MkIndy7
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 07:48 PM |
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Where to get Cheap Paving stones?
Were looking at building a second garage on some land next to our house that nobody really owns
So were thinking of putting it on flags so should we have to remove it it'll be a bit easier.
Anybody any ideas where to get cheap paving stones from?
Don't want anything flash, just plain grey flags.
I think a 600x600 flag stone from B&Q was about £2.50
Anybody any ideas or bought any rescently?
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JoelP
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 08:45 PM |
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no idea about paving slabs, but are you familiar with the law regarding claiming unregistered land? Worth a few minutes research, as you could end up
with the plot for free. ISTR you just fence it and maintain it. You can also try to trace the owner through the land registry, for a small fee. 
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MikeR
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 08:53 PM |
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ten years of maintaining it isn't it?
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JoelP
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 09:02 PM |
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yup, maybe just over. There are different procedures for registered abandoned land and unregistered land - obviously a lot easier if its never been
registered.
paving slabs, just pinch them off the streets - everyone else does! 
[Edited on 22/8/05 by JoelP]
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 09:06 PM |
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Yeh we've tried to buy it b4 but it really is no man land!
When they submited the plans for the whole estate there was supposed to be a garage plot at the opposite corner of the street, but thats ended up as
some1's garden and is listed on their deeds.
So everybody claims to have a garage plot on this land next2 our house yet its not shown on anybodys deeds that they have, infact on the original
builders plans it's shown as our garden!
Nobodys done anything with it or maintained it in the last 21+ yrs we've live here so I've decided i'm having another garage 
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MikeR
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 09:23 PM |
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sounds like you need to get lawer - if the builders plans show it as yours then it sounds like you've got a good claim for getting your deeds
modified.
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andyps
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 10:08 PM |
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I got some paving slabs for free last week because someone down the road from me was having block paving fitted. Asked at just the right time though -
they would have been in the skip an hour later. Best thing is probably to ring local driveway companies and ask where they are taking some up -
possibly saves them dumping costs on the skip weight.
Andy
An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less
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locoboy
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 08:33 AM |
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Local rag provided me with some cheap 24 x 18 inch slabs to put my shed on.
Collect them for £50 was the deal and i got EXACTLY the right amount to take my shed
ATB
Locoboy
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Syd Bridge
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 09:44 AM |
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Re the paving slabs....it's easy enough to make a mould out of ply and timber,..... or two or three.
The land...get a fence around it as quick as possible. Use old posts and rusty barbed wire if you can. Possession is 9/10ths of the law, as they
say!
We had a similar thing close to us. The fella 'did the farmer a favour', by fencing off a bracken and bramble ridden couple of acres, so
the stock couldn't get into it. Twelve years later, and the man who did the 'good deed' owns the land. Now got planning for about
ten homes and stands to make a killing. The farmer is spewing big time, but had given the fella permission in writing, to the point of thanking him
for the favour of removing the useless piece of land from his worries, for putting up the fence!
Syd.
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DarrenW
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 01:12 PM |
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I recently fenced off a piece of land at the back of my garden. All evidence showed it was not registered and had been left by the builder (Wimpey)
after the estate had been finished 30ish years ago. We got a nasty solicitors letter off the guy at the other side who was an ex-judge (possible well
connected). His House and land was approx 6 acres, what we didnt know was that following an old fence being knocked down by cattle he was grazing
about 15 years ago he had been claiming agricultural grants for which he had had regular 5 year inspections done by a land surveyor. This little strip
had been included in his surveys so he could prove 'ownership'. We got off it pretty sharpish. It wasnt worth a battle over it tho. I have
since found out that the new owner of the house and land has taken serious legal action against some people at the other end of the estate, some of
which have landscaped the extra bit and spent a fortune on it.
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 06:01 PM |
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Were just weary that its probably big enough to put another house on should it be given back to the builders!
Then we'll have to share the driveway! 
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steve_gus
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 07:02 PM |
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my house is on leasehold land.
this is very rare.
the reason is that the land cannot be traced to an owner, so it couldnt be sold, so its on a no fee lease.
atb
steve
http://www.locostbuilder.co.uk
Just knock off the 's'!
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MkIndy7
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| posted on 23/8/05 at 09:42 PM |
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I like the sound of a no fee lease! lol
Think i'll just put it up and see what happens,
Hopefully if anybody complains they'll have as much trouble proving it shouldn't be there as we have had trying to do the right thing and
buy it!.
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