tresspassing??

worried123

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nidO

Padlock on the gate?

d123

Ask your landlord if he will (or allow you to) fence your garden off?

G_M

Most neighbour problems are best resolved through friendly discussion.

Invite neighbour in, give him tea and cake. Discuss the issue calmly.

Failing this, padlock the gate.

You mentioned these 'young men'. I have to admit my first reacion was 'prostitution', and my 2nd was 'drugs'.

Now I may well be being unfair, but if not there are other ways to approach this.

worried123

thank you. You cannot actually fence off the side garden as it allows access to our separate back gardens......it has to remain communal to both of us....but his house is in a different road....which is where his gate and path is.....but my gate and path head straight to his front door.....

worried123

GM - i dont think there is anything like tht going on but i have smelled pot which is why my sister thinks i shouldnt say anything.....as it may cause me problems...i think they are genuinely just mates visiting and earlier the man with the vaccuum cleaner using my path was doing some work in there

pawlala

worried123 wrote: »

.....but my gate and path head straight to his front door.....

which gate and path head straight to your front door?

moneyistooshorttomention

You do need to tell him that his visitors are using your path, instead of his, and request that they are all told to use the correct path.

I would try initially to do so in a "just wondered if you knew" type way, as maybe he is genuinely too thoughtless to realise they shouldn't be doing this.

Hopefully pointing out to him that this is happening will be sufficient to stop it.

If it carries on after that, then...yep...padlock it is on that gate.

arbroath_lass

Put a spring on the gate so it at least closes behind them.


The rest, as long as they were using the path and not trampling beds, wouldn't bother me.

moneyistooshorttomention

Which gives a clue as to maybe why this is happening, ie as there are some people who aren't that concerned about privacy and maybe this young guy is one of them and genuinely doesn't realise that most other people are.

Hence part of the talk to him could be along the lines of "I know some people don't worry that much about privacy, but most people do and I do. Hence I don't want strangers in my garden. I'm sure you understand".

I've had to deal with that problem myself in this house, as I think previous owners of this house were possibly not that bothered about their privacy being invaded. I still don't understand why some neighbours thought it was okay to "carry on as before", rather than finding out what my own views on this are. But I've made it very plain that I hold the standard view and my garden is now private. It felt very odd never knowing when a stranger might be in my garden when I first moved here and I still don't understand why I had to actually stop them, but I did have to, so I did....

atolaas

Have you spoken to your LL or property management company (if your LL uses one) about the problems that your having with the tenant? You would need to speak to them to seek permission if you wanted to put a padlock on your gate. I wouldn't seek to contact the tenant at this stage as it could prove to be counterproductive.