new build fence issue

[mummy3pups]

hiya everyone, any suggestions or experience with this would be great x

I have put a deposit on a new build, exchanged and waiting to complete. The two houses either side are now been lived in and there is a tiny fence either side to show front gardens. I noticed a few weeks ago that on my land registry the fence to one side is in a different place and gives me more front garden, on another plan I found the fence shows it in the place it is now.

I informed my solicitor to find out which was correct and the building company got back saying yes they agree to take the current fence down and that we own the land within our land registry border (the one showing more garden) but refuse point blank to move the fence and are just going to leave it "open plan" in case they "upset the neighbours".

Both me and my solicitor feel this is an odd reply and my solicitor has got back to them to ask if the neighbours land registry reflects ours and suggested I go and knock at my neighbours door and ask very politely if they are aware of the situation and if they believe the fence is in the right place or not by there land registry entry.

Question is, do I do this? or just keep going with the builders solicitor to try and see if 1. there land registry shows its mine as well 2. have they been made aware that it is mine. They are taking forever to reply back and been very frosty with us.

Once I move in I am planning to put some sort or tiny fence back up as I would like a flower border round the front garden so I would like it sorted. I'm not bothered to be honest which it should be, it's not a massive difference as long as we sort it out so its correct on both entries, legal and everybody knows where they stand.

Thanks, sorry for ramble so grr this has come up on my plot out of 100 I hate having to rock the boat!!!

[CoperCabana]

Not been in this situation, but you could ask to speak to the Regional Manager or Customer Care Manager at the builders. We had an issue that was resolved via this route.

[cakeycakeface]

Your neighbour can't keep the land, even if they, the developer, and your solicitor all wanted it that way. Their title is their title. They don't own it. End of.

[mummy3pups]

How we left it was that they agree that the fence can be moved to the correct place and they don't mind this. So now on Monday I can go back to my solicitor and say our land registries match and that I own the extra bit, the builders have already agreed to take down the fence but the issue was they weren't going to move it to the correct place because it might upset the neighbours and leave it open plan. But now I can get my solicitor to say "no you won't because my client has spoken to the neighbours and they're fine with it" and see what they have to say about that x

[Dixiechickonhols]

Get it sorted before you complete. We bought a new build and builders had put fence in wrong place and next door had built a rockery on our land. We pointed it out and builders spoke to next door and moved the fence.

It needs to be correct to avoid issues if you sell on.