Hi
I know there was some legalisation brought in about when you sell a house you have to inform the purchaser of certain things but not sure what those things were and would just like to know for future reference if we would come under this catogary.
the situation is 28 years ago when we built our Bungalow we put in planning for some brick built kennels for our dogs. we were granted planning and given permission to keep 6 dogs.We don,t breed only show .over the years we have never had a complaint made about the dogs. But now a builder has bought some land ajacent to ours and is planning to erect houses one will be overlooking my kennels although we only have two very elderly GSD live in them now. my question is when the builder sells the house would he have to inform the purchaser of my dogs. although the kennels have a six foot wall
round the purchaser would be able to see them from the bedroom window. sorry for the long post

Doubt it - he has to disclose things like who's responsible for which fences etc and whether there are any ongoing disputes with neighbours. Unless you have been having any problems with him over the dogs, it wll be down to the prospective buyers to see that you have kennels there and decide whether they want to buy :)

Daisy

It might be worth informing the relevant Estate Agents etc when it is put up for sale.  You don't want someone who hates dogs or might have an issue moving in and then making your life hell over them.

Ditto Brainless if you write to the estate agent keep a copy, then, you have proof you did inform them, so no come back on you. Or even better keep a copy and deliver the said letter by hand, if you can get a signature or Recorded of course you can prove delivery. Do all you can to cover yourselves.

In Reading there was an isolated boarding kennel that had been established for many, many years.  The farmer next door sold his land and houses were built.  The residents complained and the business was shut within 12 months.

Do what you can (I've no idea what!) to protect yourself. :)

> It might be worth informing the relevant Estate Agents etc when it is put up for sale

I doubt whether estate agents are going to tell prospective buyers of things that might put them off buying :) :) :)

Buyer beware :)

OK, this is off topic, but related,
When the house along the lane from us was sold a couple of years ago, I brought my expansion plans forward and kept on half a dozen extra cockerels. I photographed them with the date stamp on, just in case there were complaints about the crowing. This happens even in the country and I wanted to prove that the noise was there before the new neighbours were.
I would have thought that since the kennels are already there with no complaints then you would be ok.

I would suggest it is not actually your responsibility to do anything. I believe it is the responsibilty of the vendor (in this case the builder) to inform purchasers of anything that they need to be aware of - issues with neighbours, leaky taps etc.

I think that I would prefer my potential new neighbours to be aware of them in advance to save possible complaints when they moved in.

Thanks every one for your advise
Taken it all on board.
We have not had any comments from the builder ( don,t see him only the work men)
or any one else over the dogs. it was just we saw them marking the footings out yesterday
and realised they would be able to see our kennels from the finished house so we wanted the advise so we knew what to do if any situation did  arise when they came to sell the house.
hopefully it won,t

My next door neighbours sold their house recently. Every time someone came to view the house I took my dogs out for a walk, that way they knew that dogs lived here :-p

Not much help to you though. ;-)