Neighbors from block of flats trespassing

Hoploz

Well looks like I'm ruled out of commenting as the photo you're all talking about has gone. Guess you have your answer OP!

ManuelG

Hoploz wrote: »

Well looks like I'm ruled out of commenting as the photo you're all talking about has gone. Guess you have your answer OP!

It's back, anonymised;)

werdas wrote: »

peachyprice

Is your turning a private road? There's no indication and it isn't obvious that it is. How do your neighbours feel about people passing through? If it is a private road have you asked your neighbours whether they want to contribute towards a gate?

There are several of possibilities, none of which you can get anyone else to pay for.

werdas

I still feel management company should erect the fence and spread the cost to tenants

peachyprice

It's your property, it's your responsibility to secure it, not the neighbours.

Would you expect your neighbours on the other side to pay for a new fence if there was a hole in yours that your child kept wandering through into their garden?

Poppie68

werdas wrote: »

I still feel management company should erect the fence and spread the cost to tenants

Why on earth would or should they do that?
The management company have done more than they needed to by just sending a letter to their tenants, this is your problem not theirs. To be honest if someone had nearly taken my 2 year old out with a bike I would of have had a fence up by the end of that day and not be procrastinating over who you think should be paying for it.

ManuelG

werdas wrote: »

I still feel management company should erect the fence and spread the cost to tenants

Why? It's your land, so it's up to you whether you want to mark your boundary with a fence or not.

tbh the people walking past there probably wouldn't bother me... but if it does you, then it's in your power to do something about it.

Poppie68

Why is there even a gap there in the first place, is there a right of way?

Hoploz

ManuelG wrote: »

It's back, anonymised;)

Yep. Put up your own fence on your own boundary

Davesnave

There are no modern cases of the law of trespass being successfully applied, so forget the term. Even if you gather 'evidence' there is little you can do with it if you have an open plan front garden.

These people have created what is loosely called a 'pathway of desire' across your property, so now your problem is dissuading them from continuing to use it. This may be made more complex by covenants which restrict what you or your neighbours may erect in the front of the property, but on your side is the reality that such covenants are rarely enforced once the builders have left the site.

If you put up a fence, people may still climb it, so consider carefully whether something prickly, like rosa rugosa or berberis would make a suitable addition. They will have to be fairly large plants to start with; something that adults won't mess with!

Once you have broken the habits of the flat dwellers, the unofficial route should be easy enough to keep blocked, but expect problems to begin with,. It's probably best not to put up 'Private' notices as suggested above, as this just tends to upset people.