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Gate that’s not a gate

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blingypoops · 22/04/2025 21:25

AIBU? Come home from work and this once once small shared gate has been replaced by a sort of fence that’s not a fence, its just pieces of wood? it’s literally nailed shut and you can’t open it, only from the inside? The gap is where I’ve booted it. Would you be angry?

Gate that’s not a gate
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Londonrach1 · 22/04/2025 21:38

Not a gate...maybe unfinished .do they rent or own...see what happens tomorrow as might be unfinished. I'd certainly be using the right of access alot in the next few weeks...

Happyher · 22/04/2025 21:37

Are you and neighbours tenants or owners. If owner check you deeds for rights of access and who’s responsible for which boundary. If a tenant contact your landlord

rwalker · 22/04/2025 21:36

Chances are it’s not finished I would of just asked them the plans for a handle on the outside
do you plan to repair the damage

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blingypoops · 22/04/2025 21:35

PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 22/04/2025 21:34

Is it unfinished and someone will be coming back to fix a handle and catch so it can be opened from both sides? What have you neighbours said about it? Did you know they were replacing it and what had they said it would be like?

ETA - you've answered me before I could finish typing!

Have you spoken to them this evening? They can't decide a one-way system must be used on shared access areas.

Edited

No that’s the finished article, I tried knocking on to ask what on earth but she wouldn’t come to the door, she sent her young daughter, I was not consulted.

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PhilosophicalCheeseSandwich · 22/04/2025 21:34

Is it unfinished and someone will be coming back to fix a handle and catch so it can be opened from both sides? What have you neighbours said about it? Did you know they were replacing it and what had they said it would be like?

ETA - you've answered me before I could finish typing!

Have you spoken to them this evening? They can't decide a one-way system must be used on shared access areas.

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blingypoops · 22/04/2025 21:33

Aliceglass · 22/04/2025 21:30

So I’m assuming your neighbours put this up who you share the gate with. I can’t believe they did this and not told you?! Are they new?

Yes, they are new. Been in about a month

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blingypoops · 22/04/2025 21:32

So it’s liked a shared entry that leads to the back gardens, the neighbours have put it up while I’ve been at work. There’s no handle to get in, it’s all just boarding. You can open it from the other side (you access that from the back gardens) they have literally made it so nobody can get in from the front, only from the back, if you stick your hand in the gap I’ve made by kicking in a piece, you can reach the handle on the other side if that makes sense. They never spoke with me about it before hand.

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Aliceglass · 22/04/2025 21:30

So I’m assuming your neighbours put this up who you share the gate with. I can’t believe they did this and not told you?! Are they new?

XWKD · 22/04/2025 21:28

Who put it up? Were they entitled to do so?

tealandteal · 22/04/2025 21:28

More information needed really, you mentioned it cant be opened and then said it can be from the inside? Who changed the fence and who owns it? It looks like a fairly normal fence to me.

PunxsutawneyPhilsShadow · 22/04/2025 21:26

Say what?

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