Bullying, Harassment & Criminal damage by unpleasant neighbour.

baz8755

Schwarzwald said:

baz8755 said:

- Removing wall that separated from and back gardens to make a wraparound garden
- Removing substantial bushes that divided their front (now wraparound garden) from our rear garden
- Erecting a substantial shed forward of the main dwelling
- Erecting fencing around the previously open plan front garden

>>> So the front part of the rear (?) garden is demised to him?
is the front [porch] (?) demised to him?
or in other words, you might not like what he did, but did his actions actually interfere with your lease?

baz8755 said:

- Cutting down a tree on Council land that provided shade and cover to our garden
- Planting his own trees elsewhere on Council land to enhance his property. 

>>> why did you not report this to council?

i think it boils down less to what actions you liked/disliked or agreed/disagree with but which rights under his/your lease and/or the council he is stepping over.

You might find he is harassing you.
he might think what he does with his garden is none of your business.

We have not reported anything to anyone in an attempt to be good neighbours and keep things civil.

macman

I think that when he started painting lines on your front drive, then the boundary of 'civility' has already been breached...
You are clearly not going to resolve this dispute just by way of a friendly chat over the fence.

Albermarle

35har1old said:

Albermarle said:

_Penny_Dreadful said:

ProDave said:

What harm is an overhead cable doing, I am pretty sure the utilities have a right to do that.

Virgin lay cables underground and it sounds like to do that will involve digging up some of @baz8755’s driveway. 

Our neighbour recently had Virgin installed, and they have a fully block paved front of the house ( driveway and what was a garden) with a brick wall between most of the block paving and the pavement, and a wooden fence on each side. Virgin installers just drilled a hole in the base of the wall and ran the cable on top of the block paving alongside a fence . If you look over the wall you can easily see the cable running to a box on their house wall.

Installing cable on the surface doesn’t meet the required standard for cable installation.
Can easily be disconnect by third party intervention.
Sounds like Installation carried out by sub contractor with no supervision from Virgin should be at least 250mm

I guess if the householder preferred that to digging up their driveway, than they just accept the risk.
Even with our Openreach installation, although it goes through a buried conduit to begin with, the last couple of metres is clearly visible along the front of the house. That was actually Openreach themselves.

FlyMeSomewhere79

In terms of reporting anything or getting heavily into disputes, you need to think about whether you are likely to end up moving house - I had ignorant people move in to next to us, slamming doors at 4.20am onwards and just acting in denial when asked to stop waking us up, incredibly loud radio during the day and all sorts. And when it came down to it, we felt ready to move house as we also had an increasingly busy road outside. If you start getting deep in to disputes it's awkward when you have to fill in forms declaring whether or not you've had disputes with neighbours, if you've had a hefty dispute but don't declare it anf a buyer finds out, the can take legal action.

Sadly it didn't seem to us like there's much help.snd support for people with bad neighbours. It was better to move.

newsgroupmonkey_

baz8755 said:

Schwarzwald said:

baz8755 said:

- Removing wall that separated from and back gardens to make a wraparound garden
- Removing substantial bushes that divided their front (now wraparound garden) from our rear garden
- Erecting a substantial shed forward of the main dwelling
- Erecting fencing around the previously open plan front garden

>>> So the front part of the rear (?) garden is demised to him?
is the front [porch] (?) demised to him?
or in other words, you might not like what he did, but did his actions actually interfere with your lease?

baz8755 said:

- Cutting down a tree on Council land that provided shade and cover to our garden
- Planting his own trees elsewhere on Council land to enhance his property. 

>>> why did you not report this to council?

i think it boils down less to what actions you liked/disliked or agreed/disagree with but which rights under his/your lease and/or the council he is stepping over.

You might find he is harassing you.
he might think what he does with his garden is none of your business.

We have not reported anything to anyone in an attempt to be good neighbours and keep things civil.

Perhaps a suggestion to them that the council might be interested in their shed and the damage they've done to the council's property might not be amiss.....

One good deed deserves another.