Rear boundary fence

rexmedorum

Check your deeds they should normally indicate which fences are your responsibility.
How long have you lived there? Have kids attended the school while you're there?

Although it looks lovley in the picture, I'd be worried about kids climbing the fence and about a total lack of privacy during school hours so I'd probably welcome the fence.

Have they already started? Can you talk to the school to get the boundry fence replaced instead? 

rexmedorum

ProDave said:

You could take the wire fence down and effectively gain a few inches of garden.

Seems like a recipe for potential conflict in the uture though, especially if you sold and future buyers are not aware of the back story.

wilfred30

You can see the workman's orange jacket just to the right of that strange looking tree!

Bendy_House

rexmedorum said:

ProDave said:

You could take the wire fence down and effectively gain a few inches of garden.

Seems like a recipe for potential conflict in the uture though, especially if you sold and future buyers are not aware of the back story.

? The 'back story'?

You mean, 'a school puts up a fence'? That they are entitled to. And are almost certainly obliged to as well?

As Section says, schools do have a duty of care to their 'customers', and will be marked down for a lack of site security.

This is a non-story. The OP preferred the 'open' view - which is fair enough - but which they are not entitled to - which is just the way it is. I also suspect that most potential buyers would prefer the idea of a 2m fence between them and the school.

user1977

Bendy_House said:

rexmedorum said:

ProDave said:

You could take the wire fence down and effectively gain a few inches of garden.

Seems like a recipe for potential conflict in the uture though, especially if you sold and future buyers are not aware of the back story.

? The 'back story'?

You mean, 'a school puts up a fence'?

No, I think they mean the OP "grabbing" the bit of land between the old and new fences. The legal boundary remains wherever it was.

gingercordial

ic said:

You feel hemmed in in that garden?  Your garden runs all the way to the timber fence?  I can't make out a wire fence in that picture, unless you mean the one that is by the BBQ/house thing.

I thought that at first, but the wire fence is about halfway up the photo.  There's a stone balustrade and behind that is a little stone building and the wire fence is just behind that.  You can just see the workman the OP refers to, wearing orange hi viz and mostly behind a tall thin tree.  The wire fence post is in front of him and if you see that you will then spot the wire mesh fence running across.  It's hard to see!

The timber fence at the top of the photo is, per the OP, the fence on the other side of the playing field.  So OP will have a similar fence across their garden, about halfway up the photo, once the workman is finished.  

Norman_Castle

sos22 said:

The existing boundary fence I'm guessing isn't on anyone's land per se as it is a boundary (perimeter) fence and I would imagine it is the responsibility of both landowners to maintain.

The fence will clearly be on someones land highly likely the schools as its unlikely they would have left their playing fields alongside a property garden unfenced. Regardless of ownership of the wire fence if the new fence is within planning guidelines and on their land there is no reason for them not to put one there.

Teapot55

sos22 said:

you can see the workman.  he is infilling the fence with timber slats.  It will look like the fence in the distance which separates the playing field from an alley way.

I can see why the OP is disappointed: that fabulous view of what is effectively sunlit parkland with neatly-mown grass & mature trees is not going to be nearly as visible once a two metre wooden fence is in place. 

A future scenario of hordes of truculent individuals shouting abuse & accusations of a sexual nature at the occupants of the garden through a wire fence, while theoretically possible, is unlikely. I’d prefer a close-mesh 12ft-high wire fence if it was my property, in order to keep the amazing view, but I think this situation is already a fait accompli.

The suggestion above  about ofsted-imposed requirements seems very likely. 

sos22

The school went ahead and installed the fence anyway.
the photos are taken from 1st floor level.
It looks very different from the ground floor.

TheJP

sos22 said:

I could, but what i actually like is the openness and space that the wire fence provides rather than it being hemmed in and enclosed by a timber fence.  The original chain link fence has been in place for years but now the school is using 'safeguarding and security' as their reason for changing it.  The same way the phrase 'heath and safety' is bandied around without anyone really knowing what it means ....

But you don't own that land it would be the schools land. I don't see an issue with what the school has done but i also don't see how you will be able to take the fence down and gain the extra land without the schools approval. More chance of hitting the lottery jackpot than easing passed school red tape.