Can I put a front fence up between me and neighbours?

Bookworm105

if you were dying of thirst in a desert and came to an oasis with a water tap marked for the use of Mr Bloggs only would you take a drink from it if your name is Smith?

You have to live there, pick your fight and go to war over whichever one you choose to fight: immediate neighbour, another neighbour who tries to enforce open plan, and / or your council 

Herzlos

ThorOdinson said:

Open plan is another terrible idea. Why do they allow this to be built?

Most new builds are pretty open plan and there's rarely any issues. If each garden had barriers on each side you'd need more land, more maintenance and it'd look smaller.

A friend of mine had an open driveway with the neighbour (with a few inches height difference so you knew where the boundary was), the neighbour objected to visitors walking on her monoblocked driveway to get round his car, so the end result was a fence was put up and now both of them have to shuffle along a small gap to get into their houses. Madness.

ThorOdinson

Herzlos said:

ThorOdinson said:

Open plan is another terrible idea. Why do they allow this to be built?

Most new builds are pretty open plan and there's rarely any issues. If each garden had barriers on each side you'd need more land, more maintenance and it'd look smaller.

A friend of mine had an open driveway with the neighbour (with a few inches height difference so you knew where the boundary was), the neighbour objected to visitors walking on her monoblocked driveway to get round his car, so the end result was a fence was put up and now both of them have to shuffle along a small gap to get into their houses. Madness.

The whole reason they do it is so they can build micro houses in smaller space. It's covering up the fact that it IS small.

Sadly a camera and making the neighbour pay for the damage is the only way to resolve it, since they aren't allowed to put in planters.