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I would have thought the boundary line for my property would lie somewhere proud of my garage wall. It’s how far proud is the question. If it’s a meter proud then the neighbours garage is partly on my land.
Again, I don't know anything about Scots law, but in England, if someone built a garage on your land 20 years ago, it's not your land any more. Subject to many complex exceptions involving the Land Registration Act 2002 Schedules 4 and 6. Neither or which, I believe, apply in Scotland.
Bottom line, as ever, is a nice cup of tea, a friendly chat, and a solution which works for everyone. The alternative is a world of grief, years of stress, and paying arseholes like me enough money that we start thinking that maybe it's time for another Porsche.
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@TotalShanner You only get the option for a friendly chat once, but the option for stress and bills repeats indefinitely thereafter. Play it carefully.
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Thanks very much for the input, I appreciate it.
It seems like there’s not a lot I can do without causing everyone a whole lot of grief!A friendly chat over a cup of tea is more to my liking. The rubble issue affect us both as their garage also has water coming through.
Without rebuilding the garage, the only real way to get the rubble out would be to bring my garage wall down then rebuild it.
But there’s a lot of other work that needs done which is why starting from scratch is appealing. But maybe the amount of work needing done could get me round the ‘extensive repairs’ loophole and essentially just rebuild it anyway.I’ll need to wait for the right moment to bring it up though.
The woman has had some serious health concerns over the past year. The man retired a couple years early to help her at home and I’m not sure how many miles she’s got left on the clock. So you can imagine I’m not exactly keen to bother them with this sort of thing right now.
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I’ll need to look at the deeds.
Before the neighbours garage was there, it was a path and I’d guess a sort of driveway for them.
I would have thought the boundary line for my property would lie somewhere proud of my garage wall. It’s how far proud is the question. If it’s a meter proud then the neighbours garage is partly on my land.
But if it’s more like half a meter then it’s right on the boundary line.