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Land beside my house
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I think what this reply was hinting at was the difference between guerrilla and gorilla.Martin_the_Unjust said:
I suspect the developers will have moved n and have no knowledge/interest in a few years.Ditzy_Mitzy said:
Surely the developers wouldn't put up with that sort of monkey business...Martin_the_Unjust said:Wait a couple of years and then slowly do a bit of ‘gorilla’ planting till there is a hedge along the outside edge.
Oh and OP, buy a speedboat and trailer and park the set on the land.4 -
Martin_the_Unjust said:
I suspect the developers will have moved n and have no knowledge/interest in a few years.Ditzy_Mitzy said:
Surely the developers wouldn't put up with that sort of monkey business...Martin_the_Unjust said:Wait a couple of years and then slowly do a bit of ‘gorilla’ planting till there is a hedge along the outside edge.
Oh and OP, buy a speedboat and trailer and park the set on the land.If that were the case then I would ask why hasn't the developer jumped at the offer of cash to sell it to the OP.Developers do sometimes forget about little bits of land, but if they have been asked to sell and said 'no' it suggests it would be unwise for the OP to invest much effort or money into the land until they have title to it.0 -
The other side of the land is a council owned verge, then a small country lane. The land can’t be used for anything. The developers basically suggested it’s not worth their time to sell it and I’m not going to offer them 5x market value.0
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MrLogical said:The other side of the land is a council owned verge, then a small country lane. The land can’t be used for anything. The developers basically suggested it’s not worth their time to sell it and I’m not going to offer them 5x market value.So the land acts as a ransom strip.You can't make an (additional) access onto your land from the lane without the developer giving you permission, or you buying the land from them.A common tactic by developers to maintain control of future development potential and profit.0
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I don’t think they would use this for anything. If I were to fence/hedge it off, what could they actually do? If they forced me to take it down, and I put it up again the next day, etc etc…
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MrLogical said:I don’t think they would use this for anything. If I were to fence/hedge it off, what could they actually do? If they forced me to take it down, and I put it up again the next day, etc etc…Well that would obviously negate any future application you made for adverse possession.And /or you might end up with the embarrasment and cost of an injunction, or claim for trespass.
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MrLogical said:I don’t think they would use this for anything.Based on what you've described (the abscence of a plan makes some of this thread guesswork) they are using it for something right now.They are using it to stop you accessing the almost-adjacent highway from your land, other than on their terms.People use land without there necessarily being something observable going on. This is very likely an example of that.
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What could you do if I set up camp in your garden, you told me to go away, I came back the next day, etc etc...? It's not really any different.MrLogical said:If I were to fence/hedge it off, what could they actually do? If they forced me to take it down, and I put it up again the next day, etc etc…2 -
Besides their legal options, they could take down your fence and build a cheap and unsightly metal fence of their own around it.MrLogical said:I don’t think they would use this for anything. If I were to fence/hedge it off, what could they actually do? If they forced me to take it down, and I put it up again the next day, etc etc…0 -
Thank you all. Some excellent thoughts and advice here. I’m going to do my garden soon and may use the surplus soil to create a hill that sections it off. I’ll also plant all sorts across it to close it off. Finally I’ll install a gate on my fence to make it accessible to myself only. That should do the trick.1
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