Neighbourly Disputes

samantha241

Hi

Am a newbie so please forgive me if this is not the right forum, please put in the right one.

I recently moved into a house and my neighbour removed a tree from his front garden which was next to our front wall, as a result it knocked part of
my wall and since they have put up a new wall adjoining our partially broken wall. They have not notified us, and after two weeks of waiting, we appraoched them and they said they know nothing about it.
They are also not prepared to come and inspect the wall and said they would speak to their builders.
Should I continue this matter further or just get it repaired ourselves? I don't want to get neighbours from hell.
Please advise,
Many thanks
Sam:mad:
Sam

olly300

I would just repair the wall myself, and bite my tongue for these reasons:
1. If you have a dispute and it becomes nasty neither of you will be able to move that easily as you have to reveal it when you sell. Also you will waste extra time and could end up spending money on solicitor's fees.
2. If you have a dispute you will not want to go into your garden when they are in theirs. Not nice if you want to relax in your garden after a hard day or have a bbq.
3. You don't know your neighbours and apart from knocking down the wall they may be more useful i.e. I've lived in a house where someone climbed over the garden wall. The neighbours where the ones who called the police.
4. They removed the tree before it caused further damage to your wall, garden or house. (Unfortunately you didn't catch their builders in time and made them do the job properly.)

Finally a relation of mine had a dispute with one of their neighbours and it was just stressful visting their house and has also caused problems between other neighbours and that neighbour. People take sides or seem to take sides, if that neighbour is friendly with other neighbours then you will hate living on that road. (Not a problem for my relation as the neighbour they had a dispute with had already managed annoyed the entire street.)

samantha241

Hiya All and Olly300!!

The neighbour just popped over and said either they can fix the current wall or pay towards the cost of a new one, as we have other costs in the house currently I agreed to them just fixing the current one. Maybe its a ploy by the builder to get more work?? The builder is coming next week to fix it.
Either way, I am happy we have good neighbours :rotfl:
Smiley Samantha