Builders say they should demolish the wall to create emergency entry.
Roger White is paying a safety guard to guard his wall (Picture: SWNS)
A person is paying a safety guard £1,000 every week to guard a backyard wall from builders who he says need to knock it down. Roger White, 59, is paying a safety firm to protect the two-brick-high wall, which he inherited from his dad in 1997.
Lioncourt Properties stated it wanted to demolish the 52-year-old ‘dwarf wall’ to create an emergency entry route in keeping with their planning permission to construct new properties. However Roger says the two-brick excessive wall subsequent to a growth of 70 properties in Hempsted, Gloucester, is his and on land he was left by his dad. He says the plot of land was valued at £10,000 in 2017. Roger feels he’s being “bullied” by the builders, who he says didn’t strategy him to buy it earlier than development started. They later despatched a cease-and-desist letter to Mr White saying that he had “no entitlement to a ransom” over the wall. Lioncourt Properties has erected a fence and gate on the web site and insists it has already put in the required emergency entry, with out requiring any third-party land. However Mr White disagrees that the developer has complied with the planning necessities, as he says he owns the land wanted for entry.
The wall is just two bricks excessive (Picture: SWNS)
Mr White is so involved that the developer is simply going to demolish the wall, he has employed a safety guard to guard it. He added that he has proof that the wall subsequent to a growth is his and that it was not adopted by Highways.
Mr White, who works in IT, stated: “Lioncourt Properties are simply doing what they need. I’m paying £150 a day to have a safety guard defending the wall.
“I’m involved they’re simply going to demolish the wall, though it’s my wall and ignore all my rights. That is my dad’s – it’s a legacy that my dad has left. It upsets me that Lioncourt Properties simply ignore the truth that it is my wall.”
Lioncourt apparently has paperwork from 1964, which it says present it owns the wall. However Mr White says he has paperwork from 1971 that show the wall belongs to him, together with his Land Registry possession proof.
He stated: “I need to do some repairs to the wall so that’s the reason there’s development fencing up. I’ve received a builder who’s doing repairs for the wall. It hasn’t been repaired for 52 years since my dad constructed it in 1974 and to guard my pursuits I’ve received a safety firm to guard all of it.
“Different persons are left properties and sadly when your dad and mom die you inherit issues and should you’re very fortunate it is a home, however not all the time. In my case my dad left me this dwarf wall and it is most uncommon however that is what he left me.”
A lot of the properties are actually occupied however Mr White says that, there’s a well being a security threat for residents with out the emergency entry.
He stated: “The dwarf wall is in my title and accurately registered within the land registry – it’s the most peculiar state of affairs. I do not perceive how we will get to the purpose of 70 homes being constructed and no one has truly regarded into this earlier than.”
In a cease-and-desist letter despatched to Mr White final 12 months the developer stated he had “no entitlement to a ransom” over the wall. He added that Lioncourt Properties is making an attempt to get retrospective discharge of the planning circumstances.
Mr White’s father Ernie was a neighborhood property agent in Gloucester and he bought a variety of ‘ransom strips’ as potential investments. He stated: “My dad left me this dwarf wall for a motive.”
A spokesperson for Gloucestershire County Council stated then: “We think about that the authorized boundary of Lioncourt’s land straight adjoins the general public highway of Honeythorn Shut.
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“Authorized boundaries haven’t any bodily width (whatever the bodily boundary’s look) and the freeway standing takes priority over whoever owns the bottom beneath it. Due to this fact, the council considers that the works to create the emergency car entry as required by planning will be lawfully carried out.”
A spokesperson for Lioncourt Properties stated: “Works required to implement our planning permission is in land wholly owned by Lioncourt Properties or is in adopted freeway land, no third-party land is required. The emergency entry has now been put in.”
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