I am in desperate need of advice. We have lived very happily in our house for 14 years. Lovely neighbours etc. Long story short, the lady next door to us moved to a smaller property after her husband died . So our nightmare began. The people who moved in have made our life a misery from the start. There is too much to go into here.
We live in a corner property but our garage path looks onto next doors path. We had a dispute over the existing fence between the two property’s which was in a state of disrepair. We had replaced the fence that was there when we moved in although next door offered to share the cost. They were elderly so my husband just sorted it.
Next door have been on at us for over a year to “get the fence sorted “ and told us in no uncertain terms they” wouldn’t be giving us a penny towards it. We eventually consulted a solicitor and the deeds of both houses show that next door are responsible for the maintenance of that boundary. We wanted nothing to do with them and asked our solicitor/ and council if we could just erect a new fence for ourselves but on our property we actually used part of the land on the path. The said fence has now been erected but we came home today to find him painting the side of the fence that is facing him. IT IS NOT A SHARED FENCE and cost us a lot of money . I asked him what he was doing and he said he is within his right to paint the fence whatever colour he wanted and that his solicitor had told him this.
As I write this he is outside finishing off the painting. My blood is boiling especially after the last 18 months we have lived with his abuse. Does anyone know if he is entitled to do this? He could just put up his own fence but he has removed the original concrete posts and is now just using our fence as his own.
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