Boundry partwall issue

[virat bhavsar]

in the both picture attacehd can any one give me clare idea of what and where is the party wall considered for the bounday wall? I am bit not sure about the title deed it says,  in general about the 1996 partywall law where both side will have half and half rights. but as one can see in the picure the red box shows the hedge, which is no where in the middle of the boundary, its one side of the proprty more or less. please advise what to do in this situation? in the second piture shows two walls where the second wall was the small store which shows in the first piture befoer the hedge. 

Many thanks in advance.

[Mr Punter]

Party wall and boundary wall issues are rarely clear cut and often a source of dispute.  It is not easy to establish whose land they are built on, who is responsible for repair etc.

 

What are you hoping to achieve?

 

There is a website at https://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/index.php where people discuss this in minute detail.

[Temp]

+1

 

I think the modern conveyancing forms ask the seller which boundaries he thinks are his responsibility. The answers aren't always correct but what did the previous owner say? 

 

Typically hedges belong to one side or the other eg the house that planted it would normally have planted it on their side of the boundary.

 

Be carefully about asking the neighbours because it tells them you don't know and they might take advantage of that.

Edited March 17, 2023 by Temp

[ProDave]

I am struggling to relate the 2 pictures.  The first is a view presumably looking along the house wall?  and then the garden wall, but I can't relate that to the aerial view.

 

In the aerial view, are you left or right house?  And what are you trying to do (or stop)? and what is the issue?

[Temp]

If you want to build right up to the boundary remember nothing must overhang, so you need to think about eaves and gutters.

 

The boundary wall is also unlikely to have adequate foundations for an extension so the whole thing might need taking down and rebuilding.

 

In the future a neighbour might also want to do the same and suddenly your house isn't a detached house anymore. That can devalue it a bit.

 

Sometimes it's not worth building right to the boundary as it frequently seems to cause issues.

 

 

[saveasteading]

There is often the remains of a fence within a hedge. Or look at the ends for signs of previous connections