hi im a council tenant my local rent office is leeds housing i have a boundary issue which my rent office seems to be all for the private neighbours and not us, has council tenants,I do believe our rent office when the neigbour put in to buy there home the fence that was put up 17 years on our side of the boundary has been given to the neighbours
The problem is 17 years ago the lady that was also a leeds city council tenant she had big dogs and there was not fence up to stop the dogs coming into our garden.
So the council agreed to put a 3ft fence up on our side of the garden and has years went by we was told we could put a 6ft fencing up on our side of the boundary,So we did nothing was attached to the 3ft original fence,But again the fence started to rot so the council agreed to come and maintain it,
So the council had always maintained it until 3 years ago the new neighbour bought her house,And so the boundary problems started anyway the council 3 years ago even though they know the neighbours were private they came and put 3 new post in our garden to support the 6ft fence,But the contractors had nailed the new post to the 6ft fence now becuase there was slight movement in the 6ft fence they the council nailed posts to the 3 for fence bear in mind council know there was a private house next door.and now the council has wrote to the neighbour saydisng the can do what ever they like with the fence so they have took it fully down and destroyed the fence,
Our argument is why would the council nail posts that was not connected to the original 3ft fence The neighbours have put chicken wire up and said this is there boundary ok i agree to that but if you see my photo the original fence of ours is 13 inches away form the chicken wire they say is there boundary,So why has the council gave permission to neighbours to take it down when it is originally in our garden We have contacted the rent office and they said basically END OF STORY fence belonged to them? but my photos clearly show the fence posts 13inches in our garden