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Neighbour attaching things to our fence?

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Anonymous23458d · 26/09/2025 14:43

Can a neighbour attach the below to our fence?
I have previous issues with this neighbour with the previous owners before us he built his conservatory on our boundary. You can kind of see it in the pic. I noticed him doing something today before I went out so asked him if this is attached to our fence as he needs my permission really. It had all rusty nails sticking out of it and it isnt safe for me having children. His girlfriend called me pathetic and said I needed to get a life after I said he shouldve asked my permission before hes attached that to our fence. Am I out of order for this ? I have had so many issues with him in the past doing things that effect me and my property without him saying that I dont want it to happen again..
FYI he has also put rat poisoning down the side of our fence which leads into my garden when I two children under 2 and one crawling.

Neighbour attaching things to our fence?
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RopiJo · 28/09/2025 08:55

Move. Period.

The guy is an asshole and will always be an asshole. You don't want to live next door to that.

You should never have bought the property in the first place after just one look at that conservatory, but you know that by now.

Learn from your mistakes.

salsapasta · 28/09/2025 09:11

I work in construction; a fully loaded line of wet clothes is not good for that fence and or concrete post. If the plank is screwed to the concrete post that's even worse as they are not meant to be drilled. If it is fixed to the two wooden fence panels it will pull the panel apart as they are made of a small batten then thin shiplap then another batten and only fixed together with thin nail gun nails. Given time it will come apart.

SemiRetiredLoveGoddeess · 28/09/2025 12:18

HelenaWaiting · 26/09/2025 14:59

Forget the plank; you need to take legal action over the conservatory. Boundary disputes can lose you thousands when you sell.

He is obviously a reay thick, bullying, ignorant little arsehole who really fancies himself and thinks everybody should jump to his command .

Unfortunately the UK seems too have more than there fair share of them
Thatcher's Children?

His girlfriend sounds just as bad.

Report him and take legal action again him.

Good Luck
🤞🍀🌻

Gardengirl108 · 28/09/2025 12:19

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 27/09/2025 21:24

In England

Side 1. Gets a boundary surgery done by a registered boundary surveyor and gives to side 2

Side 2 agree. All good
Side 2 does not agree and gets a boundary surveyor to do a survey of which side 1 has to pay for

The two surveys are the same. Job done
The two surveys are different and neither side will compromise so
A third boundary surveyor does a boundary survey and Side 1 pays

The decision of the third surveyor is and must be accepted assuming it agrees with at least one of the other surveyors if it doesn’t the Third surveyor makes amends/ compromise

The third surveyor sets out the boundary on the ground by use of poles or other similar agreed method. Then the surveyor can, at the landholders request, lodge a dimensioned drawing with LandRegistry

Side 1 pays for everything

Ps. In the middle of all of that if the third surveyor cannot get both sides agreement it all goes to court led by the Boundary surveyors who charge by the hour, Costs a fortune and takes masses of time and a judge decides who gets the land.

Edited

Can you still do that if you’ve bought the house knowing that next door’s conservatory is built over the boundary and still proceeded?

Gettingbysomehow · 28/09/2025 12:23

You are absolutely within your rights and put a complaint in yo the council. They sound like a nightmare.

Bambamhoohoo · 28/09/2025 12:26

Gardengirl108 · 28/09/2025 12:19

Can you still do that if you’ve bought the house knowing that next door’s conservatory is built over the boundary and still proceeded?

No. The problem is not (as far as we know- at the moment) the boundary. The problem is the conservatory, and getting the boundary agreed doesn’t lead to an injunction for removal of the conservatory. That is further very expensive legal action. And as a Pp said, the fact that the OP bought the house with the conservatory in situ won’t make it straightforward even after she’s spent tens of thousands of pounds

BrownTroutBluesAgain · 28/09/2025 13:24

Gardengirl108 · 28/09/2025 12:19

Can you still do that if you’ve bought the house knowing that next door’s conservatory is built over the boundary and still proceeded?

You have every right to assertion the location on the ground of your boundary and then
Yes
You can follow through if a neighbour has taken part of your garden
Its ten years adverse possession for registered land ie OPs garden

The neighbour would have to prove they had it for longer but also the owner of the land would have to agree to give it up aswell

( nb We had one for a property at 12 years and the original
owners were still contacted to ask if they had a legal interest )

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