Would be interested in legal opinions and WWYD here. My neighbour’s garden has always been a tip. The house is rented and neither the owner nor the tenants have bothered keeping it in any sort of decent state. The back fence, which adjoins my plot, has been broken for years. The tenants recently changed so the landlord was forced to tidy up the garden. He has put up a new fence halfway down his garden and thrown all the crap over it, so the view from my kitchen window is even more of an eyesore than before.
My choices are:
1 - put up with the view
2 - put up a fence at the bottom of their garden to improve the view
3 - clear the crap (it’s mostly old fence panels, empty paint pots, broken paving stones) and pretend it’s part of my garden with some pots and maybe some garden chairs
If I do 3, the landlord may get wise to the area being cleared and move his fence to the bottom of his garden - which is a win win in my eyes, anything is better than the existing view. What are the downsides?
Perhaps there is a solution 4 that I haven’t considered?
I have previously written to him about his fence and been ignored, and the previous tenants also tried to speak to him - they couldn’t let their dog out - but he wouldn’t secure his boundary. I don’t see any advantage to trying to speak to him but happy to be corrected.
Thanks for reading