New build - garden sloping, not sure of rights?

getmore4less

Get a multi outlet adaptor with individual control. 

Homebase do a 2 way for £1.50.
Hozelock also do them more expensive 
B&Q do a 4 way for £9

Or £6 4 way toolstation
https://www.toolstation.com/hose-connectors/p48483



Get a timer and a sprinkler for your grass. 

Hoze kits often come with various connectors. 

Prices vary a lot, best to wait for good deals on the better stuff and build a collection.
Starter cheap hose kits from £5.

Make sure they have put an isolation valve inside the house easy to access.

[Deleted User]

There's an obvious answer the builder won't like to stop overlooking on the field.  Level the missing foot or so of ground and put a fence in (proper non see through fence with concrete gravel boards).  However, from the photos it is only a small part of your garden so I'm not sure its worth getting really upset about it (although the whole garden doesn't look like its been properly levelled, the turf looks a bit 'wavy').  Use it as a wild flower section of the your garden and love it.  However, personally I'm not sure I'd love having the farmer having such an open view of what's going on in my house and garden. I'd be asking for or putting up fencing myself.

Davesnave

The house already overlooks the field, as do all the others, so whatever you're being told doesn't square with the facts. Farmers don't usually care who overlooks their fields, or if they do, they stick in a shelter belt of trees, just like I did when two of my neighbours had a spat and one dumped a couple of rotting vehicles in the other's view. Rather than fight with them, I stuck in a double row of hornbeam, which are now 15' high. Problem solved, for me at any rate.

I farm in a small way and I removed 13 leylandii to give my neighbours a nicer view of our field, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about. I also live in a place where people pay a huge premium to own a house backing onto the local golf course with great views..... both ways!

Your problem is simply a change of levels, which will be quite expensive or labour intensive to address, but it's not insurmountable. You just need to learn the basics of hard landscaping and building, take your shirt off and get stuck-in using inexpensive materials found on Freecycle, Gumtree or whatever. It will be a learning curve, but I can tell you now, your builder won't fix this for you properly; you either pay or DIY,

AdrianC

Sorry, but at some point you're going to have to accept that you bought a sloping garden, and get over it.

Putting a cliff face at the end just gives you a retaining wall to maintain in the future.

As for the funghi - are you actually complaining? Shows that the grass is growing well in fertile soil... 

onwards&upwards

I'd just put hedging plants there, something evergreen, hardy and bombproof, like hypericum or hollies maybe.  Not leylandii! 

buel10

deannatrois said:

There's an obvious answer the builder won't like to stop overlooking on the field.  Level the missing foot or so of ground and put a fence in (proper non see through fence with concrete gravel boards).  However, from the photos it is only a small part of your garden so I'm not sure its worth getting really upset about it (although the whole garden doesn't look like its been properly levelled, the turf looks a bit 'wavy').  Use it as a wild flower section of the your garden and love it.  However, personally I'm not sure I'd love having the farmer having such an open view of what's going on in my house and garden. I'd be asking for or putting up fencing myself.

Excellent, thank you (P.S. I'm a TNG fan too!!)

buel10

Davesnave said:

The house already overlooks the field, as do all the others, so whatever you're being told doesn't square with the facts. Farmers don't usually care who overlooks their fields, or if they do, they stick in a shelter belt of trees, just like I did when two of my neighbours had a spat and one dumped a couple of rotting vehicles in the other's view. Rather than fight with them, I stuck in a double row of hornbeam, which are now 15' high. Problem solved, for me at any rate.

I farm in a small way and I removed 13 leylandii to give my neighbours a nicer view of our field, so I have some idea of what I'm talking about. I also live in a place where people pay a huge premium to own a house backing onto the local golf course with great views..... both ways!

Your problem is simply a change of levels, which will be quite expensive or labour intensive to address, but it's not insurmountable. You just need to learn the basics of hard landscaping and building, take your shirt off and get stuck-in using inexpensive materials found on Freecycle, Gumtree or whatever. It will be a learning curve, but I can tell you now, your builder won't fix this for you properly; you either pay or DIY,

Answers like this highlight why forums can be so great - really appreciate this post - very interesting. Thank you.

buel10

AdrianC said:

Sorry, but at some point you're going to have to accept that you bought a sloping garden, and get over it.

Putting a cliff face at the end just gives you a retaining wall to maintain in the future.

As for the funghi - are you actually complaining? Shows that the grass is growing well in fertile soil... 

Answers like this highlight why this forum sometimes gets grief for replies like yours. What an unhappy character you sound. Is this a usual post for you or have you just woken up on a 'bad one'?
Read my posts, nothing to 'get over', I am just asking the question, not angry or upset. Fungi - do you see me complaining?
People like you.....ruin it for newbies.....do me a favour, go and spread your bile elsewhere. Bye!

buel10

Update;
Developer has offered to do put in a retaining wall for the lawn and path but for £1,750. Thru added ‘ Please note that we haven’t had the wall designed so it wouldn’t come with a warranty, so at your risk.’
They also offered the workmen to do it out of work hours / cash in hand for less.

Worth pushing for reduction?

letsbetfair

buel10 said:

Update;
Developer has offered to do put in a retaining wall for the lawn and path but for £1,750. Thru added ‘ Please note that we haven’t had the wall designed so it wouldn’t come with a warranty, so at your risk.’
They also offered the workmen to do it out of work hours / cash in hand for less.

Worth pushing for reduction?

Where are you in the country? That seems on the pricy side, but costs tend to be fairly low where I am.
Personally, I'd try living with it for a bit - doesn't look like a hazard from the photos, just mildly inconvenient - and then decide what to do. You could have a retaining wall there, or some kind of flower bed and fence/wall combo, or just live with the lawn as is.
Of course, if it's more of a problem than it looks or if you can get the developers to sort it out free/cheap, you may want to get it done now. If you're spending that kind of money, though, why not get a landscaping company who would stand by the work - and might offer a better design than you or I could come up with - do it, even if it costs you a bit more. The developers don't sound enthusiastic and wouldn't stand by the work - not encouraging!