Odd boundary help linden homes

lookstraightahead

74jax said:

What would you use it for?

I'd just let it grow, then when the rest is cut, send a photo and ask when they are back or to cut this section.

I'm surprised your solicitor didn't mention it though as it would be an odd shape. 

It's up to the buyer to check the plans. 

We bought a house where half the garden still belonged to someone else and thankfully I checked the deeds, as our solicitor lived 150 miles away so world have no idea if the shape of the garden was the same as expected. 

AdrianC

lookstraightahead said:

74jax said:

I'm surprised your solicitor didn't mention it though as it would be an odd shape. 

It's up to the buyer to check the plans. 

Any bets it was the developer's "recommended" conveyancer?

ProDave

My guess it's an access strip for when the TPO'd tree falls down / gets struck by lightening / gets diseased so is unsafe and has to be felled, then they can build another house.

They are playing the long game.

lookstraightahead

AdrianC said:

lookstraightahead said:

74jax said:

I'm surprised your solicitor didn't mention it though as it would be an odd shape. 

It's up to the buyer to check the plans. 

Any bets it was the developer's "recommended" conveyancer?

To be fair had it not been for you telling me to check mine I would have been in a mess 😂

74jax

Far1974 said:

Thanks all x there is about 1 foot and then a tree with tpo and then another row of houses directly behind so no room tor any path or road or anything so pretty useless to them x

just feels like it should be part of our home, letting the grass grow previously and neighbours have complained 🤣🤣🤣

That's good though, the more complaints the more they will be likely to cut it, especially if everyone is saying they pay to have it cut.

If complaining to you, just say you don't own it and you agree, it should be cut.

It will be a maintenance company who do it. The more they have to come out to do it, the quicker it will be for them to pick up doing this when they cut the rest.

It's not your land, stop cutting it. 

lookstraightahead

ProDave said:

My guess it's an access strip for when the TPO'd tree falls down / gets struck by lightening / gets diseased so is unsafe and has to be felled, then they can build another house.

They are playing the long game.

Yes it looks like that to me as well.

ProDave

lookstraightahead said:

ProDave said:

My guess it's an access strip for when the TPO'd tree falls down / gets struck by lightening / gets diseased so is unsafe and has to be felled, then they can build another house.

They are playing the long game.

Yes it looks like that to me as well.

Check the deeds carefully.  I bet they have retained the bottom of the drive as well, or at least reserved a right of access over it, so should the tree die and a house get built your drive could become shared access for that first bit.

You could do the plant a matching tree thing and later try and get a TPO on that?

Section62

ProDave said:

Check the deeds carefully.  I bet they have retained the bottom of the drive as well, or at least reserved a right of access over it, so should the tree die and a house get built your drive could become shared access for that first bit.

You could do the plant a matching tree thing and later try and get a TPO on that?

The road continues past the OP's property (to the right on the photo) so the area of land with the tree on could be accessed directly from the road.  Without looking at the plans it is impossible to say for sure, but I don't think it likely the land was kept solely for access reasons unless there is something unusual we can't see in the picture.

The odds of getting a TPO on a tree planted (on someone else's land) in a new-build development are going to be very remote for at least several decades.  If the developer has retained the land for access purposes they are likely to remove any tree on their land which obstructs that objective long before it could qualify for a TPO.

sheramber

That is no young tree so the chances are the TPO was on it before the estate was built. 

One recently house house we bought had a massive ancient oak tree that had a TPO, in the garden.  

lookstraightahead

Hi op

i have no idea if this is relevant, but there's a recent thread about a 5G mast being put on a piece of land that the council had agreed to maintain.

I could be totally wrong here, but maybe that piece of land is being kept for some sort of utility if needed.