Neighbour dispute - fence posts erected in my garden

GillsMan7

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

To be fair - you don't know that from looking at the garden via the medium of an internet forum.....

It's not a dispute though is it, it's not got to that stage.

How much of your garden would YOU lose before you started to stand up for yourself?

The amount of time and money spent (wasted) on petty neighbour disputes about such a piffling amount of land is spirit-crushing in the extreme.

In the OP's situation I'd be annoyed, for sure, but just annoyed that it wasn't run by me first.

"Standing up for yourself" over the placement of some fence posts which (from the sound of the OP) just encroach in your garden is fine if you're extremely precious or, frankly, have nothing better to do, but in the grand scheme of things, it's not that big a deal and I agree with the majority of posters that the OP shouldn't escalate the matter.

ILW

I would just tell the neighbour to buy you and the Mrs a nice meal and you will leave it at that. It does appear to be all about a few inches of land after all.

ankspon

Wait while they go out and chop the posts down,when he asks you why say you couldn't be reached so i went ahead and did it

Mojisola

If the new position of the fence doesn't interfere with your use of the garden or any future development you might want to do, the pragmatic approach would be to leave things as they are.

No-one's boundaries can be sorted out to within a few centimetres because the lines on the plans are too thick to be measured that accurately. The new fence line will become the new boundary if it is left in place.

Mallotum_X

Is it a nice fence, you said it looked a good job with expensive materials. I would look on the benefit of having a good fence instead of some old garage to look at. Maybe ask him to paint yourside as well so it all looks neat. Hopefully overall it enhances your garden rather than detracts from it.

Its really not worth getting into an argument over it, whilst these things can be annoying, theres better things in life to worry about.

Part of the fences on one side of my garden encroach in to get round a tree thats pretty much grown on and across both sides of the boundary. The old metal posts are still in so you can see its about 15cm in on my side but its not worth making a fuss over so we ignore it.

zara*elise

I'd agree with ILW. Sounds like the guy has taken time and care over it... I wouldn't risk potential upset and a neighbours-from-hell scenario over 5cm of land.

neas

And the way i'd look at it was... the fence was on my land... putting it on my land didnt remove it as being my land. Quite clearly the concrete slab where garage is was his land.

But as others have said... its never 100% sure to know if that bit of land that you have wasnt 'gifted' to you when neighbour built garage, prob not but just food for thought.

My neighbour built an extension and I have a little bit (about 10cm x 2 metres) of land where he didnt build right up to the boundary... so he can perform maintenance etc. I know its his land its clear its his land from where the middle of houses are... and any future buyer/neighbour can prob see its ure land too.. and nobody's going to fight over 5cm ;p.

pawlala

you get a nice new fence, you can even nail some hanging baskets onto your lovely new fence posts. Maybe a bird house. It's not that bad!

(just get him to paint your side of the fence too )

kaisersoze_2

You could argue that he has pinched about 50-100mm of your land but if he wanted to dig his heels in you would have to prove this, which can be a costly and stressful experience.

Most LR plans showing your title plot are at 1:1250 scale and the boundary line they draw on is about 300-500mm thick at this scale meaning there would have to be a significant encroachment to show up.

slimzee

Hes agreed to remove/move the fence posts in writing within 14 days.