Actually, it's not exactly a garden wall.
I live in a terraced house. On the front of each house is a parking
space (on the property, behind the pavement) The wall I want to build
is between my parking space and the next-door neighbour's parking
space. I want to make the wall as high as legally possible, because he
has an excessively noisy car whose noise I want to deflect as much as
possible. Ok, yes, the wall will be a form of 'subtle hint' but it
should prove quite effective too - and it'll stop him taking shortcuts
over my parking space to reach his own.. he he...

Mike F

If the wall is between 2 private pieces of ground, i.e, yours and your
neighbours land then it can be up to 2 metres high. If it borders onto the
highway (this includes footpaths and public right of way areas such as
grassed areas and common land then it can only be 1 metre high. If though it
is between yours and your neighbours but borders onto a public
access/highway then the area onto the public section can only be 1 metre
high so a front garden wall will for some of its length at least require
permission for it to be over 1 metre. Speak to your local planning/building
control to check accurately what is required

On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:21:47 +0100, "Mike Taylor"
wrote:

If the wall is between 2 private pieces of ground, i.e, yours and your
neighbours land then it can be up to 2 metres high. If it borders onto the
highway (this includes footpaths and public right of way areas such as
grassed areas and common land then it can only be 1 metre high.

I wondered why many fences at the front of houses start high and go
low near the pavement
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On Fri, 4 Jul 2003 15:21:47 +0100, "Mike Taylor"
wrote:

If the wall is between 2 private pieces of ground, i.e, yours and your
neighbours land then it can be up to 2 metres high. If it borders onto the
highway (this includes footpaths and public right of way areas such as
grassed areas and common land then it can only be 1 metre high.

Except it seems when your back garden borders a public
footpath/highway. As we live on a corner, the fence along the rear of
the property is 1.8metres high at the moment - we have been told that
this can increase to 2metres maximum in the future when we reconstruct
it.

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Hiram Hackenbacker

"M. Farlow" wrote in message
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Actually, it's not exactly a garden wall.
I live in a terraced house. On the front of each house is a parking
space (on the property, behind the pavement) The wall I want to build
is between my parking space and the next-door neighbour's parking
space. I want to make the wall as high as legally possible, because he
has an excessively noisy car whose noise I want to deflect as much as
possible. Ok, yes, the wall will be a form of 'subtle hint' but it
should prove quite effective too - and it'll stop him taking shortcuts
over my parking space to reach his own.. he he...

Mike F


Hi Mike,

If the wall is to form the boundary between the two properties, albeit
mostly on your side of the boundary, then you'll need your neighbours
permission on a signed proposal paper before you're allowed to build
anything. Have a look at the title deeds act. It says, in short, that the
wall would become the boundary formation and any dispute over its position
will have to be dealt with before any changes to the formed boundary are
made.

This is why you have get the neighbour to signed a paper that says they
agree to the changes and then they can't dispute it afterwards against any
deed of title to the land. I suppose it's a bit like signing a treaty over
a countries borders. :-)) Just make sure he's not the warring kind.


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On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 15:46:52 GMT, "BigWallop"
wrote:

Thanks, everyone, for the replies.

If the wall is to form the boundary between the two properties, albeit
mostly on your side of the boundary, then you'll need your neighbours
permission on a signed proposal paper before you're allowed to build
anything. Have a look at the title deeds act. It says, in short, that the
wall would become the boundary formation and any dispute over its position
will have to be dealt with before any changes to the formed boundary are
made.

This is why you have get the neighbour to signed a paper that says they
agree to the changes and then they can't dispute it afterwards against any
deed of title to the land. I suppose it's a bit like signing a treaty over
a countries borders. :-)) Just make sure he's not the warring kind.

The wall I plan to build is only about 6ft long, and will be on my
side of the boundary (just). The side of the wall facing my
neighbour's land will be exactly the boundary line. The wall will be
entirely on my property (just). Do you still think I need my
neighbour's permission to build it?

my house
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PS

Excuse my jokey signature; it wasn't meant to be read as part of the
previous message!

Mike
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:28:20 UTC, "BigWallop"
wrote:

In fact someone in here a few weeks back was asking about a shared wall in
their garden which was part of their boundary partition with an old
workshop.

That was me!

A builder was going to make changes to the wall to reclaim the
land on the other side of it or something, and they had to send him a letter
of proposal of changes to ask if he didn't mind them doing the changes.

That's right. This link was posted, and is useful. Also search on Google
Groups for the phrase "Party wall query".

http://www.safety.odpm.gov.uk/bregs/pwact/

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On 5 Jul 2003 12:35:24 GMT, (Bob Eager) wrote:

On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:28:20 UTC, "BigWallop"
wrote:

In fact someone in here a few weeks back was asking about a shared wall in
their garden which was part of their boundary partition with an old
workshop.

That was me!

A builder was going to make changes to the wall to reclaim the
land on the other side of it or something, and they had to send him a letter
of proposal of changes to ask if he didn't mind them doing the changes.

That's right. This link was posted, and is useful. Also search on Google
Groups for the phrase "Party wall query".

http://www.safety.odpm.gov.uk/bregs/pwact/

Yes, that is useful. Thank you both for the help. I think I will check
with the local planning dept anyway, as you suggested.

Jake

"Bob Eager" wrote in message
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On Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:28:20 UTC, "BigWallop"
wrote:

In fact someone in here a few weeks back was asking about a shared wall
in
their garden which was part of their boundary partition with an old
workshop.

That was me!

A builder was going to make changes to the wall to reclaim the
land on the other side of it or something, and they had to send him a
letter
of proposal of changes to ask if he didn't mind them doing the changes.

That's right. This link was posted, and is useful. Also search on Google
Groups for the phrase "Party wall query".

http://www.safety.odpm.gov.uk/bregs/pwact/

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Bob Eager

Thanks for that Bob, I searched through the postings and couldn't find who
it was. :-))


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