not declaring problem neighbours

ruggedtoast

^ this.

The neighbour from hell in this scenario may not be the people at no. 2 or no.4.

Richard_Webster

Always worth talking to the neighbours before you buy - not certain to provide the answer - but if they are difficult, having a conversation with them might give you a clue that there could be a problem, from their general attitude.

Also I do not know of a search that would show information about disputes.

pimento

Is there anything to stop the OP fully planting the area with shrubs and bushes?

Richard_Webster

If the garden "used to be a communal area", when OP bought it the purchase could have been subject to existing rights of others to use it - mere purchase doesn't mean that others don't have rights over it.

Rikki

OP I would check your title deeds as there may be a covenant about putting up fences or hedges to the front of your property. This is often the case and can be in place for many years.

poppysarah

Take the fence down but let the dog mess on your garden. See if the kids still want to play on it.

ruggedtoast

Looks like the OP has scarpered from this thread, just like she did from the gardenlaw ones when she stopped getting the answers she wanted.

JQ.

It does just show how one-sided many of these threads are. Had someone not found those other threads no doubt the advice given here would have been very different indeed and we'd have assumed they were neighbours from hell, when in fact the opposite could actually be true.

neas

Yep,

Quite clearly op isn't seeing sense, and wants someone to tell her what she wants to hear.. as shes already gone and been a 'neighbour from hell'.

If multiple neighbours dislike you for some reason.. perhaps its you are the neighbour from hell instead of them lol.

Especially when leylandi and things like (I let there kids play in august.. then in october i want to stop their kids coming on) comments.

Absolutely ridiculous, pompous attitude to a piece of land that is actually communal, just owned by OP.

mustrum_ridcully

JQ. wrote: »

It does just show how one-sided many of these threads are. Had someone not found those other threads no doubt the advice given here would have been very different indeed and we'd have assumed they were neighbours from hell, when in fact the opposite could actually be true.

How true, it takes two to tango...

Unfortunately NfH's are all too often very good at twisting things so it appears that they are the victim. A mate of mine had a neighbour who was always being portrayed as the local NfH, wasn't until another neighbour moved out that the truth came out. The alleged NfH wasn't and the real NfH was the neighbour who'd moved out and had spent several years trying to turn an entire street against this one person.