Garden wall responsibility

[Jumpy Guy]

My house is the far left hand house in a row; end terrace.

I have a fence on the left of my garden which borders the access path. Brick wall to the right, onto neighbours garden.

The wall might need some repair work in the near future.

I have looked at the land registry for our house, and the only mention is that' we should maintain the wall or fence marked with a 'T'

Its all a bit fuzzy on the photocopy I have, but the 'T' is always on the left on all of the gardens on the registry drawing.

so... is thsi convention? responsible for left hand side?

[tobeee]

IIRC I'm responsible for the boundary on the right of my house, when looking at the front of the house.

[Busamav]

There is no written rule on boundary ownership ,everyu house is different .

Owner of each plot must look at their own deeds to determine ownership and resposibility .

[fido]

can you see the posts and planks that are nailed across the fence?

well then it's probably yours, as i found out the other day.

never made sense to me, as you need to nail the fence from your neighbour's garden, but i suppose they get to see a nice flush fence with no posts .. so i guess it does make sense.

[Sam_68]

Busamav said:

There is no written rule on boundary ownership, every house is different.

Owner of each plot must look at their own deeds to determine ownership and resposibility.

Agreed.

Take no notice of any of the 'fair face of fencing' and 'left hand boundary' rules of thumb; they mean nothing. If you buy one of the 2000+ houses a year that we build, for example, you'll find that all boundaries are shared responsibility.

For what it's worth, the 'tradition' of T-marks on the left hand boundary comes from the good old days when drawings were still done on a drawing board: if you're right handed, you can repetetively add T-marks to a drawing quickly, without smudging the ink, if you start at the top left hand corner of the drawing and work across and down. Doesn't work if you're draughtsman is left handed, of course.

[Busamav]

Sam_68 said:

[the good old days when drawings were still done on a drawing board:

what do you mean when ,


its the fashion now , well it is here

[Sam_68]

Where's 'here'?!

I still use a drawing board for sketches, but I haven't used one for working drawings and layouts for at least a dozen years!

[Busamav]

Sam_68 said:

Where's 'here'?!

I still use a drawing board for sketches, but I haven't used one for working drawings and layouts for at least a dozen years!

Here is in West Berkshire to me .

If I ever need a job put on cad , I sketch it out and send it to a good mate .

[Jumpy Guy]

Thanks so far. I only have the Land registry entry- my solicitor has the deeds.

Can I assume that they will have the same wall responsilities?