Cheap solicitor letter for neighbours

[Cluborange666]

Hi there, in a nutshell, we’ve fallen out with the neighbours. They are dicks for many reasons. Between our houses are the sides of both our gardens. It’s a clear straight line on the deed plans. Anyway, they have a clangy iron gate drilled into the side of our house which echoes right through our home. It was there when we moved in.

There’s no party wall agreement for it to be there and it is over the boundary into our side by a foot. We are getting fencing done all down our side to make a clear boundary between our properties. We need to remove the gate as we cannot access the side of our house. The fencing is booked in but we need to tell the neighbours to remove their gate. We could do it ourselves but I don’t want to get blamed for damaging it.

Basically we need a headed letter to tell them to remove their gate by a certain date so we can do our fencing. There’s no point in trying to be reasonable with them because they aren’t reasonable people.

We looked online, rang one solicitor who said it’d be around 1k. Which seems ridiculous.

It’s not a boundary dispute. They know it’s the side of our home. I just need to tell them to remove their gate.

Any cheaper suggestions or was that solicitor unusually expensive?

I would just write to them telling them what you're doing and stating the facts, ask them to remove it by this date and if they don't then you will remove it and what you will do with it (eg place it in their garden? Take it to the dump?)

Either email or recorded delivery so you have a record that they revived it

Yes, do it yourself but send via recorded delivery and obviously keep a copy.

A solicitor's letter is exactly that, just a letter. It holds no more or less weight than a letter sent by yourself. Good luck

Thanks everyone 😊