Help me decide - Rear garden facing

AdrianC

dippa wrote: »

I'm currently stuck trying to decide which property to go for out of these two new builds, that are yet to be built.

The 113 is roughly 26ft wide (including garage) and 20ft long. The 112 (yellow) is a similar size minus the corner behind the garage.

The one one (113 in blue) is a north east facing garden, but offers a slightly bigger garden with the corner behind the garage. It also has nothing over looking it from behind the back of the garden either. Also, the 4 houses with HAD on them are bungalows.

The other (112 in yellow) is a south west garden I believe, has a slightly smaller garden with the corner behind the garage not being there. The garden is surrounded by other gardens.

What's the better house position for me to go for ? Both properties are not yet built btw.

Easy one for me.

112. SW aspect means afternoon/evening sun on the garden. Then there's fewer neighbouring plots siding onto the garden, and no end access from publicly accessible land.

getmore4less

One other thought will the bin men be coming down that long drive or will you have to take your bins to the road?

if the little side strips on 111&117 are onto the access road with no raised boundary more tempting to park.

babyblade41

SW all the way for me, after being stuck with NE for a few years and now having SW this morning on a crisp sunny morning is amazing and always a good selling point

knightstyle

112 for me partly because 113 has smaller houses butting onto the garden and these are more likely to end up being let. Give me owner occupiers as neighbours every time.

getmore4less

Another thing to consider is where the car will be parked.
We have North South(back) House with the garage/drive on the west side, it gets no morning sun always frosty.
Houses with the garage/drive on the east side get defrosted when the sun is out winter mornings.

Cakeguts

Neither because of that shared access. Shared access from the estate road and shared access between the houses to your parking space. Your private parking space is long and narrow and you can't widen it because it runs between the boundary and you house so cars will have to be parked one behind the other on it. That may be fine for you but you could get a neighbour who decides that this doesn't suit so they always park somewhere on the shared access and so do all their friends and visitors. I can see the parking being a nightmare.

Red-Squirrel_2

Are 98-101 out of budget?

I'm not keen on either of those plots, you'd be pretty hemmed in and it would only take one bad neighbour to make it a nightmare, especially with the access/parking as pointed out above.

Smosal

Neither of these. They are tucked away out of sight so zero kerb appeal plus shared access could be a nightmare depending on the neighbour. Greedy developers trying to maximise development density.