Moving my fence to the edge of my boundary?

Alan2020 · 18 June 2019 at 3:23PM

The reason it’s planted is to prevent using your fence as a graffiti board and vaulting over it. If you remove it and move fence, your garden will get bigger adding value. However it will cost to move fence, and what will you do if people graffiti rude, racist and sexist words on your fence. Who will buy your house at market value? What if teenagers sit against fence smoking pot in the evenings?? I cannot see how much value you will gain net.

Personally I will plant a dense hedge making breaking in, graffiti or sitting against it impossible. Thorny hedges, roses are ideal.

Fire_Fox · 18 June 2019 at 3:45PM

Sinking posts for a fence right next to an asphalt/ tarmac footpath could very well damage the footpath. You would be charged for any repair: at council rates that could be pricey.

ethank · 18 June 2019 at 3:56PM

It looks like this has been done for reasons of security, to prevent people climbing directly on the fence.

Make sure you read your legal transfer TP1 that you signed and your contract. There is probably a restrictive covenant preventing you from moving your fence.

MoneySeeker1 · 18 June 2019 at 4:33PM

Another way of looking at it would be to decide to leave bushes/shrubs/etc on this part of your garden, but make them ones of your choice.

So, take out the existing bushes/shrubs and plant ones you have chosen and like the look of and/or can get some use from (eg fruit-growing ones that are unusual enough that hopefully no-one else will know they are edible and nick your fruit as they walk past).

That way you get some use from that part of your garden, but aren't putting your fence at risk.

AnotherJoe · 18 June 2019 at 4:38PM

One word - Pyracantha

But in any case for sure I'd let the bushes grow and would not extend.

Cakeguts · 18 June 2019 at 5:03PM

There also may be some sort of service running down there as well.

Mpayne87 · 18 June 2019 at 6:09PM

Yeah I totally get what all you are saying about keeping bushes there for security reasons, i really never thought of that. Now looking at it as we have fields at the back they put double the width of prickly bushes along the back of all the garden fences.
if someone graffiti the fence I’d paint it but I get where your coming from.
I’m going to take a look through all my documents. Thanks
I wouldn’t be so bothered about it, if I didn’t need a log cabin with a shed side store in the garden, which is for the wife to do her work in, when we have the little bambino’s. &#55357;&#56883;&#55357;&#56834;

Thanks for all your advise.

Mpayne87 · 18 June 2019 at 6:13PM

Thanks for sorting the photos out ::beer:

DigForVictory · 18 June 2019 at 6:17PM

If you want prickles with a bonus, go for gooseberry bushes. Distinctly unfriendly to visitors, but a couple of handfuls of the fruit chucked into almost any jam pretty much guarantees it'll set.
Oh you may well get strangers picking & birds etc but since you know they're there, you get first dibs.

Mpayne87 · 18 June 2019 at 6:36PM

Thanks for sorting the photos out

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