On Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:11:33 AM UTC, stuart noble wrote:
On 16/11/2011 17:39, Martin Bonner wrote:
On Nov 16, 3:07 pm, wrote:
On Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:58:14 PM UTC, RobertL wrote:
but if someone owns the passageway they might object to you taking a
bit of their land.

Its between two houses, both which have a gate leading off it to the
back gardens. I suspect the whole passageway is shared, i.e. we don't
own half each, we each share all of it. In which case, the neighbour
would have to agree to lose upto 100mm. I suspect such an agreement
would pre-authorise them to do the same in the future. Would have to
check the loss of 200mm did not unduly reduce amenity of the passageway.
Neighbour is an old lady who might be wary of agreeing to anything.

I *think* the normal way of doing these things, is that somebody owns /
all/ the passageway, and the other house has right of way over it. If
I am right, and your neighbour owns it, you will obviously need
permission from her. Otherwise, I *strongly* recommend getting her
agreement anyway ("You don't mind if I insulate my house do you?").
Personally, if she doesn't agree, I'd drop it - the aggro isn't worth
it.

There might be issues with the roof. In my case the slates only overhang
by an inch or so on the gable end

Yes, I do have that problem. If I ever re-did the roof I was going to include an overhang. It might be possible to flash the top where the insulation stuck out, but would look strange. So I'd probably have to redo the gable verge and put in a soffit arrangement. At present the edge is just pointed with mortar. I don't think there is even a cloaking strip.
Simon.