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Fence issue with neighbour and landlord
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Perhaps that jungle of weeds were giving him extra cover from his bedroom window being right on the pavement. I don't think I would be too happy if my just moved in upstairs neighbour started hacking around without reference to me first.
Oh my goodness save us from chavs like you, I can only imagine what your front garden looks like..you don't live in an ugly overgrown council estate by any chance? The weeds weren't that high and according to the contract he should have also been responsible to keep the area weed free.0 -
We never claimed the area as our own, we were (maybe wrongfully) of the impression that his was a communal area. So why should we ask permission to remove weeds?
Google "communal definition"."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
Oh my goodness save us from chavs like you, I can only imagine what your front garden looks like..you don't live in an ugly overgrown council estate by any chance? The weeds weren't that high and according to the contract he should have also been responsible to keep the area weed free.
You have quite a short fuse, don't you?"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0 -
M'lud, I rest my case."If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." -- Red Adair0
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Am I the only one that can't see in the pictures the gate on the RHS that prevents the OP from accessing that side of the frontage and side of the property?"You were only supposed to blow the bl**dy doors off!!"0
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You are seeing things from only one point of view, and getting pretty inflammatory in the process.Why does everyone assume that I wanted to put tables and chairs there?? That wasn't even remotely our idea.
No, but you hadn't discussed the bamboo, and had intended to plant the area.... For all the other tenant knows, your next move is to install a barbecue... he doesn't know your ideas until you discuss them. When they involve part of what he might think of as his garden, it's even more advisable.it's better in the UK to leave front gardens overgrown with weeds...
No, of course not, and you are contractually obliged to keep it weed free.... except...
.... your neighbour has done you the favour of taking sole responsibility for this area, thus alleviating you of that burden.... a guy putting a proper fence up only on the right side of the house and an additonal gate to prevent us from accessing the right side of the garden...the bamboo fence could have easily been removed
Why should he have to remove it? Should have been discussed before it went up.I just put it up for privacy....
Doesn't really do much for privacy for the upstairs windows, and would look pretty scruffy from those downstairs, in my personal opinion. He may well like watching the World drift by his window....
.. In my world, a cheap and rather tatty bamboo screen certainly does not add to the front garden... and I'm pretty well-known on this forum as a meticulous gardener.in my world a nice looking garden...
I'm not... I'm just not taking your side either. You seem to expect everyone on here to agree with you.... any other opinion is a chav, or troll, or whatever.I don't understand why everyone takes this guys side
As far as I can tell, you have a right of access via the front. Not use of the garden (unless your contract states differently). You should keep the area weed-free. You do not have the use of any part of the garden other than that needed for access. The other tenant has, presumably, a right to use "the garden" which, it appears, he seems to think, includes that part of "the garden" on the other side from the part you need for access.0 -
maninthestreet wrote: »Am I the only one that can't see in the pictures the gate on the RHS that prevents the OP from accessing that side of the frontage and side of the property?
The OP stated the pics were taken before the fence went up...0 -
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Don't live in a flat, get a house then you can make it how you want, you can't force other people to do things. I know how you feel, I am sick to death of the behaviour of my neighbours and their wild hellion children BUT I can only deal with my own area, you can't force others to be clean and tidy.Blackpool_Saver is female, and does not live in Blackpool0
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