Boundary fence and land registry title plan

keystone

Biggles wrote: »

As you are asking about maintenance of an existing fence, the usual clue is whether the supporting posts are on your side or your neighbour's side. If they are on your side, the fence would have been erected by the previous people at your house, and the fence would therefore belong to you.

Another old wives tale. There is no obligation whatsoever to have the "good" side of the fence facing your neighbour. The "clue" (as you put it) should be the positioning of the fence. If it is on your land it belongs to you. If it is on your neighbours land it belongs to them. No fence should be erected exactly on the boundary.

Cheers

Biggles

keystone wrote: »

Another old wives tale.

No, it is a clue (no more than that).

But if the posts were placed on your property (not always easy to verify), you would obviously have the fence on the other side of the posts, as that should make it roughly on the boundary - the fence-builder would hardly narrow his own garden by putting it on his side of the posts.

keystone

What are you talking about? You put your fence panels or arris rail + featheredge or whatever between the posts. How on earth that would narrow the garden is quite beyond me.

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Welsh_Totster

Ive just had a new fence erected in our garden tween us and our neighbour. The original concrete 3ft posts mark the boundary line (60+ years) neighbour erected 3 ft fence a few years ago on her side of the boundary attached to the concrete posts on her land. Last week we had our new 6ft fence erected on our side of the boundary, attached to our side of the concrete posts on our land. Neighbour has the pretty side of her fence facing into her garden, we have the pretty side of our fence facing into our garden and theres around a 6-8 inch space inbetween the both fences where the boundary line is. it makes no difference what side the posts are as to whos fence it is, we have a fence each to maintain as I wanted a taller fence even though its the side of the garden that she maintains the fence for.

Biggles

keystone wrote: »

What are you talking about? You put your fence panels or arris rail + featheredge or whatever between the posts. How on earth that would narrow the garden is quite beyond me.

Excellent that I caught you in a good mood.
;-)

You can, of course, put fence panels between the posts. Or you can use the traditional - and much sturdier - post and rail or similar fencing, normally attached to one side of the post.

The fence would then mark the boundary, and the posts would be within it.

birkee

I would have thought the "S" on the map would indicate "Shared".

Had the same when I moved into THIS house, the neighbour saying "The fences on the left of the gardens are YOUR responsibilty". When looking at the deeds, all fences are "shared responsibility" and need both sides to agree to obtain a mutually agreeable fence.
Silly thing is, the neighbour who told me that the fences on the left are our responsibilty, was one of the original builders in this line of "self build" houses.
What he was really saying, was that he was quite happy for me to replace a dead and dying hedge that had gaps in it, but he wasn't going to pay anything towards a new fence.