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New Build- They're changing the garden size, OUR RIGHTS?
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Hi Everyone,
Just to let you know builder agreed to give free flooring. So was well worth asking them!! Thank you all advice!0 -
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Maybe because they don't have enough money to buy a house constructed on valuable building land that could otherwise house others?BrownTrout wrote: »why do people who buy new build homes put up with such small pokey gardens?
With commercial house building, roughly 1/3 of the cost is land, 1/3 materials and 1/3 construction and profits.0 -
Any language construct that forces such insanity in this case should be abandoned without regrets. –
Erik Aronesty, 2014
Treasure the moments that you have. Savour them for as long as you can for they will never come back again.0 -
If it isn't too late in the process and being able to extend is an issue for you then you need to check very carefully whether planning consent for extending is likely, and if the developer is putting covenants on the property to make it harder (aka 'expensive') for you to do so.MissRScience wrote: »Thanks for this. In terms of the size a large garden doesn't fuss us, it was more the way it was done. I was worried about future value on the property for example if we decided to extend etc. Maybe we've been cheeky asking for something in return but I would be happier knowing at least we got something back.
An assumption that a fractionally larger garden would add value in terms of allowing an extension is likely to be a flawed assumption on a modern new-build development.
That is the kind of thing a properly independent experienced solicitor might point out... the developer's nice and easy one might not think it necessary to do so. :undecided"In the future, everyone will be rich for 15 minutes"0 -
Firstly, get a new solicitor. One that does not work for the developer. Then hold out for compensation. Prices are not rising as they were, in our area they are dropping so hold out for the extras0
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Acre and a half here. A good chunk of it is absolutely wild, and I think I go into it once a year or so...
Twenty acres here; almost requires daily groundskeeping but wouldn't change it for the world...Every generation blames the one before...
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