HELP! Nasty neighbour won't pay

Spendless

securityman wrote:

I was allways told that the right hand side is your problem.

This is not always true. In our house the fence (hedge) on the left (as you look at the house) is ours. The back at the left is shared.

We have a low hedge at our back so can see into the others garden but though its shared i doubt very much that the neighbours would contribute to the cost of a fence (that i would like). We have suggested that we will pay for the fence if in return they dig up and get dispose of hedge, which they agreed to last year (but we ran out of cash to do it!!!). Even if they refuse to help us get rid of hedge i would still pay and put fence up, the hedge grows from the boundary onto our land making my garden narrower -as its what i want.

In this case i would take the money on offer and build what you want - but no i wouldn't be sorting their gate out either _ though i'd make sure i had the cash before revealing that one (LOL).

robnye

trafalgar wrote:

It will say on the house deeds who owns it..............:D

not always.......

garden boundary disputes are notorious for stirring up arguments between neighbours........

loopy_lass

i have dodgy neighbours, not pleasant at all and im sick of them, im thinking about hiring a flame thrower or the SAS any one want to share costs?

why are people so obnoxious these days....


loops

quickquid

The owner of the wall would only have to replace the wall if there is a covenant in the owner's deeds that states the existing wall must be retained. You have to be really careful with land/border issues. If, for instance, your neighbour's fence was falling apart, then it is in your interest to try and patch it up or grow something high in front of it. If you decide to erect a new fence in front of his fence, ie on your own land - he can then remove his old fence and can claim the new fence on your land as his new boundary.

Baz_Bee_2

If this is a wall rather than a timber fence then normally your house buildings insurance would cover for the rebuilding of it if it was damaged due to one of the perils covered by the policy. If it was storm damage you should be able to recover the cost less the excess.

Also, as stated above many household policies included for legal expenses to allow advice for such issues to be sought.

Finally, in general there is no obligation to provide any form of physical boundary between properties unless your property deeds (now usually on the Land Registry information) specifically stipulate that something should be provided. Then it would normally define what boundary you are responsible for, or whether it is a party (shared) boundary, and the type of wall or fence to be erected thereon. However, often this is included as a covenant with the original owner of the land and may not be enforcebale by subseqeunt owners withouth the expense of getting a judgement to that effect from the Lands Tribunal. Or of course, the deeds may be silent and you just pays your money and takes your choice especially if you have an uncoopertaive neighbour

carpool72

Thanks for all your help & advice everyone. The deeds say that it's a party wall but I wasn't sure if there was an obligation for both parties to maintain the wall - there's no covenant in any of my paperwork so it looks like he's off the hook. I'd have gladly left the rubble where it was except it was all in my garden - lol. We're taking the £200 and my OH's agreed a price to do the gate. And result - our insurance company stumped up for the wall in the end so the £200 should go towards the damage to our patio furniture etc. :j

hoppypoppy_2

get a couple of builders to send landlord a quote for both wall and gate, ask a pricey one first, leave a couple of weeks then find a better price and get that sent over.

Maintain that landlord is equally liable to wall costs but gate is neither your problem or your cost and that you will not accept poor comprimise. Make sure that everything is in writing.