Access problems?

Rosieandjim

Reading this advert would you say that there has been or there would be problems with access. Also does this property look like it was once part of the other property by its side.


On reading it fully I can only foresee problems.
http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-48329196.html

Doozergirl

Details say it has right of way.

Yes, I would say that it was once part of next door!

Rosieandjim

Thanks for quick reply.

Davesnave

I doubt if the owners would have stuck an LPG tank across the former parking access if it had still been possible to use it, but it's Wales, so who knows!.

Whether another access could be created or the old one opened depends on what the title documents say about rights of access from the private road and over the land from the road to the property boundary. If they aren't clear, I'd be very wary.

Might be worth mentioning to others that the property is about 3 fields SW of the pin on the map and just visible from Street View.

Davesnave

Doozergirl wrote: »

Details say it has right of way.

Do you think it is significant that the word 'vehicular' is missing?

They'd have a prescriptive right of way on foot anyway (of necessity.)

moneyistooshorttomention

Couldnt see what you mean by "access from private road" Dave?? I re-checked details and couldnt see anything about the road being a private one.

My impression - a property that needs a lot of questions asked about it and be very exact in your questioning and get the answers in writing.

Those 2 comments about parking have got me wondering - particularly the one about "the owners have previously parked on the rear lawned area but now park nearby" sounds like the owner of the rest of the house (before it got divided into 2 houses) has been screaming about parking. I would want to check for sure whether the rear lawned area was mine and whether there were any covenants preventing me using my own property as I decided to on that one.

It's not clear whether vendor has been trying to park on land they don't actually own on the one hand and the neighbour has called them on it or whether the neighbour is trying to dictate how they can use a garden that actually belongs to them anyway. One of them has been playing "silly b*s" by the look of it and I would want to establish exactly which one of them it was and what I did and didnt own for sure.

Where's the floor plan to see the layout of the house for sure? Answer being that this particular EA doesnt seem to do floorplans for any of their customers. There are EA's in Caernarvon that do so though - and I wonder why the vendor didnt pick one of them instead and have a floor plan done (particularly in view of the fact I couldnt see the front door on this house and wonder if there is one or if the only access is via the back door).

bouicca21

You need to check exactly what the right of way allows - pedestrians? cars? horses? And where is it? I have a suspicion that it is for pedestrians only, but you need to be sure.

I have no idea what sort of regulations cover opening another access route.

ProDave

Lots of things would put me off:

EPC F, when are people going to learn we have to improve our housing stock and reduce heating costs? Most people just seem to ignore that as a minor inconvenience?

"No front garden" so you have a patio door opening onto the front garden presumably owned by the house next door? Lovely.

Had a look on the satellite map (it is NOT the one with the pin stuck in it, a bit too the southwest of that one) there might be access over a track that runs around the garden. Perhaps he used that to gain access, until someone told him he didn't have permission to do so?

Well I guess it's cheap, that's it's only good feature.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Couldnt see what you mean by "access from private road" Dave?? I re-checked details and couldnt see anything about the road being a private one.

If Mr Google stops short and doesn't go down it, it's private, just like your road and my road.

moneyistooshorttomention

The more I think about this house = the more it looks as if the neighbour may well be trying to "have their cake and eat it", ie got themselves some money by selling off a portion of the original house but still keep everything they want for themselves (ie they've kept front garden that should, by rights, have been transferred over to left-hand house - so that they have a front garden) and trying to dictate how the owner of left-hand house can live in their house.

I think one might have to be rather strong-willed to buy that house - ie to stand up to the neighbour. I'm guessing that patio door is meant to be the "front door" and would be half-expecting the neighbour to appear and glare at me every time I used it as such. Would need to practice "standing up straight and confident" and have a good selection of sunglasses to wear walking to and from it possibly......

teddysmum

You can see an old lady in the front room, so perhaps this is part of the house partitioned off as a granny flat and the resident has not needed to use a vehicle.


I don't know if it's the same with houses (or even if the house has gas cooking) but the LPG going to my son's static caravan is difficult to cook with, as the oven temperatures seem much lower than those in a regular gas cooker and even oven cooking sausages takes ages.