Boundary fence dispute

moneyistooshorttomention

You have the proof you've paid for the fence - so let them have a copy of that and then ignore them and carry on treating your fence as your fence.

Davesnave

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

You have the proof you've paid for the fence - so let them have a copy of that and then ignore them and carry on treating your fence as your fence.

Unless the neighbour also paid.....
Stranger things have happened.


Also remember that you should not increase the height of the fence above 2m. If the existing fence is 1.8m and you put 0.36m on top, you'll be over the limit for boundary fences by 0.16m.


The limit's there for a reason; mainly safety in wind, but also so that undue shading shouldn't occur.

nicolahowe

We never attached to the top of the fence, we added an additional 36cm piece to the original fence on it's length. It just all seems ridiculous, we paid for all the materials with the purchase of our house, you would think he would be pleased that we paid over £1k for it. Ironically enough he has banged nails in and hung plastic pots all over his other neighbours boundary after they took the original wire fence down and erected a 1.8m closeboard fence. Unfortunately, he is a very unreasonable man, we are on a shared drive along with 5 other detached houses. Nobody is allowed to block access or cause an obstruction but he will park up to 8 (3 grown up children at home, mum and dad's cars and then boyfriends and girlfriends) of his families cars all over the drive causing the above and when asked to move, he'll tell you he doesn't care who owns what, he'll park where ever he likes! Anyway, I think it will cost a fortune to remeasure boundaries etc and to get developer to admit they've messed up, so now we are trying to determine via our solicitor if it is ok to take the closeboard down and put up a 1.2m wire fence instead, then he can have the outlay if he wants to be stupid over 36cm!!

Davesnave

nicolahowe wrote: »

Anyway .... now we are trying to determine via our solicitor if it is ok to take the closeboard down and put up a 1.2m wire fence instead, then he can have the outlay if he wants to be stupid over 36cm!!

In your original post you said that it's neighbour's responsibility to maintain, repair or replace the fence, so removing it now might not be an option your solicitor will approve.


Why are you prepared to go to the lengths of removing the fence, instead of just ignoring your bullying neighbour, doing what you want with it and leaving them to stew?


Much simpler!

nicolahowe

The family are a complete pain and sometimes you end up being as petty as them when they have continually broken title deeds covenants for the past 2.5 years. Our house insurance legal advisor said we could probably take it down and reinstate what should have been there as per original site plan (1.2m high wire fence) as we have paid for all materials. Not going to just listen to her though, we are also speaking with the original conveyancer. We thought we were doing the right thing by us and our neighbour as they said they wanted total privacy before we both moved in. We will never buy off plan again- said that last time!

25_Years_On

It doesn't make much sense to take the fence down. At least if gives you some privacy from an annoying neighbour which a wire fence wouldn't.

moneyistooshorttomention

25_Years_On wrote: »

It doesn't make much sense to take the fence down. At least if gives you some privacy from an annoying neighbour which a wire fence wouldn't.

...and you'd have wasted the money you spent on getting it too.

I know from personal experience here that it does help to have an annoying neighbour blocked out of sight by a fence. Previous to the fence going up, said neighbour was busily snooping like no-one's business and would be checking several times a day if there was something going on in MY garden for them to get annoyed about. You'd probably be on the receiving end of that sort of treatment if you took your fence down and realise that he was peering into your garden at regular intervals.

He sounds like the type who plans on carrying on regardless - everyone is to do what he wants, but he thinks it's okay for him to do whatever he pleases (all that parking!).

He's someone that wants to be "c*ck of the roost" from all accounts and, if you did remove your fence, he'd probably only find something else to "have a go" at you about. So what's the point then?

sheramber

If you can remove the board fence and install and wire one then erect the board fence inside the wire one so it is wholly on your land.