Making a fence and neighbours tights
Discussion
Long story short, we’ve made a fence dividing the front of both properties and around our front - next door have gone ballistic.
It’s a nice solid fence, made with decent wood, 1 metre in height. Not an eye sore at all. We’ve been very fair and built it approx 1 foot onto our side instead of the boundary, as it was our idea, it’s on our land, based on the deeds.
We verbally told them around 4 months ago we were going to erect a fence and they were fine with it, but should this have been done in writing?
I will admit I built it as I was fed up of them walking through our front garden, letting their dog dump its belongings and they would occasionally leave things in it.
Is there a law against this? I’ve googled it and seems it’s fine.
It’s a nice solid fence, made with decent wood, 1 metre in height. Not an eye sore at all. We’ve been very fair and built it approx 1 foot onto our side instead of the boundary, as it was our idea, it’s on our land, based on the deeds.
We verbally told them around 4 months ago we were going to erect a fence and they were fine with it, but should this have been done in writing?
I will admit I built it as I was fed up of them walking through our front garden, letting their dog dump its belongings and they would occasionally leave things in it.
Is there a law against this? I’ve googled it and seems it’s fine.
There could be something in your deeds but it may not be possible for a neighbour to enforce any of that anyway. Maybe there could be a condition on the original planning permission that precludes it?
If you can rule these things out then you are probably in the clear although I would ask if it was smart to build a foot in from the boundary, you are effectively giving that land away by doing it.
If you can rule these things out then you are probably in the clear although I would ask if it was smart to build a foot in from the boundary, you are effectively giving that land away by doing it.
Randy Winkman said:
Baroque attacks said:
Which way does it ‘face’?
That might be an issue with regards them getting wound up but I'm sure we had a thread on here last year where people (who seemed to know) said that's just an issue of convention. Though I appreciate you didn't say otherwise. ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
The only problem I can forsee is that many newer estates have a clause in "Planning" that no front gardens shall be fenced off but I doubt it's ever enforced unless it's blocking a sight line.
I'd be a bit concerned that it's not on the boundary but if you're happy to give away a bit of your land then fair enough. Could I suppose cause a problem when you come to sell, can't really comment on that. The alternative is just keep shovelling the dogs
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Skyedriver said:
Randy Winkman said:
Baroque attacks said:
Which way does it ‘face’?
That might be an issue with regards them getting wound up but I'm sure we had a thread on here last year where people (who seemed to know) said that's just an issue of convention. Though I appreciate you didn't say otherwise. ![smile](/inc/images/smile.gif)
The only problem I can forsee is that many newer estates have a clause in "Planning" that no front gardens shall be fenced off but I doubt it's ever enforced unless it's blocking a sight line.
I'd be a bit concerned that it's not on the boundary but if you're happy to give away a bit of your land then fair enough. Could I suppose cause a problem when you come to sell, can't really comment on that. The alternative is just keep shovelling the dogs
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