Neighbours property affecting mine

murphil

Hi! 

Looking for some advice in a few issues: my neighbour at the rear of my property has been gathering building materials on their garage and storing toward the back of theirs, over looking my garden. They run a building firm and this has been going on for a few years now. (Many) Ladders, tiles, bath tubs, bricks, all sorts really sit on their garage and we constantly see them up there sorting out and piling more on. The corrugated roof which this is on, overhangs into my garden by a couple of inches, which is stopping me from erecting a new fence. Furthermore, they have a gathered a mass of scaffolding Poles which lean in their garden, but seem to hang into my boundary - not on the ground, but in the air of property. As said this is all stopping me from putting up a new fence and making use of my entire garden. I think it’s unsafe and looks awful. Before I go and argue this, do I have any right to?? 

Thanks, 

mwarby

I think you have the right to not have neighbours property stopping you from erecting a fence on you own land.

I do wonder how well the boundary is defined, in places I’ve owned and lived (two) the plans and title deeds were somewhat vague. I’m not sure without the aid of a surveyor I could be confident in the boundary to a matter of inches, but in general both sides accept the location of the fences as being the boundary. I’m not sure I’d trust thing enough to extend right up to the line though(without clarification)

murphil

Thank u for that! Yeah, I had realised the boundary line detail may be an issue. One thing: there are concrete fence posts already erected on my side (meaning it would be easy for me to install new panels) this gives me the thought that they are coming over on to my side. I think my real issue is how to define and deal with the scaffolding poles which, though not directly laying in my garden, the way they lean, if I were to build anything taller than the small shed there now - like a pergola or something, they would definitely effect it. Real ache of a head scratcher. 

Grenage

Your first port of call is going round there in a friendly manner, explaining what you want to do, and what they need to move for that to work.

This has the potential to be sorted in minutes - depending on the neighbor.