Garden Fence damaged by neighbours garden

shebbar

Hi,
My garden fence panels damaged almost completely by overgrown neighbours garden. It is a block of flats and no one bothers.
I am struggling to find the contacts for maintenance company; most people I spoke are tenants and not bothered. Tried to reach council and again no help.
What can I do? Is there anyway if I ever get hold of the responsible individuals I can claim fence damage against them? Or even the cost of clearing the overgrown garden?

Davesnave

You need to find out who the freeholder(s) is/are by doing a Land Registry search of the title to the property:

https://www.gov.uk/search-property-information-land-registry

If you write to them explaining what's happening, you may get a response, but I doubt if any compensation will follow. This is because hedges don't grow overnight, except in fairy stories and it's your duty to minimise losses too.

Had you contacted them, say, a couple of years ago, you might have had a case, but really the legal route is fraught with problems and it might be better to take some kind of action yourself, replacing the panels with something less vulnerable, or tackling the offending shrubs yourself as a last resort if you get no joy from the owners of the land.

Yes, that would be technically illegal, but if the neighbours are totally disinterested, no one will bother about that either.

Chanes

If the damage is viewed the same as damage from trees it is handled under trespass laws as I remember.

Land_Registry

Davesnave wrote: »

You need to find out who the freeholder(s) is/are by doing a Land Registry search of the title to the property

You may prefer to search using the official Land Registry site instead to check the freehold tenure/register as to who the legal owner is

Davesnave

Land_Registry_representative wrote: »

You may prefer to search using the official Land Registry site instead to check the freehold tenure/register as to who the legal owner is

Whoops! My mistake. I was in a hurry, which is probably the sort of thing the owners of that site are hoping for!

My post has been amended and maybe you'd like to amend yours now to remove the copycat site's details in the quote.

Apologies! :o:o