Neighbour being a bell-end

[dudleybloke]

Is that a euphemism?

[Ilovejapcrap]

If it's his land they are hanging onto I would guess yes

[stevensdrs]

What's the steel post for?

[stewjohnst]

stevensdrs said:

What's the steel post for?

One would hope not for hanging a gate against, don't fancy a single skin wall supporting a steel gate.

He might have more than your coping stones on his drive.

Hopefully, it's just the closing bar on that side and the gate is being hung from the other side?

[ATTAK Z]

Demand a party wall agreement via solicitor's letter, then he'll have to tell you his intentions

[Bill]

AIUI he's allowed to cut anything overhanging his side but has to offer you back the clippings. (IANAL btw.)

[anonymous-user]

dudleybloke said:

Is that a euphemism?

[otherman]

It depends where the exact land ownership boundary is. You have deeds?

[ATTAK Z]

I would let him cut the copings. If it's not a neat job then get it done professionally and be the better man ....



or get some sausages, put them in the f ....................................

[AJL308]

Slyjoe said:

otherman said:

It depends where the exact land ownership boundary is. You have deeds?

Not to that degree - they show that we own the wall, not that we can't have a 1cm overhang onto his property.
I would have thought that its reasonable that a wall that did benefit the pair of us, could have a 1cm overhang onto his side. There again - I never commissioned or built it.
Does bell-end behaviour equal criminal damage or does it just quantify that he's a bell-end?

If you damage or destroy someone else's property without lawful reason or excuse then it's criminal damage. The fact that their property may be on your property is beside the point.

[ATTAK Z]

Slyjoe said:

Fair shout - as long as its just the one around his post...
Failing that I have several cans of red bull, a pack of frozen sausages and am fully prepared to kick his wife in the sponge....

chuckled

[thebraketester]

Make sure he throws the chopped off pieces of stone back over your wall....

[thebraketester]

Slyjoe said:

thebraketester said:

Make sure he throws the chopped off pieces of stone back over your wall....

So I can shove them up his ass, without missing a single piece?

No... so you can superglue them back on!

[SAB888]

Presumably the wall has piers, what side of the boundary are they? Is the wall just 100mm thick or 215mm thick?

[Ahbefive]

Tell him he's free to spend time and money cutting them back 10mm but if its not a perfectly straight cut and anything is at all wrong with it he can replace the lot.

[Mandat]

ATTAK Z said:

Demand a party wall agreement via solicitor's letter, then he'll have to tell you his intentions

If the wall belongs to the OP, like he says, then it won't be a party wall.

Even if the wall was a party wall, then it's doubtful that a party wall agreement would be necessarily required anyway.

[sherman]

Get some liquid nitrogen and freeze his new steel post and shatter it into a million pieces like something out of terminator2 .

[red_slr]

Photos.... lots and lots of photos.

[paulrockliffe]

How do you know the overhang wasn't taken into account when your wall was built and it's all on your land? it's a common sense thing to do given that people can be bellends,as you've found out.

Maybe when the wall went up the neighbour was a bellend, so it was all on your land? Have you any way of getting an idea of that, probably not? But your neighbour won't be able to prove it either.

[Mandat]

paulrockliffe said:

How do you know the overhang wasn't taken into account when your wall was built and it's all on your land? it's a common sense thing to do given that people can be bellends,as you've found out.

Maybe when the wall went up the neighbour was a bellend, so it was all on your land? Have you any way of getting an idea of that, probably not? But your neighbour won't be able to prove it either.

That does happen sometimes but it is then documented very well, i.e. in Deeds, plans, Land Registry, a sign on the wall itself, etc, as clear evidence so that a dispute can be avoided in the future.