Neighbour trying to claim our land as his own

Kellyg619

Ms Chocaholic, I wish it was, I would report the whole thing as a hate crime. My Grandma is French, but with British origins. I think he means because I am from the Midlands and relocated to the rural North East (although that was three years ago!). I don’t think regionalism is a crime yet, although still a form of prejudice.

Davesnave

FreeBear wrote: »

With Easter coming up, I can live with that.

You dislike your neighbour that much?

I have experienced the regional prejudice thing myself. It was endemic in Devon and similar rural places 60 years ago when I first came here, but I honestly thought it had died out until moving to our current property. In my case, 'not being from round here' is factually correct, because I'm from a town 10 miles away!

These Neanderthals will not recognise the law or adhere to normal standards of behaviour because their 'roots' put them above all that. This is why my neighbour is now behind a barbed wire fence and numerous laurels. He can still swear at me and throw bottles into our field in an attempt to ruin the hay, but that's about all he can do.

Yes, tried negotiation and did as we agreed, but he still didn't like it, so I got tough and broke the agreement. Worked better.


What's the saying? "Strong fences make good neighbours."

JimmyChanga

Forget regionalism. If you've just moved to the next street you'll find people who think they own your property or have more rights than you because they've lived there longer.

When it comes to filming I would do it with CCTV or covertly. Someone standing out there obviously filming will likely make the situation worse.

Davesnave

JimmyChanga wrote: »

Forget regionalism. If you've just moved to the next street you'll find people who think they own your property or have more rights than you because they've lived there longer.

I didn't wish to imply that regionalism is the only reason for bullying behaviour and I agree that CCTV needs to be discreet too.
The reason for my post was mostly to point out that accommodation and negotiation can only go so far.

This person has limited access rights, so the OP has to tolerate his presence in that context, but like me, he may also have to put up physical barriers to ensure those rights aren't continually overstepped. It's an expensive hassle that shouldn't be necessary, regardless of what causes the intimidating behaviour

JimmyChanga

I didn't wish to imply that regionalism is the only reason for bullying behaviour

I didn't take it that way. Just my manner of speaking. :-)

casper_g

PasturesNew wrote:

That is the norm. The owner gets to look at the post/horrible side; the neighbour gets "the nice side".

I always assumed the "nice side facing the neighbours" line was a diplomatic way of justifying the convention. The real reasons for having the posts and rails on the inside of the fence (especially with neighbours like this) are to make it harder for anyone to climb over your fence, and to get the face of the fence as close as possible to the boundary while still having the posts on your own land.