Its a fence one .

Yep, I agree with this, the only difference being I would have offered to contribute

OP you'll get 20 years or more out of the new fence provided it's not angled into the prevailing wind. If a panel fails, simple job to swap out. Ignore all the people being ridiculous over minor aesthetic differences. If you were my neighbour I'd be grateful for the obvious upgrade.

And? It's still doesn't show a fence that is "falling down" and it definitely doesn't show a "like for like" replacement.

This is valid. The op really should put the old one back and put hers in front of it,

@Whinge @SoupDragon the photo shows two panels in the old run. It does not show what is or was going on further down the fence line, or the prior condition of the fencing that has already been removed. The fence that came out is about as cheap as you can go and showing signs of rot, this is predictable when the panels have been set to the ground where they become permanently wet. If you have dogs etc, it wouldn't be secure at ground level once damage starts to build up.

The point is, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of the fence. It wasn't OP's to replace.

The panels in the photo don't look "falling down and requiring replacement" though.

Wow, posters are going overboard trying to skate the OP.
The new fence looks a million times better.
Can you ask them to leave it a few weeks and see if they get used to it?

From the photo the OP shared the old fence looks well just that, old. It's weathered, but it doesn't look like it was falling down. The neighbours didn't need a new fence, the OP wanted one, so why should they contribute?

Nope, not at all. But it wasn't OP's fence to replace. If she wasn't happy with it, she was free to build her own fence in her own property that was more to her liking.

What she wasn't entitled to do was destroy someone else's fence and replace it with something completely different 🤷‍♀️

There's no obligation for the neighbours to even have a fence, so of course they shouldn't have to pay to replace something they didn't want removing to begin with!

@fieldsofbutterflies have you missed the bit where the old fence was falling down and required replacement, and that neighbours haven't contributed to the costs.

And I’m glad my neighbour isn’t someone who destroys my stuff, replaces it with something I don’t like and expects me to be grateful for it 🤷‍♀️

Sorry, "taking with no give".

@fieldsofbutterflies other people have mentioned criminal damage. You're probably lovely, but glad you're not my neighbour. Life involves give and take. OP's neighbours are taking with give. It's not reasonable, and I wouldn't bend to them.

Eh? The bad side is the side you can't see in the picture.

@idreamoftoddlersleepytime they're not wrong - the neighbours agreed to a like for like replacement, which OP blatantly ignored.

I also never mentioned criminal damage.

This is what is comes down to.
It's their fence. The one thing they initially asked for was like for like -and it's completely different.
It makes no difference at all if the OP or anyone here thinks it looks better and will be stronger. It makes no difference if the neighbours are dickheads or angels sent from heaven. They don't like the fence. I think it's better -but it's not my fence!
I'd apologise and change the panels personally. You can get double sided ones. It's an expensive mistake, but it was your mistake and you have to live next door to these people long term.

@fieldsofbutterflies your facts are wrong. They all agreed to replace the fence (implied consent to remove the old broken fence). The dispute is whether the replacement will be like for like and whether neighbour's dissatisfaction is reasonable. Talk of criminal damage blah blah blah is utter bollocks. The police are not interested in fencing disputes. Never have been. Not even before austerity (when they were still capable of solving actual crimes).

Buying someone something they don't like and didn't ask for isn't doing them a favour or saving them money.

OP should have put up her own fence on her own property and left the neighbours one alone.

Struggling to see which is the "bad" side based on the picture?

Also people saying a change from horizontal to veritcal is a massive deal because it won't match the rest of the neighbours fucked up fences - do people really have so little in their sad lives that they think like this about a fucking garden fence? If I was your neighbour OP I'd be delighted you'd saved me a job.

Don’t replace the panels, if they hate it so much let them pay, their fence was practically falling down and you saved them money by paying yourself. I bet they don’t feel that strongly about it

😂😂

They can - and then they can send OP the bill for destroying their fence and refusing to replace it.

As a aside, the concrete posts are excellent - I had to replace 3 panels recently and it was so easy to just slide the new ones in.