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Will this plot block my sunlight? (See Picture)

MonsieuryuMonsieuryu Posts: 7
in Garden design
Hi Everyone,

My first thread, so please be kind :)

I'm about to buy a south facing garden new build, as the house is yet to be built, I don't have mu information my the site plan in hand.

My desired plot is 141 and I wonder if plot 140 (circled in red), a two-storey high house, will block the sun to my garden most of the time?

the wider picture indicates the orientation of the map :)



Thank you!
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  • PalustrisPalustris Posts: 4,307
    If you think that the sun will travel (generally) east to west across the site. The other property will be to the south of yours. Then the answer is that it will shelter it from the south, but not totally shade it. At least that is what  it looks like to me.
  • EmerionEmerion Posts: 599
    Hard to tell without seeing the plots in reality, because we can’t tell how big the house and garden are. I expect the bottom part of your garden will be in shade in the middle part of the day, but less-so in high summer, when the sun is higher in the sky. Whether that will be a problem, depends on how long your garden is. There is nothing to block the afternoon and evening sun, unless your new neighbours in number 142 plant a big tree. 
    It might be useful to go and view a house that has already been built and see how far the shade comes across the garden at a few different times of day. 
    Carmarthenshire (mild, wet, windy). Loam over shale, very slightly sloping, so free draining. Mildly acidic or neutral.


  • Pete.8Pete.8 Posts: 11,340
    The other property will have little effect during the summer months as the sun is high in the sky, so there will be plenty of sun in the summer months.
    It will throw some shade during other seasons as the sun gets lower in the sky.

    Billericay - Essex

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  • LoxleyLoxley Posts: 5,698
    As you have big gaps to the east and west, permitting the afternoon and evening sun, I would have thought this garden would get a decent amount of sun.
    "What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbour". 
  • PlantmindedPlantminded Posts: 3,580
    I’d also check if there’s any windows on the side wall of that house.  Not being overlooked means you won’t need to think about plants for screening.
    Wirral. Sandy, free draining soil.


  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    I had a south facing garden in my first house with two story houses behind set about two feet lower than mine. They had zero impact. There was a solid fence at the end of my plot and a field hedge behind that which gave us complete privacy. There will be an area close to 140 which will be shaded and this will change over the year as others have said but I think it should be fine. Sometimes a little shade is a good thing because a southerly aspect can be baking! It's great. 
    If 140 is more elevated than your plot then you need to take that into account. It might look a bit odd but visit the site and take a 20ft thing. Perhaps an extending ladder might look less daft than bamboo canes taped together. 😳 That'll give you some idea of where the shadow will be at this time of year. It's a big deal so take your time and good luck with it.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    @plant pauper. 140 is the one the OP wants to buy. 
    The worst problem for me would be sharing boundaries with 5 other houses. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904
    My desired plot is 141
  • JennyJJennyJ Posts: 10,576
    edited August 2023
    On that plan I think if I wanted maximum sun I'd go for 139 - it looks to have the full length of all the gardens between it and the neighbouring houses, except for the one next to it that's further forward, alongside the driveway not the garden, and there's the width of the road between it and other buildings on the south side. It's probably the most expensive though :)
    Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Soil type: sandy, well-drained
  • plant pauperplant pauper Posts: 6,904



    This is probably a fairly good representation and if you look at the shade area on the side aspect then that is what you would expect on the gable wall of 140.
    To be honest my issue would be privacy. How high are you allowed your boundary hedges around the corner?
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