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Buying house issue

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Louisebbb · 14/08/2021 19:35

Hello, so I'm hoping to get a bit of advice about a slight issue we're having at the moment. We are at the end of the process of buying a house, we have just had the new boundary and floorplan details sent over along with the contract. The man we are buying the house from is a builder who has completely renovated this house, it originally came with a big garden which he is keeping half of to build a new 3 bedroom detached house along with a 2 car off road drive at the front. He has assigned the house we are buying (end terrace) with a small garden and a drive for 1 car, the driveway he has given us is 1.8metres wide and 5metres in length. My partner's car is 1.9 wide so won't even fit on this "drive". I've had a look on our council's website and found that all drives must be 2.4 x 4.8 minimum. The seller is refusing to allow anymore space to us because this will encroach on the space he needs for this new build. The parking on the road is permit and only on 1 side of the road so is very busy, he has offered a 5k drop in the sale price to not have any driveway space at all. We are buying this house for 285 which was including the drive, I personally don't think a 5k price drop is enough to lose the parking space. Just looking for some advice/opinions as we're not sure where to go from here. We love the house and the area is good, just a shame about the non existent parking and now this pointless drive we won't be able to use

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Killeditwithkisses · 15/08/2021 13:17

Builder...not boiler Blush

ShuddaBeenMe · 15/08/2021 13:58

No. Don't buy this. It sounds full of red flags.

Soontobe60 · 15/08/2021 14:21

Which local authority do you live in OP? Also, what would be the layout of your house / drive / garden? Can we have a diagram?

BlueMongoose · 15/08/2021 14:54

I'd walk. You were led to believe the house has parking. It hasn't. I suspect this will be the tip of the iceberg with that vendor, and all you have to look forward to is being on a building site for, potentially as things are at the moment, a very long time, continually on the watch for encroachments.

Heronwatcher · 16/08/2021 07:51

Yes walk away. You can’t really resolve this without a row with the builder… who will then be your neighbour! You could try one last negotiation along the lines of we were told it had parking, planning says it must have parking and we need parking for our son, and see if he changes his tune but if not, walk away. It would be a nightmare to live with, you’d feel cheated all the time and it’s going to be difficult to sell.

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