What are my rights with the neighbour

angelking

Hi,

I need some help with a bad neighbour I have. The neighbour has an overgrown garden with weeds , stinging nettles and tree. The tree is damaging the fence and shed as the thorny branches tear into the shed roof felt.

My children cant play freely in our garden because of the fear from the stinging nettles and thorny branch of the tree. He has 6 trees in the garden which he chopped off previously but this 1 which is close to the boundary is never been looked after or trimmed. He doesnt use his garden and doesnt care about this overgrown weeds and shrubs.

What are my rights and how do I address with the neighbour as being civil and explaining politely doesnt seem to work.

Auntie-Dolly

You can cut back anything that encroaches your garden.

PasturesNew

You can cut back what's hanging over into your garden most of the time.... but you can't "make him do something".

As you're supervising your children when they're playing outside, can't you open a window and shout "Oi you little s0ds I TOLD you not to play near that bit" ?

splishsplash

How do his nettles bother your children? Is there not a fence at the boundary?

You can cut back the branches on your side as far as your boundary.

Gloomendoom

How are the stinging nettles in his garden a problem to your children in yours?

csnann

If your kids get stung a few times, they will soon learn to stay away from the nettles.

moneyistooshorttomention

I'm also puzzled as to how the nettles in his garden can sting your children in your garden
- and echo the fact the law allows for people to trim back any plants that come over the boundary from a neighbours garden (with the corollary that one is supposed to offer the trimmings back to the neighbours concerned - rather than just dispose of them).

I have to trim back a horrible old plant in a neighbours garden that keeps coming over my boundary myself. They clearly werent going to do so - and are clearly more than a little annoyed I'm doing so for them (as they won't keep their own plant trimmed to stay out of my garden) - but have had to accept the law allows me to do so.

arbrighton

FEAR of stinging nettles?????????????

Oh dear lord, yes, it stings and tingles but it's not going to kill them....

And how, if they're in next door's garden, are they a problem to your garden?
Your neighbour's garden is his to do as he pleases. You can't make him do anything about it and will come across as a busybody if you do.

As others have said you may trim anything overhanging your boundary but that is all

prosaver

arbrighton wrote: »

FEAR of stinging nettles?????????????

Oh dear lord, yes, it stings and tingles but it's not going to kill them....

it kills

build a fence- anyway nettle grow where people urinate ..urgh

arbrighton

How do nettles actually kill? as oppose to tingling for a while?

Try reading: OP mentions a fence

And they don't just grow where people urinate. They grow in lots of places

glasgowdan

prosaver wrote: »

it kills

build a fence- anyway nettle grow where people urinate ..urgh

Eh? Most confused post I've read here for a while.

To address general questions, I assume the nettles are poking through the fence. But as above, big deal. They're just a tingly bit of a feeling.