Neighbour encroaching my garden

Duckdoodles

Bendy_House said:

Duck, add to your research that alleyway... See if there's any reference to it - say as a Right-of-Way - on her deeds. If there is, ie it is ONLY a RoW, then that's a cracking lever to use.

It'll then become, "Thanks for asking me to clear my land, as I've discovered you've been trespassing on part of it. I also notice you've taken over an alleyway that is not yours. I'm not too concerned about the alley - not sure if I should report it or not - but I DO insist you remove all your property off my land. You have until the Xth. Ok?"

And you record this.

You situation isn't as clear in my head now that you've added the alleyway bit, so any chance of a sketch, or a pic of your deeds map?

And here's the google view of it at the moment. 

The red blob is on the compost heap. The blue  line is where I think the alleyway used to be before she fenced it off and the yellow blob is my house.

DanDare999

From that aerial view it doesn't look to be on your property.

Duckdoodles

DRP said:

download the google earth app for desktop (mac or pc) and you can rewind the map view to look at views back to 1985 (at least in my area you can).

https://www.google.com/intl/en_in/earth/versions/

Thank you, DRP! I have and am just trying to figure out how to look at the history. I found the button, so that's a start hopefully! 

Bendy_House

DanDare999 said:

From that aerial view it doesn't look to be on your property.

Yes, I'm not sure about that either, Ducks!

Under your trees, what is physically there to determine the correct boundary line between the two of you?

DE_612183

No it's definitely your land - also the alleyway looks like the only reason to have one there is for access to you garden

Duckdoodles

Have a look at tBendy_House said:

DanDare999 said:

From that aerial view it doesn't look to be on your property.

Yes, I'm not sure about that either, Ducks!

Under your trees, what is physically there to determine the correct boundary line between the two of you?

It's a fence. If I can figure out how to get a winter view, it might be more clear. Basically, if I walk along the fence on that side, my walk ends at the compost heap because of the fence they have put there at 90 degrees. However, if I move to the left, my garden goes on for about a meter and a half or so, up to a wall, which faces that concrete looking rectangle box.

DRP

Is it definitely on your property? from the google pic it looks half on half off at best.

Duckdoodles

That wonky blue line is my fence. The right angle is the fence they have put up around the compost heap.  

DRP

Duckdoodles said:

Have a look at tBendy_House said:

DanDare999 said:

It's a fence. If I can figure out how to get a winter view, it might be more clear. Basically, if I walk along the fence on that side, my walk ends at the compost heap because of the fence they have put there at 90 degrees. However, if I move to the left, my garden goes on for about a meter and a half or so, up to a wall, which faces that concrete looking rectangle box.

does that mean the neighbour has removed your fence, or that your fence never actually continued all the way to the concrete rectangle (garage?)

Duckdoodles

April 2019