garage on boundary

In my honest opinion, if i was your neighbour i'd want a fence. Have they said anything to you about it?

I have a dual occupancy next door and their wall is behind the fence. The gutter line is on their side of the fence. Later on (if I could be bothered) I may pull that bit of fence out and steal their land and make a wider garden bed. Nothing wrong with that is there?


Oh...third choice, build the wall right on the boundary, extend the brickwork up and have the guttering inside the brick line, concealed guttering I think it's called. Then your garage is 150mm wider.

Im surprised you're even allowed to build on the boundary. Very rare in Sydney.

Our garage wall is right on the boundary. We have the boxed (from memory) guttering for that wall of the garage, which sits on the brickwork so nothing overhangs. A small gap will be a pain - think spideys!
It's technically your land, so as long as you don't go over the boundary there's nothing they can do about it... and it's less fence you'll have to pay for.

Ray.

Looks like the people next door have their garages right on the boundary as well.

If you notice they don’t have boxed eves, just guttering. This is taking it to the max, and as Cookie said you can’t get away with this in Sydney nor where I live.

There’s only a small portion of fence for you to be concerned about.

Quite truthfully from the street with two homes build so close to each other it could look a little nasty. May not be good down the track for resale value.

Tricky!!!!

As far as your neighbour goes…they didn’t give too much thought to the next person moving onto this block, with their wall!

I’d be looking to keep some sort of gape between the two homes.

Good luck with your decision.

Thank you all for the input.The next door owner-builder (who is also auctioning this weekend) has agreed to let us remove the fence for tidying up the bricks. Placing the fence back or not will have to be negotiated with the person who buys the place.. They have tall screening plants (pittosprums? or alike) along that side so spideys and roaches would be more their problem. I am planning to give them the choice and take it from there.
hope we get a sensible neighbour

Building on the boundary line has always been a grey area as far as neighbour relations go.
Personally I always try to steer clear of imposing a blank brick wall on neighbouring properties.
If the wall is right on the boundary then it is required that the garage has a box gutter [ the gutter & / or fascia cannot be over the boundary line] with a parapet wall along the boundary line.
This can create extra maintenance issues, having to ensure that the box gutter is free of leaves etc so that it won't block up & overflow into the garage [room].
In the picture linked to, the wall is set back around 150 - the gutter and fascia are within the boundary line - so to my mind this would be even more uglier from the neighbours point of view with the 'open' setback along the fence line.
On the other hand the obvious problem with building a small distance off the boundary is that it's impossible to get access to the small area.

Nah.

If they don't like me they can move.
If they don't like Frankie Goes to Hollywood blaring from my garage at 9:30 on a saturday morning, then they can move.
If they don't throw my kids tennis balls back when they find them in their 2 foot long weed patch that's invading my side of the fence, then they can move.
If they start their diesel van at 6 am and leave it idling for ten minutes just outside my ensuite window, then they will get abused, then they can move.

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Thanks Ausdesign. your post summarises it. It has been hard to get the fence people to get quotes for the small job of removing and refinishing the fence. The guy who did it lives 70ks away and wasnt keen to do it. we have hence decided to simply have the fence and the gap there. It faces the neighbour's study room window. They will still see our garage walls above the fence.

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