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Combine back gardens with your neighbours in Cleethorpes

Equalisation is the heart of any combined garden scheme in Cleethorpes. The neighbours agree in advance how the total proceeds will be split, so it doesn’t matter whose land ends up under the road, the new homes or the open space. That removes the main reason combined schemes fall apart.

Shares often follow the area of land each owner contributes, adjusted by agreement, with an extra amount for the access garden. Each owner keeps their house, has their own solicitor to check the agreement on their behalf, and takes advice from a tax adviser on their own circumstances.

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Aerial view of a row of semi-detached houses whose garden ends have been combined into one plot with a new access
Planning authority
North East Lincolnshire Council
Postcodes
DN35
Noon sun, 21 March
About 36°
Shadow from a 5 m eaves line
About 6.8 m
Planning plan
Local Plan
County
Lincolnshire

How it plays out in Cleethorpes

A combined scheme in Cleethorpes has a wider pool of buyers than a single plot. Once the land has planning, it can be offered to builders and developers working in Cleethorpes and nearby places such as Grimsby, Louth and Hedon, or further afield, who are often more interested in a site for several homes than in one small plot.

If the neighbours choose a sale with planning, the collaboration agreement sets out how a buyer is agreed. If we buy the site, the price is set by the route chosen. Value depends on location, size, access and the permission North East Lincolnshire Council grants, so we don’t quote figures before an appraisal.

Section showing noon sun and shadows in Cleethorpes: about 36 degrees on 21 March and 13 degrees on 21 December21 m21 Mar, noon: sun 36°, shadow 6.8 m21 Dec, noon: sun 13°, shadow 21.7 mExistingNew home
This section is worked out for the latitude of Cleethorpes: around 36° of sun at midday in late March and about 13° at midwinter. It shows why the gap between your house and a new home behind it is about light as well as privacy. Garden assumed to face north.

What happens next in Cleethorpes

To start, send us the addresses of the gardens involved in Cleethorpes, or just your own if the neighbours haven’t been asked yet. We run a free desk-based check of the titles, access options and planning position, then explain in writing whether a combined scheme looks realistic before anyone talks to the neighbours in detail.

  1. Free appraisal of the combined land

    We look at all the titles together, the possible access points, the surrounding homes and the planning policies that apply, then explain whether a combined scheme looks realistic and roughly what it might allow.

  2. Meet the neighbours

    We meet the owners together or separately, explain how the scheme and the routes work, and answer questions. We don’t approach your neighbours without your agreement, and nobody is committed at this stage.

  3. Collaboration agreement

    Each owner’s own solicitor reviews the documents, and everyone signs a collaboration agreement alongside the sale, option or promotion agreement. Mortgage lenders are asked to consent early, and the agreements are usually protected on each title.

  4. One planning application

    We prepare and submit a single application for the whole site, with one shared access and a layout designed around all the existing homes. The council decides it, and nobody can promise the result.

Worth checking early

  • The owner of the access garden will live beside a shared road, which is why that garden often receives an extra share.
  • Tax depends on each owner’s circumstances, so each should take advice from a tax adviser.
  • Several owners have to agree, so a combined scheme usually takes longer to set up than a single plot.

Your questions, answered for Cleethorpes

Who pays for planning on combined gardens in Cleethorpes?

It depends on the route. On a sale subject to planning, we normally fund the application. On planning promotion, nothing is paid upfront and costs are recovered from the proceeds only if a sale with planning happens. On an outright sale, we buy the land as it stands.

Who gets more if one garden in Cleethorpes provides the access?

Usually the owner of the access garden receives an extra agreed share, because their land makes the scheme possible and their house is most affected by passing cars. The exact method is agreed by everyone in the collaboration agreement before planning starts.

Do we each need a solicitor for a combined scheme in Cleethorpes?

Yes. Each owner has different interests, a different title and possibly a mortgage, so each needs independent advice. On option and promotion agreements we cover each owner’s reasonable legal fees up to the cap agreed in the heads of terms.

Can neighbours in Cleethorpes combine their back gardens for new homes?

Yes, where the gardens adjoin and there’s a workable access. Each owner keeps their house, the land behind is planned as one site, and a collaboration agreement sets out how the value is shared. North East Lincolnshire Council decides any planning application on its merits.

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