Moving the driveway entrance

[nubbins]

Hi All

I recently completed a new build after originally purchasing No 405 and separating the land (shown in red). When my architect originally did the plans we were not thinking too much about a new entrance into the old house (No 405) and we accepted the architects drawings, everything submitted to planning and were happy with everything.

 

After living in the new property for a while we realised we should have paid a little more attention to the driveways in the beginning and we now want the driveway to come across more as show by the blue line, this allows for a couple of cars to be parked at the side rather than all at the front.

 

We still own both plots but are looking to sell No 405 and I understand the pain that we will have with titles and land registry etc but my question for today is if I wanted to move the entrance to No 405 a metre or so to the right as shown with the red block would I need to go back to planning/ highways? Not sure if it makes any difference but both the entrance to the new and old house are entered by a quiet dead end road.

 

Thanks in advance

 

 

 

 

[Mr Punter]

I think you will need to get consent for this.  Do you own the whole block under a single title?

[nubbins]

Hi,

No separate titles for both the new and old house. The red line is the boundary which is on both new and old house titles .Basically what I am looking at is grabbing more land from the old house which will actually mean creating a new title when No 405 (old house) gets sold. The little piece of land will then get its own new title which means when I eventually sell the new house it will be sold with two titles.

 

I have spoken to my solicitor who originally did the land split and he says its doable but grabbing that extra bit of land would mean moving the driveway entrance to the right a bit.

[Mr Punter]

You can sometimes talk to highways on the phone.  All you are doing is moving the entrance.  You will need to put in more dropped kerb and maybe block up the bit on the left.

[patp]

Do be aware that Highways often just just use Google Earth to decide matters. If it comes down to fine details then do get them out. Our whole project was nearly scuppered by Highways' opinion based on them looking at Google Earth rather than coming out with a tape measure!