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Unadopted land between two houses

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  • Unadopted land between two houses

    EDIT: I CAN'T ADD THE ATTACHMENTS FOR SOME REASON, I AM TRYING TO FIND OUT HOW I CAN DO THIS.

    Hi,


    We live in what is effectively an end terrace house, our street is a terrace in two halves, with a big gap down the middle, and we live on one side of that gap. The strip of land between the two houses is unadopted land, however the neighbours on the other side of the gap have closed this off (what looks like many, many years ago), and use it as their own.

    I have attached an image that hopefully shows the layout of the two houses and the gap between. Our house (plus yard on left and garden on right, when looking at the plan) is green, theirs is number 22 in red, the white gap in the middle is the unadopted land. We have a wall between our two front gardens, and a wall between our back yards (I have drawn blue arrows to these on the plan). Both of these walls grow out of our house if that makes sense?! Our gable end and both walls are one long straight line. On the plan I have shown in yellow where neighbours have either walls/fences/gates to close of the gap.

    I have a few questions/concerns that I am hoping someone might be able to help me with:

    1. Are our gable end and both garden/yard walls likely to be boundary walls belonging to us only? Can they even be party walls when there is no 'party' on the other side (unadopted land).

    2. If the neighbours apply for adverse possession, would they be likely to be granted this?

    3. If they were granted possession, could this then turn our walls into party walls (if they belong solely to us currently)? If that is the case is there anything we can do about this?


    I just want to make it clear that we don't have desire for land between the houses for ourselves, we are just worried about any change or potential damage to our house that could devalue it, as well as possible lack of access to maintain our walls. For example if they gained possession of the land and decided to build an extension, or build something against our gable end. They have already (prior to our moving in) built a large wooden swing that spans the gap between our gable end and theirs, which they have screwed into our gable end wall. They have also built a large gate between the two houses which they have screwed into a post that comes up out of our garden wall, and which supports the 'mini roof' that runs right down our half of the terrace over all the bay windows. Photo of this attached, as I can't describe it very well!


    Any advice at all is much appreciated!









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    Try uploading the pictures/plans etc to a hosting site and post the link on here.

    Have you obtained copies of land Registry files for your property, neighbours property and land in between (cost £3 per file +£3 per plan here; https://www.gov.uk/search-property-i...-land-registry

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    • #3
      Originally posted by des8 View Post


      Try uploading the pictures/plans etc to a hosting site and post the link on here.

      Have you obtained copies of land Registry files for your property, neighbours property and land in between (cost £3 per file +£3 per plan here; https://www.gov.uk/search-property-i...-land-registry
      Thank you, hopefully this works!

      https://ibb.co/k4KF2pW
      https://ibb.co/ZzCKBL4

      I have the land registry documents for our property from the legal pack when we bought the house. I had a quick look at the link you shared and it shows my address, the neighbours address, but nothing separate for the unadopted land in between. I will order theirs. Just to be sure, they won't be notified that I have ordered it will they?

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      • #4
        Originally posted by FlowerPower View Post

        Thank you, hopefully this works!

        https://ibb.co/k4KF2pW
        https://ibb.co/ZzCKBL4

        I have the land registry documents for our property from the legal pack when we bought the house. I had a quick look at the link you shared and it shows my address, the neighbours address, but nothing separate for the unadopted land in between. I will order theirs. Just to be sure, they won't be notified that I have ordered it will they?
        There is a facility for searching Land Registry records by map (https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mapsearch) which might help regarding the in between area.

        Your neighbours will not be informed regarding your search/order

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