Boundary query?

Martin_the_Unjust

GaryBC said:

Martin_the_Unjust said:

GaryBC said:

Martin_the_Unjust said:

If I was your neighbour I would be taking the chain link fence down and making good just so that I could mow all the way up to the fence.

Do you really expect your neighbours to put up with a weed strewn 6 inch strip of land? 

What on earth are you talking about?

How do you intend to maintain the 6 inch wide strip of land you own between your fence and the original chain link fence?

What's that got to do with my question about the boundary? 

Because if you are not going to maintain your own land, 'out of sight out of mind' then it is going to become a weed infested strip of land that is in sight of your neighbour.

If I was your neighbour I would consequently want to maintain it and the easy way to do that is to take the existing chain link fence down and lawn it up to the new fence.

If I have lawned it and maintained it eventually I am going to consider it 'mine' 

Mickey666

Exactly. 

Furthermore, if the OP then decides to dispute the neighbour's effective ownership of the land, there will be no proof that the chain-link fence was ever the boundary, the whole dispute could end up in arbitration, a boundary surveyor would need to be engaged, they would visit the site and in the absence of any other evidence would almost certainly declare the wooden fence as the new boundary. It could be the most expensive 6-inch strip of land the OP has ever previously owned (and lost!).

So basically, the answer to the OPs original question is 'yes'.

The other point is that this isn't really a good forum for such a question (as the OP suspected) and gardenlaw.co.uk would be the place for truly expert advice, specifically: https://www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4

GaryBC

This thread has drifted too far from my original question.
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George_Michael

GaryBC said:

This thread has drifted too far from my original question.
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Not the end I'm afraid as forums don't work that way.
How can what has been said have caused the thread to drift away from your original question seeing as that question was:

GaryBC said:

My question is: is there any danger of this fence becoming seen as the de facto boundary? 

and what has been posted directly relates to that question.

Mickey666

GaryBC said:

First off, I'm not sure if this is the best place to ask this question - so apologies if I'm in the wrong foram!

We only have a chain link fence between us and next door so, to act as a privacy screen, I erected a fence a few inches my side of the chain link. 
My question is: is there any danger of this fence becoming seen as the de facto boundary? 

Thanks!

First off - it isn't and you are.
To answer your main question: Yes.
The reasons behind those answers are in the previous replies that you seem to have ignored.

Martin_the_Unjust

Ah well, you can but try

Davesnave

Martin_the_Unjust said:

Ah well, you can but try

I think everyone did very well, considering it's the 'wrong' forum.

You were all outclassed by Gary, but there was a strong come-back.