Neighbour moving a fence !! Advice Please

Jane2112

Got some good advice here. Check out the web site 'neighbours from hell uk' although your friend neighbour probably doesn't fit this category but loads of advice on that site.

tattooedhoney

Thanks everyone for their great advice :T , I will see about getting a photo. His house is one of these estates with larger properties that dont have pavements , the driveways lead directly onto the road ! Back to work tommorrow so I shall find out if there was a new fence put up over the weekend.
The fence is not the boundary between my friends property and the neighbours, the fence is on the nieghbours property the boundary being the edge of the grass.
I think he has checked the deeds and spoke to the planning department but I will be able to update the question when I see him in the morning.

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sparkleworld

Hi!
Dunno if this helps but we have what seems to be a similar sort of set up on our house with the wide angle bit and then a strip of land in front of the boundary but no path, aparrently this is classed as a "service strip" as when I enquired why the developers had put a shrub hedge half way across the garden I was politely informed that this was my actual boundary and that the other side could not be built on with any permanent structure i.e cemented post and fencing.Despite maintaing the strip of land we have no other rites to it and can be fined if we cause obstruction to or on it. I.e we cannot park our car on it.
Also the front garden MUST remain open planned for the aesthetics(?) hence the shrub hedge not a "proper" hedge.
This may just be planning in our area
HTH sparkleworld

tattooedhoney

Quick update. My friend has looked at the deeds and cannot find anything on his about the visibility from his drive.
He has contacted both the highways agency and the planning department and has been told by three different people that the neighbour can move the fence and by one who says he can't!
He checked the utilties near the fence and showed the nieghbour he was moving his fence over the utilities ( which I am led to belive is illegal.. at least in planning terms) The neighbour did not seem to care and has erected the fence anyway! :mad: so much for understanding at Easter time

So my friend and another resident have written a letter of complaint to the planning department. Lets just wait and see the result. and hope no one is run over in the meantime.
Thanks again for all your advice :T