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Neighbour using my garden
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Section62 said:Emmia said:Section62 said:jojan5709 said:Thank you so much everyone for all your comments, you are wonderful to have taken the time. Just as one person said if it is a fire escape route, I would not want to take it away but having said that and considering other comments, if it really is an escape route why is it not just in his back garden as he has access from the back and front of his house....Do you mean he has an access (gate) from his back garden out to a street somewhere? If so, there seems to be no technical reason why he'd need a fire escape route through your garden. I think he may have been spinning a tale.0
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Emmia said:Section62 said:Emmia said:Section62 said:jojan5709 said:Thank you so much everyone for all your comments, you are wonderful to have taken the time. Just as one person said if it is a fire escape route, I would not want to take it away but having said that and considering other comments, if it really is an escape route why is it not just in his back garden as he has access from the back and front of his house....Do you mean he has an access (gate) from his back garden out to a street somewhere? If so, there seems to be no technical reason why he'd need a fire escape route through your garden. I think he may have been spinning a tale.
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Section62 said:Emmia said:Section62 said:jojan5709 said:Thank you so much everyone for all your comments, you are wonderful to have taken the time. Just as one person said if it is a fire escape route, I would not want to take it away but having said that and considering other comments, if it really is an escape route why is it not just in his back garden as he has access from the back and front of his house....Do you mean he has an access (gate) from his back garden out to a street somewhere? If so, there seems to be no technical reason why he'd need a fire escape route through your garden. I think he may have been spinning a tale.0
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I live in a new build with no access from the back to the street. I would simply put a lock on the passage way0
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FlorayG said:Section62 said:Emmia said:Section62 said:jojan5709 said:Thank you so much everyone for all your comments, you are wonderful to have taken the time. Just as one person said if it is a fire escape route, I would not want to take it away but having said that and considering other comments, if it really is an escape route why is it not just in his back garden as he has access from the back and front of his house....Do you mean he has an access (gate) from his back garden out to a street somewhere? If so, there seems to be no technical reason why he'd need a fire escape route through your garden. I think he may have been spinning a tale.For two-storey single-occupancy domestic dwellings yes, but for other types of building the situation varies in terms of requirements for escape.But a wholly moot point if the neighbour does have some external back garden access/egress other than the gate into the OP's garden.1
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Jojan, could you come back to clarify, please? A sketch would help too.But, on some elemental points as said before, countless gardens have no exit other than through the house. Most back-to-back Victorian terraces are like this. Do folk perish in their gardens if their house goes on fire? Of course not - they'd crash through the fence in to a neighbouring garden long before this. Do you think any of these folk could insist on a fire-escape gate being put in to their neighbour's boundary? Not a chance.0
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nottsphil said:jojan5709 said:However he later found out that the gate was an escape route for the neighbour because they had built their extension right up to the boundary
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