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you have walked out of your back door and are looking straight down the garden (with your back to the house) which fence is your responsibility, left or right? :nenau
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just random, are there any differences in different areas or is it the same all over the country (England)?
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my neighbour is hard to talk to and it says nothing about it in my deeds, well not last time I looked and I don't know where they are now, they were in a bag under my daughters bed - don't say it I know you are supposed to look after these things :doh
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None of these rules are reliable, I have been in the building trade for 35 years and deeds/land registry are the only reliable guides some times council records, but most often there is no definition at all even on more recent builds just a boundary line, whoever put up the fence is the owner but it will not be on the deeds as it would have been erected as a small time job and not usually thought that a solicitor with the costs involved is worth the effort, it is very similar to drains they are on a plan as the designers thought best but when paddy comes to dig the trench there is a 20 ton pile of bricks in the way so he digs it 20 yards further down but the plans never get up dated, Rick
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My fence is on the right and I am resposible for the end boundary at the bottom of my garden.
My mothers house is the same except for the end boundary.
You need to check the deeds.
As a general rule unless yours is a corner plot or end house all neighbours tend to be the same either on the left or on the right. Can you ask your nearby neighbours?
Switching often occurrs where there has been infill ribbon development where the first newer house can end up with all three !!
My fence is on the right and I am resposible for the end boundary at the bottom of my garden.
My mothers house is the same except for the end boundary.
You need to check the deeds.
As a general rule unless yours is a corner plot or end house all neighbours tend to be the same either on the left or on the right. Can you ask your nearby neighbours?
Switching often occurrs where there has been infill ribbon development where the first newer house can end up with all three !!
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I am responsible for the bottom and the right as we have no neighbours on those sides, it is just open grass land. The other neighbours, next door and the one after are bluddy hard work! The fence in questions was erected by the neighbour (well he paid for it) before we lived here, I have maintained it and replaced the panels (not posts) twice, each time we went halves on the cost of the panels and i did the work for nothing.
Now the fence is close to needing total replacement, but he has had a concrete pathway laid right up against the gravel boards on his side, so if will mean wrecking his path to do the job well. I haven't brought it up with him yet but I wanted to be ready for any problems that might arise.
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it's worth a £10 :augie
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Indeed! Listen and learn Young Sprocket!
I'm with Rick, theres no hard and fast rule in my experience (buying and selling 40-odd houses).
How were the posts put in - concreted? Could you just whack metaposts in?
Not sure if theres anyone next door to this turkey; if there is, you could try asking one of the neighbours a few doors away what their setup is and extrapolate backwards? Then if it IS his fence, ask him if it will stand up to the new rottweiller thats arriving next week :lol
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I think it was one of my goats that finished the old one off, but don't tell him that! Our planning dept agrees, there is no 'hard and fast' rule, and it is not mentioned in the deeds.
The present fence is concrete posts (cracked and decaying, cheap crappy posts probably) concreted in, plus the gravel board is concreted 6 inches into the ground too, so I will need to dig quite a trench. Which means wrecking his path
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I think it was one of my goats that finished the old one off, but don't tell him that! Our planning dept agrees, there is no 'hard and fast' rule, and it is not mentioned in the deeds.
The present fence is concrete posts (cracked and decaying, cheap crappy posts probably) concreted in, plus the gravel board is concreted 6 inches into the ground too, so I will need to dig quite a trench. Which means wrecking his path
well don't end up losing any ground. thats his problem.
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that's the nub of the matter, he lost a few inches of ground when he had the fence put there years ago and if i start meddling it may open the subject up for debate :augie
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well whats a couple of inches here or there? wait, I'll go and ask my wife......
It's not so much here, but there that causes the complaints :augie
