Hi all,
First time poster here and posting in AIBU as I couldn't figure out where else to put this question! Sorry, it's insanely boring but I am looking for some advice.
I live in a house that's been converted to two flats. Unusually, the garden has been split so that the ground floor has direct access and the upstairs can access a second section from the road. Since we’re on the corner of our road, the boundary at the end of our garden is the house on the end of the road that is perpendicular to ours. Our upstairs neighbour (and co-freeholder)’s garden runs alongside ours and is between us and the road. One of the fence panels which forms the boundary between our two neighbours gardens has come down in a recent storm.
The two parties who share this fence are both adamant that it belongs to the other. The fence being down allows easier access to our garden and we're concerned for our security..
We’ve looked at the land registry documents for the two properties in question, however, they are useless and don’t show anything. I’ve been told that we’d need to access the deeds, which are with the building society as both properties are mortgaged.
Is there an easy answer to this? DP feels that the least hasslesome option is to just buy a fence panel himself and fix it! I’d be interested to know if there is a way to figure out who actually owns it as there are multiple panels and none of them are in good repair… I don't want to set a precedent where we start repairing someone else's property and we get lumbered with it.
I have a terrible hand-drawn diagram, but I just need to figure out how to add it...