I think my neighbour's new extension is going to overhang the boundary.

frenchbird1

Our neighbour is having a new one storey extension built at the back of his house. The plans showed he would be well withing his boundary so we didn't object. Now they have put on the wood structure for the roof, I think his slanted roof will definitely overhang. I'm also concerned there will be no room for a gutter and because his roof is slanted towards my property my external wall will get very wet. I'm not sure what to do, any advice?

Hoploz

Call planning and get them to check whether they are building what's been agreed

frenchbird1

Hoploz wrote: »

Call planning and get them to check whether they are building what's been agreed

I don't think they needed planning permission though. The letter I got from them to tell me of the extension said "this is not a planning application as it relates to development that is permitted under Government Regulation".

Doozergirl

Then you need to talk to them and see how they are planning to finish it.

Aylesbury_Duck

Have you spoken to the neighbour?

frenchbird1

I haven't spoken to them. They really keep themselves to themselves and we very rarely see them. When we do we say hello but that's it. I will try and speak to them but want to know where I stand legally. also, maybe I'm overthinking it and it doesn't matter so much. I read on another website that after 12 years, the bit of land the roof is above would become theirs and that it can cause problems when you sell your house, so that worried me. Obviously I'm also concerned about water infiltration too but I'm not a builder and maybe it's fine?

Aylesbury_Duck

It's not fine if it does overhang your land. Speak to them ASAP because you need to stop them carrying on if indeed the extension will overhang your land. You own your land and the air above it (to any practical height) and a neighbour's extension, roof, guttering, plumbing, boiler vent, etc must not be on or overhang your land. They also have a responsibility to discharge water from the roof onto their own land, so in reality, the extension will have to terminate inside the boundary to allow any attached guttering and downpipe to be solely on their side.

southcoastrgi

Even if it's being built under PD it will still be subject to building regs, speak to your neighbors or building control

TheCyclingProgrammer

How much do you expect it to overhang the boundary? How certain are you of where the precise boundary is? It!!!8217;s very hard to prove where the precise boundary is unless you have boundary markers or a determined boundary on your title deeds. You can use boundary features as a guide or de facto boundaries but this isn!!!8217;t the same thing as a precise legal boundary.

frenchbird1

TheCyclingProgrammer wrote: »

How much do you expect it to overhang the boundary? How certain are you of where the precise boundary is? It!!!8217;s very hard to prove where the precise boundary is unless you have boundary markers or a determined boundary on your title deeds. You can use boundary features as a guide or de facto boundaries but this isn!!!8217;t the same thing as a precise legal boundary.

True, I don't know what the exact boundary is. I am going by the fence and the paint on the 2 houses that is different colours. Their new brick work goes right up to both of them and obviously their roof will go a bit further,let alone any guttering. Like I said, I can't even imagine there will be room for guttering or how they would go about hanging it as there is hardly any space between the 2 houses now.

moneyistooshorttomention

At a practical level - it can't physically overhang if some of your property is going up into your airspace - eg a 6' tall fence with trellis on top of it.

They surely wouldnt be that likely to try and remove such trellis to let their roof have your airspace instead?