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FTB - Party Wall issue
Worrymerchant
Posts: 31 Forumite
Hi,
we have put in an offer on a freehold house in London, we are due to have the survey next week.
One thing we noticed was in the garden next to the kitchen the neighbours have built a lean-to which has a chipboard wall & the guttering seems to hang over into our potential property's garden.
We would like to build a brick wall at some point as the chipboard is unsightly from our point of view. Where do we stand in terms of this, would the vendor need to have an agreement about the lean-to or would the neighbours have had to have planning permission or is it not required?
I guess the real question is who can answer these questions? Should we ask the surveyor or is it our solicitors job to find out (& charge us!).
many thanks
we have put in an offer on a freehold house in London, we are due to have the survey next week.
One thing we noticed was in the garden next to the kitchen the neighbours have built a lean-to which has a chipboard wall & the guttering seems to hang over into our potential property's garden.
We would like to build a brick wall at some point as the chipboard is unsightly from our point of view. Where do we stand in terms of this, would the vendor need to have an agreement about the lean-to or would the neighbours have had to have planning permission or is it not required?
I guess the real question is who can answer these questions? Should we ask the surveyor or is it our solicitors job to find out (& charge us!).
many thanks
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I'd speak to your solicitor and get it sorted before you even purchase the property. Inheriting a potential boundary dispute is a lot more expensive than asking your solicitor to get your vendor to sort it out.
If it is overhanging your land, then it should not be there. If you want to erect a boundary wall, you should be able to. It doesn't exactly sound like it would affect their chipboard lean-to's foundations :rolleyes:Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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Doozergirl is right - this problem needs sorting before you go any further - boundary disputes can cost thousands and this is one in the making. The current owner needs to resolve this issue with their neighbour, it's not for you to resolve. Definitely make your solicitor and surveyor aware of this, you may even want to put the survey off until you know that it is going to be sorted as you don't want to pay for a survey on a property that you may decide not to go ahead with.0
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Also make sure you are able to build the wall you want my house has covenants staing that after 10' from the house boundary fences must be no higher than 3' this was put inplace in 1908 though. It also states that no beer is to be brewed on the premises for 100years, so will be going into full scale production next year.
Seriously though check, also check whose wall it is.0 -
thanks for the advice everyone, we'll get in touch with our solicitors.
Oh & good luck with the brewery Chappers
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