Farmer put fence around our house

marliepanda

AdrianC wrote: »

Yes, I think the rails were put up by Persimmon - else they'd have removed those, too - but why are they theirs, not the house owner's...? What kind of godawful lease have these poor saps bought into?



What the farmer couldashouldadone (and undoubtedly will) is put his own posts up, as has been said, > < that far away...

When the farmer inevitably puts his fence back up that house is just going to be squashed in a box? Where is the garden?

AdrianC

pinklady21 wrote: »

OMG worse than I first thought - I had assumed there had been no fence there at all previously - it looks like Persimmon has attached the rails to the front of the house. Are these poor folks really happy to live like this???

marliepanda wrote: »

When the farmer inevitably puts his fence back up that house is just going to be squashed in a box? Where is the garden?

Who needs a garden, when you have a view over fields...?

pinklady21

Not for much longer if the farmer has his way.....

robatwork

Very bad idea to fall out with the farmer - he may decide to install an
anaerobic digestion pile very near the house....

marliepanda

AdrianC wrote: »

Who needs a garden, when you have a view over fields...?

hah! youre so right

Cakeguts

Actually the farmer didn't put the fence up. The developers put the fence up the farmer just filled in the gaps in the wood. If I was the farmer I would put a fence up on the other side of the track.

ScorpiondeRooftrouser

Hang on; the story I read states clearly that the council say the fence was erected on council owned land. Where has the idea that it was on the farmer's land come from? I can't see that anywhere, have I missed something.

AdrianC

ScorpiondeRooftrouser wrote: »

Hang on; the story I read states clearly that the council say the fence was erected on council owned land. Where has the idea that it was on the farmer's land come from? I can't see that anywhere, have I missed something.

I think you might be misreading. The sentence in the Sun article is...

The_Sun wrote:

Persimmon removed the fence after Blackburn with Darwen Council planning officials visited and told the firm the fence was constructed on land they owned.

Poorly worded, I agree, and could be read either way.

Tsk. What are standards coming to, when the Sun is not the zenith of literary perfection?

victoriavictorious

OMG, I hadn't realised it was Persimmon who had attached those posts to the house!
The house next door is correctly facing forwards, so clearly those moneygrabbing Persimmon barstewards wanted to shoehorn one last property sideways into the remaining undersized plot instead of just leaving it as an open space adjoining the farmer's land.
Imo Persimmon and those colluding solicitors - who, having agreed to take on both sides and created this conflict of interest, and who were being paid to excercise a duty of care to these hapless buyers - should all be sued til they squeak.
That said, the farmer is behaving like an a---e and a spiteful one at that. It would be better if instead of petulantly erecting a fence and taking his venom out on the innocent couple (who after all, only wanted their own home!) he and they could join forces against this greedy scum.
As you can tell, I'm bleeping furious.
EDIT
Just seen the cross-posts above mine. So if it wasn't the farmer, who WAS the moron who thought that was a good place to erect a 6ft fence?

dunstonh

I think the issue is that the "farmers" fence was actually nailed to the homeowner's fence and the homeowner's fence is just set back fractionally from their boundary. That allowed for it to be taken down.

Farmer can get around this by reinstating it an inch or two away from the homeowner's fence and not attach it.