Issue with shared front garden

[Deleted User]

I've taken the time to read through this whole thread and have to say what a nightmare your neighbours sound. She sounds rude and obnoxious and he is just completely under the thumb and needs to grow a pair.

Its time to stop the nice approach as it clearly hasn't worked so far and they're ignoring all of your requests and attempts at compromise because they think you're a soft touch.

If I were you i'd go down the legal route. Thats the only way they are going to sit up and pay any attention.

Meanwhile plant loads of plants in pots, bee attracting plants and completely fill your half of the garden with them, they are your property and they can't touch them.

arciere

Cakeguts wrote: »

I can't see how cutting all the vegetation out is going to reduce the number of flies. They don't just live in a particular front garden they can come from anywhere. So what is the real reason behind this? Do they want to concrete it over?

I think that the real reason is that the wife is terrified by insects and pretends that husbands removes all the green surrounding the house (we are on the edge of a huge park, if I could post a photo you would be laughing).

arciere

MrsPorridge wrote: »

Presumably the back garden (either your half or theirs) backs onto their part of the house as well? If so, what are they doing to the back garden?

Their portion of the back garden was forgotten until a few months ago when all this started. Then, they removed all the weeds they had (which had grown considerably since we moved in last year, having been left untouched for 12 months or so) and obviously have no trees/plants/flowers. Half paved, half a brownish, dead patch of land.

arciere

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

Put in writing that the front garden is a shared space that affects the value of both properties and that you wish to agree a simple planting scheme that is low maintenance and agreeable to both parties. Stress that this is a basic requirement for leasehold property ownership and there is no need for a court.

I think that's going to be tricky, the front garden is not in our leases, only in the freehold that we both own.

arciere

Deleted_User wrote: »

Meanwhile plant loads of plants in pots, bee attracting plants and completely fill your half of the garden with them, they are your property and they can't touch them.

We've already started with nice flowers in our back garden, but first I had to remove the ants powder that I foolishly agreed for them to put around the perimeter of the house. But obviously they know they can't say anything about that.

onwards&upwards

I think you should swap flats.

arciere

onwards&upwards wrote: »

I think you should swap flats.

Ha! Our door is next to theirs, literally 50cm away. We don't have any problems with flies when we get back home, but I am 100% sure they would.

Gillhams99

Issue with shared front garden ( joint freehold)