Neighbour is beginning to annoy me .

[droves]

we moved away from neighbours from hell. It's a relief. I love our new house.

We have a garden , it's larger than the neighbours , but parallel to theirs .

Before we moved in the knocked down the fence so they could fit a giangantic trampoline in the back garden. It sort of took a few inches of my garden.

Had told neighbour that we will be replacing the fence in summer.

At new year party , neighbour pops in . And tells people we have a shared garden . Wtf ?. Now her crappy double swing set it half way into mine and blocking acces into my shed.

I've moved it back into her garden several times. Not only is it really annoying I have to walk around the damn thing to get into my shed , she has started talking about what we will do about our shared garden.

It's not a shared garden. It's two gardens that happen to have a fence missing because she broke it.

And her dog shits all over .

So I'm planning to get the fence rebuilt and have the garden landscaped and decked by may .I will not tell her , but just do it . Aibu ?

I think it's both sides of the fencing that we are supposed to maintain.

So, you are ALLOWING your neighbours dog to shit in your garden and then clear it up.

MAn up droves she is taking the piss on a huge scale!

I have lovely, no, fabulous neighbours but if my dogs had a poo in their gardens (they wouldnt) then I would be apologising and clearing it up pdq.

It's about 16 feet of fencing that's missing/ broken . actually lying In piles at the bottom of her garden . Dh had a look at it but most of it is rotten and could not be used to re- do the fence.

Need to go , but will be back later , with updates.

Thank you for advice everyone ...jax your right , I do need to man up .

Hmm, that's not going to be cheap to replace, I would be very inclined to take measures towards getting her to pay for it.

I would first double check the exact boundary and fence ownership, then put chicken wire up immediately.

I would then tell her that somehow before you moved in, somebody stole part of the fence that technically you own (and formed part of the contract of sale or whatever it is called). You will need to report it to the police to get a crime number to claim on the insurance, and does she have any info that the police would find useful?

Ideally you want the original fence back,but you must close the gap now.

Chicken wire and cheap wooden posts just to make the point, and get her round clearing up her own dog shit!

Make sure you take lots of nice video footage and photos of the new fence going up and in place, undamaged and complete. Make sure this footage has dates and times on it, and if possible get yourself on record saying something to her about it being your fence, round your garden. Then when the fence is mysteriously gone/broken/damaged/falls down/stolen overnight, you have proof it was there in the first place. It might even be worth telling her you're installing CCTV as you are paranoid about burglars/intruders/urban dingoes stealing the baby so she thinks you will be able to see her and prove what she does undercover of darkness. Never ever underestimate the insanity of random people who are fixated on something weird.

Sorry cross posted with everybody there!

Obviously if the fence is clearly in her garden then that won't work !

16' is 4 standard panels, presumably plus posts - probably £100+. Tricky though. As the evidence (broken panels in her garden, her admission) is that she was responsible for removing it in the first place (any pics of garden from the house details or survey ?) then you could ask her to contribute or even claim against her. How long have you been there, could you tell previous owners that when you took possession the garden wasn't secure as at exchange (we got ours to replace storm damage before completion). However it may harm your neighbourly relationship and her/your ability to sell later on if you were to pursue it.

You could get a dummy camera even, to point at the fence (but not into her garden).

But I would be going for the brick wall option with this one.

Gosh, I am shocked at the cheek of some people, nothing useful to add but this needs to be sorted pronto as your neighbour obviously has no shame!

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Is with admiration at the organisational skills of Catpuss.

The OP has referred to "previous tenants" which suggests that she too rents the property. If so surely not much point in urging her to "check the deeds"? Should she not involve the landlord?

catpuss the organiser.

droves just saw that you were in Scotland and decided that as I am also Scottish (but living in England) to give you some guid scots advice.

PS - what sort of dog is it?

Ha! buy some Pyracantha.... expensive if you buy it big but it is a great deterrrent! :) (did I spell that right?)

She sounds a bit bonkers tbh. Nice, but a knife and fork short of a picnic.

Get that fence up sooner rather than later.

'I'm thinking of rehoming our shared dog, by the way. He keeps crapping in our shared garden. Ok? (blink blink)

Seriously, get chicken wire up, and say that you're sorry but you want your garden to be safe and secure for your children and you don't want her dog trespassing. It's either that, or report the dog as out of control, which you don't want to have to do. And just to be absolutely clear, the wire is on the boundary, and it stays there, or you're going to have to report her for criminal damage and trespass too. Her interfering in your garden is pissing you off as it makes it not safe for your children. Easy.

Pyracantha IS a deterrent. It also needs trimming at least once a year, (by you) and it has 2 inch long thorns that irritate you if they scratch you! Hence the nickname 'fire thorn'! It sounds like a good idea, but from bitter experience, I can tell you it is a TOTAL bastard!

Not sure what exactly the dog is ? , just a medium sized cross breed / mongrel.
Her son visits a lot with his Staffies as well . ( one a pup , other older) not the best trained dogs either . I keep the kids in when they are here .

Since she's nice, I would tell her before you build the fence, no need to antagonise her. Nice neighbours are worth their weight in gold.