I've been pondering this for a while and i thought to ask the forum whether my neighbours driveway has been built up against the gable end of our house legally?
It wasn't done by the current neighbours but the one before, who insisted on digging out the garden there and laying a tarmac drive right up to the wall.
That was over 30 years ago.
Over he years i've noticed damp spread across our living room wall, and i had to build up our dividing wall outside to prevent water running down their drive to pool beside our wall, where an airbrick became clogged with leaves and standing water.
I was in conversation with a tradie yesterday who mentioned they may have to make good the damage caused by the drive which shouldn't have been laid there at all.
Do i have a case? And what, if anything, can i do about it?
Pictues enclosed to give an idea of the situation.
The line of moss is roughly where a gap runs right along the wall and is considered the boundary line on our deeds.
The second shows how far up the wall their drive is built.
The third shows the drop down to our level from their side and the last pic shows how far that drop is to a better extent, where the wall was built up and how much of our house has been covered by their driveway.
It wasn't done by the current neighbours but the one before, who insisted on digging out the garden there and laying a tarmac drive right up to the wall.
That was over 30 years ago.
Over he years i've noticed damp spread across our living room wall, and i had to build up our dividing wall outside to prevent water running down their drive to pool beside our wall, where an airbrick became clogged with leaves and standing water.
I was in conversation with a tradie yesterday who mentioned they may have to make good the damage caused by the drive which shouldn't have been laid there at all.
Do i have a case? And what, if anything, can i do about it?
Pictues enclosed to give an idea of the situation.
The line of moss is roughly where a gap runs right along the wall and is considered the boundary line on our deeds.
The second shows how far up the wall their drive is built.
The third shows the drop down to our level from their side and the last pic shows how far that drop is to a better extent, where the wall was built up and how much of our house has been covered by their driveway.