Front wall boundary query

teachfast

To me it looks like the half of the wall nearest the house is theirs but after the kink halfway it becomes yours, especially as the plans show no kink. So my main concern would be him bashing down your half and claiming that land as his own, building his own thing on it. 

sheramber

Simon123456789 said:

theoretica said:

Looking at the cable and the way the wall fastens to the houses it looks like the wall is almost all their side of the likely boundary - assuming you agree the front boundary is where the walls join at the street.  Which to me means it might be your wall, but it is on their property and so they can knock it down, but you can ask for the bits if you want them.

Yes ok, thank you. Now listening to Section62 comments, he could indeed just leave half of the wall up on my side. which will look worst than the back of the property.  believe me he would do such a thing.  Again thanks everyone for the advice.

 He has no right to knock it down  the part on your land, only the part on his land.

theoretica

Simon123456789 said:

The cables are just VIRGIN cables running into my house. 

They look very vulnerable if I am looking at the right thing - I suggest making sure the neighbour knows they are important!

HampshireH

Simon123456789 said:

 You may think I am being an over the top !!!!!!, but this guys work is outstandingly poor. This is how he left the back after he recently ripped the hedge out:

What a mess! 

Mojisola

Simon123456789 said:

I own an ex council house with a brick wall boundary at the front on the left as you look out. This wall has been in place when the original owner (who bought the house from the council) had it built

The original owner caused this problem by pinching a few inches of the neighbour's land when he put the kink in the wall.

Agree with the current neighbour to knock the wall down so you keep some control over how it's done.

Rebuild it in a straight line if you want it replaced.  It won't matter what the neighbour does on his side then.

Section62

teachfast said:

To me it looks like the half of the wall nearest the house is theirs but after the kink halfway it becomes yours, especially as the plans show no kink. So my main concern would be him bashing down your half and claiming that land as his own, building his own thing on it. 

An OS plan of that scale won't necessarily show a deviation from a straight line as small as can be seen in the pictures. The absence of a kink on the plan isn't conclusive evidence.

Mojisola said:

The original owner caused this problem by pinching a few inches of the neighbour's land when he put the kink in the wall.

That would assume the original owner wasn't correctly building the wall on the true boundary, or on his side of it.

The 'kink' could be explained by the fact the alignment of the houses and the road is not parallel. The true boundary could be a projection from the centreline of the party wall of the houses perpendicular to the frontage, and a line perpendicular to the road, the intersection of the two perpendiculars becoming the apex of the 'kink'.

It is difficult to tell from the pictures, but it is possible that a perpendicular projection from the centre of the house wall would in fact meet the front boundary wall somewhere to the neighbour's side of the red brick pillar - in other words in that definition a previous neighbour has possibly 'pinched' some of the OP's land.  The straight-line proposed by some posters here (and presumably the neighbour) assumes the junction between the painted and red brick walls is located on the true boundary.