Neighbour has put a horizontal please of wood on his fence encroaching our land

Elliott316

Our neighbour who we have zero communication with due to him threatening to punch me a few months back has for some unknown reason placed a couple of 5 ft posts on his fence but on our side.
They are useless,pointless dangerous as they protrude out.
Our neighbours are housing tenants and fear getting no where with their housing association as they previously have washed their hands of out of control trees that our damaging our shed from our neighbours garden.
What course of action does anyone suggest?
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neilmcl

Elliott316 wrote: »

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Post the link without the https:

Elliott316

Browntoa

http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=9sh66d&s=9#.XMQgoBnTWyU

Aylesbury_Duck

If you want to keep the quiet life, ignore them. They don't appear to be in your way, no matter how annoying and idiotic the neighbour might be. As to your rights, you suggest he owns the fence? If so, he can attach things to it but they must not encroach onto your land/airspace, so he is obliged to removed them. How you get him to do so given your history is up to you, but you are within your rights to insist he removes them.

As to what they're for, I'm guessing he's adding reinforcement for something impending. Perhaps he's going to attach a lean-to to the fence or something.

stator

Wait until he goes out and then remove it

Mr.Generous

He's treated them to match the fence, they aren't really in your way, unless you really want to potentially go to "all out war" with someone next door who threatens violence just ignore them.

It would be very amusing if you used them to hang pots or something, make out you welcome them and they would be more inclined to get rid I suspect.


PS Would be interesting to hear about the threats to punch for a bit of background.

Mr.Generous

stator wrote: »

Wait until he goes out and then remove it

And then wait till he notices and punches you. :j

Ms_Chocaholic

How did he fix these on if they are on your side, lean over?

bris

His LL's have a duty of care to you, in other words any threats are treated as anti social behaviour.


Take them down and give him them back by putting them over the fence. if he gets upset with you then complain to his housing association about his anti social behaviour, if he makes threats involve the police.


It's up to you in the end, either be a door mat or take it all the way.
Housing associations do evict antisocial tenants.

Fire_Fox

Welcome to MSE.

Report any problems with the tenant or problems with the property to the Housing Association, providing you believe that the law has been broken or the tenancy agreement has been breached.

Record and report all abuse or threats to your local police. If abuse or threats continue you might look into whether a Non-molestation Order is appropriate. This is the version of a Restraining Order that you can apply for yourself. The court considers the 'balance of probability' rather than 'beyond reasonable doubt'.

Report problems in writing (letter or e-mail) so you form a paper trail. If there is evidence of harrassment/ antisocial behaviour/ tenancy breaches the landlord can evict the tenant.

You have the legal right to trim any tree branches that overhang your property. AFAIK you do not have the right to insist that someone else trims their trees unless they are dangerous.

HTH.