We are trying to buy a house at the mo that is described as having a garage. The kerb is not dropped so we have no legal access across the pathway, and also because there is not a dropped kerb people park in front of it (the whole street is street parking, no drives, so there is always a car there).
Because of the layout of the garage in relation to local streetlights, etc, it is not likely we would get permission to drop the kerb.
I'm planning on going back to the estate agents to put forward the case that it is not a garage as we can not legally put a car in there and would be unlikely to be able to have vehicular access to it on a day to day basis and suggest the vendor consider a reduction in price to compensate.
What would be a reasonable sum, in your opinion? The house is in the mid £200s. I was thinking of starting off with a suggestion of £5k, is this reasonable?