What's everyone's opinion on this?
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9534885/B...
Article above.
Looks like the guy has built right up to the boundary and his eaves & guttering are overhanging his neighboursland and he is now complaining that his neighbours have built close to his extension.
He moans he can't maintain his wall but he wouldn't have been able to anyway as he would have had to use his neighbours land to do it.
Article above.
Looks like the guy has built right up to the boundary and his eaves & guttering are overhanging his neighboursland and he is now complaining that his neighbours have built close to his extension.
He moans he can't maintain his wall but he wouldn't have been able to anyway as he would have had to use his neighbours land to do it.
That's what happens when houses are built right on the boundary line.
My road is the same, the side of each house is practically on the boundary line. I assume each house has to prove access to their neighbour for any maintenance work. But nearly every house has had similar extensions built with just a hand gap between their extension and the house next door. I have no idea how they maintain their walls, guttering, soffits etc - they can't.
I'm not sure if any of them gave any thought to it, im guessing they just have their head in the sand whilst marvelling over the additional rooms in their house? I couldn't do that to my neighbour, and thankfully my neighbour on the other side wouldn't do it to me.
My road is the same, the side of each house is practically on the boundary line. I assume each house has to prove access to their neighbour for any maintenance work. But nearly every house has had similar extensions built with just a hand gap between their extension and the house next door. I have no idea how they maintain their walls, guttering, soffits etc - they can't.
I'm not sure if any of them gave any thought to it, im guessing they just have their head in the sand whilst marvelling over the additional rooms in their house? I couldn't do that to my neighbour, and thankfully my neighbour on the other side wouldn't do it to me.
k are they?
abzmike said:
Probably should have been picked up in planning or building control
It's very similar in principal to the problem a fellow PistonHeader was faced with HEREAnd whilst we managed to get that one refused, it wasn't for the 'right' and obvious practical reasons... we knew in advance that we would actually struggle to get those reasons accepted as 'material' planning considerations and the Planner basically confirmed that by (unfortunately quite correctly) stating that: '...These matters do not fall within the remit of assessing planning applications and therefore are not commented upon..
It's a glaring problem that comes up quite frequently, but unfortunately it falls between the cracks (well, more of a gaping chasm, really) that lie between the separate and disconnected processes of Planning and Building Regulations.
Edited by Equus on Monday 3rd May 12:30
Tankrizzo said:
They aren't they'll render as far as they can then leave the rest, then five years down the line the neighbour will be in the paper with sad face complaining about damp. By that time the builder will have liquidated the company and setup under another name.
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