Hi,
I wonder if someone might be able to help with my misunderstanding of my deed title. Please see attached image (apologies for the juvenile attempt at CAD).
I live in the end of a terrace of 4 houses (no 1 - coloured green). I have a parking space allocated in an unadopted car park on the opposite end of the terrace (also coloured green). My title highlights my property and the car park as my own, for which I have no doubt I am responsible.
Behind the terrace, there is a large property (5) at a much lower level to the terrace and carpark separated from the terrace by a drystone wall. There is an access path that runs behind properties 2-4 leading into the car park, but my property is not connected to this. On the other side of the car park, there is another property that uses the car park. The drystone wall stops about halfway along the car park, and the portion in which these other cars are parked are covered by a different brick wall.
The person who lives behind the terrace has informed me that rain water is running from the car park and access path, down into his property, and as a result is causing damage to the drystone wall in the area circled. He has said he would like to install guttering along the ground along the along the wall from the access path into the car park to drain water away from the wall. The occupant of the large property (5) does not have access to the car park.
My questions are:
1. For which portion of this guttering would I be responsible for paying;
2. Would occupants of all 6 properties be responsible for paying for a portion of the guttering;
3. Would the occupant of property 5 be responsible for any proportion of the costs of the guttering?
I realise this is a complicated scenario. I hope my explanation is clear. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
I wonder if someone might be able to help with my misunderstanding of my deed title. Please see attached image (apologies for the juvenile attempt at CAD).
I live in the end of a terrace of 4 houses (no 1 - coloured green). I have a parking space allocated in an unadopted car park on the opposite end of the terrace (also coloured green). My title highlights my property and the car park as my own, for which I have no doubt I am responsible.
Behind the terrace, there is a large property (5) at a much lower level to the terrace and carpark separated from the terrace by a drystone wall. There is an access path that runs behind properties 2-4 leading into the car park, but my property is not connected to this. On the other side of the car park, there is another property that uses the car park. The drystone wall stops about halfway along the car park, and the portion in which these other cars are parked are covered by a different brick wall.
The person who lives behind the terrace has informed me that rain water is running from the car park and access path, down into his property, and as a result is causing damage to the drystone wall in the area circled. He has said he would like to install guttering along the ground along the along the wall from the access path into the car park to drain water away from the wall. The occupant of the large property (5) does not have access to the car park.
My questions are:
1. For which portion of this guttering would I be responsible for paying;
2. Would occupants of all 6 properties be responsible for paying for a portion of the guttering;
3. Would the occupant of property 5 be responsible for any proportion of the costs of the guttering?
I realise this is a complicated scenario. I hope my explanation is clear. Any advice would be appreciated. Thanks!
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