compound wall

[rkrishna]

I am looking to construct a house in my plot. There are no houses on the three sides abutting the property. My question is around the norms/current practices in Bangalore around compound wall construction.
1. I do not have the contact details of the owners of the neighbouring sites. Should I expect them to contribute partly to the compound wall cost?
2. One of the sites abutting the property has put up barbed wire fencing. The barbed wire fencing is encroaching upon my site a little bit and is tilted in many places towards my site. If I am unable to contact the owner, what recourse do I have to construct a compound wall along this side?

[rkrishna]

Can someone share their experience?

[blrsiteseeker]

What I had heard a long time back, is that each person builds only 3 sides. But that is not confirmed. In our case, only 2 sides were open, since the one on our left side already had a compound, the guy behind also had one, but insisted that we build our own wall. So it is necessary to check with the neighbors. Particularly in your case, since there is encroachment, you have to get that rectified before marking for excavation.

[rkrishna]

If there is no way to contact the owner who has put up the barbed wires, how does one rectify it? As I mentioned, the wires have fallen towards our site and it does not appear to be intentional

[blrsiteseeker]

you can get the contact info from the society or BDA I think. Because when you construct, you have to make sure the markings are correct and you don't encroach on the neighbor's property and they have not encroached on yours. If all else fails, put a notice in the local newspaper asking the neighbors to contact you. If you have an attorney, (say for purchase of property etc.), they would be able to give you more ideas regarding how to get more info.

Also registration is digitized these days, so you could try and get that info from registrar's office as well. Perhaps the local tax collection center could get you details too.

[m3_07]

Krishna Ji.....you are supposed to build compound on all 3 sides. i.e, front, rear & right hand side. Left hand side is supposed to be build by your neighbour to the left. Since all 3 sides are open at this time, it is in your interest that you build the ones to the left too.

Make sure that you have the right markings & have the barbed fence removed, wires wound up neatly & kept aside. If you expect this to be dealt with all nicieties & leagalities, you may have to wait for ethernity. You may however, try giving it a shot by visiting BBMP/ BDA to see how easy the things are - this would indeed help you realize the time taken, first hand. This advice however would not have been applicable, in case the compound was of a permanent structure, as in bricks.