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Boundary dispute

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Bluebird29 · 04/04/2018 19:14

Bought a bottom flat which is leasehold and it had been empty two years. The upstairs flat (only two flats) are trying to use 3 ft of the concrete yard. They have while it was empty installed an outside tap and a washing line and keep their bins there. I moved in at the beginning of the year and asked them not to use my yard. I want to put a fence up at the edge of my land but they refuse and say it needs to be 3ft in so they can use the tap and the washing line. The plan that is registered with the land registry shows the yard is my flats. There is also shared land around the flat and they are using it for their car and there’s no room for my car and if I leave my bin on the shared land they move them to the yard. I put my car on the shared drive when they were out once and they screamed at me banging the door until I moved it. My lease shows it to be shared land clearly and the yard mine alone. They want to use the first 3 ft of my yard. Can I put a fence up to stop this along the boundary or do I have to let them use my yard? Freeholder not interested and won’t get involved. I just don’t want them in my yard and I want to be secure. Am I wrong?

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Bluebird29 · 02/05/2018 17:45

Bad weather stopped play a bit today but hopefully will finish it off tomorrow.

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Bluebird29 · 02/05/2018 17:45

You can see the lock on the shared drive.

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Bluebird29 · 02/05/2018 17:46

Nothing from upstairs yet.

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Bluebird29 · 02/05/2018 17:47

But I stayed out last night instead of being home so they may have tried.

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AgathaF · 03/05/2018 07:59

That lock!!! Cheeky fuckers!

Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 08:14

They are going to try to claim my path is their right of way but on the map it’s clear that the path is actually the one to the right of my fence and they have incorporated it into the shared drive. They nicked a bit of the grass to add another path but it’s not theirs. The map shows the path is to the side of the house and doesn’t go in front of the building at all.

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FiloPasty · 03/05/2018 12:17

So it’s a shared drive but only space to park one car?

Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 22:07

Yes one only car space.

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Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 22:12

Well they had the council officer out to look at the fence. I wasn’t there but I had left the plan with the fencing man who showed the council officer who said well it looks fine and nothing to do with us! So they thought they could get the council to come out and tell me not to fence my own land in! Doh!

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Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 22:14

I’m a leaseholder not a council tenant. Another attempt to strong arm me. What they don’t seem to grasp is that I’m only fencing in my boundaries. As is my right.

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Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 22:17

The fence is all done now and looks great.

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AllyMcBeagle · 03/05/2018 22:22

Good on you OP!

Bluebird29 · 03/05/2018 22:25

But it occurs to me that if they can get a council officer to come out to check my fence then I can get an officer out to look at their stolen land and fence!

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BettyPitts · 03/05/2018 22:39

Well done op

FiloPasty · 04/05/2018 07:40

How does that work then if the car park space is shared but only space for one car?
I’m surprised this wasn’t flagged by the solicitor, really should belong to one or the other. Could you buy it?

Bluebird29 · 04/05/2018 08:50

It was talked about by the solicitor as it’s a shared drive and it was stated that who gets there first uses it. I hadn’t expected them to actually lock it though! I’m not hugely bothered by parking on the road. It’s the locking of the gate that pisses me off. But now my gate will be locked they will have to leave the gate unlocked or nobody will be able to get to their door when they are out, like the postman etc.

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Bluebird29 · 04/05/2018 08:51

It’s the attitude that they can use all my land because they were there in the flats first and I should just accept it because they said so.

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coffeeagogo · 04/05/2018 09:08

They sounds like loons- good for you for standing up for yourself OP. Hope that they leave you alone, but they don't sound very bright. Am assuming they are owners of their flat rather than renters?

Hereward1332 · 04/05/2018 09:54

Presumably the 'shared drive' is not a shared drive, but shared space that is currently used as a drive. OP has the right to use it for bins, drying washing or table tennis if she wants - it's not restricted to parking a car.

YouDancin · 11/05/2018 19:31

How have they been since the fence went up?
Hopoefully they have calmed the hell down.

Bluebird29 · 11/05/2018 21:32

Not good. This is tonight. The last panel is a gate and I can’t get through.

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Bluebird29 · 11/05/2018 21:33

And the other gate is locked

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Cheeseislife · 11/05/2018 23:59

Does the gate not open into your garden? If not may be a good idea to get that altered.

Bluebird29 · 12/05/2018 10:22

The gate opens into my front garden but my door is at the side, past their car.

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Bluebird29 · 12/05/2018 10:26

So this morning they block my other gate!

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