Hi,
I'll try to keep this brief but as with many similar issues, that may be difficult...
My father-in-law recently died and we are going through the usual of sorting out his estate. His house is the last house on his street, and as such sits facing the main road (yellow arrow) rather than in line with the rest of the properties. I've attached an image to better show what I mean - his house is outlined in the light green.
His neighbour has more or less finished building a 2 storey side extension, wrapped around to the front for a bigger porch and single-storey extension at the back. The side extension replaces a garage with a living room on the ground floor.
The layout of my FiL's plot meant that there was a fence running from the front gate straight to the corner of the plot at the rear (marked in purple on the image) and his detached garage sat to the side, with ~2' gap between it and the boundary fence.
Long story short, the neighbours porch/side extension has been built right onto the boundary line (the grey line you can just see on my image.) The fence (purple line) now butts up against the corner of the extension wall. Further, the wall where their garage was appears to have been built over the boundary line by about 5-6" onto my FiL's property (shown in red.) The yellow marks show where various vents, extractors and pipes come out of the wall and run on my FiL's land.
So, at best they have built up to and on the boundary and at worst across the boundary and on to his property. With the addition of pipes/vents, etc. and the soffits/eaves over-hanging, they are well over his property.
Out of principle I'm am livid at the "land-grab" however we have had numerous suggestions we should just put up and move on. Whilst I don't want to trigger a long (and no doubt expensive) dispute with the neighbour, I also don't want them to just get away with it.
I believe they had planning permission for the extension, however I doubt they were allowed to breach the boundary and I wonder what the implications of the overhang/vents are?
I'm not sure if/how to do anything about this, or what my options are.
Any advice/questions/suggestions welcome.
I'll try to keep this brief but as with many similar issues, that may be difficult...
My father-in-law recently died and we are going through the usual of sorting out his estate. His house is the last house on his street, and as such sits facing the main road (yellow arrow) rather than in line with the rest of the properties. I've attached an image to better show what I mean - his house is outlined in the light green.
His neighbour has more or less finished building a 2 storey side extension, wrapped around to the front for a bigger porch and single-storey extension at the back. The side extension replaces a garage with a living room on the ground floor.
The layout of my FiL's plot meant that there was a fence running from the front gate straight to the corner of the plot at the rear (marked in purple on the image) and his detached garage sat to the side, with ~2' gap between it and the boundary fence.
Long story short, the neighbours porch/side extension has been built right onto the boundary line (the grey line you can just see on my image.) The fence (purple line) now butts up against the corner of the extension wall. Further, the wall where their garage was appears to have been built over the boundary line by about 5-6" onto my FiL's property (shown in red.) The yellow marks show where various vents, extractors and pipes come out of the wall and run on my FiL's land.
So, at best they have built up to and on the boundary and at worst across the boundary and on to his property. With the addition of pipes/vents, etc. and the soffits/eaves over-hanging, they are well over his property.
Out of principle I'm am livid at the "land-grab" however we have had numerous suggestions we should just put up and move on. Whilst I don't want to trigger a long (and no doubt expensive) dispute with the neighbour, I also don't want them to just get away with it.
I believe they had planning permission for the extension, however I doubt they were allowed to breach the boundary and I wonder what the implications of the overhang/vents are?
I'm not sure if/how to do anything about this, or what my options are.
Any advice/questions/suggestions welcome.