7m by 7m garden new build, is this too small? Based in the north east and the house is a detached 3 bed.

[Newmum1998x]

7m by 7m garden (new build), is this too small? Based on the north east and the house is a detached 3 bed. It’s just me and my little boy but worried it won’t resell in the future now that the sale has completed.

Too small for me but if it’s just you 2 that should be enough if you don’t love gardening ? You can still make that amount of space into something lovely. Good luck!

This is about the size of my garden.

it’s not big enough to do much in but in the summer I use it as an outside room.
pretty much all the houses on my estate have this size of garden none have any trouble selling.

Thanks! Where abouts are you based?

Can’t say I love gardening but I’ve got quite a few plants in pots so we shall see how that goes. Other than the small garden, the house itself is perfect

It's pretty small does the price reflect it? Will it be difficult to sell?

Would be ok for me

Which way does the garden face @Newmum1998x? Having a small garden wouldn’t bother me as long as it got the sun in the afternoon.

It’s east facing so sun in the afternoon.

East Anglia

Same type of house but around 9m by 9m garden sold for 225k in 2024, I bought mine for 238,950k in January 2026. However my house is a Part L with solar panels where the others aren’t.

Just to note I did pay around 11k for extras so roughly 250k overall

It’s not just about the garden size. If you have a smaller garden that means the house behind you will be even closer than it should. I work on new build layouts and a garden should be min 10m and around 20/21m between the rear elevations of two houses. You would be very overlooked.

The bottom of my garden is my single detached garage. The house next to me is actually far away given that I’m on a corner

I’m in a townhouse. Our back gardens are all next to each other as we are basically terraces. They’ve got six foot fences/walls though so you can’t see in from ground level and you’d need to hang out of the first floor windows to see next doors garden.

i am aware that it’s visible space though.

i have a garden sofa out there and in the summer table and chairs.

some herbs in pots.

Im just so worried it won’t sell as much as the others that are 9m by 9m roughly

Are you sure? East facing usually means morning sun, west facing is afternoon sun.

My mistake I mean morning sun 🤦🏻‍♀️

Go and look round your local open gardens in the summer. You'd be amazed what can be done with a tiny garden. If you forget grass and design it like a room it could be a real bonus

I'd hate that. The lack of green space is why I'd never buy a new build.
My instinct is that it'd be hard to sell on, but if this kind of garden is now the norm with new builds, maybe people won't expect anything else.

I don't consider my garden (about 15m x 13m) to be large, but having watched my grandkids playing out there, I can't imagine having much less space with young children.

Depends on what you want to do with it. Also it’s unlikely to be a positive when moving home, unless buyers want a small space

Given that you have completed on it, please put it in the "worry about another time pile".
Get on an enjoy your new home with the lad.

Make it into a really pretty courtyard garden. It'll be fine.
Lots of planters and a table and chairs.
Your little one will be able to sit out on summer afternoons and you won't have to worry about him burning.

Admittedly that does seem very small for a NB 3-bed det garden but there is still plenty you can do with it, just don't go too "big" with your choice of plants, more variety but keep them smaller is probably the way to go. Get some tall plants as they are great for adding structure, interest & privacy without taking too much space widthwise. This will leave you more open space/lawn.
Surprised it is that size for a 3-bed det but not knowing the area or layout of the development, I presume they are all that sort of size? We are in a NB but the garden is significantly larger (in fact the garden was one of the deciding factors, it could be smaller than our previous house as we are getting older but NOT tiny).
Of course the worst thing you can do to reduce available space is install a trampoline, it will dominate the garden and really reduce space for plants or any other leisure activity.

I would concentrate on it's privacy, as you've described, rather than it's size. Lots can be done with/in smaller gardens, but who wants the neighbours watching?

Also NE and our patio (the whole area is block paved) is 2.5m x 6m due to adding an extension and garage into the original garden space (which would have been about 7x7 which is the corner plot and largest on the street).

While ours is now small its sill pretty average for where I live (where all houses have extended but we by far have the biggest extention) and a usable little space.

Growing up ours was the smallest in the street and couldn't have been bigger than 7x5 at a push and yet we fit 2 large climbing frames in it.