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extending boundary wall/bigger garden

  • 09-02-2013 9:46pm
    #1
    RustyBridges
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭


    Hi,

    i live in a 3 bed semi D in a modern estate.

    the house is the end house in a cul de sac.

    there are no houses on one side of me i.e the estate boundary wall is on one side of me and over the wall is just a field.

    i had a crazy notion of extending the garden by looking to buy a small strip of land like 8m X5m which would allow me push out the boundary wall, creating a bigger garden.

    could i buy such a small strip of land?
    would there be issues with moving a boundary wall?
    would i need planning permission?


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  • #2
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    There may be a reason for no house and only land on that side of your house.

    There may have been a planning requirement for the developer/builders to have a specific amount of green area/land.

    Therefore you would not be allowed to purchase that land and build on it.


    Also that land could be someone elses land (apart from the developers) and be private and/or zoned for no building use and only for the likes of farming use or greenbelt use only.

    So dont be too surprised to find this out.


  • #3
    RustyBridges
    Registered Users Posts: 8 ✭RustyBridges


    hi paddy147,

    cheers for that.

    it is actually agri land.
    there is also a gas line running across this field at the far end of it.
    the developer said i did not have to worry about houses been built there as he said you cannot build within 150m of a gas line?

    i doubt a farmer would sell me a small strip of land anyhow.

    if i was to be stubborn or stupid enough to inquire, how would i go about it?

    cheers

    Rustybridges


  • #4
    paddy147
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 15,858 ✭✭✭✭paddy147


    RustyBridges wrote: »
    hi paddy147,

    cheers for that.

    it is actually agri land.
    there is also a gas line running across this field at the far end of it.
    the developer said i did not have to worry about houses been built there as he said you cannot build within 150m of a gas line?

    i doubt a farmer would sell me a small strip of land anyhow.

    if i was to be stubborn or stupid enough to inquire, how would i go about it?

    cheers

    Rustybridges

    absolutely nothing subborn or stupid about it at all.

    You are thinking of ways to legally make/have a bigger garden and thinking of buying a small strip of land and zoning that into your prperty/land..

    I call that good thinking.:)

    I would 1st try to track down the land owner and have a chat with them,and see if they would be prepared to sell you a small piece of the land for the purposes that you have in mind.

    Explain to him or her that there would be no building/development on it...just to make a nicer bigger garden for you and your family..:)

    If he or she says yes,then you proceed to the legal stage (estate agent/solicitor) so that the land is legaly sold to you and you have legally paid for it and now own it.:)



    Best of luck with it.:)


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