Liabilities/responsibility for trees on your property - neighbour damage

Rosemary7391

Tygermoth wrote: »

He's quite welcome, it was all polite up to that point. I have no intention in being obstructional. I just am not looking to pay for the upkeep of his property. As an older gent i cant see him wanting to scale a ladder three storeys high to tinker with the guttering.

Fair enough - I didn't quite get that impression from your post, but you were there I wasn't saying I'd be a pain - just that I wouldn't be happy about it given the impression I had. I doubt there is any danger of you having to pay for it - he ought to find+pay a handyman.

booksurr

rtho782 wrote: »

If someone tried that on me my first instinct would be to confirm he has no legal right to access my garden, then say he can either pay me £5,000 a day for access or hire a massive cherry picker for access if he ever wants to fix it.

not strictly true

under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act 1992 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/23/section/1 you can get a court order to "force" the neighbour to allow access to their land if the court agrees that the works you need to do qualify and can only be done with such access. The court may or may not set a payment to be made in return for such access

Tygermoth

I am rather baffled.


A pretty Cath Kidson'esque flowery card pushed through the letterbox this morning - it just says;


We are not happy about this - with their signatures


That's all. nothing else at all


Tree surgeon is arriving tomorrow - so will see what the quote is.

m0bov

Pop one back into their letterbox saying "Neither are we".

Soundgirlrocks

Tygermoth wrote: »

I am rather baffled.


A pretty Cath Kidson'esque flowery card pushed through the letterbox this morning - it just says;


We are not happy about this - with their signatures


That's all. nothing else at all


Tree surgeon is arriving tomorrow - so will see what the quote is.

Oh dear OP, it sound like you might have the start of neighbours from hell thread.:eek:

pimento

Soundgirlrocks wrote: »

Oh dear OP, it sound like you might have the start of neighbours from hell thread.:eek:

The Kath Kidston card would have my back up right away.

warehouse

OK I'm following this thread now. They're up to something and it smells like trouble. OP, document everything.

Mojisola

Tygermoth wrote: »

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Their side wall is our ‘back fence’ if you will.

They know that their guttering is at the top of their wall which can only be accessed from your garden so they should have a friendly arrangement with the owner of your house (the previous owners and now you) to come round a couple of times a year to check the guttering. Their house is their responsibility, not yours.

To have caused so much damage, it was obviously happening long before you moved in.

I don't think their insurance company will pay up because the damage has been caused by lack of maintenance.

DaftyDuck

Tygermoth wrote: »

I am rather baffled.


A pretty Cath Kidson'esque flowery card pushed through the letterbox this morning - it just says;


We are not happy about this - with their signatures


That's all. nothing else at all


Tree surgeon is arriving tomorrow - so will see what the quote is.

I'm normally of the "chat with tea and cake," A.K.A. a G_Mming (although I tend to do it with a bottle of plonk).

In this case, I'd just go nuclear, and leave them a horse's head on their doorstep!

Oh, with a card, of course... where are my manners?

moneyistooshorttomention

I would find it rather odd to have received a card like that.

Then I would go on to think "Well - at least it's not a solicitors' letter - and I suspect this means there won't be a solicitor letter/or anything like. Thank goodness for that".

I wouldnt bother to reply to it personally. Just bin it.