Who owns the utility cabinet?

unforeseen

Or it may have been a single one off payment to the original landowner, therefore you would be owed nothing.

davidmcn

unforeseen wrote: »

Or it may have been a single one off payment to the original landowner, therefore you would be owed nothing.

Or more likely, they installed the lines at the request of the original developer and therefore there was no payment at all.

csgohan4

least you will have faster internet as you live so close to the exchange

Robin9

davidmcn wrote: »

Or more likely, they installed the lines at the request of the original developer and therefore there was no payment at all.

Agree - there would have have been Builders Agreements between the developers and the utilities giving them rights.

I think the verge is highway - just mow it as the present owners have done.

Davesnave

Cuilean wrote: »

Essentially, if it's my land, I want the use of as much of it as possible, and I'd like to fence it off to protect it. the verge is definitely private land assigned to the house.

It might be your land, but it's possible if there are cables there that either Openreach will want full access to them at some point, or they might be in the way of getting fence posts in. I would want to know about those first.

Also, if you fence it, it'll either be a good place for people to secrete rubbish as they pass, or with a high fence, so dark and restricted it'll be a gardening nightmare.

I think you might be better with a few shrubs/climbers against the house to soften its harshness and stick with the open-plan style, which is easy to mow and maintain.

Alan2020

To the OP,

Read the covenants carefully, I bet the land will have shared access. Also that fence may have been illegally put in place, you may have to rip it down, especially with your plans.

I used to own the land on which the public road to the village centre ran, do you reckon I could have fenced it off to protect it. Just needs a modicum of common sense, just because you are the legal owner of the land you cannot do things you like and don’t expect legal action from the people who have rights on that land.

Especially if purchasing don’t put value to this strip as it’s of no use to you legally. When you come to selling who will buy your house without a price drop to sort this?