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New Build Wall

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  • Cris123
    Cris123 Posts: 11 Forumite
    10 Posts
    Are those existing trees on the plan ? I wonder if moving the wall closer to them would either a) damage the tree roots or b) mean that the tree roots woudl eventually damage the wall.
    They are shrubs, the plan is not quite to scale and moving the wall would not affect them
  • Vampgirl
    Vampgirl Posts: 622 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts
    There's a house near us with a similar arrangement: the side wall of their garden backs on to an area of shrubbery and a couple of parking spaces. They recently applied for planning permission to move their wall to incorporate the area of shrubbery into their garden, but were refused because it would be "detrimental to the street scene".
  • RelievedSheff
    RelievedSheff Posts: 12,691 Forumite
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    We have a strip of grass the "wrong" side of our boundary wall which is next to useless. It makes the front of the house more green I suppose but it is rather annoyingly used by local dog owners as a spot to let their dogs have a poo and just leave it.

    We are very shortly going to dig up the grass and plant it with shrubs instead to keep the dogs off it.
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