Neighbours attached gate to our wall without permission *PICTURES ADDED*!

CarineG

She clearly explained what the situation/layout is.
Her wall is right next to her neighbours garden and she cannot view if from anywhere in her house. The gate is fitted onto her wall and the neighbours have not asked for permission to do this, therefore it was installed illegally.
It shows clearly that the caravan was placed there to hide the gate.

I would be very concerned about how the gate was fitted in the first place and if the damp proof couse has been damaged. I would get a surveyor to look at it and make them foot the bill as well as any repairs needed. This could be case of your wall having been damaged which is very different from just attaching a gate to it.

As for your workmen needing access, indeed they cannot gain access to your neighbours garden without their consent, that would tresspassing on their land.

I would personally seek advice from a solicitor.

Blackpool_Saver

mheymans wrote: »

If I want to save a thread that I have been reading how do I do it please. I've been having lots of tabs open on my screen and then get upset if someone turns the computer off. HELP please

HELP HELP ...................PLEASE:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Rainbow_Liberty

Blackpool_Saver wrote: »

HELP HELP ...................PLEASE:

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

Not too sure if you are wanting to keep threads or where actually laughing at me for not knowing but if you want to keep a thread it's part of the tool bar across the top of the message and to get back to it use the quick links drop down menu.

Requiem

I know this is bumping an old thread, but if the OP is still around - did you ever find out what was happening with the "dodgy europeans" and weird smoke?

miss_independent

Lol, the "Dodgy Europeans" mysteriously disappeared round about the time there were several arrests in the local area related to Cannabis Farms. Things have been very quiet (touch wood) and various attachments have been removed from the property over the past three weeks. Gate is still there. It appears to be rotting. I am waiting for it to rot completely then will try and get them to remove it and not replace it. Thanks for asking .

marleyboy

Why don't you take the opportunity to remove it for them

tiny_tiny

miss_independent wrote: »

Hi, we live in a detached house but share a garden wall with our neighbours. We have lived here for 15 years and they have lived in their house for about ten. They haven't been the best neighbours and so we don't talk to them, one of the main reasons for this being that around 8 years ago they asked if they could attach a gate post and gate to one of the walls to our home (note NOT the garden wall, an actual exterior wall of our home) and we politely refused and they took offense.

Over the past two/three years, I noticed that there was a lot of noise coming from their back yard, waking me up in the night and at 5am. It was like a scraping and bumping coming from and along the exterior wall of our home (the room being my bedroom hence me being awakened) and this wall overlooks their back yard. For years there was a caravan parked in their drive blocking any view of their back yard and what was behind it, so basically we didn't know the following had happened.

Before Christmas, we had our fascias and sofits replaced. The workmen needed to go on to the neighbour's property to access the side wall of our house. Please imagine, garden wall shared by us runs half way up both our front gardens, then attaches to the wall off my home, then massive gap between our home and their home. Workman comes and says he can't get to our wall as their gate is locked and no one seems to be in, could we please leave a note saying leave gate unlocked tomorrow so we can access our wall. To which we replied - sorry? What gate? We then found out they have attached a gate post to our home and a great ugly wooden gate (obscured by the massive caravan) which is what I can hear scraping and bumping against my bedroom wall in the night. Trouble is, potentially it could have been there for years and we never knew - I thought it was their wheelie bins making the noise. They must have waited until we were on holiday to erect it. It makes me so mad that they did this after we refused permission years ago! Where do we stand?

I can imagine the noise we have similar problem and it sounds like the house is being knocked down every morning at 5 am. how did it turn out . ?