Boundary Hedge - Legal Implications?
Discussion
Hi,
I’ve got 4 acres of field which I’ve turned into a wildflower meadow. On one side is my neighbour who built their house about 5 years ago. They share a boundary with me that’s about 60m long.
About 4 months ago the council informed them that they had not met their planning obligations and needed to plant a hedge (hawthorn etc.) along the 60m border. That’s good for me as I would have planted a hedge there anyway to provide privacy.
The neighbour organised the planting to be done a few weeks back and on that morning I get a phone call from the neighbours wife asking is it OK where the hedge was being planted. It turns out that they had arranged for it to be planted on my side of the boundary (outside of their mesh fence) because they had already planted stuff in their garden and the only way to put it on their side would be to dig up a lot of their plants.
I told them that it was an unfair question to ask me if it was OK because they should plant on their side. However, because it’s around 60m away from my house, intrudes by only a foot or so into my land which is huge and was something I would have planted anyway, I said OK.
But after a few weeks I’ve started thinking, is their any negative implication for me? Basically they have planted on my land - can they claim that the permission to plant gives them any right over the land in any way? Is there anything else I should be aware of?
I only ask because my property is on the market and need to be sure I have not opened up any cans of worms.
Just to end, neighbours are lovely and we get on great but he sometimes his social skills in understanding acceptable behaviour is sometimes a little lacking.
Cheers
I’ve got 4 acres of field which I’ve turned into a wildflower meadow. On one side is my neighbour who built their house about 5 years ago. They share a boundary with me that’s about 60m long.
About 4 months ago the council informed them that they had not met their planning obligations and needed to plant a hedge (hawthorn etc.) along the 60m border. That’s good for me as I would have planted a hedge there anyway to provide privacy.
The neighbour organised the planting to be done a few weeks back and on that morning I get a phone call from the neighbours wife asking is it OK where the hedge was being planted. It turns out that they had arranged for it to be planted on my side of the boundary (outside of their mesh fence) because they had already planted stuff in their garden and the only way to put it on their side would be to dig up a lot of their plants.
I told them that it was an unfair question to ask me if it was OK because they should plant on their side. However, because it’s around 60m away from my house, intrudes by only a foot or so into my land which is huge and was something I would have planted anyway, I said OK.
But after a few weeks I’ve started thinking, is their any negative implication for me? Basically they have planted on my land - can they claim that the permission to plant gives them any right over the land in any way? Is there anything else I should be aware of?
I only ask because my property is on the market and need to be sure I have not opened up any cans of worms.
Just to end, neighbours are lovely and we get on great but he sometimes his social skills in understanding acceptable behaviour is sometimes a little lacking.
Cheers
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