Hi,
I have searched far and wide for an answer to this but can't seem to find one, so am looking for a little bit of advice.
We have owned our house for approximately 2 years, it is an end terrace.
When we moved in the front door was on the side of the house. We have recently restored it back to it's original position at the front of the house, next to our neighbors front door.
Before we moved in, the neighbors landlord had external insulation over the front of their house. It was not until we relocated the front door that we realised that this overhands onto our property by about 75mm. To the point where it overhangs our actual doorway opening by a few mm (sits slightly over onto frame).
We have been back and forth with what we wanted to do about this and had decided that it wasn't worth disturbing the peace and delaying our plans with the house to get this rectified. Coupled with the fac that we don't get on with the tenants and that our deeds don't actually state the measurements of the boundary etc.
However, we are currently waiting to have a new fence built. This will run down the side of our property, the boundary with the neighbor. We currently do not have the 50mm needed for the fence post to run due to the neighbors insulation on our property.
We did ask the builder that was fitting the door to try and create this space by moving the door over slightly however he wasn't able to create us enough space without compromising the strength of the structure.
He is returning soon and has suggested that he may cut back the section that is trespassing onto our land in order to fix the post. Not sure how I feel about this as I don't want any damage caused to their property. Very torn with how to approach this situation.
The last thing that we want to do is go through courts etc and try and get it removed when all we want is a few mm to attach a fence post. The neighbors have been extremely difficult thus far and won't make the situation easy and we would like to get our fence built in the next few weeks!
Sorry about the long post. I really would appreciate and help of advice!
I have searched far and wide for an answer to this but can't seem to find one, so am looking for a little bit of advice.
We have owned our house for approximately 2 years, it is an end terrace.
When we moved in the front door was on the side of the house. We have recently restored it back to it's original position at the front of the house, next to our neighbors front door.
Before we moved in, the neighbors landlord had external insulation over the front of their house. It was not until we relocated the front door that we realised that this overhands onto our property by about 75mm. To the point where it overhangs our actual doorway opening by a few mm (sits slightly over onto frame).
We have been back and forth with what we wanted to do about this and had decided that it wasn't worth disturbing the peace and delaying our plans with the house to get this rectified. Coupled with the fac that we don't get on with the tenants and that our deeds don't actually state the measurements of the boundary etc.
However, we are currently waiting to have a new fence built. This will run down the side of our property, the boundary with the neighbor. We currently do not have the 50mm needed for the fence post to run due to the neighbors insulation on our property.
We did ask the builder that was fitting the door to try and create this space by moving the door over slightly however he wasn't able to create us enough space without compromising the strength of the structure.
He is returning soon and has suggested that he may cut back the section that is trespassing onto our land in order to fix the post. Not sure how I feel about this as I don't want any damage caused to their property. Very torn with how to approach this situation.
The last thing that we want to do is go through courts etc and try and get it removed when all we want is a few mm to attach a fence post. The neighbors have been extremely difficult thus far and won't make the situation easy and we would like to get our fence built in the next few weeks!
Sorry about the long post. I really would appreciate and help of advice!
