New neighbours extension plans

[Greenfingeredsue]

Hi all

My current neighbour has died. Now probate is completed her house is being sold.

Her son has prospective buyers. He has mentioned in passing to me that they want to extend the property out the back. I am wondering wtf they can’t just buy a house that meets their needs?

The gardens are quite big so there’s plenty of room for them to do this. However, we don’t want them to.

We need a new shed, so my husband has suggested we build a new one with a greenhouse on their side right as near to the boundary as we can, next to the house.

We’ll do this once contracts have been exchanged so we don’’t scupper the sale, plus they would have to get planning permission.

My only concern is that the new neighbours could force us to dismantle them so the builders can work?

Tbh I hope they don’t buy it for their sake - I have god awful neighbours next door to me who moved in a couple of years ago and have done everything they can to annoy everyone in the street and moved the fence over a foot (to their benefit) and destroyed our hedge. I can wait to move just to get away from them! You sound very territorial like them and it send shudders up my spine!

Are you for real?

How spiteful.

November thread

"just moved in and our new neighbours are being really petty and obstructive. AIBU to regret buying next to such complete and utter cunts"

Please don’t be like that. We are extending and have had young children, and our neighbour has also extended And has young kids as well yet is being a massive difficulty for us with ours for some reason. Please do consider other people And their position and point of view . They aren’t doing it to annoy you and how would you want to be treated if you were in a similar situation ?

You are being extremely unreasonable. You've been told in passing that they might do an extension and this cant happen because you dont want them to?! 😂 Are you for real!
Their extension could just be a conservatory on the back of THEIR house. Seriously get over yourself and stop being so selfish

I hope they get planning permission, build a 2 storey extension and then convert it to a HMO 😂

Yabu what business is it of yours what they do with THEIR house? My FIL loves building, MIL gets fed up because he'll buy a house, build on it, get bored once it's done and then buy another house and do it all over again. It's a standing joke that he's never happy unless he has a hammer in his hand.

They have every right to extend and there's nothing you can do about it sorry.

If they are building right on the boundary it might actually be in your interest to let them do so from your side, so they get the mortar as neat as possible - you'll be the ones looking at it! Our neighbours on both terraced sides have done so.

You sound a pair of absolute charmers.

WTF neighbour from hell get a life

Middle class NIMBYism at its least proudest moment!

I hope they get permission to build the biggest extension they possibly can!!!

Neighbours like you make me sick!!

Sounds like sour grapes to me, what has it got to do with you if they want to build an extension, you sound quite bitter. And the poor people haven’t even moved in yet, neighbours from hell springs to mind

Just to answer one bit of your OP...
You asked why they couldn't just buy somewhere that already suited their needs?
Money, I would assume!! It's cheaper to extend than to buy something the same size of your current house with extension.

Live and let live. Yes, it'll be a pain in the arse but it won't be forever x

Hi OP, I gave you to page 10 before voting that yes YABU, as I wanted to see if there was any drip feed from you about your 2 month old triplets who are very light sleepers, or that your granny sleeps/lives in the back bedroom and is terminally ill. However each time so far, none of your replys have referenced how most on here think you are being rather selfish, and are not going to be a good neighbour to these people, but instead, you just keep telling us what you have found out about what you can do to be as unhelpful as possible to your new neighbours. Please actually try and take in that YABVU, and discuss with your DP if maybe it might be in your own self interests to try to become nicer people.

A year of disruption worth it for 20yrs of being good neighbours is worth it imo. If everyone had your attitude nothing would progress. Lighting up OP, you might enjoy life if you did

You do seem to be coming across as quite petty here OP
Why on earth would a shed & greenhouse scupper any sale btw? I couldn’t give a flying feck what our neighbours have in their gardens, I can’t recall even looking to see if they had sheds etc

Our neighbours have been renovating their garden for nearly a year now. It's a mess and we've had to put up with diggers, concerete lorries, banging and hammering pretty much every sunny day. They've now started a boundary dispute with us. We had no objection to what they were doing initially, but now it's getting me down and I don't feel safe going in our garden (this is to do with the attitude of the neighbours towards me regarding the boundary issue they've created) . Prior to this I wouldnt have been bothered but now I can see why OP doesn't want them to do any building work.

I'm glad you're not my neighbour OP, we had work scheduled for a maximum of 4 months but circumstances has meant that exactly a year on the house is still not complete. My poor neighbour has had to put up with loads but always reassures us he doesn't mind.
You sound like you've decided to be the nightmare neighbours even before the new people move in/ start any work which means you'll find fault in any/ every thing they do from here on

Yabu and very petty

Why would they request that you dismantle your shed? Just say no. Do you need the shed? Is it to give you more privacy from the extension?

I doubt you’d prevent pp being granted on the basis that you don’t want the noise or inconvenience.

No, you wouldn't. That is not considered to be a valid reason to object.

I doubt your shed or greenhouse being on the boundary will prevent planning being granted either.

No, it wouldn't. Our NDN has a shed on the boundary, and we still got pp for an extension.

YABU. However, they cannot force you to allow them to put scaffolding in your garden. Our neighbour wouldn't let us do this so our builders had to build overhand form outside. It was the first time that they had ever needed to do this and everyone agreed that our neighbour was a complete arsehole for not allowing access. She has been left with a horrid looking wall on her side so really it would have been in her interests to have just let us put some scaffolding up for a couple of weeks. This was on the side passage to her house which she never used and wouldn't have been inconvenient to her at all.

You are being a total twat. I feel sorry for whoever is going to be your new neighbour.

When we moved I really really wanted a project, I wanted a house I could make my own that exactly worked for my family’s needs where I wasn’t paying a premium for someone else’s taste. Unfortunately we couldn’t find one. Maybe this is what they want to do too.

You sound as if you are a very unhappy person regardless of your new neighbours possible extension plans
Haven't you heard of 'Live and let live?'
Try to lighten up for your own sake