Neighbour refuses us access to build our dream office

ValHaller

I_have_spoken wrote: »

Do you really need that access?

You can now get mini-diggers, dumpers that go through a standard doorway. You'd need to put up plywood in the hall etc. for protection, but you could barrow all the stuff needed through the house, adds about £2000 to build cost due to extra hours taken.

Even if you don't want to do this, it shows that a bribe to the neighbour of £1000 may be money well spent.

mart.vader

Only suggestions !

Can you get access via a garden on the other side ?
Is it worth it (or possible) to get a crane to lift materials over the house ?
As a council tenant, does your neighbour have the absolute right to bar access ?

ed110220

Perhaps it would help if we knew a few more details such as whether the access caused her real inconvenience or damage to her garden. Eg was there some inevitable damage to her plants in removing the tree? You say she was angry you did not thank her at the end of the day, but how long was it exactly till you spoke to her? A reasonable length of time, a day, several weeks?

It's difficult to tell whether she is reasonably offended or not and whether she has a reasonable reason to refuse access such as significant inconvenience or likely damage to her garden.

I don't wish to be rude, but it sounds as though you assumed she would let you have access for building and even arranged all the building work without actually getting her permission and that may well have offended her.

Mojisola

ed110220 wrote: »

I don't wish to be rude, but it sounds as though you assumed she would let you have access for building and even arranged all the building work without actually getting her permission and that may well have offended her.

You might find that other people are saying to her - you let them take the wood out through your garden, now they're building a shed, if you don't put a stop to it, they'll be in and out of your garden all the time!

spacey2012

She might have worked out what happened to the tree.

Avoriaz

What are the odds on this thread being genuine?

Perhaps I am getting too cynical in my old age but I suspect a wind up.

Oh well, if it is genuine the OP has had good advice.

If it isn't he/she has probably had a good laugh and nobody has been too put out.

anotherbaldrick

Out of curiosity what has the fact that your neighbour

is now self-employed, working 7 days a week to provide for her family.

got to do with the price of bread ?

ed110220

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Out of curiosity what has the fact that your neighbour got to do with the price of bread ?

Nothing at all I would say (from the point of view of the neighbour) and purely an appeal to emotion/sympathy.

Avoriaz

I think the OP meant the stepdaughter was working 24/7.

Fiction writers do sometimes make mistakes. :whistle:

ed110220

Avoriaz wrote: »

I think the OP meant the stepdaughter was working 24/7.

Fiction writers do sometimes make mistakes. :whistle:

Oh, I was responding as if the 24/7 worker was the office builder, not the uncooperative neighbour, which I believe was the original meaning.

Just thinking I'd be rather miffed if my neighbour just presumed they could have access through my garden and I arranged building work based on that presumption without getting permission first. I'd probably let them in the end if it didn't inconvenience me too much or seem likely to damage my garden significantly, but then I'd like to think of myself as reasonable.