New neighbour wants to own the entry?

[danilyon]

Hi,

A new neighbour bought the house next to us about 3 weeks ago. She knocked and introduced herself and said she wanted to pop around the following week to talk about the back gardens. She came round and spoke about putting a fence in the back garden between our house and hers, which is fine as it's something we've been meaning to do but not had the money for. She also asked about putting a gate on the entryway that runs between our house, which is also fine with us.

She then went on to say that she would sort all of this out and that she would like to legally own the entryway that runs between our houses and that she would maintain the entryway. Our house is a terraced house in a row of 4 and our house and the neighbours are in the middle. Above the entryway is one of her bedrooms and her bathroom I think. The entryway is shared between us both and as far as my hubby and I are aware the boundry line runs straight down the middle of entryway. It is the only access we both have to our back gardens. When she mentioned getting her solicitor to send us the paperwork to have a read through hubby made a few non-commital comments but I think she thinks it's a go from us.

We've had no paperwork from any solicitor as of yet, but after me and hubby have had a chat (obviously couldn't do it whilst she was here), we are wondering why would she want to have ownership of the entryway? Obviously a part of our problem would be if she fell out with us for whatever reason and denied access as it's our only access to the back garden? Also what would happen when we sold our house - we think this could hinder a sale if we agreed and told the new owners that actually the neighbour owns the entryway?

I'm worrying what to say to her now as we are not keen to sign anything to give her the entryway completely. We only use the entryway to take the wheelie bins from the back garden out to the front on collection day anyway so it's not like we have all kinds of people coming round the back to see us etc. Does anyone have any advice on what we could say to her? Obviously we don't want to 'sour' relations with her because we are refusing to give her the entryway legally.

Any advice would help. Thanks! :)

Maybe danilyon will be going to the house this weekend, and we'll get an update tomorrow night

7 o clock on a Saturday morning and I'm still riveted to this thread.

Tis better than Dynasty (but not Dallas, I loved Dallas)

Do you think they caved in?

Surely not! Not after seeing all our outrage!

How pregnant was danilyon? Maybe she's had the baby.

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I think she was about 34wks at the beginning of this thread, so she would be 37/38 wks now.

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I've been seeing this thread for awhile and never got around to opening it. It's filled a rather boring night in hospital and now I'm on the list of eager MNers waiting to know what's happened next!

I need to know too!
also read the whole of the other thread, Clam.

Some people are BONKERS

Marking my place. Am loving this!

Awww, still no news, OP?

I got sucked into the other thread too I would love to know if she got her own way although I suspect not

OP, Oh OP. Wherefore art thou OP?

oh the agony of waiting!

OP said she was 34 weeks pregnant; there is another thread saying that someone's friend had given birth prematurely...at 34 weeks: can be the oooonly reason to keep us on tenterhooks

I am still waiting !!!!!!!

can't sleep...

Just jumping in to mark place say: Danilyon, get your solicitor to write to her saying that you will not be surrendering your rights over the entryway under any circumstances and any further attempts to obtain them by approaching other people to intercede and any comments from her to others or you about your garden will be considered as harassment and reported to the police. It's no good trying to be nice to nutters unreasonable people, jjust get the law on your side to make them fuck off.

Hi ladies!
My apologies that this update has taken sooo long and that it is not exciting at all I've been missing so long as I've had a stay in hospital for suspected pre-eclampsia as my blood pressure was sky high, plus I had protein showing. Thankfully all is ok and it isn't, still had to have steroid injections just incase though. Plus my hubby used all the allowance on the dongle we have at this rented house
Anyways, I wrote to the solicitor and send it off, basically saying in a polite way piss off. I eventually received a letter back off them to say thank you for getting in touch, they would pass it on to their client and no further action needed to be taken yada yada yada. I have been up to the house a few times to see how the work is getting on. Neighbour has been in her house (well I think she has, her car was outside but all the blinds were shut on all occassions) and she's not come outside to say anything and we haven't had any notes posted through the door or had the builders saying some crazy woman our neighbour has been enquiring about us. So theres my update [apologetic emoticon] My apologies it's not very exciting but I'm sure she could be plotting away her revenge behind her closed blinds

Well done for silencing her! Pre-eclampsia is horrible enough: you don't need for the newborn period to be made massively stressful as well, with this woman's demands and flipping presumptuous behaviour!

Good luck with the rest of te pregnancy!

Keep well OP and thanks for coming back! Hopefully there's an end to Entrygate...

Hi Dani

Sorry to hear you have been stuck in hospital - I hope the rest of your pregnancy passes uneventfully! Not too long to go now :)

Hopefully that will be the end of the 'access' issues - but we will need to be told about all any other peculiar requests!!

Look after yourself!