Fencing - Question in regards to border

Mojisola

It sounds as if you'll need to grow some nice tall, bushy shrubs to get the privacy you want.

darkcloudi

Mojisola wrote: »

It sounds as if you'll need to grow some nice tall, bushy shrubs to get the privacy you want.

I did have some nice trees, growing some bushy shrubs won't stop him chopping it down again

The trees were on my garden and he came in to my garden whilst I was at work and cut one down and then he cut all the branches of the other.

I did not argue when he did this as the fence panels were in place but now that he has removed the fence the privacy has gone. I'm sure i can start a legal battle against him for damaging the trees but I don't like arguments and do not want to go through this route.

All I want him to do is either repair the fence which he doesn't want to or let me do it at my expense but attach it to his garage but again he declined Which is why i thought I can fix a high enough post and fence in my garden but sounds like i can't do that without planning.

Leif

I would write to him explaining that he had no right to enter your property, nor to chop down your tree, and that if he does so again, then you will take legal action. Then plant some bare root plants. Privet grows fast, and costs £1 per bare root plant. Cotoneaster franchettii is evergreen, rather attractive, fast growing, and can be bought as cheap bare root plants. When they are planted, take photos in case he decides to pull them up. He sounds like a creep. Sadly some people are really nice neighbours, and care about other people, and some just aren't nice.

Jon_Tiffany

Sorry to hear you have such an odd neighbour. Just go with Leifs suggestion of some fast growing hedges or evergreens. Cheaper and easy to put in but do be aware that trimming large hedges can become a regular chore.

ic

plant leylandii, they don't need planning permission...

evoke

Here's my solution:

1. Get a fencing/landscaping company to put up a new fence within your boundary;

2. Plant something that will provide a reasonable amount of privacy alongside your new fence.

Or am I missing something?

I_have_spoken

YOu really need to find if that's a party wall under the meaning of the Act. If so, you have rights to maintain and repair and if the neighbour objects you can go to dispute resolution.

That said, I'd be thinking those trees will have mullered the foundations so attaching anything much to the wall will be futile.

You can always just leave it and put some bamboo (Phyllostachys Bissetii) on your side of the boundary - it'll rocket up to 5m easy.

cyclonebri1

ic wrote: »

plant leylandii, they don't need planning permission...

You beat me to it, see which he would prefer in 5 yea:rotfl::rotfl:rs time

southcoastrgi

i know what i would do, he has already broken the law by coming into your garden to cut the trees, i wouldn't now give a toss what he thought about fixing a post to his wall, or like someone else said bamboo grows really really fast

Stooby2

How about planting a couple of fast growing firs there? You don't need permission and within a couple of years should have grown high enough to block his view. You don't need 60 foot leylandii, just something that will grow about 15-20 feet.