New neighbour using my private garden...

[Wattyyyy]

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I'm so angry for you OP.

I hope this gets resolved quickly

If you don't like the No Trespassing sign idea how about this one

Another annoying placemark sorry x

@Wattyyyy is it grade 1 or grade 2 listed?

OP, I know you said you took photographs but make sure you have plenty of photographs of your garden too.

What if they dont have it, does anyone know

They will need to ultimately find it or will be jailed. The property will have to be restored, even if they have to sell the flat to fund it. It won't be done for them. They will also probably initially get a big fine as will the builder.

It's going to be very expensive and planning will be all over them till it's done and done to look like it did before.

Best thread ive seen all day!

keep us updated OP. im so invested now...

I can't imagine what they were thinking?! Could they have been told by seller or someone that it was their garden too? Are they recently moved in?

Omg! That sounds awful. Good luck when your neighbours get home. They sound horrendous.
I agree with whoever said they have made the assumption new owner would never know and they would lie that the door was put in ages ago...

Sorry, yes you said new

Am I the only one on the edge of my seat about what planning will say?

No

They won't get away with it op. My mum lives in a converted Manor House all divided up into properties. It's listed and some new residents have made alterations inside without permission. They are in serious trouble with planning, and there is much talk of a custodial sentence (wishful thinking more than reality!). All is having to be rectified, but some people just don't give a shit and don't think the rules apply to them

I wouldn't go and speak to the neighbours now, in fact I would actively avoid them. The council are involved, the builders will have made the neighbours aware of the fact OP isn't happy.

Surely the builders will have spoken to them, they will already know this is the end of it, Don't go & see them alone, but do say its a private garden, they can't use it, & its a listed building & hope they have done the paperwork. If not, they had better put it back exactly as before pronto,
no need for signs, for fences, or if not the council are being called.
It may be a genuine mistake. you will have to live near these people for a long time
hope they haven't already promised a puppy to their DC

Blimey

Main thing is that you scared the builders off, so hopefully planning will come round tomorrow and do some enforcement on it. Cheeky feckers. I'd pop a note through their door to say you expect your garden to be tidied and cleaned too.

Is it too much to ask the OP to video the planning visit and broadcast it (and the aftermath) live on YouTube tomorrow?

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I am just thinking that if they have recently bought a flat its not unreasonable to assume they have no savings, and if they exhausted all credit available to them in the moving then...what?

Presumably they cant sell the flat until the work is done.

I know that if this was us we would be well and truly up shit creek as we wouldnt be able to find the money (not that we would be stupid enough to do it in the first place but still....).

Yikes!

I wonder why they used builders from 100 miles away. That's bizarre.

Maybe they knew the builders from where they used to live?

I am just thinking that if they have recently bought a flat its not unreasonable to assume they have no savings, and if they exhausted all credit available to them in the moving then...what?

Well, as with all fines for criminal activity, I would assume that their earnings would be withheld to pay the fine?

Maybe they knew the builders from where they used to live? Maybe they have previous for this sort of shit, hence the move 100 miles away

Haha probably cjt110

Good luck OP!