Neighbour building small extension - boundary concern

redrum1975

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this. 

Our neighbour is currently having a small outhouse/extension built on the back of his property. However, we've now noticed that the roof for the extension will overhang our boundary fence. 

We are concerned that this may cause us an issue should we go to sell the property at a later date.

To give context, we are on a new estate that has been built within the past 2 years. Our driveway separates our house from their house. The roof guttering/eaves for the whole house actually overhangs onto our drive by maybe 10 inches, the roof for the new out building would be maybe 2 or 3 inches. Would the boundary line be the physical wall or the actual overhang of the original house?

Thanks, 

redrum1975

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BarelySentientAI

Not an issue.

redrum1975

BarelySentientAI said:

Not an issue.

As in won't be an issue at a later date? Any justification for that? Thanks,

youth_leader

I typed 'boundary' in the search bar and this thread came up.  If you read through you will see that you own the 'air' - so the bits of wood sticking over your side shouldn't be there.  I'd go next door and speak to them. 

I think my neighbour's new extension is going to overhang the boundary. — MoneySavingExpert Forum

BarelySentientAI

youth_leader said:

I typed 'boundary' in the search bar and this thread came up.  If you read through you will see that you own the 'air' - so the bits of wood sticking over your side shouldn't be there.  I'd go next door and speak to them. 

I think my neighbour's new extension is going to overhang the boundary. — MoneySavingExpert Forum

The bits of wood are clearly only there as part of the construction.  Going next door to argue about a stray temporary timber seems to me to be a completely pointless exercise and just a way to get the neighbours back up unnecessarily.

How sure are you, OP, on the exact position of the boundary between the properties?  If, for example, the boundary runs down the centre of the thickness of that fence, then it doesn't look like there's any overhang at all apart from the bits that will obviously be cut off.

redrum1975 said:

BarelySentientAI said:

Not an issue.

As in won't be an issue at a later date? Any justification for that? Thanks,

Were there any issues when you bought about the much larger overhang that you say you identified on the main roof?

ThisIsWeird

redrum1975 said:

Hi,

Not sure if this is the right place to post this. 

Our neighbour is currently having a small outhouse/extension built on the back of his property. However, we've now noticed that the roof for the extension will overhang our boundary fence. 

We are concerned that this may cause us an issue should we go to sell the property at a later date.

To give context, we are on a new estate that has been built within the past 2 years. Our driveway separates our house from their house. The roof guttering/eaves for the whole house actually overhangs onto our drive by maybe 10 inches, the roof for the new out building would be maybe 2 or 3 inches. Would the boundary line be the physical wall or the actual overhang of the original house?

Thanks, 

Can you confirm - the boundary is shown as a straight line on your deeds map? And their house 'overhangs' your drive by around 10", whereas this extension does so only by around 3"?
I suspect there is no issue of concern here at all, but I don't have a definitive answer. A few threads on here suggest that it's common for new-builds to be like this. One very recent thread had the neighbour's garage wall as seemingly the boundary line at the front of their properties as shown on the deeds map, but the OP wondered how this straight boundary line worked in their garden, as their lawn went right up to that garage wall, but the garage's roof overhung a few-inch strip of their lawn. 
Don't know if it was answered, but the consensus was, it ain't a problem. Ie, your lawn can go up to it, but they technically own the overhanging space. 
Since it's only a 2-year old build, I'd ask the house developer for clarification - they should know!
I presume their extension plans are on the LA's Planning Portal? How is it shown sitting on there in relation to their house and the boundary line?
Could you post an anonymised clip of the map on here?