Have had lots of boundary trouble with people who bought next door and then claimed boundary line in our garden in unsuccessful planning application. Chartered surveyer hired by us said their claim was baloney and present boundary fencing was correct.
Well... they have being stealthily moving posts in our fence out the front between our houses while doing their front garden. The fence is less than fifteen feet and has four wooden posts with three panels. The two posts at either end of the fence are bolted to walls. One end is the house wall and the other end is the front boundary wall. The are the only two posts that cannot be moved. The have moved the other two in between towards our garden; just a bit but enough to bow one of the panels. They have now pushed the panels to join the posts. The panel from the post at the outside wall is the huge problem. When they pushed the next post in, the panel the vertical strips of wood on the horizontal planks got damaged and broken as it changed direction and the strips were holding it in place. This area is behind their gate and they have pushed their bins in their bins here. They can do this as they are pushing against the panel which is being bowed as there are no vertical strips holding it flat now. There was a big bush down there covering it on outside and we have cut it as we couldn't see what was happening here before. By moving the posts a little they created this more space for this.
The posts were in soil, so I presume they dug out the soil and moved metal post holders back. They have then added compost and wood chips to area. It is just a boundary fence and not meant to take constant bashing.
As the only two posts that they didn't/couldn't move are the end ones, should we take the other two up and reinstate fence and panelling in straight line. What will I put down where they are bashing the bins against the fence panel? This fence is straddling the boundary and we are responsible for it in our deeds.