs too inside the path. Tbh I could always wait a few weeks and fence it off completly I suppose,

Awks thing here... Next door will be no longer living next door due to health problems (as in they think within a week..... if you understand where I'm getting at) really sad.

But yes next door will have new people living there soon.
I hope that makes sense!

rebecca91

But yes they use it to use the washing line ect (I'm fine with as they had for years before I moved, and as mentioned, it won't be for that long)

kinger101

rebecca91 wrote: »

It's such an odd one with the layout.
Imagine 2 houses attatched, you look out the windows to the garden and next doors back door goes onto a path which mine does go onto also.

Then there's a raised back garden running my house length and theirs too inside the path. Tbh I could always wait a few weeks and fence it off completly I suppose,

Awks thing here... Next door will be no longer living next door due to health problems (as in they think within a week..... if you understand where I'm getting at) really sad.

But yes next door will have new people living there soon.
I hope that makes sense!

Well, the misinformation could be coming directly from the letting agent or the owner. Either way, you should explain to them that it's not acceptable to misinform tenants that they have anything other than right of access, enclosing deeds.

If you're implying your neighbour is terminally ill or about to go into palliative care, you don't need to raise this with them now.

Best to explain it all rather than dripfeed information. Still don't understand the layout, but access for terraced properties is not unusual.

rebecca91

Thanks all, you've really helped. I'll await for the property to officially be vacant and pass on the deeds.
Regards

Geoff1963

If "right of access" means for waking over, could you lay some slabs / other markings ; like a farmer might mark a "right of way" over their land ?