Converting allocated parking to a garden.

Misthios

Alderbank said:

Misthios said:

In that area, that building although its not a listed or period property, you can't even change the interior or the exterior of the property. Unbelievable for me but true.. This also explains why the rest of the terraced houses there look copied / pasted all the same. Even the doors and lights are all the same.

Your pictures don't show much of the estate. However I can see that the house for sale has a picket style fence (all verticals), and the house next door has a ranch fence (long horizontals).
Are you sure the houses are 'all the same'?

I just loaded the title register and title plan info. Can you please check when you get a chance and advise me? Many Thanks.

Misthios

liberty_lily said:

Misthios said:

Basically they say, take this property but you won't be able to make changes or challenge the status quo and I am not referring to the parking space only. In that area, that building although its not a listed or period property, you can't even change the interior or the exterior of the property. Unbelievable for me but true.. This also explains why the rest of the terraced houses there look copied / pasted all the same. Even the doors and lights are all the same. Lesson learned. 

See my bit in bold....this wouldn't be a leasehold property, would it?

I just loaded the title register and title plan info. Can you please check when you get a chance and advise me? Many Thanks.

Misthios

Bendy_House said:

There are two obvious reasons why putting up a fence/landscaping half the parking space might cheese folk off - one is the loss of a parking space, so if you have visitors parking on that roadway instead (look at your first photo - no-one else is on the road), that is pretty much guaranteed to annoy.

The other is a change to the 'streetview'. Again, if you look at that first photo, it all looks quite 'open'. Now imagine all the houses in that photo have fences around their fronts, covering half their parking slots - it will look and 'feel' quite different, I think. More hemmed-in. More insular. Less friendly.

I doubt you'll get a positive answer if you enquire about this beforehand, and there's probably a waaaay-less-than-half chance that you would 'get away' with it after you move in, so I wouldn't personally proceed if it's that important to you.

After you move in, and get to chat with the neighbs, if you then explain that you only have one car, and rarely any others turning up, and you wish to landscape half that area whilst keeping it open and low-fenced, and always ready for reconverting back to a parking slot, then they may say "That sounds cool..." and be prepared to not complain.

But I think you should buy only expecting - and being prepared to accept - the worst

I do like the earlier ideas, tho', of landscaping it in a way that it can still be parked over when needed. Coupled with some nice planting in easy-to-move pots (a contra in terms?), that could be acceptable? 'Could'. Even some lightweight screening - a couple of posts with this slung between them, which can be dropped in a few seconds to still allow parking on the second half?

But don't act without a neighbourly chat :-)

I just loaded the title register and title plan info. Can you please check when you get a chance and advise me? Many Thanks.

Misthios

RAS said:

I'd suggest that you try and find the original planning permission and check what was there, and look at your local planning guidelines, which might require 2 carparking spaces per house.

However if you are not parking a car on top there all the time. are several ways to make the space attractive. Start with...

I saw a lovely one which was actually a world map planted with thymes and other creeping plants in gravel where there was space for the cars to drive safely between the planted areas. Obviously the plants got their sunshine fix when the cars weren't parked. So you might want to alternate which side of the space you parked on.

And you could incorporate some taller plants around the edges and a bin store with a planted roof?

Edit: And maybe move that little shed closer to the house if the area is is sitting in is the sunnier end of the patio?

I just loaded the title register and title plan info. Can you please check when you get a chance and advise me? Many Thanks.

user1977

Misthios said:

C: Charges Register This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land. Class of Title: Title absolute.

 Entry number Entry date 1 1994-01-12 A Transfer of the land in this title dated 3 December 1993 made between (1) ..... Services Limited and ..... contains restrictive covenants. ¬NOTE: Original filed.

You need to get a copy of that in order to read the covenants - that's a separate order from the Land Registry.

Misthios

user1977 said:

Misthios said:

C: Charges Register This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land. Class of Title: Title absolute.

 Entry number Entry date 1 1994-01-12 A Transfer of the land in this title dated 3 December 1993 made between (1) ..... Services Limited and ..... contains restrictive covenants. ¬NOTE: Original filed.

You need to get a copy of that in order to read the covenants - that's a separate order from the Land Registry.

I see... Is it the ''Use land and property data'' website?

user1977

Misthios said:

user1977 said:

Misthios said:

C: Charges Register This register contains any charges and other matters that affect the land. Class of Title: Title absolute.

 Entry number Entry date 1 1994-01-12 A Transfer of the land in this title dated 3 December 1993 made between (1) ..... Services Limited and ..... contains restrictive covenants. ¬NOTE: Original filed.

You need to get a copy of that in order to read the covenants - that's a separate order from the Land Registry.

I see... Is it the ''Use land and property data'' website?

No, this one:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/official-copies-of-documents-registration-oc2

p00hsticks

How far have you actually progressed with this purchase ?

If you have actually had an offer accepted and engaged a solicitor, I'd suggest that as part of the conveyancing they'd be obtaining the deeds and details of any covenants and be able to discuss and explain them with you.

From a quick look at the plan that you've uploaded, it seems to me that the two allocated parking spaces linked to the house belong to the property but aren't next to either each other or the property.

I can;t work out where the border of the property on the plan lies in relation to the photos you;ve posted, so it's not clear if the area you are disussing belongs to the house or not.

You can do a 'search by map' on the land registry which should help you identify which properties own whcih parking spaces

https://search-property-information.service.gov.uk/search/map-search/

Misthios

My offer at the moment is very close to be accepted but I want to double check the issues lying ahead. You re right though, the solicitors will be able to explain further. I just load a side by side image which show the 2nd parking across the road on a curve which is now full of wild bushes and greenery, it doesn't makes sense, hardly a car can fit there. 

Misthios

From the information I have listed above, is the parking area ONLY for parking space or it's land which can be converted into garden? Or I need to check the covenants about it?