Can anyone offer any advice please? Our very old kitchen extension (not built by us) is built up to the boundary line of our neighbours' property. The left hand wall of our kitchen forms the right hand wall of his garden. It has a sloping roof, which slopes down towards his garden. The roof leaks, and apparently the old felt and tiles need to be replaced. The problem is that no roofer will replace it for us because he would need access to our neighbour's garden to do the work, and our neighbour says he'll sue us if we go onto his land. We have been advised that potentially we have rights under the Access to Neighbouring Land Act to go onto his land to carry out necessary maintenance to our property. But apparently under the Act the court can restrict access to the specific dates required for the work, and also require us to give a month's notice to our neighbour before work is due to begin. Also our neighbour could change the dates booked if he chose to. We appreciate that these terms are very reasonable and fine with us, but builders generally are in short supply in our area, and we find that they won't give that much notice, and often shift their dates at the last minute. And the prospect of needing an access order to go onto land to do the work seems to be putting them off. Any ideas please? This has been going on for over a year, we're feeling sandwiched between everyone's demands and we just want to get our roof fixed. Water gushes into the kitchen every time it rains, there's no plaster on some of the walls (because we can't sort the damp walls out until after we've done the roof), and brick dust falls onto our worktops every day. I just feel miserable every time I look at it.