Who owns the fences?

prudryden

You can check to see if the posts are on your land - that is a good indication whose fence it belongs to. Should be upheld by a court.

Poppy9

When we moved into our house (1950's semi) the neighbours on both sides told us the boundary walls were ours and we had to maintain them (all brick construction). They were both lying. When we checked our deeds with our solicitor all the boundaries are shared (marked |-|). Don't think our unattached neighbour was impressed with this as the wall on the side of my drive goes down a long way as their house is set lower than ours. We do have a garden fence on one side with our attached neighbour. This is our fence as it's inside our boundary (original posts and wires for proper boundary still in place). We have the nice side facing us as it was like that when we moved in New neighbours next door grow plants against it though and it has broken our fence and concrete posts. I do hope my fence sprayer doesn't hurt their plants too much when OH re-paints the fence panels:rolleyes:

Mark_petty

Thanks for all the help. I think the best thing to do is speak to the guy and offer to go halfs on the new fencing. Me and a friend can put the new fence up so it will only be material costs so it shouldn't be too much.
If he gets funny about it I will pay for them as I can't be doing with any dispute and would prefer to stay friends with the neighbours.

Thanks again

davsidipp

our fences are shared all the way around but we have replaced them all ourself as neigbours did not bother but soon painted it when it went up!