Boundary Wall - Who owns it ?

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Hi

Just bought a terraced house which has property either side. One of the rear garden walls has fallen down, how do i find out who's wall/responsibility it is ?

If it is the neighbours wall can i force him to rebuild it due to privacy/safety etc ?


I have the land registry plans and it just shows a boundary.
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i think party wall agreements only apply to walls of houses. im not 100% sure, but if there is any doubts it will be in your deeds. other than that like a fence its shared, u cant force your neighbour to pay anything towards it but u can ask.
 
Some are right some are left, on the copy of the deeds you will normally have a red line showing your boundry, an easy way to check (maybe lol) is to look at the fences and see what side has the finished face as you would normally face the finished face of your boundry fence towards your neighbour, does that make sense ? lol
 
I think undefined boundary walls are classed as shared responsibility
 
Just re read your post and you said wall sorry, is the garden walled both sides and rear then ? maybe a bit more difficult, all a neighbor has to legally put up is a dividing perimeter
 
Anything on the right hand side of the back door is yours I think

Is that looking at the door from the outside or from the inside?

I don't know about a wall but I always thought that a fence was your responsibility on the left of the property as you look out the back door from inside.
 
Employ a high flying legal eagle. And take this issue to the highest court in the land ! Force them to rebuild it. Then start another case to claim its yours. Years of fun ahead. :grab:
 
you would normally face the finished face of your boundry fence towards your neighbour, does that make sense ? lol

Slightly off-topic, but I've never understood that.

I know it seems to be the norm, bu why should your neighbour get the nice side to look at when you're paying for it? :err:
 
The deeds will tell you the boundary, it won't say anything about fences, walls etc.
You don't have to have a fence or wall on your boundary if you don't want one.
Therefore whoever had the wall built or bought it with whichever house : owns it.
If it is yours, then knock it down and leave it.
 
As previously said your deeds will/should show your boundary. The one which is yours should either be maked with a red line or have T marks by it
 
Spoke to neighbour and he said he is going to rebuild it. :Clap:

Just got to sort the scumbags the other side, she got about 7 stinking kids and they throw crap into my garden so i threw it back.

Out the fat f**k comes giving me a full Jeremy Kyle.....:banana:

Makes me sick.
 
All boundaries have a red line but the T marks were used for many years to show ownership of a wall or fence, not these days.
If there is no mention in deeds then its almost certainly a party wall, unless not original wall in which case it is whoever built it as long as they built it inside their boundary.
 
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