Fencing nosy neighbour-long one!!

Mojisola

mittens45 wrote: »

Our last resort is indeed putting up a fence inside the boundary on our side by 6-12 inches.

Why would you put your fence so far into your garden?

Put it up close to the other fence or you'll have a boundary dispute on your hands.

Davesnave

saverbuyer wrote: »

I'd be putting a 6 foot fence, with trellis up tout sweet.

And you would be handing them a justified complaint on a plate if the trellis went on top, because a fence by the boundary, regardless of what it's made from, shouldn't exceed 2m without specific planning permisson.

But it sounds as if the pro fencer the OP uses would know that.

Davesnave

Mojisola wrote: »

Why would you put your fence so far into your garden?

Put it up close to the other fence or you'll have a boundary dispute on your hands.

As pointed-out already, they'll probably remove the other fence before long, and it's quite likely they'll treat the space left as theirs, which isn't unreasonable or a problem if it's just a matter of a few cm.

Norman_Castle

mittens45 wrote: »

Our last resort is indeed putting up a fence inside the boundary on our side by 6-12 inches.

There is no need to leave a gap. Picture the boundary as a piece of string. Your fence can be as close as you want to this.

Zola.

Just stick up the largest legal fence possible and ignore them.

mittens45

Sorry people, diving in and out all day, reading all your wonderful replies. I realized I'd made a mistake- 6 cms at most our builder said, and Land registry confirmed we can go as close to the original (although it's been moved it seems now) line as needs be providing we don't upset their fence or garden. Such a shame when people get odd- but I have heard the word Parkinson disease bantered about in the garden - there really is NO privacy, I try not to overhear things, but very difficult when they sit about 12 feet from the fence in question! And I'm trying to weed the garden, although not done this in a while because i don't want anymore upset. I do know they had an old gate they used to use regarding the previous owners husband who they used to pop in and see, but things went sour with them all too after he died and we had to have it removed as it fell down not long after we'd moved in. I really could understand this if we'd caused issues, such as loud music -don't even own a stereo.
Or had our tv up loud night and day- moved it away from wall and ever have it loud. Or we had parties and noise- never had a party at our home. I am putting up the fence even if it's just to increase the selling potential. Maybe it's due to the changes? They're in their early 70's and still very active, but we've changed the house about and now want privacy, something they obviously don't want or feel they need!

Jamiesmum

Stop over thinking it. Stop caring about what they think about you. It's such an easy solution. They're neighbours, nothing more. So long as you're not causing each other grief - all you need is the odd hello in the drive way in the mornings. Don't need to faff about trying to please each other. You NEED the fence for your own privacy (and sanity by the sounds of it) you've young children who can't enjoy their garden because of this issue.

Just put the fence up on your side, maintain it, make sure when you move you let new owners know it's theirs to take care of and enjoy your garden.

I_have_spoken

Sounds like the wife next door drinks quite heavily

mittens45

Jamies mum- you're totally right, I need to stop overthinking, thank you.
I have spoken- Yes, odd we have seen a lot of wine bottles in their recycling! (We see their bins on the path as it's outside our lounge window by a parking space I frequent. Not being nosy in return!)

glasgowdan

Stop thinking so much about it.

Put the fence up, move on with life ignoring them. It's not a real issue at all. They've no power/control over you.