Morning, hope someone on here can help. We’ve lived in our current house for 11 years and have always gotten along with our neighbour. However, as we’ve done little things to the house (improvements, minor I think; new boiler, double glazing, fitted wardrobes... they have ignored us for a few weeks after the work was completed. Recently we had a baby and previously never bothered much with our garden. It’s sort of tiered. Balcony, steps to large patio, then lawn. Anyway we had a lot of conifers and bushes etc at the bottom of our garden. It blocks off quite a nice view of woodland. So after contacting the council to ensure the trees were ours and no tpo’s we had someone over to cut some down to the stump and others half way. The main reason is to dry up the area so that our daughter can play on the lawn and so that we get more light, maybe have a tree house and I can put some bedding plants in. There’s also a lot rubbish left by a previous neighbour that needs to be disposed of. A tin roof, railings, glass. I’ve been sorting it and every time I go outside he appears and asks what I am doing and suggesting I stop as I might knock down our fence and expose him to the view. I said that we are getting a new fence and that all the rubbish will be removed by the start of September. I could tell he wasn’t happy.
Yesterday he started shouting that I am a disgrace, that I’m disgusting, that I want to see concrete and that I have ruined trees that were there before I was born, I’ve exposed his garden and he will end up in the grave. I replied calmly and said the plants belong to us and I’ve spoken to the council. He said that doesn’t mean you can go around doing what you want in your garden. I said actually it does. This area is nowhere near the boundary and the neighbour has many conifers etc of his own. What would you do?