Help! Trespass to land/nuisance

SmashedAvacado

Enterprise_1701C wrote: »

Would you really want to buy a house next to one that has an extension the whole of the length of the garden, probably a two storey one? The next thing you know they would be complaining about you using your garden.

Are you not missing the point that the friendly developer offering to buy out the problem is the person that is alleging that the problem exists in the first place. I suspect the friendly developer is hoping to pay less that you are paying and I suspect, if the shed has been there for a number of years, then despite what the LR plan says, they have no rights at all. This is really for your seller to sort, but It smells like the developer is trying to strong arm your seller to sell to them for less money to solve the problem that they just created.

Skiddaw1

Davesnave wrote: »

Some students are OK, especially the ones who are your sons and daughters.

The ones who cause problems are always those b'stards that belong to someone else!

Must say that we lived next door to a student let for 20 years and it generally wasn't a problem (no issues beyond the norm of living in a house with party walls) In fact, we became really good friends with some of them. Having said that, we were lucky in that the landlord was very responsible and extremely careful when it came to choosing tenants. It isn't always like that I know...



I just think there are too many potential problems with this house to make it viable (or sensible) for the OP to proceed with it.

bouicca21

Presumably the house was not a new build in 2003? And no one has queried it before? so is it a case for adverse possession?


But whether it is or not, it is the vendor's problem. Walk unless you can cope with the stress - and the property is still mortgageable.

Fionakathleen

Thank you everyone for your help really appreciate it ☺️

Another thing I should have mentioned I guess is I’m being sold the house quite cheap So that’s another factor of not wanting to loose the house too.

I looked on old maps website and found the property clearly showings the outhouse in 1952.

It is also the same one used in the contract apart from a big thick line has been drawn on it and over the outhouse.

Fionakathleen

Forgot to mention! On the land Registry, it shows the house and outhouse as one with no line separating them.

Enterprise_1701C

The actual boundary is on the land registry version of the plans. I do not believe they can vicariously change that. You could push for that version to be used in the contract rather than the one with the line drawn on it, although I would want an explanation of that line considering it does not match the land registry one.

I still would be very dubious about that house though, it is cheap for a reason. Do you really want years of battles?