to think my neighbour should not be able to attach a structure to our house without asking...or actually at all?

[bigmouthstrikesagain]

But he has.

It is a wooden structure very basic clearly for storage but he has drilled into and attached it to our wall which is the boundary between our house and his property. So he has joined our formally detatched houses.

Shurely shome mishtake!? He is a nice young man with a nice young family so I am surprised, and not v happy. Willing to be reasonable but we do not want anything attached to our house so there will need to be action on his part.

Anyone got a similar issue/ wisdom/ experience to share?

Dh has been round and said very politely and charmingly (he is good at that) that if the structure is as it seems linking our houses and attached to our house that we need to discuss what to do about that. The neighbour who did it was not in only his partner and baby so dh did not want to be ott with her so we await an explanation. She said he would pop round.

O.M.G! I would be seriously worried about structural damage if he has put the pin/nails/join thingyies in the wrong place. How fucking RUDE! Who would EVER think that was ok?? Odd odd odd!!

Bibbibity ummm well there is our house which has 4 walls then fences attached to the front and back forming the boundary between our plot and the neighbours our house is built flush to the boundary between the plots while the neighbour has (or had) a strip of land between our house and his. A drawing is not possible I am afraid.

This is reminiscent of the legendary thread where a woman was planning to do the same with her sixteenth century listed house, and cut off her neighbour's right of way in the process. She did not agree with the very many posters who thought that would be unreasonable.

Bibbity, I'm picturing that there was a gap between the side wall of the OP's house and her neighbours but he "filled in" the gap with his structure, so joining their houses together. Thats just my guess though.

Sorry that was uneccesarily grumpy bibbity I am going to have some wine and chill - I am all menstrual angst so the neighbour best not pop round now!

That is it exactly beacholiday - we moved away from london so we could have a detatched bloody house and now we appear to be living in a semi! I know it is not the end of the world but sigh...

I'd very bloody menstrual if a neighbour connected anything to my property, having had to jump through hoops to achieve planning permission and having paid a building regs company a small fortune for very little.

Ask him if the building regs are being approved "on notice" and ask whether he's using the council or a private firm.

Cheeky fucker.

Sorry you are feeling grumpy, I honestly could not picture what you were talking about (and still can't tbh). But, anyway, if he has attached his structure to the wall of your house then obviously you are quite within your rights to ask him to remove it. How could he possibly object?

We are building an extension which connects our house to our garage which is attached to our next door neighbours garage (I hope that makes sense). We had to apply for planning permission and spoke to the neighbour who was fine with it but when we met with the planning officer she said we didn't actually have to ask him, as it's on our land, he could object to planning but not wanting to be attached wasn't usually enough of a reason for it to be turned down! I was very surprised.

YANBU.

That's outrageous!

Your house wall is yours, it's not theirs, it's not shared. It's yours!

I'd be really angry about it.

He cannot attach anything to your wall without your prior consent. I would have words with him asap. He either thinks you are a walk over and wont complain or is a complete idiot (but surely no one is this stupid?). Either way, I would insist he takes it down immediately.

If he refuses then seek professional advice as soon as you can, your local council may help if he is breaking building/planning regs or they may advise you seek legal advice as this is a civil matter. From your op and subsequent posts, it looks like he has done a very daft thing.

I have done a very rough sketch on my phone and will put on profile please excuse poor execution.

Keep us updated!

Ach sketch won't loaf but I will update you - my first unanimous Sony!

Off to drink wine and watch s film now. Thank you all.

I have absolutely no advice to offer, sorry, but I'd be mightily pissed off if someone attached something to my house, even if they look at my side wall more than I did!

Same as someone playing footie against your wall, just because your house happens to run along their back garden. It sounds like your neighbour is being a bit naive, rather than being malicious, but you never know.

I'm installing myself here with popcorn and wine to see how it pans out. I love these sorts of threads

In one of our previous houses there were two long and pretty useless pathway leading to our respective back gardens. My neighbour and I thought that if we roofed over the alleyway we would each have a very useful, if narrow, shed.

However before we did anything we entered int a licence agreement allowing the other access to their back garden using this structure and agreeing that either party could at any time demolish the structure and restore the original configuration. We sold the house many years ago and the purchaser entered into a similar arrangement with the neighbour and everything is, as far as I know, still operating smoothly.

This week I obtained my neighbour's permission to attach my rather rickety 70-year-old fence to their nice stable fence post.

The point being that you need to get permission before attaching stuff to your neighbour's buildings...

I'm guessing it looks like this

That is v close soup except the structure is also attached to neighbours house and thus two becomes one as it were.

My pic was scrappier and less colourful due to my Lisa Simpson stubby fingers.

Now I shall return to my HP film. Thank you again.

So, like this then?

I love my iPad. Although, quite frankly, I need to get a life!

Ah yes now that is it and if I had an iPad stubby fingers wouldn't't be a problem. Now I know what I want for Xmas.

Bugger it I have to stop coming back here and watch the film ...

Great pix soup dragon

On the basis of soup dragon's explanatory pix - OP YANBU

Did you use an app to draw, save and upload that? Which one, I am also tres impressed.

We attached something to our neighbour's wall - it was a conservatory (we are in a semi and the back of their house sticks out further than ours). We went round and asked very nicely first and then we both signed a party wall agreement. Cannot imagine drilling into someone else's house without asking them ! Hope you get it resolved quickly and easily.

Kudos to Soupdragon.