Garden fence

[Alena2003]

My neighbour doing her garden and she wants us to replace our fence, she says it's looks ugly. She neglected her side of our fence by letting plants grow wild over it. She even got some quotes for replacing our fence with most expensive panels you can get, her unswer is that her designer wants to put new plants and climbers so it looks lovely. All this at our expense( around 3000). I don't want to pay for it, we just bought this house 3 month ago, I can spend it on decorating my house. What should we do?

Tell her she can replace it herself if she likes !! She sounds like a PITA ! Alternatively she can put up her own fence in her side - within her land !

I agree with everything OnePlan says. You are under no obligation to replace your fence, or even make a contribution towards her putting up a fence on her side.

Would you permit her to clad her side of the fence? We've just clad our ugly fence using the existing posts as principal support. It looks really nice and was far cheaper than fence panels.

I'd check out the legal aspect of allowing her to replace. Owning the boundary has slight advantages in my opinion.

What are the advantages of owning the boundary? We're going to be replacing fencing and are probably willing to pay it ourselves (small patio)

Ha! Tell her to jog on. You are not even obliged to have a fence so wish her luck. I would just tell her it's not a priority or in your budget.

You're not even obliged to replace the fence if it had fallen down unless your deeds specifically say that a fence between the properties has to be maintained (they rarely do)

I would suggest that if she wants the fence replaced she puts up her own fence next to yours so she can look at that. Otherwise she could replace your fence with something ugly and if she pays for it then it makes it hers. Then the whole criminal damage farce comes into play if you try to remove it.

Scare yourself with a look at the Gardenlaw forums on fences and boundaries (where you say to neighbour you replace the fence and then they nick 6 foot of your garden when they install the fence and you can't touch it because it is theirs)

Or use greenfolder's "jog on" which I love