OMG why does it have to be like this

[kappadelta]

Morning all have name changed (just in case). So we live on a new estate with the builders still here. There are no solid boundaries between homes and our lawn adjoins next doors. Our border is also to one side of their lawn.
They are very keen gardeners and it looks lovely. Unfortunately one of the neighbourhood kids road (sp) a bike across the lawn.
When the neighbour got in she shouted at me and said its not on as she wrongly assumed it was my children.
I didn't know at this time that it wasn't so I said I would put a boundary in so the kids where clear on where it was.
The thing is they have planted up in our border. I've put the boundary where it should be and they must have stealthed in the middle of the night and moved it. It's only those small fences that you stick in the ground.
I'm fuming OH is at work and I can't believe the cheek.
What would you do? Would have loved to be able to get on with our neighbours it's so sad. Thanks for your advice in advance x

It should be illegal to build new developments without fences round their gardens.

I just don't get these estates with unusable front gardens open to the road that tempt DCs to cut across them. Putting a toddler in the car with a lawn that is open to a main road with 38 ton lorries is lunacy.

This is seriously how the new 'affordable' housing in isthe village is laid out.

My parents deeds say no fences, I believe, everyone has fences, walls and hedges, since originally they were the last houses in town and sheep and a herd of trecking ponies are not compatible with petunias

Starball- luckily we aren't onto the main road, we have our front garden then our drives then a shared driveway. I do think tho that defined boundaries do help. I hope that I can appeal to the builders good nature or maybe sense of responsibility?

Feel like popping out and talking to them whilst the little ones are asleep. What do you think?

Shamelessly bumping as the little ones will wake up soon

Where we are there arent fences between front gardens. If you can get this sorted quickly and cleanly as otherwise these boundary disputes can fester.

Good luck with it.

I agree that if the builders are still around, get them to deal with it.

If its a new build and no fences have been put in, its quite likely that your title deeds contain a prohibition on putting up barriers for different plots anyway. It wouldn't cost you anything to check over the title deeds yourself (you will have been sent a copy) and photocopy the relevant part and stick it through their letter box.

www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3149

www.gardenlaw.co.uk/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=4&sid=f04ebd802e2066ce5fe7b0e5436d16b5

read this, get your neighbours to read this,

save yourselves a fortune.

What you do next decides how much money you both will throw at this.

At least after reading the above information you will have a clear idea what you are dealing with,

and I would put a detailed thread on there and have a listen to what the experts say, they do know there onions.

Does anyone know the logic of estates with no fences?

I know it's often the rule, and that people plant things to bend their deeds to breaking point because it goes totally against human nature not to define and protect what is yours.

I'm guessing after 40-45 years it would be a brave person who suggested my parents estate lost their boundaries.