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To be annoyed that my new garden isn’t flat?

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CatchingBabies · 27/06/2018 14:20

In the process of buying a new build, all the site plans, street view diagrams, promotional photos and artist drawings of how it will look ALL show the rear garden being flat. Never has it been mentioned that the garden will not be flat.

It’s finally almost finished and we went to have a look, the rear garden has a significant incline and is fenced on an angle to accommodate this. Even worse is that it doesn’t slope down or away from the house like I’ve seen most sloped gardens but it slopes from right to left so the left side of the fence is higher than the right and the back fence goes up at an angle. They have installed the patio on this slope meaning that I have a patio that is basically a ramp from one side of the house to another and couldn’t actually be used for garden furniture as it’s too steep a slope.

Looking into next doors garden there’s slopes back down the opposite way, the front of the house on the street is flat so it isn’t like it’s a house on a hill where there is no choice. I don’t understand why they have done this and it means the garden isn’t usable as I imagined. They say it’s too late to change and they never said the garden would be flat, they never said it wouldn’t be either however.

AIBU to be making a fuss over this and saying it needs solving?

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CatchingBabies · 29/06/2018 20:58

The other thing that’s worrying me is that cluster of 3 that I put the photo of is exactly where an extension would go if we extended later. That’s not going to be possible now is it? I’m having major buyers regret right now as it seems they can do what they want without speaking to us and there’s nothing we can do about it.

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Whatthefoxgoingon · 29/06/2018 23:22

Yikes! That’s way too many manholes. We have two in a back garden 3 times your size, one in the front. I agree with pp who say they are using you as a ‘drain inspection hotspot’

Spam88 · 30/06/2018 14:50

We don't have any in our back garden. We've got 4 out the front where there's an Aquacell but they don't really bother me there.

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