I really need some advice

honeybeehive12

I don't think the ground supports are his because the fence is on the higher aspect and my street was built first, along with the metal fencing. I just want the boundary to be shored up and will need advice on the best way forward. The brass neck of it all, creating unwanted hassle.

GDB2222

I don’t understand what you’re trying to achieve here. You can ask your neighbour to reinstall the railing, but it seems that he will not do that. You can even say that a whole forum full of strangers on the internet are on your side. He may still not be impressed.

What will you do then? Launch ruinously expensive legal proceedings, or spend a few hundred on ground work to stabilise the boundary?

honeybeehive12

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81986404#Comment_81986404

I'd come to the forum to find out what type of engineer would be best. I had a meeting with my own solicitor, not the legal protection one. I'll contact him again if the guy takes away the remaining rail. Who, in their right mind would remove a rail that belongs to a neighbour (he's admitted it's my rail), without even having the courtesy to ask them first? And then has the audacity to want to put his fence on my land? The family has a relative on my street and 've been told that person has been gossiping about me just because I won't let the fence be built on my land.

twopenny

Sticks and stones Honey. Annoying but those people may just be thinking what an idiot he is. You don't know.

Aim for reinstatement and a fence built on his land so you can't see them 😉

Unfortunately many people have problems with boundaries and fences. You definitely aren't alone in that.

WIAWSNB

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81986404#Comment_81986404

Ooh, that is surely unfair?

The onus to retain the OP's ground appears to be unambiguously the neighbour's. The neighb had a system in place which appeared to work, but removed it. The OP would like to have an assurance that their ground ain't going to move as a result, and if they were to put up a fence, it would be secure and shouldn't cost them any extra.

And you reckon the OP should install a retaining system of some sort to compensate?

WIAWSNB

Hbh12, if you wish to resolve this correctly, then please first leave out emoticisms like "who in their right mind" and "audacity".

This is a practical issue, and should be addressed thus.

So, do you have LegProt?

GDB2222

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81996522#Comment_81996522

Yes, it’s annoying, and I sympathise. Unneighbourly neighbours are a problem. However, you can make it worse by taking legal action. That’s because, even if you win and get awarded costs, you don’t get all your costs back. If your costs are £10,000 say, you will get back about £6000 to £7000. You can get the work done for an awful lot less than that £3-4k you don’t get back.