Neighbour told us to take fence down.

maggie111

NEH wrote: »

The best thing would be to let it go ultimately but Snodgrass is going to have to move a shed and a greenhouse in order to get the fence moved, that is going to cost a lot and if the buyers have bought the shed and greenhouse as part of the sale then you are rengading on the deal surely??

Well, of course there's no way I'd settle the dispute at any cost to myself - which would include demolishing/moving greenhouse and shed. At the very beginning of their requests they didn't mention these were built on their land and I would have thought under negotiations they would settle for not moving those buildings.

Ultimately I would be looking at resolving this as quickly and painlessly as possible - which I don't think that Snodgrass is trying to do - from her initial view point of not wanting to move anything. I can understand why she thinks that, and knows legally she doesn't have to do anything at all... I just worry this will escalate into one of those massive court battles and I would be trying very quickly to make sure it doesn't take that road.

She will be receiving a lot of advice from people telling her to not move an inch as she is in the right, and I am sure she is - but my concern wouldn't be what's right - it'd be now I am even more convinced I don't want to live in this house next door to these crazy people.

I should say that if I was in snodgrass' situation, I'm not as sure I'd be as easy to give in as I'm suggesting she should be. However, I would hope that someone would advise me to do what it takes to sell the house and stop looking into the small details. I'm a territorial person and could easily see myself getting all raging, defensive and wanting to throw a brick in their window - but because I'm not in that situation it's very easy for me to advise to step back, be rational and get out of it quick.

Of course there are some crazy people in the world who see no sense and would just insist that actually all of your garden is their garden etc etc... And no, I wouldn't be submitting to just any request. And I would go to court. But then I wouldn't be bothering about probate etc - I'd just speak calmly to the solicitors, advising them to do what they can legally to get this moved on as quickly as possible and I wouldn't be worrying about additional issues such as probate etc.

And as for the neighbours agreeing to 2 inches and then trying to move it further.... I would only accept the fence being moved under the condition that I didn't have to pay for it and I would oversee the works. I'd probably have a chat about it, put some sticks along the garden where you both agree the new fence should go and then watch as they pay to have the fence moved to the new pointers. If they wanted to extend past the sticks at that stage I'd be watching them and telling them to shove it. And there's no chance after the fence has been moved they would insist on moving it again - no one is that bad.

LizzieS_2

DVardysShadow wrote: »

Got a source for that? It does not look quite right to me.

Actually thinking about it, I did write it slightly wrong - it is all disputes within the last 12 months whether settled or not. Not 100% it is only 12 months as it is some time since I answered such questions.

The information came from our solicitor who had set questions to answer (this being one of them). I've seen the same form now 3 times, so it definately applies to English law at least. Of course you can lie, but if anything comes up later, you are legally responsible for false information.