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shared freehold, new lease drafting and loft not demised
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Planning, Building Control and Council Tax are all relevant issues here. I would start with a civil conversation with your neighbour and as part of that ask her about planning permission. If she didn't get it, which seems possible, then I would be concerned about that because of (in no particular order): structural safety, fire risk, property value and saleability, insurance. Council Tax may be something to keep up your sleeve; if there is no planning permission then the Council Tax banding will be wrong.1
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from where I sit, a fair resolution would be she gets the attic, you get the parking space and you share the roof repairs.0
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That won’t be a fair resolution.
If she didn’t boarded up the roof and fitted the window, or changed the roof completely it would have been fair.
We could have had a discussion and I would have known which sorts of precautions on the structural safety had been taken. This way I’m totally blind. Also even if the loft was demised and she was going to fit a window in the roof she had 10 years of responsibility for it.
This last part was said by her solicitor in one of their responses.0
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