To let my climbing plants grow here (with diagram)

[icansinga]

Have lived in our house for a while.
Blue bit on diagram is our house, green bit is garden, yellow is side of neighbours house (no windows)
The red swirly bits on the diagram are my flower bed.
Our gardens are parallel to each other, but houses at opposite ends of the garden.
Fence is entirely our boundary on deeds.
There have been climbing plants growing along our side of the fence for years, before we moved in anyhow.
The climbing plants are now spreading so much that they are also spreading along my neighbours side wall which forms part of our boundary wall.
Neighbours are moaning that they don’t want the climbers to touch their wall due to damp. I think they look nice hiding the 2 story brick work. We don’t let the climbers climb higher than 5 feet so nowhere near their eaves or guttering.
They say that we cannot attach wire to their wall to train the plants away from their eaves and they don’t want the plants touching their property.
Do I need to remove them?

YABVU. Climbers cause damp and I wouldn’t want them on my wall either. Your neighbours would be within their rights to take legal action if you don’t keep your climber off their wall, and in the long run you’d end up having to pay for any damage.

Next door’s ivy ended up penetrating my garden wall so much it completely undermined it’s integrity- I ended up having to lose £5k from the agreed sale price after survey as a result. Climbers on other people’s wall are not necessarily no big deal!

Yes and you could could get a bill of 1000s because you would be legally responsible for any damage said plants would cause (even if you moved away too a new house the next tenets / owners can legally chase you for payment if they have paid out).

Owner A planted dangerous plant, sold up and moved on Owner B now owns the propety 6 months later evidence comes to light plant has caused massive damage to neighbors wall owner B has to pay up becuase its there house now BUT and its a big BUT they can chase you for the costs so you are not off the hook if you move before any damage comes to light. (though you are safe if a lot of time goes by aka years and years )

It is a big deal - you can't grow anything on their wall, or paint it, or attached anything to it.