Thread #6 The CFN look out upon Castle Doom and despair

[WhatIsThisWatt]

Thanks C8 for thread title!

We're on #6 folks.

Bouncy castle delivery happening tomorrow.

Plot Twist:

GLF merely used her Gorilla Tape Guerrilla Tactics (see what I did there?) as an excuse for overnighting at OP's.

Her real purpose for having it about her person involved a saucy, experimental tryst with NSK Ken in his dry goods' stockroom...

it didn't work!

She'll just have to be brave and be prepared to answer the door!

And tell them to piss off.

Sadly I suspect this will be all over the dm, particularly if things keep escalating.

I thought the planning people told op specifically not to touch the door?

Morning all I would go and replace the tape with a cable tie today or even better something heavy that will block the doors but not damage them as I agree it will be a long term issue getting them replaced. As for the fire exit thing. 1 I don't think you can have a fire escape into an enclosed space. Like the garden and 2 I'm sure they have more access than the the front door and the patio doors

Oh for goodness sake this is why CFNs get away with it, they are accessing her garden illegally and have destroyed a window in a listed building!

And are currently attempting to remove evidence of their perfidy.

Honestly, this should have stopped with the visit from the planners. The OP has been egged on into unnecessary actions by a band of over invested posters, none of whom have to deal with any of the consequences.

This same kind of behaviour happened on the CFN parking thread and that hasn't ended well.

Oh come ON, CFNs! Get back to your now illegal flat so we can all have an update! Brava to your friend OP, she's exactly the kind of person I'd want around one these types of crises.

it didn't work!

There, there. Never mind.

Morning all.

Had a distressing morning. My internet provider had a broken cable or something locally and I lost internet connection for a few hours. Was worried I was never going to catch up with this thread. All fixed now though and have just devoted a good chunk of the morning to catching up.

And are currently attempting to remove evidence of their perfidy.

There's a huge fucking hole in the wall and a missing window. All documented by planning. How do you think they are going to remove that evidence? Are they going to break into the panning office and steal the memory card from the camera? Hack the systems and remove the evidence or the listing entirely?

However yes, replace the tape with ties, much more respectable and inconspicuous

Good morning y'all.

I'm reporting in for guard duty with two farting Rottie pups, a GSD with a decent bark, and a horse with 'ttude. Anyone have the grill on and a cuppa brewing?

waves to all fellow humans from near and far

Not an earlier post of mine Soup. My point is that the OP doesn't want any further work taking place in her garden. Accessing her property in her absence is what the builders have been doing since she first discovered them. An official notice has been disregarded. She doesn't have to open her door if she doesn't want to. She has regained some control. And, most importantly for now, no-one is in danger of fire because nobody's home.

Good morning!!!
I was thinking yesterday... if you printed off every page from thread 1 - to now... it would be well on the way to being a novel!

The OP has been egged on into unnecessary actions by a band of over invested posters

One unnecessary action. Which she will probably undo at some point.

What's done is done now with regard to the tape. Wattyyy is now vulnerable in her own home BECAUSE stupid CFNs & CFBs mutilated a listed building and trespassed onto her property. If the vile door's handles are a little sticky after removal of tape, tough shit!! She has to look out for her own safety until this is resolved.

Totally agree with pp , remove the tape , don't replace it with anything . The fact that the doors are illegal doesn't entitle you to tamper with them at all - would you have gone and stuck things on the original window ? I suggest OP steps away from this thread and just does an update when something actually happens rather than carry on with this soap opera .

lets not get things out of balance, they could possibly sue OP for some sticky residue when tape is removed - it will not damage the doors as doors often come with stickers - indeed the builders removed some... the residue will not chemically alter the door surface so the doors are not substantially altered or out of balance...

plus what court will pass judgment against OP in light of the circumstances and her claim that she is simply protecting her property... esp. with these threads read out in evidence

You really shouldn't be touching their doors. However it's perfectly fine, I imagine, to fence off your garden in front of the doors on your own land. Petty though.

I would keep your cool and try to have an informal conversation first - witnessed by a third party. It may be that they are genuinely unaware it's not their land. You can't rule that out. However if that doesn't work, you will need to deal with this through solicitors with some back up from the planning department.

In the meantime creating new flowerbeds, including one right in front of the French doors, makes it clear it is your land to do with as you please, and makes further building work almost impossible without damaging the plants, which means they either have to ask permission from you for access or you have something to photograph. Be sure it looks like a normal attempt at general routine gardening though.

FWIW my theory is that they are amateur developers who plan to pass this off as a garden flat at first appearance without ever explicitly saying this, so buyers only find out late on in the deal if at all. Shoddy, but it happens (we have seen something like this, when the people next door neglected to tell a buyer we had right of access over her garden which meant she couldn't build another house on it as she wanted. Even her solicitor had missed this, plus she didn't even wonder why there were two gates from our garden onto hers, top and bottom of the garden, or why her house was so cheap).

It had to be done

CFN PARKLIFE

Confidence is a preference for the habitual CFN of what is known as PARKLIFE

And a hefty law suit can be avoided if you take a route straight through what is known as
PARKLIFE

Ken's got brewers droop he gets distracted by his pesky customers
He loves a bit of it
PARKLIFE

Who's that builder smoking... you should cut down your door shitemate... get some legal advice

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ALL OF MUMSNET
ACROSS SO MANY THREADS
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH WHATS PARKLIFE

Know what I mean

I get up when I want except on Threadays when I get up to check up on Mumsnet
PARKLIFE

I do the kids breakfast, have a cup of tea and no way are we leaving the house
PARKLIFE

I feed them lunch I sometimes feed the pets too it gives me a sense of enormous well being
PARKLIFE

And then I'm happy for the rest of the day safe in the knowledge there will always be a bit of my heart devoted to the thread
PARKLIFE

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ALL OF MUMSNET
ACROSS SO MANY THREADS
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH WHATS PARKLIFE

PARKLIFE (parklife)
PARKLIFE (parklife)

It's got nothing to do with the amazing Spanish Grandma you know

And it's not about you castle jumpers who go up and down and up
PARKLIFE (parklife)

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ALL OF MUMSNET
ACROSS SO MANY THREADS
THEY ALL GO HAND IN HAND
HAND IN HAND THROUGH WHATS PARKLIFE

I think it would be worth phoning non emergency police and asking how you can legally secure your private garden when someone else builds a door into it..

HAHAA.Tape is excellent!

You haven't damaged or tampered with the doors. You are securing your land. The door handles are in sticking out and therefore in your property.

You haven't done anything wrong at all, nothing you could get in trouble for and you have tried to contact them.