New move

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Good Morning I moved into a detached house 3 weeks ago after so much life stresses which still continue, only just noticing our new neighbour has his gate attached to our house. When the gate is used it starts are dogs barking early morning and night. Regardless surely this gate a large one by the way could or can be causing damage to the wall of our house. Has anyone else had this experience? I have written to the solicitor who dealt with purchase, waiting a response. Looked at the boundaries plan and does not show any attachment on that side to another house. I don’t want to cause friction with new neighbours, I should have noticed when viewing. But don’t feel comfortable that this may cause structural issues later on with bricks etc.

If the gate was attached when you viewed and had the survey etc then surely it was on you to notice it? You will cause friction if you move in and then start asking them to take things down that have been there for ages.

I can only presume your neighbour and previous owner agreed to it, I doubt anything would have been added to the house plans/deeds. Is it a shared driveway, if not I think you should speak to your new neighbour and tell him your concern with the dogs.

It’s just a gate. It won’t affect the structure of your house. The issues is with the dogs barking when it’s used. I’d speak to the neighbour and see if there are any changes which could be made.

I will see what my solicitor says. I don’t want issues with new neighbours and you say it’s only a gate but I wouldn’t dream of attaching anything to anyone’s property. Permission maybe given by other owners but not us! We purchased a detached property for the reason of not being connected to neighbours as we had some nasty experiences in the past. A fence that’s acceptable not a gate. Everyone has their own perspective I understand and respect that. I just wanted to know if anyone has experienced similar that’s all thanks.

I can understand how a gate fixed to your wall can cause noise to travel through the structure and equally, I can understand how such a noise can upset dogs (been there, done that with Ddogs).

If the gate has been there for a long time then you may have difficulty resolving the problem, especially if that is their only access.
I am presuming that there is a wooden post fixed to your house and the hinges or latch are screwed into this or are they fixed directly to your brickwork (not good). If there is a post then what will help is to fix the post firmly into the ground and make sure there are no fixings directly through to your brickwork.
We had something similar with our back gate. When we re-did the patio we replaced the original posts with attractive (self supporting) 5-inch posts and now there is no noise transfer whatsoever.

How did you not notice that there was a gate attached to your property if it’s meant to be detached? Did it not prevent you from being able to walk around the perimeter of the property?

but yes it would annoy me as it would annoy our dog.

If the previous owners agreed to it, would you expect that the neighbours took it down when they moved out?

Come on. Totally get that house moving is stressful, but you are about to start a totally unnecessary war with your new neighbours. It sounds like a totally normal set up, if your neighbour's land goes right up to the edge of your house, where else would you expect that post to be fitted?

I can't believe you would genuinely believe that a gate post would cause structural damage to your house. You need to take a deep breath and get real. This is 100% not worth worrying about.