A native hedgerow was removed and the GAA club behind us now uses the land
'The day I moved into the house, I saw a JCB on the GAA grounds removing the hedge.' Photograph: iStockI bought a four-bed semidetached house in 1998. The garden is approximately 25m x 10m with a block wall at the end of the garden. The wall was built to comply with a planning condition to protect the existing native hedgerow on the other side. The wall was constructed a metre from the hedgerow. The local GAA pitch is on the other side of the wall.
Is this a correct interpretation of the situation? I want to access the far side of the wall to plaster the wall; am I entitled to do this? Can I make a claim on the strip of land? Potentially I could extend my garden by 1m.How do we go about buying our first home?Your interpretation of the situation is substantially correct.
While the developers of your estate are likely to be the title holder of the strip of land concerned, factors including the lapse of time, many years of occupation by the GAA club and the lack of involvement by the developers and/or their successors in title, mean that the club is likely to have a strong claim to adverse possession if it has not already formally acquired it.
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