Should We Give Away Our Garden?

Silver_Shark

Bear in mind if you or your neighbours want to sell in the future you'd need to declare the boundary issue, anything that involves land, fences and hedges. Best to get it sorted now.

robatwork

When I first read this I saw 200m.

Now I see 200mm I wonder - how do you know it's "approx 200mm" out?

nick74

When you consider that a hedge for example is often 400mm (or more) wide, I really wonder if it is worth going to this amount of trouble for 200mm?

If I discovered that one of my boundary fences was 200mm out I'd probably go 'oh well' and then never think about it again!

Davesnave

7.88 inches might be impressive in some circumstances, but writing it in mm in the context of a misplaced garden boundary fails to impress in quite the same way!

The bottom line is that when you inspected and then bought the property, this misplacement wasn't noticed. Your solicitor, who never visited the house, should have asked you to confirm the boundary was as shown on the title plan. Presuming they did this and you said, "Yes," that tends to confirm there is nothing very odd about the way the boundary looks, so putting a dog-leg in it is the last thing you should do.

I agree with GM, if the neighbour is agreeable, erect the new fence in a more equitable position and get on with your life, but if it means chopping-up some of the neighbour's pathway, either foot the bill for altering things so still have a decent access, or leave things as they are.

What has having small children to do with this? Things look bigger to a child, but 7.88 inches is still too small to make any appreciable difference to a play area.

Cakeguts

I am just trying to work out what sort of person moves into a new house and then goes round measuring the boundaries from a title plan of all things? I don't think the lines on a title plan can show measurements of as little as 200mm anyway.



I would think that the fence is in the correct place and that the title plan isn't accurate enough to be doing measurements from.

davidmcn

robatwork wrote: »

how do you know it's "approx 200mm" out?

Millimetres do seem an odd unit to use unless they really think they've got it down to the nearest mm.

nick74

Cakeguts wrote: »

I am just trying to work out what sort of person moves into a new house and then goes round measuring the boundaries from a title plan of all things? I don't think the lines on a title plan can show measurements of as little as 200mm anyway.



I would think that the fence is in the correct place and that the title plan isn't accurate enough to be doing measurements from.

Using the scale on an OS map I once calculated that the black boundary lines on a title plan would in reality be almost a metre wide! No way anyone can accurately define garden boundaries to within 200mm using that.

societys_child

20 cm . . . :rotfl:

robatwork

nick74 wrote: »

Using the scale on an OS map I once calculated that the black boundary lines on a title plan would in reality be almost a metre wide! No way anyone can accurately define garden boundaries to within 200mm using that.

This was my follow up question! Even a close scale title plan would have a > 20mm red line