500mm eaves overhang 😳😳

[Aspley]

Hi, my property boundary includes a delapidated building owned by next door neighbour. He has renovated the building and taken it up a story. Issue is the eaves overhang is at least 700mm onto my ‘air space’. I have not had any request from the neighbour for this overhang to be agreed by me so I am wondering what my options are.
any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Cheers

[ostell]

Tell him to correct the issue

[Aspley]

Err......thanks for that but isn’t the first thing to understand if it is a trespass

[des8]

It is a trespass, however..........

If it is not possible for the property to be altered at proportional cost a court might only award you damages without an order to remove the overhang.

If the overhang is not too much of an inconvenience a chat (if you are on speaking terms with your neighbour) to negotiate an easement with him might be a better option than court.

[Scot22]

Most options are usually better than court in my opinion.