Neighbours garden/fence presenting a danger

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

You could be putting yourself at risk if you do that - ie of being sued for making them ill.

This seems an unlikely scenario, especially as the traces that already exist in people's bodies, generally arrive there via commercially-produced food.

One might as well sue Sainsburys.

However, I can see that there might be a loss of several kg of valuable blackberries......

thescouselander

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

You could be putting yourself at risk if you do that - ie of being sued for making them ill.

There is every chance they are picking and eating their blackberries and could do so in all innocence "knowing" that nothing could have contaminated their blackberries (ie because they "know" exactly what is going on in their own garden) and then finding themselves wondering why they are ill (ie because of having, unknowingly, ingested some Roundup).

Personally - I regard it as totally unacceptable to spray chemicals onto someone else's land except in extremis (by which I mean Japanese Knotweed or running bamboo ONLY). For anything else - your property is going to be perfectly safe - and you are NOT entitled to do that and they would have every right to deal with you "firmly" one way or another if they caught you at it.

You don't want to know just how I'd deal with a neighbour I caught spraying chemicals onto perfectly innocent plants in my garden.....:cool:

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As for any risk of brambles sneaking through a fence - do a wall instead of a fence. It's not rocket science and I've done exactly that myself to keep outside weeds at bay.

I cant see this leading to trouble. First of all they would need to realise the bushes have been killed - unlikely as there is plenty of other overgrowth between the bushes and the house so they wont be easy to see.

Second they'd have to work out the bushes had been killed with weedkiller

Thirdly they'd have to work out who it was

Fourth they'd need some evidence to support any allegation

So while it might technically be possible to get in trouble for sorting out the overgrowth the reality is nothing will happen apart from my problem will be solved.

paddy's_mum

thescouselander wrote: »

the reality is nothing will happen apart from my problem will be solved.

You hope!

Do you routinely ignore the law or just the bits you don't much like?

Lbuk

Totally sympathise with having young children and nightmare neighbours but a three year old is fully capable of realising that you don't touch pointy brambles.

thescouselander

paddy's_mum wrote: »

You hope!

Do you routinely ignore the law or just the bits you don't much like?

Well, I wouldn't say I'm a prolific law breaker but I'm not one for blindly following rules either so if there's justification I wouldn't lose any sleep about ignoring the law here.