My neighbours stolen land that doesnt belong to them !!

mrbadexample

I can't see why he would have thought to ask you if you don't own that land. He's trying it on, that's all. If no-one says anything then eventually he gets it for nothing - worth a punt I reckon. Of course, if an objection is raised and he loses the land, he's out of pocket for the fencing and the gardener. Hope he's not the vindictive type?

Bossyboots

mandi wrote:

Thanks Clutton,

Were they under no obligation to ask me or my landlord first.. I have been given the impression, that had they contacted the LR then I would have been consulted.. and as I wasnt and they have just gone ahead regardless, do I have to leave things as they are please...


Mandi

I don't think you have any say in the matter regardless of the rights and wrongs of what they have done. It would be the owner of the property that would need to raise objections, not any tenants. You can only object if you can show that you had better title to the land than the occupant. You do not, but your landlord may wish to stake a claim.

What your neighbour should have done was to fence it off first, rather than decimate it and then when no-one objected, they could claim adverse possession and then clear the land. Where I live we all have a piece of land in front of our houses where this has been done, extending our front gardens.

In the situation you have described, I believe this may be your neighbour's first step to seeking eventual adverse possession. I cannot see that there is anything you can do. Even if he had destroyed trees with a preservation order, the fact is they have now gone and there is nothing to be done about it unless you have a particularly robust council who might want to pursue him for damages.

mandi

tifnstav wrote:

Unregistered land can be a bit of a nightmare when this sort of thing crops up.
Your neighbour may not have even made an application to the Land Registry to take title to it, he might just have though, oooh, no-one has used that land, i might as well do.
to claim "title" he is likely to try to claim adverse possession, that is squatters rights.
http://www.planningsanity.co.uk/forums/ap/ap.htm
this site could be helpful but i'm not sure how up to date it is on current law.
also, from reading the posts you aren't the owner of your property so your landlord might have been the one who was informed, whether he told you is another matter....
good luck chuck.

Hi tif,

Your right neighbour hasnt contacted LR.. My landlord didin know until I called on Thursday.. Thanks for the link, will go have a look now... BTW Ill give em squatters rights...;)

mandi

mrbadexample wrote:

I can't see why he would have thought to ask you if you don't own that land. He's trying it on, that's all. If no-one says anything then eventually he gets it for nothing - worth a punt I reckon. Of course, if an objection is raised and he loses the land, he's out of pocket for the fencing and the gardener. Hope he's not the vindictive type?

Oh How right you and Bossyboots are.. Hes def trying it on .. The gardener mentioned that I rented my property.. He also said the land belonged to the nieghbours.. Checks since then have proved otherwise..

silvercar

So you phone the council; the council decides that it owns the land. It writes to your neighbour and asks if he would like to buy the land.

The neighbour says no (why should he pay for land he is using free). The council then writes to all owners of land in the vicinity offering to sell the parcels of land at the foot of the garden. Neighbours chat, mutter and moan. Neighbours decline offer but ask council to maintain land as they have claimed ownership. Councillors mutter and moan. Council offers land to moaning neighbours at reduced rate. Neighbours start to break rank and agree to buy land. Councillors happy, money in coffers. Neighbours still moaning - some have more land than others, some want the land but can't cope with initial maintenance, odd plots left unsold and growing wild spreading weeds onto bought plots........

robwend

all seems a bit daft to me, it seems more of a issue that your privacy is lost a little,well, that could have happend anytime , if the council had come along and dicided to clean it up and maintain it then you still would have had lost privacy,if its about him not asking you first then isnt that abit controlling? knowing he prob knows your justa tenant:D

silvercar

silvercar wrote:

So you phone the council; the council decides that it owns the land. It writes to your neighbour and asks if he would like to buy the land.

The neighbour says no (why should he pay for land he is using free). The council then writes to all owners of land in the vicinity offering to sell the parcels of land at the foot of the garden. Neighbours chat, mutter and moan. Neighbours decline offer but ask council to maintain land as they have claimed ownership. Councillors mutter and moan. Council offers land to moaning neighbours at reduced rate. Neighbours start to break rank and agree to buy land. Councillors happy, money in coffers. Neighbours still moaning - some have more land than others, some want the land but can't cope with initial maintenance, odd plots left unsold and growing wild spreading weeds onto bought plots........

In case I didn't make it clear, that is a true story!

johnbrooks

If the strip of land was originally owned by the development company that built the houses, and that company has been dissolved then the land will have reverted to the Crown. See this link

http://www.bonavacantia.gov.uk/

If the crown do own it, they will offer it to the highest bidder. Might be worth a letter to the Treasury Solicitor - at least the neighbour may have to pay!

Xbigman

Ditto but we also had one resident buy the plots behind the two neighbours properties after they had declined and it caused a right row still raging 3 years later when my parents moved.
Regards



X

mandi

Its nothing to do with being controlling Rob, and as for being a tennant, as far has hes concerned, I own the property, does does being a tennant give you less of a right to privacy than a homeowner.. ??then..

The point of this thread was to ask what can be done about him putting up a fence on land thats doesnt belong to him

Thanks



Mandi