Hello, just a quick question as someone has started to worry me about our new garage we have built. OK, we're recently constructed a wooden car port/garage along the same line as the old boundry fence. Now the old boundry fence looked as though it was about 1 foot onto the neighbours side of the fence.
So we looked at our house plans we got when we bought the house and it showed that the boundry line was over to one side by 2 feet. But we put the new fence where the old one was to be on the safe side. We did talk to our neighbours before building it and they said the were absolutely fine with it as long as it was to built to the original fence line, which we've done.
However someone mentioned to me that the plans you get with the the house aren't 'official' boundry lines, instead they just copy what is there already onto the plans, so if they survyor or whoever turns up, sees the fence is a foot over to one side they'll copy that onto the plans rather than marking what is the proper boundry and putting that onto the plans. The plans are from the council but i'm worried that should next door sell the house it may cause difficulty if it's in the wrong place, I know it's my fault for not checking thoroughly, but in my naivety I assumed the plans we got with the house marked out the boundry lines officially.
Could anyone shed some light on it, or should I go to the council or get a surveyor out to check on it?
Thanks very much
Dan
So we looked at our house plans we got when we bought the house and it showed that the boundry line was over to one side by 2 feet. But we put the new fence where the old one was to be on the safe side. We did talk to our neighbours before building it and they said the were absolutely fine with it as long as it was to built to the original fence line, which we've done.
However someone mentioned to me that the plans you get with the the house aren't 'official' boundry lines, instead they just copy what is there already onto the plans, so if they survyor or whoever turns up, sees the fence is a foot over to one side they'll copy that onto the plans rather than marking what is the proper boundry and putting that onto the plans. The plans are from the council but i'm worried that should next door sell the house it may cause difficulty if it's in the wrong place, I know it's my fault for not checking thoroughly, but in my naivety I assumed the plans we got with the house marked out the boundry lines officially.
Could anyone shed some light on it, or should I go to the council or get a surveyor out to check on it?
Thanks very much
Dan
