Advice on possible future fencing issues

childofbaahl

Righty-oh, I'll leave it alone then.

Thank you all for your help - I'll get quotes for the other side and make sure it's done properly this time so it'll last longer. Won't be this year but that gives me time to trim the hedge back to the boundary line as it's over hanging / coming around the old fence.

mpet

Don't get too bogged down with the 'fence/border on the left as you look at the front of the house is yours' . Our current house is the borders on the right are ours (which is confirmed by the deeds).

Check your deeds - there is usually an arrow that points to the boundary you are responsible for. It is then your decision how you want to maintain the boundary - again depending on if the deeds. Our previous house had a 100 year old covenant that stated we had to maintain an oak fence! (We didn't- just a normal fence)

southcoastrgi

In my house looking at it from the Rd my fence is the right hand one both front & back

childofbaahl

I have checked my deeds and paid for the plans online through the Land registry of both my neighbours. All 3 plans show only a red boundary line with no markings of any kind to show who is responsible for which boundary.


As it is the neighbour to my left has twice tried to get us to pay for a fence, then when we ask for more information following his attempts to say we are responsible, he pays for it himself and puts it up.


Over the summer I'll finish clearing and cleaning up my garden and then will approach the neighbour on my right to discuss that boundary and what plans, if any, they have for it. I would like another 6ft fence but will wait and see where they stand and what they want. Not that they seem to care as they rent it out and no one takes care of their hedges /bushes.


On that note is there a height restriction to hedges / bushes for residential properties' back gardens? as some of his are getting quite tall and one seems to have rather tree like branches that overhang my old fence and are quite a nuisance to cut down.