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Original poster

to think my neighbour should not be able to attach a structure to our house without asking...or actually at all?

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bigmouthstrikesagain · 30/10/2011 19:22

But he has.

It is a wooden structure very basic clearly for storage but he has drilled into and attached it to our wall which is the boundary between our house and his property. So he has joined our formally detatched houses.

Shurely shome mishtake!? He is a nice young man with a nice young family so I am surprised, and not v happy. Willing to be reasonable but we do not want anything attached to our house so there will need to be action on his part.

Anyone got a similar issue/ wisdom/ experience to share?

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Ponks · 04/11/2011 20:54

Great result!

PelvicF1oorOfSteel · 04/11/2011 20:55

Be prepared with your 'think like a cheeky person' attitude though. If they say it's attached with teensie weensie leetle screws which won't damage your brickwork or let a drop of water in you still need it to go NOW.

I think your neighbours are going to continue seeing how much they can get away with, particularly as they still haven't been round yet.

Original poster
bigmouthstrikesagain · 04/11/2011 21:16

Pelvic they have been round see update post.

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PelvicF1oorOfSteel · 04/11/2011 21:40

Sorry, slow typing due to baby on lap x-post. Brilliant result Grin

Enjoy the Malbec!

thisisyesterday · 04/11/2011 21:49

oh well that's a bit boring!
i was hoping for something a bit more exciting.

uniCorny · 04/11/2011 21:50

please cut your hedge into a massive cock anyway

thisisyesterday · 04/11/2011 21:53
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bigmouthstrikesagain · 04/11/2011 22:29

I would like to apologise to all the MN'ers who have been disappointed by the lack of drama in this thread - but until the erection has been diserected (????) there is still the chance of further disharmony.

Also we found out they will be moving out for a while and so the house next door will be rented out so maybe some ruffians or oiks will move in and create some new drama.Confused

Anyway Flowers and Wine to you all.

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thisisyesterday · 04/11/2011 22:31

hmm well i suppose so... perhaps you could embellish the story a little too?

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 04/11/2011 22:31

Hey- never mind 'sending the boys round' - send in the Mumsnet Massive - we are waaaayyy more scary! Grin

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bigmouthstrikesagain · 04/11/2011 22:33

Thisis - you are trying to to entrap me in to stealth trolling! I am shocked Wink

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mrsmaltesers · 04/11/2011 22:37

To cut a long story short, as garaham norton is about to start ..... If you sold your house and new owners wanted to pull their wall down then his wooden effort would come down too and quite rightly so, so yes you are not unreasonable and two fairly reputable buiders told me that is illegal. I would be supremely pissed off.

Maryz · 04/11/2011 22:37

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brabbinsandfyffe · 04/11/2011 22:47

There was a house on the high street in our village with two huge hedges at the front, both expertly cut into the shape of cocks. Nobody believed me about it until I stood them in front of the house :)

WhereYouLeftIt · 04/11/2011 22:49

I think we should all diarise the end of the month to chase the OP to ensue that the shed has indeed been taken down "within the month".

mousysantamouse · 03/12/2011 19:18

has the erection gone?

Nermalkins · 03/12/2011 19:35

brabbinsandfyffe, do you live a village on the outskirts of an army town? If you do then I know the house you mean. The owners of the house are a lovely couple :)

AnnieLobeseder · 03/12/2011 19:37

Can't believe I missed this last month, but at least now the month is up and I don't need to wait for the next instalment. Is is gone? Is it? Is it?

brabbinsandfyffe · 06/12/2011 17:19

Nermalkins it's got to be the same one (grew up near there but moved, so 'our' is a bit tenuous)- I bet the owners are lovely Grin and they have fine decorative skills! Are the hedgecocks still there then?

mousymouseprice · 01/02/2012 08:59
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bigmouthstrikesagain · 19/03/2012 15:10

I have totally failed in my duty to update the one person people who wanted to know what happened here. Blush Sorry.

Neighbour has moved out and is renting to an invisible person who occasionally leaves a car outside his/her house but apart from that is no where to be seen, which is fine. The structure was finally removed in the new year all that remains is a fence panel acros the gap between our houses preventing access to the side of next door adjacent to our house. No problem with that so we are content.

We cut back our bush and have received no further anonymous mailings on the subject. So all good - sorry no big finale just a

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SuchProspects · 20/03/2012 20:24

Hi bigmouth. I didn't comment before because I didn't have anything even vaguely knowledgable or more useful to say than the advice you were getting. But I followed the thread and am very glad everything seems to have turned out well. :)

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bigmouthstrikesagain · 20/03/2012 21:05

Thank you such - it is always nice to know you have been heard on MN now it is so big an' that. cheers. Smile

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DowagersHump · 20/03/2012 21:13

I have just lost ten minutes of my life reading this thread Angry

That'll teach me. And you sound like a lovely person - hope you got your formal outfit dilemma sorted :o

digerd · 01/09/2012 14:37

I am in a similiar situation, but neighbour got her gardener to drill into my extension wall and put a hook in it to hang her fallen down fence panel and wooden post onto without my knowledge or consent. The reason for the fence decay was her PEACH TREE she planted right by her fence just a few inches away from my south facing wall, which enabled her to get lovely big peaches from. My wall needs some maintenance work done to it, but she is refusing to take the offending tree away or the fence, so obstucting my right to access the wall. The LEGAL ADVICE I have with my house insurers told me that as far as the hook in the wall is concerned, I should write her a letter and give her 2 weeks to take the hook out and make the wall good, or i shall take it out myself., and send her the bill. I was informed to mention that her fence will be in the same condition as it was the day before I took it off - i.e. decayed with no means of supporting itself. As far as the " Access to maintaining my wall from her land" is concerned, I also have to write to her and state when my builders are to start and finish the work and demand that all vegetation, fence and other objects obstructing access be cut down/taken away. Hmmmm - she will refuse to do any of that as she already has done in a very nasty manner.