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Neighbour stealing my garden!

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fencedispute2024 · 01/12/2024 21:31

See obligatory diagram.

i can home today to find that my neighbour has put a new fence up and taken part of my garden. The blue area is my garden, grey is neighbours and the red part has now been fenced off.

the area is definitely mine. I’ve even shown a copy of the plans from when the house was built to the neighbour and his response was “anyone could have drawn that”. It’s a document that is signed and stamped FGS.

neighbour moved in 8 years ago so doesn’t have an adverse possession claim. There was previously a hedge there which was removed before neighbour moved in. 2/3 of the garden is a fence. Neighbour has extended that fence in a straight line rather than the boundary. We both own in case relevant.

where do I go from here?

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fencedispute2024 · 01/12/2024 21:35

I’ve got the title deeds for my house. That’s what I showed to neighbour and he said anyone could have drawn them!

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DrinkFeckArseBrick · 01/12/2024 21:34

Solicitors. You could Bellshill him and tell him that you've spoken to a solicitor and they confirmed the plans are genuine and that you can start legal proceedings but you value him as a neighbour and you'd rather just be sensible and put things back to where they were before instead of landing him with legal fees. But otherwise i think a solicitor is the only way to go

allthemiddlechildrenoftheworld · 01/12/2024 21:34

@fencedispute2024 looks like it should be theirs but if you go onto the land registry you can get the title for both houses. it does not cost much.

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