Neighbour removing fence off my land

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I posted in property but was advised to post here instead

Looking for some advise please! I brought my house 9 years ago, the deeds to the house clearly show a straight line going from the mid point of the two houses (semi detached) to the full length of the garden. When i brought the house there was 4 fence panels which sit on the boundary and the rest of the fence panels are almost 1ft into my land.

All of the fence panels match the other 2 sides of my garden and the nice side is on my side all the way around, including the gravel boards.

My neighbour is now claiming she paid for the fence and is having it dug up! This fence which is very clearly almost 1 foot onto my land.

I have no idea what agreement was made with the previous owner and no proof she owns the fence but the deeds clearly show its my land.

Ive rang 101 who was useless and the best they said was ask her to build a new fence on her side but shes already told me this is happening wednesday wether I like it or not!
what can do?
thankyou!

If you show her the deeds and tell her that she will be trespassing and you will seek legal redress, what would she say

Do you have home insurance legal cover?

I do, i will call them tomorrow to see if it covers this

My understanding is that you own everything that is attached to your land so it makes no difference who paid for the fence originally, if its on your land then its yours.

Show the deeds to the fencer and he will probably run a mile, giving you time to sort it with a solicitor. We had our done a couple weeks ago and he said that general rule of thumb is if you are standing outside looking at a property, the left hand fence belongs to the house you are looking at. And the right hand to the other side.

He went to get permission sion off our right side neighbours before doing that side.

The boundary is hers to maintain im not disputing that and i have no issue with her doing what she wants with the 4 pannels that are hers, but the pannels in question are on my land, as though they were build to avoid having to deal with the boundary

Hence showing him the deeds

I will, I've already posted a copy through the door as she wont answer to me now and have more copies printed. Luckily I don't work Wednesday so will atleast be around to speak to them!

I am sorry but so much incorrect advice here. Something on your land does not necessarily belong to you. The fence on the left hand side is not necessarily yours.
If this dispute is over the ownership of the fence then anyone removing it needs to prove it is theirs ie either they or previous owner of their property paid for it.
This may be hard to achieve if it is the previous owners.
If the dispute is over the actual boundary then if deeds are not enough for clarity you can employ a surveyor to write a boundary report, but of course this is expensive.
If your neighbour will not listen to reason and reach a compromise with you then your options are either mediation (police will sometimes refer to a free service or pay between yourselves) or use civil law with a solicitor’s advice and maybe a letter to deter your neighbour or use the small claims court if damage is done to a fence you can prove you own.
Neighbour disputes are utter hell.
You have my sympathy.

Ours is to the right in our current house and in our previous house too 🤷🏻‍♀️

What happened?

After checking the paperwork that came with the house it said that she has always maintained that side, BUT it is in my land. So we came to an agreement that goodness, I paid for the panels to be replaced on the basis I can then reattach my cat proofing and she paid to have tye posts straighted. Not sure if it will cause a issue at sale but it's better than a battle and once it was dug out could see the original boundary foundations and it would be a huge job to have it excavated and replaced on the boundary line!

And ours are neither - both sides shared responsibility.