Neighbour changing use of garage

thriftylynny

Good point ... it is a tandem length & belongs to them so i must assume the land underneath belongs to them , half the garage wall {30ft approx} is in my garden like a fence best i can describe

davidmcn

thriftylynny said:

Good point ... it is a tandem length & belongs to them so i must assume the land underneath belongs to them , half the garage wall {30ft approx} is in my garden like a fence best i can describe

Right, so it isn't in your garden (probably). Panic over. Though if you are thinking of it as being "in your garden", maybe this is part of the problem.

thriftylynny

Ninjatune .. i guess newish builds sometimes have garages like this horizontally at end of gardens , i never thought when i purchased that it would be used for anything other than garage /garden use as it is a detached ancillary building specifically built for that use...a garage !

Falafels

I still don’t understand why it will make any difference to you whether they use the building for storing cars, storing turnips or - as is the case here - storing their son. 

Unless there’s something you haven’t mentioned?

Petriix

There is no legislation that stipulates where someone can sleep; be it in the garage, on the kitchen floor or wherever. There's also nothing stopping someone insulating their garage aside from the building regs for garden structures which fall under permitted development.

ust because you live near someone doesn't mean you can control how they live. I can't fathom what possible detriment it could cause you. It just seems that you don't like the idea of someone living cheaply which is baffling.

I suggest that you get some counselling to help you overcome these difficult and destructive feelings.

YoungBlueEyes

If it was me I’d download next door’s deeds to see if the whole thing definitely belongs to them. 

Years ago I lived in a house that had a similar setup. Long skinny garage outside the garden fence but inside the property’s boundary. It was only half ours (if that makes sense!)

I can’t imagine why one house would have a tandem garage that runs across/is in the rear of (?) someone else’s garden... 

Sistergold

onwards&upwards said:

Sistergold said:

Garage conversions can be done so well it can become a comfortable long term living solution. For example if son is and continues to be single and garage has been comfortably and converted to a good standard why will he move out and pay rent? 

You think being single means a grown man is going to be perfectly happy living in his mum and dad's garage?  Single people are also people you know and they tend to want a bit more than that the same as couples do! 

You have actually misunderstood me. I am saying if the garage is converted to a high standard it can actually be a very comfortable living space for a single person or a couple even! I would personally not feel inferior because I am living in what was once a garage. So my point was that the worried OP should not assume this will be a temporary thing. 

So the son as long as the garage is done very well and continues without needing more space than the garage offers could decide to live there for long. I Refered to tiny living movement as many people are living in such spaces out of choice now as people are trying to reduce the need to stick to big housing costing more than what people want to pay. So I was not looking down upon this son at all. Infact without any children I would happily live in a small space not even because I have fallen on hard times but just for simplicity and use my money for travel and other things. For example some people live in a van because of falling on hard times and discover they infact enjoy it so continue to then live like that. Some live in a van out of choice right from start. I see nothing wrong with living in a converted garage.

My post was to just give a view that it will not be correct to think or assume the son living in a garage will be a temporary arrangement as there is no reason why it can not be permanent. Garage will have been converted so no reason why one can not live there long term really even when no longer in hard times! 

If one is okay buying a terrace surely the garage is even further away so it not too close such that son living in there permanently would cause any inconvenience to an already terrace arrange my. 

MoneySeeker1

Another one getting confused as to whether half the garage is in OP's garden (as they state) or it's one of those awkwardly-shaped gardens whereby someone else's garden is in what looks, on the face of it, like it should be "your garden".

I know I often spot houses (usually of the recently-built variety) whereby it's clear looking out a back window to the garden shows a perfectly straight left-hand fence going along and then you look to the right expecting to see another perfectly straight fence going directly up along the right-hand side. Only to find it curves into what obviously should be "garden belonging to the first house" and it's clear that what has happened is a determined builder has built those houses that way deliberately - in order to give the 2nd house some garden (even though he's clearly used a bit of land that should, by rights, be part of first houses' garden to do so).

But, in those circumstances, the awkwardly-shaped "part of garden" really is all the garden the first house owns and the second house really does own a bit of land that looks clearly like it shouldn't belong to them. Getting a copy of the Title Plan through for both houses will reveal that house 1 really does only own a bit of their "obvious garden land" and house 2 really does own a bit of what is "obviously not their garden land" iyswim.

My suggestion to OP is to get copies of the Title Deeds for both houses (hers and the neighbours) and it would be highly likely to show the boundary of OP's property really does lie set at that garage wall and always has. From which - the one remaining concern would be to ensure no windows looking into their garden are built in that particular garage wall.

Jumblebumble

thriftylynny said:

I totally agree Falafels with what you are saying & a possible dispute on record is not a good thing when selling for sure ... on the other hand i don't feel it would be in my best interest to lie about it being a garage when it's not ? Also i do not feel at present that this will be a temporary arrangement but more a convenient one ?

I struggle to understand why if a prospective purchaser asked you what the building is you would say any more than "its a garage"  and if pressed  "We keep ourselves to ourselves in these parts and I have never seen inside it."
I am going to be uncharitable and suggest you might be happier minding your own business.as I suspect that starting a dispute is going to affect your hypothetical future sale far more than worrying about something that no one can see
Being pragmatic would you make a fuss if they claimed it was a hobby room as if they have any common sense that is what they are going to tell the council?
.I am very grateful that I have neighbours who have resisted the temptation  to interfere in what I do in my house

pinkteapot

It sounds like the garage isn't "in" OP's garden at all. Sounds like one of OP's boundaries has a neighbour's garage side-wall on it instead of a fence.