Building on Boundary with neighbour - advice needed

Goldigga

I am currently planning a renovation / extension on our home and am looking for some clarification on what seems to be a bit of a grey area. The extension we are planning would run the width of the house at the rear. It is planning exempt (25 sqm).

The house is detached, but as you can see from the sketches I have attached, it is a bit unusual as one side of the house forms the boundary with my neighbour. This then runs into a wall that continue the boundary between us. This side of my house that forms the boundary is the neighbours side entrance, so I actally do not actaully have access to one side of my house. This is the same for all houses on the street.



I would like to have the extension the full width of my house and want to approach the neighbour correctly. This would involve removing the current boundary wall and building on it as this drawing shows.



What is the best way of approaching this with my neighbour? Thanks in advance for any advice

Strolling Bones

Be straight with them and ask for some co operation in terms of access to their side to complete your works.

There are legal methods to "force" the issue in court but that's not where you want to be.

Calahonda52

Strolling Bones wrote: »

Be straight with them and ask for some co operation in terms of access to their side to complete your works.

There are legal methods to "force" the issue in court but that's not where you want to be.

http://www.irishstatutebook.ie/2009/en/act/pub/0027/sec0043.html#sec43

Deals with the matter from the legal perspective.
You should at least be aware of them before you go to bat, in case your neighbour mentions/invokes it.
If you do go down the remove the boundary route, I would suggest you get
hard-copy pictures of the existing setup inside the wall