Neighbours caravan against our bedroom wall!

KatieS

We live in a detached bungalow. The boundary  with our neighbours is the side wall of our house. They have a narrow driveway between our house and theirs. Our garden access is the other side of our house.  Yesterday they realised it was just wide enough to park their caravan down. When I say just I mean  just. The caravan is actually touching our house. I appreciate I wouldn’t have even known they had  done this were it not for the fact we have a window looking out on their side path (luckily the window cill sticking out stopped the caravan from crossing our window!) 
do I have any rights to ask them to move it? Worried about damp and damage to our house. Plus it’s blooming rude! 

plumb1_2

Tell them to move it as you need to clean the gutters daily 

Mojisola

Is your boundary the house wall or where the guttering juts out to?

KatieS

Mojisola said:

Is your boundary the house wall or where the guttering juts out to?

I don’t know unfortunately. Guttering will have been there or thereabouts since house was built on 1930s. Deeds aren’t clear. 

koalakoala

I certainly wouldn’t allow them to “touch” my house

Wanderingpomm

I would be surprised if that’s the boundary, it would mean your gutters are on their land. I would think that the boundary is the edge of your roof 

FreeBear

Wanderingpomm said: I would be surprised if that’s the boundary, it would mean your gutters are on their land. I would think that the boundary is the edge of your roof 

Or 200-300mm beyond the wall. 1930s deeds are often quite fuzzy & inaccurate when it comes to the exact location of the boundary.

Davesnave

Is that window in a habitable room? If so, you may well have acquired a right to light which they're interfering with.

Also, while the gutter might be outwith the boundary of the house, the soffits and part of your roof certainly isn't and they're parked under that.

JIL

Our deeds specifically state that we are not allowed to park a static caravan or mobilehome on our drive way. Might be worth checking yours, surely the neighbours  would be similar. 

unforeseen

JIL said:

Our deeds specifically state that we are not allowed to park a static caravan or mobilehome on our drive way. Might be worth checking yours, surely the neighbours  would be similar. 

Well, that doesn't look like a static caravan or a mobile home. It looks like a standard touring caravan. 

unforeseen

Wanderingpomm said:

I would be surprised if that’s the boundary, it would mean your gutters are on their land. I would think that the boundary is the edge of your roof 

If it's a 30s house then there is a very good chance that the neighbour has gained an easement to use their drive all the way to the wall through usage over the last 90+ years.