Back in November PD had a re-establishment survey done to check the fence lines were on the boundaries of the block. The other day we were out looking at the block and our right hand neighbour came out and told us that she could see from the boundary pegs that our fence is on her land and she wants us to move it. Well straight away we called PD to get a copy of the survey and sure enough the left and right boundaries are out by about 40cms. We have the correct width of land but the fences are just not in the right position this is probably the case up the whole street.
On bringing this issue up with PD they came back with the fact that because our left neighbours have built their driveway over our boundary we cannot build our garage on the boundary as originally planned. As we can't build on the boundary we have to build 1 metre from it so we will have to cut 1m out of our garage, what!!!! PD had this survey since November but took no notice of it and now can’t build the house we want.
Anyway after days of there being no solution but to cut off the garage or ask the neighbours to move their expensive new driveway (not going to happen) we came up with the idea of turning the house to be a bit more angled on the block (so the house will not be parallel with the street) and we can fit the garage. Yes it was us the laymen who came up with the idea not the professional builder. If fact our customer service representative could not understand what we were talking about so we had to send the following picture. The outer box is our land and the inner box is the house, initially the right side of the house was aligned with the boundary. After that she got it!!!
On bringing this issue up with PD they came back with the fact that because our left neighbours have built their driveway over our boundary we cannot build our garage on the boundary as originally planned. As we can't build on the boundary we have to build 1 metre from it so we will have to cut 1m out of our garage, what!!!! PD had this survey since November but took no notice of it and now can’t build the house we want.
Anyway after days of there being no solution but to cut off the garage or ask the neighbours to move their expensive new driveway (not going to happen) we came up with the idea of turning the house to be a bit more angled on the block (so the house will not be parallel with the street) and we can fit the garage. Yes it was us the laymen who came up with the idea not the professional builder. If fact our customer service representative could not understand what we were talking about so we had to send the following picture. The outer box is our land and the inner box is the house, initially the right side of the house was aligned with the boundary. After that she got it!!!
