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Fence on Council Land

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  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    curpin wrote: »
    The question is, do the council has the legal rights to undertake the work and make me cover the costs?

    Yes, and it will cost more than if you pay someone to move it.
  • Grezz24
    Grezz24 Posts: 234 Forumite
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    can you (with help from friends / family) not just move the old fence into your garden for now to store it until you have the funds to remove it, surely thats much cheaper than the council doing the work.

    Seems like this is making a mountain out of a molehill, its moving it three feet as you said above, you could have done it all by now in the time its taken to post this / read the replies.
  • davidmcn
    davidmcn Posts: 23,596 Forumite
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    curpin wrote: »
    The question is, do the council has the legal rights to undertake the work and make me cover the costs?
    Yes, of course they do. If somebody dumped their fence on your land, do you not think you'd have the right to get it shifted at their expense?
  • curpin
    curpin Posts: 8 Forumite
    edited 5 September 2018 at 3:43PM
    ok, thank you all for your time and replies.
    Just a quick point, the fence is not dumped, it is just shifted outward a bit, but I guess that doesn't make any difference.
  • Mojisola
    Mojisola Posts: 35,571 Forumite
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    curpin wrote: »
    Just a quick point, the fence is not dumped, it is just shifted outward a bit, but I guess that doesn't make any difference.

    If the council had moved the fence 3' into your garden, I don't suppose you would be very happy.
  • stator
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    What type of fence is it?
    Why can you not move it yourself?
    Changing the world, one sarcastic comment at a time.
  • Slinky
    Slinky Posts: 11,281 Forumite
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    I can't picture this, how can somebody temporarily move a fence? Have they dug holes and moved the posts and panels over?
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  • macman
    macman Posts: 53,129 Forumite
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    The council don't have any 'legal rights' to make you do anything. But they can certainly do the work and bill you, and if you don't pay, they can pursue payment through a civil action against you. On the basis of the somewhat contorted evidence supplied, they would win.
    It's not clear if the fence has been taken down and dumped on council land, or been re-erected on their land, but it's still their right to insist that you move it.
    No free lunch, and no free laptop ;)
  • Comms69
    Comms69 Posts: 14,229 Forumite
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    I don't understand the OPs issue, he moved the fence 3 feet onto council land and now is complaining. Yes I appreciate there was a contractor and all that but at the end of the day the buck stops here.


    Just take it down, surely a few mates and some sledgehammers would manage that!
  • societys_child
    societys_child Posts: 7,110 Forumite
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    Humm, sounds like a land grab.
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