Vine on neighbours side of fence

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Abbafan1972 said:

tr7phil said:

Abbafan1972 said:

Yes a bamboo screen is what I'm thinking. It will be attached to wooden posts.  I'm not sure why she would want to keep the vine!  We could ask to go halves on new fencing but she doesn't seem interested at all!

Maybe she makes wine with the grapes, I do with mine and very nice it is too.  Mine is against the fence as well, although it's not fixed to the actual panels as I like to be able to maintain the fence without destroying the vine.

I don't know what it is to be honest.  We just call it "vine" but have never seen berries on it.  She doesn't seem the sort to be making wine!  I will have to post photos.  I did look up "Japanese Knotweed" just in case but I don't think that's what it is. 

I'll be it's Fallopia baldschuanica, it's common name is russian vine and it also gets named mile-a-minute - whichever name they use it is Fallopia.

This climber is used to clothe, quickly, areas/tree stumps, fences, anything that looks stark 'naked' - it's a great plant in the right place but like Leylandii people plant things inappropriately and the owners that inherit these things don't know, or won't spend on, keeping them in check. 

If she really doesn't give a hoot perhaps a little weedkiller sprayed on it would help it on its way.

Abbafan1972

theoretica said:

The vine seems irrelevant to the actual question which is that the fence between your properties has deteriorated and your neighbour seems happy to leave it that way.  Many fences aren't shared responsibility, but belong to one or the other properties - is this one hers or yours?

We don't know whose fence it is.  Can try and find out.  
@Belenus I like the photo you have posted of your garden. 

Belenus

stragglebod said:

Was hoping for a photo of the dog with its backside sticking out of the fence

Sorry to disappoint. I wish the incident had been filmed. It was very funny.

Dylan is a big strong dog but a very gentle giant. He just wanted to come into our garden to see what all the noise was about.

As you can imagine, there wasn't much of a gap with only three narrow overlapping panels removed and he also had to force his way through dense vegetation. He still managed to do it.

theoretica

Abbafan1972 said:

theoretica said:

The vine seems irrelevant to the actual question which is that the fence between your properties has deteriorated and your neighbour seems happy to leave it that way.  Many fences aren't shared responsibility, but belong to one or the other properties - is this one hers or yours?

We don't know whose fence it is.  Can try and find out.  
@Belenus I like the photo you have posted of your garden. 

If it is the sort of fence with posts on one side and panels then often they are put up with the smoother side to the property that paid for them and the back with the posts to the neighbour. Not always, of course, but it gives a first idea of which property is likely to own the fence.

twopenny

On my property the smoother side is away from me. All here have the posts in our garden. Possibly because of location being public at the back to stop kids climbing up it.

Where are the deeds to the property? Usually kept with a solicitor. There should be a plan attached to show which is whose boundary. Though you can't force her to replace it or pay for it it is a starting point for you to know how to proceed.

It might be yours in which case when you get it replaced the vine can accidently (with a bit of help) not recover from the works as she obviously doesn't cherish it if she cut it off from the root.

Davesnave

twopenny said:

Where are the deeds to the property? Usually kept with a solicitor. There should be a plan attached to show which is whose boundary.

If the property is registered, the electronic copy of the deeds will be accessible at £3 each download for the title plan and document from the Land Registry, but if not, then it may be somewhere else,  like at a solicitors' office. Regardless, it will most likely not say who owns a boundary fence. It certainly won't say who owns a boundary as that's just a theoretical line, and you can't own one of those!

Title plans show where boundaries are supposed to be, but usually only with an accuracy of around 40cm, so that might not be particularly helpful either.

Fences are  owned by the person who paid for them, or their successors, but often that info is lost in the mists of time.