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  • Brie
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    Rather than move the fence maybe you could use it for a different purpose?  Plant apple trees?  Pave it and park your car there?
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  • Slinky
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    The rear of that garden wall appears to be tapered as it reaches the neighbour to the rear. I can imagine there would be a reason for that - most likely to allow light to the house behind you. Blocking that is not going to endear you to them at the very least.
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  • RelievedSheff
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    Our house has a similar arrangement with a strip of land to the outside of the garden wall.

    Ideally we would like to move the garden wall to be on the back of the footpath line and include that strip into the enclosed garden but our covenants for the house restrict this. It is to protect the street scene allegedly!
  • ThisIsWeird
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    edited 24 October 2024 at 9:02AM
    Mfm, you could download a copy of the deeds now, if you like, before your solicitor gets around to it, and that will almost certainly make the situation clear. 
    I suspect these strips will be highlighted separately, and whilst probably owned by you, will very likely have restrictions placed on it.
    If you are buying the house regardless, then just wait for the solicitor to get the info.
    Edit: you have the title plan. Does that show a map of the property, red-coloured boundaries, shaded areas, that sort of thing? Any chance of a pic? Do you have the full 'deeds' - that will include restrictions and easements and covenants and that kind of stuff.
  • mfm1989 said:
    the tile plan shows it inside the marked area for boundary of the property and the tile plan does not show any restriction 

    If you built a wall up to your red line I imagine that would affect the safety of people driving in and out of that close, as well as blocking light/views from some of the houses. I expect that you will find there are restrictions on what you can do with that strip of land, but at least it's yours so you know nobody else is going to try and do something stupid with it!
  • Slinky
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    Looking at this again, I think it's pretty clear that if you were going to be able to enclose that strip of land into your garden, they would have built the wall where you want to move it to in the first place.


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  • TheJP
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    Just saw this article about a similar piece of land and the issues in erecting a fence around it.

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13997979/Father-three-built-6ft-fence-autistic-son-safe-playing-garden-ordered-tear-council.html 
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