Screening party fence not owned by me

[cyclingmad]

When I purchased my house the fence on the right in the garden is owned by the nieghbours and it was inplace with the 'ugly side facing me e.g. posts and steel brackets.

Never been a problem for me and I've only got flower pots along it (not attached or even touching it). New neighbours moved in and one day some of the fencing broke no idea why, anyway they repaired it but it means they had to come into my garden to do it, I didnt know they were going to do until I came home to find my pots moved.

I'm a little bit put out cos it would be courteous to ask me first!

Anyway I'm not doing my garden up and thinking of screening the fence with plants or trellis on my land, not attached to the fence because I also want bit of privacy as they can see in my living room due to slight slope.

My question is if I put up trellis or plants on my land with a small gap, im assuming if they need to fix the fence its their problem and should when fixing said fence damage my trellis or plants its on them...

What are your thoughts?

Yes of course. Have you spoken to them about coming into your garden without asking? If you haven't then do it because otherwise it will a. fester with you, b. they'll take more liberties about more serious things because they'll interpret your lack of comment as consent. If you're planning on putting things up on your side of the boundary then this gives you the opportunity to tell them you won't be fixing things to their fence, but that if anything happens in future you'd like them to speak to you before coming round and doing work on their fence.

No I didn't say anything cos at least the fence post was fixed and on grand scale I'm not that annoyed.

Its more I want to hide their ugly fence side now im redesigning the whole garden and so they can see into my lounge as I've caught them looking a few times

Its more about whose problem is it if they need to fix their fence and the brackets are on my side...guess that's their problem and if they need access they will have to ask and put good any damage they cause or have to do to get to the fence from my side